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A comment on Apple’s crackdown on multicast. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast by TechBro8615 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:13AM (#28287769)
> After all, you may have your VHS tapes from K-Mart you bought 30 years ago, but can you actually watch them

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or just a bad example. Yes, you can still watch VHS tapes, since they're physical media that can be decoded by a VHS playback device. You might have trouble finding the hardware, but if you have the hardware, it will still run – it's not going to require a software update.

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Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:53AM (#28288176)
> I can't tell if this is sarcasm or just a bad example

A bad example given HN's audience - but I imagine of most normal-people, the majority of those with a VCR will have left it in the attic or basement and never bothered to connect it to their modern LCD TV. If it was a home-video camcorder vid then it's likely already converted to DVD if it's worth preserving.

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Re:Apple’s crackdown on multicast by smichel17 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @09:42AM (#28288734)
Well, that's the difference, isn't it? People were able to convert their VHS to DVD. Doing that for DRM would be impractical and/or illegal.
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