seriously, I still have a bunch of DVDs from years ago before media became so easy to download. I downloaded them all already and the convience of having the whole library on your computer or external is so much better than a bunch of disks that you have to pop in and out.
I'm really basic and youtube brained for this but I like the aesthetic of a shelf filled with physical media. I'm too broke to actively try to collect but if I was reasonably well off I absolutely would have a shelf like that.
I like it for books. Maybe vinyl records. Things with an appealing ritual or physical experience to them. But honestly for CDs, movies (or god forbid TV) it's kind of just like ew, why. I don't want to interact with the clunky remote and menu system of the player, I don't want to hunt for a misplaced disk, and it's all digital anyhow so why bother when you could just have "netflix but even more convenient and I can load anything I want onto it"? And physical media heads who just rip everything and save it to a hard drive anyhow just make me think they're too lib brained to pirate.
You can just buy bootlegs really cheap. That's how 80% of people in my town know about the movies they do. I've got a huge bootleg collection alongside pirated digital media as backup.
Paying for media AND wasting useful space in your room? No tank you.
seriously, I still have a bunch of DVDs from years ago before media became so easy to download. I downloaded them all already and the convience of having the whole library on your computer or external is so much better than a bunch of disks that you have to pop in and out.
I'm really basic and youtube brained for this but I like the aesthetic of a shelf filled with physical media. I'm too broke to actively try to collect but if I was reasonably well off I absolutely would have a shelf like that.
I like it for books. Maybe vinyl records. Things with an appealing ritual or physical experience to them. But honestly for CDs, movies (or god forbid TV) it's kind of just like ew, why. I don't want to interact with the clunky remote and menu system of the player, I don't want to hunt for a misplaced disk, and it's all digital anyhow so why bother when you could just have "netflix but even more convenient and I can load anything I want onto it"? And physical media heads who just rip everything and save it to a hard drive anyhow just make me think they're too lib brained to pirate.
You can just buy bootlegs really cheap. That's how 80% of people in my town know about the movies they do. I've got a huge bootleg collection alongside pirated digital media as backup.