Physical or Digital Media?

[Aesopian]

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.

What I love about physical media is the bonus features that can take some digging to find with digital media.

I look forward to alternate endings & deleted scenes when buying DVD's

 

[Tjodalv]

Some things, like video games or films, I'll buy a physical copy of because it has trade-in/resale value. If downloadable copies were cheaper as to offset that, or were able to be transferred, then I wouldn't care.

 

[ShiftyDevil]

Depends. Certain albums that I really love I get the actual vinyl, and I sort of collect old school video game stuff.

Digital is great and super convenient, but for certain things I want the actual object.

 

[IBleedBearsBlood]

I love physical media but I’m transitioning to digital now.


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[LordKOTL]

Both.

A physical copy can be re-copied in case you ever lose the digital version (depending of course on the quality of the physical copy). Digital is portable, transferable, and of course you can store a virtually cloned copy anywhere.

For me the major dislike about physical copies is the fact it takes up tangible space...

The major dislike about digital is that it requires an infrastructure capable of storing, accessing, and deciphering it to be viable.

So for me anything very valuable will be physical. Anything "disposable" will be digital.

 

[modo]

Digital media all the way....physical is just clutter and shit that breaks.

books, movie and music. I buy almost exclusively as digital media. Some exceptions are used items like video games, but books are so much more easy as a virtual copy. I am on the road a lot and carrying around books on CD would be a pain in the ass. Having that on my phone is so much easier.

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

Digital media all the way....physical is just clutter and shit that breaks.

books, movie and music. I buy almost exclusively as digital media. Some exceptions are used items like video games, but books are so much more easy as a virtual copy. I am on the road a lot and carrying around books on CD would be a pain in the ass. Having that on my phone is so much easier.

I love the smell and feel of a new book and turning the page to see what happens next is a thrill. I do understand where you're coming from though.

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

I love physical media but I’m transitioning to digital now.


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That's smart since everything will be digital sooner than later, might as well get a jump on it now.

 

[Bearly]

I can speak to music media. I never cared for the sound of CD players. Vinyl and analog was my preference but I always had top kit so ymmv. Now that I can stream locally at 24/192, with the stuff I'm accustomed to, it's better if I dub vinyl to a Nagra IV then play it on the table that gets affected by the sound. Linn LP12/Naim Aro. When I make a dub, speakers aren't playing,

 

[Burque]

I got rid of all non disc media. Cassette tapes and VHS stuff but I keep DVD's and CD's because they continue to work and not degrade. for the music if I need to reburn it it is nice tohave the original

 

[LordKOTL]

I got rid of all non disc media. Cassette tapes and VHS stuff but I keep DVD's and CD's because they continue to work and not degrade. for the music if I need to reburn it it is nice tohave the original

Look up disc rot. I've had some commercial (read: not home-burned) discs go bad that weren't scratched to hell and back.

For that very reason I'm in the process of ISO'ing our entire DVD library (CD's were done years ago).

 

[Burque]

Look up disc rot. I've had some commercial (read: not home-burned) discs go bad that weren't scratched to hell and back.

For that very reason I'm in the process of ISO'ing our entire DVD library (CD's were done years ago).

I have heard of it and have ripped most of my CD's, but not movies, mostly because my movies are all easy to rebuy if they go bad.


I have never personally experienced any sort of CD or DVD going bad without it being physically wrecked. Old or new. Of course everything is stored in a cool dry place.

 

[LordKOTL]

I have heard of it and have ripped most of my CD's, but not movies, mostly because my movies are all easy to rebuy if they go bad.


I have never personally experienced any sort of CD or DVD going bad without it being physically wrecked. Old or new. Of course everything is stored in a cool dry place.

Lucky you [emoji4] . Still, if you have a fuckton of storage (Like a 9TB NAS), you could probably save some headache and rip the DVD to an ISO.

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[Crystallas]

Look up disc rot. I've had some commercial (read: not home-burned) discs go bad that weren't scratched to hell and back.

For that very reason I'm in the process of ISO'ing our entire DVD library (CD's were done years ago).

Look up M-DISC <3

But I also don't have any disc rot with my backups, whether they're 30 years old now or 5 years old(thousands of discs). Mainly because I never used shoddy media for long term backups, like the ridata clones and memorex/verbatim/Maxell/PNY. Also you need a good drive. A lot of people would buy Lite-On drives and swear by them, and I was like, no, they use low bin components. Well, all these years later all those people are complaining about discs that should be good for 50 years, but now can't be read 10-20 years in. Good discs outside of m-disc are hard to come by, because they are almost all cheaply made and trying to push people onto other storage methods.

Was never trying to be a fanboy *cough* verbatim and memorex have always sucked for media, including those who used their services for professional duplication and pressing. I just wanted to help preserve data by steering users clear of bad manufacturers

 

[modo]

I love the smell and feel of a new book and turning the page to see what happens next is a thrill. I do understand where you're coming from though.

I do like the tactile feel of books.

 

[LordKOTL]

Look up M-DISC <3

But I also don't have any disc rot with my backups, whether they're 30 years old now or 5 years old(thousands of discs). Mainly because I never used shoddy media for long term backups, like the ridata clones and memorex/verbatim/Maxell/PNY. Also you need a good drive. A lot of people would buy Lite-On drives and swear by them, and I was like, no, they use low bin components. Well, all these years later all those people are complaining about discs that should be good for 50 years, but now can't be read 10-20 years in. Good discs outside of m-disc are hard to come by, because they are almost all cheaply made and trying to push people onto other storage methods.

Was never trying to be a fanboy *cough* verbatim and memorex have always sucked for media, including those who used their services for professional duplication and pressing. I just wanted to help preserve data by steering users clear of bad manufacturers

The disc rot I ran into was a couple of commercial DVD's, not burned CD's, DVD's, or even the RW discs of any flavor, so in that vein unless I did without the movie/CD, I was pretty much SOL.

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

All my Tayo Yuden CD-Rs written on by Plextor and Yamaha drives 20 year ago are fine.

Sony and Ricoh made some of the worst back then. None of those have lasted.

 

[Burque]

The disc rot I ran into was a couple of commercial DVD's, not burned CD's, DVD's, or even the RW discs of any flavor, so in that vein unless I did without the movie/CD, I was pretty much SOL.

Those 5 buck Dvd's are printed on shit discs.

 

[Burque]

I love the smell and feel of a new book and turning the page to see what happens next is a thrill. I do understand where you're coming from though.

I do like the tactile feel of books.

I have a problem with books too. I literally will buy them ten at a time, read them once, and then keep them forever. I am not sure why I cannot pass them on or get rid of them but my book shelves runneth over.