flytipping

hi

i am really, really missing not being able to take images in the greater good and glory of Commodore 64 mode. oddly the quasi, accidental replacement - VHS mode - kind of works here, look you see. but, still, what am i to do? procure a second, older camera that C64 mode remains working on and carry it with me at all times? surely such would make me look like a bigger toss than what is usual. 

moving on (or forward), then, and yes, another glimpse of something what i saw on my travels. no instance of a potential accidental discarding here, for as the title gives you every indication of being it's all the mostly illegal art of flytipping here. or fly tipping (fly-tipping) if that is the more better was of spelling it. 

as you can see (if you look) above, it was a whole pile of DVD discs what i saw as having been discarded. yes, presented in VHS mode, then. i didn't go actively looking for these, by the way, as point of fact i had not even noticed them as i parked close by. 

why would one ditch, illegally or otherwise, a whole great big pile of these discs? the way of the world these days. quite a few, perhaps a slight majority (52-48, say) seem to have embraced all of that streaming business, be it legally or otherwise. lots of discs appear to end up in charity shops and what have you, or landfill. so far as i could see, and the discs (and boxes) all appear to have been heavily water damaged, but still it looks like a few of them might be old school pirates and thus wouldn't be taken in as a donation off of charity shops. 

to be honest i had better things to do than look at the discs all that closely. mostly, though, it appears someone ditched a stack of copies of Only Fools & Horses and Harry Potter films. somewhere in there, though, there was, i noted, what seemed to be a perfectly serviceable copy of Boogie Nights. anyone who would carelessly discard this fine film wants locking up. 

present market rates have current (or recent) released DVDs going for £10 here in the UK, with a blu ray disc of the same being £15. this i prefer, as then i can watch what i want when i wish, rather than subscribing to several (official) online services to find what i fancy. my understanding is that the less formal, more independent free for all streaming services find you needing to, farcically, pay a subscription to pirates. sure, "free" illicit streaming is out there, but generally is unreliable or loaded with adverts. gotta love capitalism. 

does anyone still do old school "download" piracy? most probably. i suppose, though, that downloading a film and then either recording a disc or putting it on a memory stick is, for this generation, far too much effort in the face of streaming. quite a peculiar thing to get nostalgic (or what have you) about, but then it doesn't seem all that long ago downloading and recording seemed amazing. 

not sure if there shall ever be a "revival" of films in physical media form as became the case with books over fancy e-readers and albums over streaming. sure, there are pockets of people who collect VHS tapes (Beta, too), but for buying actual copies of films on disc i do feel a bit like a part of a dwindling if not quite dying breed. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!