Hard decision, but going all digital.

[Night*Wolf]

Originally Posted by rui no onna

DRM means those downloaded movies are only playable on the device it was downloaded to. If that device ever breaks, then whatever "OOP" titles you have downloaded on your old device is gone right along with it.

Mind, both Vudu and Amazon allow downloads as well.

There are movies where I don't care if that happens and I consider the risk low enough and the price cheap enough (when they're on sale at rental prices) that I'm willing to go digital-only. Movies Anywhere also partially mitigates the risk of complete loss (e.g. one distributor might lose a certain movie but it could still be available on other platforms).

For movies I don't want to lose, I buy on optical media (with digital copy).

This is something I have a question about, I know I can download movies locally if I wanted to download, but lets say I wanted to download or rip movies to an external hard drive so I can plug it into anywhere like another PC or tablet open the file and watch. I once had when I was young a USB drive with 3 or 4 movies stored on there, I’m thinking now getting like a 2TB external hard drive and downloading my collection there, can I do that and/how.