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Apr. 18th, 2023 04:59 pmI am almost certainly not signing up for Heart Attack after all; I realized that with the current state of my to-do list, I was getting more stress than joy from the idea of having to write 10K the last week of the month.
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prisoner_exchange, however, is definitely a go. It's only 1K! There's lots of writing time! I also really want to treat in h/c-ex. BIGGLES! ♥
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In other news, I was just reading about how Netflix is ending its DVD-by-mail service this year. What an end of an era that feels like. I still remember my roommate getting a DVD player and some DVDs for Christmas in 1999, the first DVD player either of us had ever used, and how we had to watch all the special features and extras because we were so fascinated by the whole idea of having them at all; VHS tapes were only ever just the movie. And being able to pause and skip scenes and go back and forth! It was very much the same "and we never looked back" sea change that trading cassettes for CDs was.
... Interesting now that I'm thinking about it how video seems to lag at least 10 years behind music for that kind of thing, actually. The technology exists, but it takes longer for it to really kick off on the consumer market. I got my first CD player in high school (so early 90s) but never used a DVD player until 1999. And digital music was just starting to come in at that time and had eclipsed CDs completely within 5-10 years, but digital video had to wait for large hard drives and widespread fast internet. I first started buying digital video files when iTunes started having TV shows available for download the same night they released, with season subscriptions so it would download automatically; that was about 2007-08 or so. Now I think all the TV I've watched in the last few years was made for streaming, and most of the movies I watch these days are via digital renting. I think the only media I perma-bought in the last couple of years was Falcon & Winter Soldier, mostly because I wanted high-quality files for vidmaking.
I was going to say that I wonder if the concept of buying it at all is what'll feel anachronistic in 10-20 years. But then I realized that I have changed almost nothing about how I buy and listen to music since I made the CDs-to-digital leap in the first few years of the 2000s, aside from now using my phone to play it in the car. I still buy most of it off iTunes and use iTunes to manage it, occasionally buying files off Amazon or individual artists' websites if I want something that iTunes doesn't have. I listen to streaming music sometimes, but honestly it's not really that big for me. And it doesn't seem to me that the concept of buying and owning music is nearly as much in flux as buying and owning video. That all seems to have kind of stabilized after physical media (mostly) went away, and now iTunes and other storefronts coexist with free and paid streaming services, and none of it really seems to be in *too* much danger of either going away or completely monopolizing the marketplace; individual services might come and go, but it doesn't really look to me like it's in nearly as much flux as it was early on. So maybe we're just in the final throes of the physical-media-to-digital transition for video, a rough equivalent to what music was going through 15 years ago, and it'll stabilize similarly over the next couple of decades as everyone develops a specific preference for watching in a certain way, the way that a lot of individuals have a preference for owning vs. streaming music, or for a particular site to manage their music library with.
prisoner_exchange, however, is definitely a go. It's only 1K! There's lots of writing time! I also really want to treat in h/c-ex. BIGGLES! ♥--
In other news, I was just reading about how Netflix is ending its DVD-by-mail service this year. What an end of an era that feels like. I still remember my roommate getting a DVD player and some DVDs for Christmas in 1999, the first DVD player either of us had ever used, and how we had to watch all the special features and extras because we were so fascinated by the whole idea of having them at all; VHS tapes were only ever just the movie. And being able to pause and skip scenes and go back and forth! It was very much the same "and we never looked back" sea change that trading cassettes for CDs was.
... Interesting now that I'm thinking about it how video seems to lag at least 10 years behind music for that kind of thing, actually. The technology exists, but it takes longer for it to really kick off on the consumer market. I got my first CD player in high school (so early 90s) but never used a DVD player until 1999. And digital music was just starting to come in at that time and had eclipsed CDs completely within 5-10 years, but digital video had to wait for large hard drives and widespread fast internet. I first started buying digital video files when iTunes started having TV shows available for download the same night they released, with season subscriptions so it would download automatically; that was about 2007-08 or so. Now I think all the TV I've watched in the last few years was made for streaming, and most of the movies I watch these days are via digital renting. I think the only media I perma-bought in the last couple of years was Falcon & Winter Soldier, mostly because I wanted high-quality files for vidmaking.
I was going to say that I wonder if the concept of buying it at all is what'll feel anachronistic in 10-20 years. But then I realized that I have changed almost nothing about how I buy and listen to music since I made the CDs-to-digital leap in the first few years of the 2000s, aside from now using my phone to play it in the car. I still buy most of it off iTunes and use iTunes to manage it, occasionally buying files off Amazon or individual artists' websites if I want something that iTunes doesn't have. I listen to streaming music sometimes, but honestly it's not really that big for me. And it doesn't seem to me that the concept of buying and owning music is nearly as much in flux as buying and owning video. That all seems to have kind of stabilized after physical media (mostly) went away, and now iTunes and other storefronts coexist with free and paid streaming services, and none of it really seems to be in *too* much danger of either going away or completely monopolizing the marketplace; individual services might come and go, but it doesn't really look to me like it's in nearly as much flux as it was early on. So maybe we're just in the final throes of the physical-media-to-digital transition for video, a rough equivalent to what music was going through 15 years ago, and it'll stabilize similarly over the next couple of decades as everyone develops a specific preference for watching in a certain way, the way that a lot of individuals have a preference for owning vs. streaming music, or for a particular site to manage their music library with.
