I bought a gas stove/oven a few months ago. Took me a couple of weeks to notice that I can connect it to my wifi for some reason. I haven’t, and don’t intend to, but I am a little curious what features could possibly be in there.
I don’t think most modern physical media counts for that though, if you buy a new game on a disc theres a decent chance that it still has to download the game from the internet
To a certain extent physical media is already dead, they’re just waving around it’s corpse and making it look like it’s alive
Physical media generally has less aggressive DRM. Buy a DVD and the movies your’s for life, you can even rip it and put it on a media server to make your own little streaming site.
“Buy” a movie/audiobook on Amazon and it’s yours as long as the company wants you to keep it.
let me see:
I bought a gas stove/oven a few months ago. Took me a couple of weeks to notice that I can connect it to my wifi for some reason. I haven’t, and don’t intend to, but I am a little curious what features could possibly be in there.
it’s probably something like remote control, which is handy but ultimately not worth it imo
I don’t think most modern physical media counts for that though, if you buy a new game on a disc theres a decent chance that it still has to download the game from the internet
To a certain extent physical media is already dead, they’re just waving around it’s corpse and making it look like it’s alive
Physical media generally has less aggressive DRM. Buy a DVD and the movies your’s for life, you can even rip it and put it on a media server to make your own little streaming site.
“Buy” a movie/audiobook on Amazon and it’s yours as long as the company wants you to keep it.
As always, there is an relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/488/