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.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    15 days ago

    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

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      14 days ago

      “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.

    • Shadow79@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      15 days ago

      3.99 Is that in € or $?

      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.