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.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    I’ve rented a movie for $2.99, knowing it was an ephemeral purchase. I look at it like going to the movies but for a lot less.

    If I were to “buy” a season, it would be so I could rip the stream and save it.

    I do have a couple subscriptions through Amazon, as distasteful as it is. But I’m also building my own video collection and get my own copies of stuff as much as I can.

    My local libraries have an astounding array of fairly new stuff and classics, in addition to good media from The Great Courses, and books on CD. So I check them out and rip them, converting video to much smaller MKV files since what’s on DVD isn’t high resolution anyway.

    I also download stuff from YouTube that I find interesting (Technology Connections, Animagrafs) and financially support those creators.