[patapong]

Fascinating.

These red tapes feel like a ridiculous and cumbersome idea. Thinking about it, their concept won in the end though, in terms of media consumption and ownership...

Our current streaming services feel much more akin to these tapes, where you rely on a centralized entity to decide what you can watch and how, rather than infinitely repayable and transferable video tapes.

[Pxtl]

Somebody recently said the best phrase on the modern internet is "iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts" because podcasts are probably the most recent media-consumption technology where open standards won out and it's just a bunch of standardized data and metadata you can use as you like.

[mywittyname]

There's a symbiotic relationship that exists with podcasting that doesn't necessary exist for other media. Podcasters want to reach the largest possible audience because they are paid relative to viewership. Hosting their own content has an expense and doesn't provide them with very effective discoverability. Podcast platforms make their money from having a large collection of podcasts and, for spotify/itunes, podcasts don't generally have royalty fees associated with playback.

This isn't really possible with things like movies.

[Pxtl]

Yes, but none of that has anything to do with why RSS+mp3 won. If somebody invented podcasts today it would be a walled garden, not an open format where I can point any podcatcher at any host and get the feed.

[sneak]

My NAS running Jellyfin would like a word.

[patapong]

You are the person opening the red tapes to be able to watch them again!

[Dylan16807]

Either you broke the law many times to fill that NAS, or you have massive gaps in content because those items have never been broadcast or released on disc.

So it doesn't disagree very well.

[SergeAx]

Right after my torrent client, please.