Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.

Arethusa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• victoitor@lemmy.eco.br ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dvd is not better. I hate it when I pay for the content and I’m still forced to see ads for something I purchased. You might own the media, but there are other downsides as well. They actually both suck!

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  • wagoner@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean like a DVD movie has a trailer on it for the movie itself? Not sure what you’re saying here.

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    • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      DVDs sometimes had trailers for other movies on them. It was more frequent on VHS though.

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    • victoitor@lemmy.eco.br ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This. Trailers are ads for other movies. Some DVDs had unskippable trailers.

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m still forced to see ads

    Never heard of it.

    but there are other downsides as well. They actually both suck!

    You can dd entire disk to your HDD.

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• CentreForAnts@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is why owning DVDs is better.

  I love standard definition video

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meanwhile 1080p easily can be written on dvd. And with good codecs(like AV1) such videos can be very long.

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    • Arethusa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Another DVD plus is never having it go pixelated or buffering while watching due to some streamer error or widespread cloud downtime or other issue. That one time purchase and watching it whenever I like for as long as I like, and not some corporation, is an impeccable experience.

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      • uis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or you can simply dump DVD on your hard drive and put it on a shelf. DVD, but hard drive works too.

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• Lt_Cdr_Data@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He got his money back and a 5dollar gift code. Shit happens

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  • hiremenot_recruiter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you’re saying it’s relatively cheap for the privilege of being in an abusive relationship?

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    • Arethusa@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Abusive is a perfect description. Exploitative too. I’ve always viewed store credit as a sucky refund policy. Offline. Whenever I discovered these, usually because I needed to return something, these shops lost my business.

      And the above is not even the same situation when you really look at it. This person didn’t want to return something. They made a purchase they wanted to keep. Then Amazon just said, “oh, we’re repossessing that media and keeping your money. Feel free to use this store credit on something else for which we can repeat this scenario all over again at will. Have a great day!”

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      • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Putting aside why the system is setup that someone’s digital purchase can even be revoked at all which is another topic all together; Every refund I’ve ever gotten from Amazon came in the form of whatever I used to pay for it. So it’s possible that OP bought the movie originally with Amazon Credit and therefore was refunded Amazon Credit.

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  • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did miss the refund? It’s just an in-store credit

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