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You're not counting the energy costs of producing the DVD's, shipping, storage and all the people involved who have to travel to work etc.


Or energy costs of producing hardware to serve from, buildings to house those servers, ship them around, replace and fix them, cool them down...

It is likely still more efficient to stream than ship on DVDs (I wonder how much it changes with eg. USB flash drives, SD cards or other rewriteable media), but have upfront energy costs that are harder to estimate.




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