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Last edited by anon; 05-11-2012 at 02:36 AM.
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Yeah, but consider the cost of a 100 GB hard drive back then. It would have been more cost effective to to store the movies on a hard disc if your collection was large enough to justify it. Otherwise (and more commonly), it's much cheaper to pick up the few movies you want @ about $1 a pop at the local "video" store. I don't know if you've ever been to one, but it's literally a storefront where they sell CDs/DVDs of pirated movies and music, xvid on disc, label and cover printed, brilliant. I've seen this kind of thing in markets, but an actual store takes the cake for me.
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I still back up anything Video, audio, etc. that I would really hate to lose to disk, even though I have about 15 TB of external storage. I had a 1 TB external that got fried once & I lost a shitload of stuff, some of which I never did recover. The one advantage that DVD's & CD's have, is that as long as you keep them in a safe place & are careful handling them, they'll last practically forever.
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I wasn't much into movie downloading back then. It was more music and warez. And I had a 20 gig hard drive
We sort of have that here, mostly as newspaper stands which sell boxed copies of programs, games and movies, just like you mention.Otherwise (and more commonly), it's much cheaper to pick up the few movies you want @ about $1 a pop at the local "video" store. I don't know if you've ever been to one, but it's literally a storefront where they sell CDs/DVDs of pirated movies and music, xvid on disc, label and cover printed, brilliant.
In the early 00s there was the following: every few weeks you'd find a brochure at your doorstep, which was actually a warez catalog. You would call the number printed at the bottom (always a mobile), order the things you wanted and leave your own number. Within a day or two they'd call back to tell you the copies were ready and ask where to deliver them. Prices were between 5 and 10 AR$ per disc. It was a bit like you were buying crack from them, except it was pirated stuff. And the price was excellent, considering that downloading a CD's worth of content through dial-up would take a lot more time and money.
Still have a few of those discs myself.
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