I know that Prime Video has either rentals and purchase to own (regardless, the ones with higher resolution costs more when speaking about one time purchase rather than rentals). I’ve managed to purchase The Unit (All 4 Seasons) for about ¥4000 in total (or about ¥1000 per season in HD) on Prime Video (Japan). Rentals only last 48 hours while purchases are intended for lifetime streaming without an expiry date.
I’ve never rented or bought any show or movie digitally. Always seemed too expensive and ephemeral. I’m old enough to remember video rentals* so I refuse to pay more than 1€ for anything I can watch in one evening but not keep. 3.99 for a B-movie from 1969 that I can’t even keep? lolno. Gladly pay 3.99 for a DVD though.
* … like, the buildings. Is “video rentals” the English term? Everybody’s always only talking about Blockbuster (which wasn’t even a thing here), never the general category of, uh, libraries for video. Hashtag English As A Second Language
“Video rentals” is a common term in English for the act of renting video, or even as a noun phrase, so you’ve got it, we know what you mean.
I’ve never heard it as a term for the building, though I imagine there were a few businesses so named.
Good to know I’m on the right track. So how would you say (/have said), “there’s a [location that rents out videos] down the street”?
🎵 Donde esta la videoteca 🎶Anyway, I’ve managed to snag an entire season of a TV show I haven’t seen yet which is ¥999 when it was originally ¥4010 per season (or ¥16040 for all 4) but managed to snag the entire series at ¥3996.
Close enough for either
€, since I mentioned the currency in the sentence before that :)
Sure, ¥999 for a season sounds very nice but it all stays on Amazon’s servers. Whenever they feel like taking those down, I’d be extremely surprised if they first let you download the files to keep them. And correct me if I’m wrong but don’t you need a Prime subscription to access those digital purchases?