Physical or Digital Media?

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What's your choice? I like physical media. I enjoy owning the discs. I like that it's a steady audio and video flow with no real interruptions or buffering or anything like that. I used to buy tons of blu-rays but I cut that spending way down. I used to blind buy movies but thanks to my Firestick I can view a movie first and decide if I want to buy it.

The only drawback I find to physical media is the storage aspect.
 

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You know Physical media is literally just the digital data on a physical disk, right?

And you can own/download digital to your own local shares for viewing, so you don't have to worry about any possible streaming/buffering issues.

Physical media is simpler for the consumer in some cases, but if you have the ability to go all digital you should, there are no quality drawbacks as long as you have the correct setup.
 

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I still have in my possession very large collections archived by my mom's ex boyfriend of various movies, television programs, and songs on a wide array of different various physical media mediums that are actually NOT "digital" and in some cases are more interesting to me personally because they are not digital in that they are more "nu-anced" than digital media. These mediums include 8-track-tapes for music, recordings on vinyl records, mix-tapes, betamac cartridges, vhs, laser-diskettes, and also some old mp3 players with recording from vinyl records. I was thinking about putting this all onto a computer or a bunch of different storage sticks so that I can have easier access to them while I am commuting but would not want to sacrifice or disturb the original quality of the items in their original formats.
 

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I still have in my possession very large collections archived by my mom's ex boyfriend of various movies, television programs, and songs on a wide array of different various physical media mediums that are actually NOT "digital" and in some cases are more interesting to me personally because they are not digital in that they are more "nu-anced" than digital media. These mediums include 8-track-tapes for music, recordings on vinyl records, mix-tapes, betamac cartridges, vhs, laser-diskettes, and also some old mp3 players with recording from vinyl records. I was thinking about putting this all onto a computer or a bunch of different storage sticks so that I can have easier access to them while I am commuting but would not want to sacrifice or disturb the original quality of the items in their original formats.

Yo, if you have any copies of the Get Smart Series i'll gladly throw a few pieces of cabbage your way in trade.
 

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I remember tossing about 3 hefty bags of cassette tapes.
This was after tossing the 8 tracks way back.
The CDs are next once I've put them to computer.
Lot of money in those bags when you think about what it.

Still have the vinyl in the my Pops basement.
 

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Yo, if you have any copies of the Get Smart Series i'll gladly throw a few pieces of cabbage your way in trade.

I am almost 99% positive if I remember correctly, which is likely because I remember watching re-runs of that show with him on METV, that some of those are most probably on some VHS tapes along with some episodes of the program "stargate" and will look through the boxes to see if they are in there and hopefully labeled but I don't know if I can part with the originals, I am assuming that "cabbage" is a "coloquialism" for "cash-money" so maybe we can come up with an arrangement but if you are really just looking for the content I don't see why I couldn't just upload them to my YouTube channel and give you the address, for free?
 

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I am almost 99% positive if I remember correctly, which is likely because I remember watching re-runs of that show with him on METV, that some of those are most probably on some VHS tapes along with some episodes of the program "stargate" and will look through the boxes to see if they are in there and hopefully labeled but I don't know if I can part with the originals, I am assuming that "cabbage" is a "coloquialism" for "cash-money" so maybe we can come up with an arrangement but if you are really just looking for the content I don't see why I couldn't just upload them to my YouTube channel and give you the address, for free?
My thumb is up for this deal!
 

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For films i really enjoy i like to have physical copies but everything else im digital.
 

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Not sure what that means, but if any of you have a problem with me I'd be more than happy to solve it via PM.


I don't even know what you meant by Uber thing, so I just rearranged the letters. No problem. But I'd prefer to take it to youtube if you perceive a problem.


I stream everyhting also, if it's not on youtube.
 

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I don't even know what you meant by Uber thing, so I just rearranged the letters. No problem. But I'd prefer to take it to youtube if you perceive a problem.


I stream everyhting also, if it's not on youtube.

You guys know my Youtube channel and keep passively aggressively mentioning it for some reason. Odd. Am i supposed to feel threatened or something?
 

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You guys know my Youtube channel and keep passively aggressively mentioning it for some reason. Odd. Am i supposed to feel threatened or something?

Not sure who you mean by you guys, but I didn't even know you had a youtube channel. Do you stream stuff there, or upload copyrighted material?
 

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Both. Physical media has a lot of advantages, not just as a luxury. Distributed content disappears from the internet when left unmaintained, which is a lot of data.

Plus you have personal content. Do you want to save your stuff on the 'cloud' and just hope personal filings behind an encryption wall is untouchable over a long period of time? Not everything runs a constant network cypher between a million nodes to secure data. Look at world events and all the email leaks, "fappening 1.0 through 20.0", and the financial sectors that get hit constantly. Diversify tactics, backup means more than one at a minimum, so physical is necessary if you want to be responsible. Hard to replace data should be burned on an m-disc and stored cautiously along with other solutions. If your data is not useful and you simply consume consume consume, then sure, you don't really need physical media.

Not a single game emulator is 100%. Not all music releases are superior in digital formats(some is on the musicians part to transfer the master recordings aka: remaster). Not all family videos have been converted, as I'm sure everyone here knows someone with a box in their attic full of home movies that need to be digitally captured. So physical media will never die, plus, your computer/phone/tablet are all using physical media in the form of hard and solid state disks. Remove that, then someone else has the disk drive and you are connecting to them, ala the past method (1970s UNIX computer lab terminal.)
 

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