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Originally Posted by Damian
The biggest problem with owning the black box that stores your 500 movie collection is, at some point it will fail.
Not might fail, IT WILL FAIL. They all fail, always and there's nothing you can do to stop it. The regular user who's to scared to buy a computer isn't going to plug an external firewire drive into that box and back it up on a regular basis. They want their stuff to be at their fingertips all the time.
Moog, you may have hard drives full of the digital media but since you're not an "average user" you probably keep backups of the media and games you've purchased. (at least I hope you do)
We've been on DirectTV for just over a year now and have already gone through two different HDTV/DVR boxes. Both times losing dozens of unwatched shows and movies.
Until they get it right, I want a disc in my hand that I can stick on a shelf and not worry about anything happening to it unless I do something myself.
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Again, if the model turns into a rental model which is the most likely scenario, then it does not matter if the drive fails as you only have temporary info on it anyway.
On top of that, even if a buy model is in place the good download services keep track of your purchase history and if your drive fails you are able to restore/redownload movies that you have bought on your new drive. Think of it like Steam for movies. If your computer's hard drive dies, do you lose everything you've bought on Steam? Of course not. The redownload process is similar to how movie download services like Xbox Live Marketplace work.