Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying

Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by liability on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:41PM (#20788504)

You don't know that. Currently consumers don't have the (legal) option, so extrapolating their current behavior to their potential desires is fallacious.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by scottlegrand2 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:08PM (#20788666)

I download entire seasons of TV series with my Android Netflix client all the time. It's fantastic for travel.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by majormajor on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:03PM (#20788642)

I could've been doing this with iTunes for TV shows for years.

It would be way less convenient, though. So I don't. I don't know which device I'll end up watching on, and don't want to deal with syncing and all that shit.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by liability on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:40PM (#20788894)

> iTunes for TV shows for years.

Which is way more expensive than streaming services. Prohibitively so for wide swaths of the general population who don't have tech industry salaries. The cost of one TV show from iTunes can approach the price of several months of Netflix.

With copyright reform, that needn't be the case.

(Note that for many consumers, Netflix is already considered too expensive. Several people sharing the cost of one account is pretty common from what I've seen.)

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by lern_too_spel on Saturday August 24, 2019 @03:07PM (#20789053)

Netflix and Amazon Prime Video already offer the ability to download and play later, so there is no need to extrapolate, and we do know that.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by liability on Saturday August 24, 2019 @03:18PM (#20789113)

As I understand it, those features come with considerable DRM limitations. So no, it's really not the same.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by lern_too_spel on Sunday August 25, 2019 @12:23PM (#20793787)

They don't come with any practical limitations, so it is really the same.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by wideasleep1 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:24PM (#20788789)

Netflix has downloads.

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