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I love a discussion about ideas, as well. Looking at the actual number of actors involved in viewing a movie seems to help me get a grasp on my blood pressure. I simplified above to make my point. But I wanna get real. With a BD, it's the first actor. Electricity is next. The BD player is...

I appreciate your post. As far as I know, you're the first person to explicitly acknowledge the point I have been for several days now trying to make. The reason I didn't think anyone got it is because every time I make it, someone seems to want to make my argument personal. We do not disagree...

I am not arguing about someone's buying choices. That has never been my point and never will be. I'm talking about first actors. My VHS copy of that old movie is, in terms of my ownership, the first actor. I control it. But if I download a movie, I no longer control the first actor. Because...

I define ownership as being in control of something I own. I do not own the cloud. Therefore I am not ALWAYS in control of something on the cloud. I owned my VHS copy of that movie. When the format disappeared, I transferred it to the new format, because I owned control of the VHS copy.

That's the problem. Sure, I have upgraded a lot. But it was MY CHOICE. I absolutely believe a studio has no right to arbitrarily make that choice for me. Because there have been times when I have NOT upgraded. If the studio had replaced Mann's so-called 4K transfer of Heat with the one I had...

I am not sure I would *always* appreciate an upgrade like that, especially if I was accustomed to a certain transfer and the upgrade might be sharper but the color palette was changed or it had black issues or something. It wouldn't be worth the trade off for me. Especially if I wasn't given a...

It has never been an "us against them" issue for me. My objection comes when someone suggests owning digitally is every bit as good as owning physically. What I wrote in a previous post about owning VHS tapes proves at the very least that there are advantages to physical ownership. My problem...

It's completely different. When DVDs came out, I was able to transfer some of my VHS tapes to DVDs. I still have those transfers because those movies were never released on DVD. Why could I do this? Because I truly owned the movies on VHS. It's either true ownership or it's not. Buying it on...

Then the whole ownership thing is BS. You're just renting it for the duration of your lifetime or until the owner of the product decides to take it down. But let's go ahead and call it ownership if it makes people feel better about spending their money on unreliable renting.

Yes, you are correct. You are allegedly buying a license to view it at home whenever you want. It's the "whenever you want" part that turned out to be BS for that buyer, and for others, as well. Bottom line: buying doesn't always mean owning in the digital wild west.

Yes, I'm not sure what people are waiting to find out. The system is flawed. It's done. It's a fact. Just because you buy it digitally doesn't mean you ALWAYS own it.

I remember when Amazon removed at least one book from people's Kindles that they had bought and paid for. As far as I know that was egregious but a one-time thing. Still, I don't ever turn my Kindle's wifi on for just that reason. I don't trust Amazon not to take back books I bought. Warranted...

In my opinion that is one of the problems with communicating over the Internet. It has a way of diminishing empathy. And I don't think that was a poorly constructed sentence at all. I prefer organic expressions over polished ones. Be that as it may, I don't want to come across as inauthentic...

I wasn't trying to be disagreeable. I was trying not to be disingenuous simply for the sake of arguing.

Until you can download what you buy and independently keep it for yourself, I doubt that will ever change completely.

If you don't mind, don't bother.

So you don't mind if somebody steals your stuff? Yes or no.

If I buy something, and somebody takes it away without my permission, that's stealing. Last time I checked, that's BS to everyone.

How many times it may or may not have been linked isn't the issue. The issue is, it's BS. Period.

Here's another reason I call BS and will never "buy" movies digitally...

There may come a time when streaming gives me picture and sound matching or exceeding my BD's, but it ain't here yet, at least not on my TV.

This is true and it's not true. If I buy a movie on demand, sure I can pull it up anytime I want it ASSUMING the following conditions: 1) the Internet is working; 2) the streaming service is currently working; 3) I'm continuing to pay a monthly or annual fee to maintain the overall service to...