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Originally Posted by CyGuy
I am the extreme opposite of this mentality. I almost never stream anything, and I have no desire to. I keep all of my content with me, mostly on SDHC cards, but I also have a couple of external HDD and USB thumb drives. I do not ever want to be reliant on an Internet connection just to read a book or watch a movie, that is a huge step backwards for me.
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It definitely would be currently.
But if in 50 years there's blazing fast wireless internet freely available worldwide that pretty much never has outages etc....then I could go for it.
With today's splotchy internet service, huge geographic gaps in availability of broadband, still pretty high costs for broadband which keep everyone from being able to have access etc. it would be a huge step backwards.
Solve that problem (which will take decades) and my resistance would melt as I'm getting tired of having stuff I never use clutter up the house. One of these days I just need to bite the bullet, quit holding on to this stuff and have a garage sell or just say screw it and donate cds, dvds etc. that never get used. I've been gradually getting rid of stuff, but have a hard time parting with a lot of movies I feel I may want to watch again some day etc.
Hell, even a burglary would be fine as at least then I could get insurance money for all this crap!