Physical media is more important than ever
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Physical media is more important than ever. There's a lot of talk out there across the internet about physical media being a thing of the past and everything going digital, with us being forced to stream music or tv and movies through apps such as Spotify or RUclips or Netflix or HBO Max, or buy our games digitally through GoG or Steam or Epic or whatever site. But with licensed games disappearing, movies being used as tax write-offs, TV shows cancelled and removed from streaming services all together, and music going out of print, the need for DVDs, CDs, records, video tapes, and discs and cartridges of video games has become obvious for the sake of media preservation, because we're winding up with lost media at an alarming rate and these companies want us more and more to get comfortable not owning the media we buy, with subscription services such as Gamepass or Disney+ or whatever else. I'm tired of pretending like things are fine. Libraries should get copies of this media so we can preserve it and people will be able to experience it. In this video I talk about the importance of being able to experience media and how that's more important than pretty pictures or perfect sound, as a way of seeing the big picture. I also talk about stores such as Best Buy phasing out their physical releases and the negative impact it will have on collecting and media in general.
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Whenever the internet goes down I start browsing my DVDs.
Same here!!
Me too! I'm keeping my physical media. It's annoying when something is removed from a streaming service
What I miss most is the special features and commentaries
I never gave up my DVD collection or switched to streaming. I like having a movie and TV library catered solely for me. I also like knowing my DVDs can't be censored or edited like so much media is now. I also don't like to rent. I like to own things, not pay the rich for what they will always own.
Disney needs to be forced to un-vault the entire 20th Century Fox movies from the 30s, 40s, 50s.
As a physical media lover, I must say… Marie Kondo advocates for keeping what brings joy. At no point in her books or show, to my knowledge, does she advocate for going digital, or purging collections.
I agree- she doesn't want you to purge everything and be unhappy. If it sparks joy- keep it - guilt free.
I digitized my entire collection of movies to a personal server, tossed out the boxes, but kept the discs and artwork in space saving plastic sleeves. Best of both worlds. I refuse to toss any of my media because it could vanish or be altered one day.
I've also kept all of my PC and console games from when I was a child and onward and always buy physical if I can.
I refuse to stream anything. Physical media fornme only, and I'm super young.
Personally I don’t have a problem worth streaming except that some things are now never released in a format that you can own. The only option to “own” in that case is to sail the high seas. Maybe if media companies don’t want piracy they shouldn’t be so anti-consumer. But to me streaming is the internet equivalent of a video rental store.
Dvd isn't always a answer either.
I now have allot of dvd that are fucking useless now thanks to disc rot... all from Warner Bros as they had one plant that made shit and those discs are going bad. There is allot of videos detailing it
Like my Christopher Reeves Superman films. Discs are all rotted. Can't watch them anymore. I bought another copy to replace them...those discs brand new just out of packaging are rotted.
I am now backing up all my media to hard drives and going to make my own private server that I can just stream my media off there.
@@lance_374 look to see if they sell the dvd somewhere else. I got good omens on dvd, but it was region locked so i had to use my laptop with a dvd player to play it, its probably possible to get an external dvd rom if you want to be able to play it on the tv though. Most tvs still have usb hookups.
@@lance_374 try to see if they released it in another country, you can watch region locked dvds if you use a dvd rom, i have two tv series that i can only watch on my laptop dvd player.external dvd roms can still plug into tvs, using usb.
@@LUCKO2022 I just watched Donnie Darko on a 15 year old DVD
You are absolutely right! A couple of years ago I was contemplating getting rid of my DVDs & BR because streaming seemed the future. Am I glad I kept pretty much everything, because there are loads of movies I can’t find anywhere, who rest safely on my shelf until I need them!
Physical games need to be sold with a digital copy like movies... Period
I value physical media. I used to have laserdiscs, vhs tapes, cassette tapes, vinyl records, and even was cylinders. I wish I didn’t have to get rid of those in my move. I fortunately still have 4K ultra discs, blu rays, dvds, and one CD. Most of my video games are physical copies.
SKIP streaming! We're slowly building a Disney classic physical media collection. You pay once and own it.
First time viewer here. I share many of your opinions, and I too have faced the same ridicule and confusion from some people when I told them I happily collect physical media and prefer it over digital or streaming.
I totally agree with you. It's a terrifying prospect the way our society is pushing this narrative on us that physical media is dead and we should only download or stream our content. It's like some bizarre parallel world where we can only ever rent what we love or want to own, but never actually own it. But that's now what's becoming our reality, and I hate it. I own a massive blu-ray and DVD collection, and I'm proud of it. I own films you can't even find on streaming, and the best part? I retain all of the original special features too. I love cinema; I want to see how films are made and the people who made them. You lose all of this on streaming; yet you pay the same price to rent the movie or for a streaming service as you would had you just owned the DVD.
I'm the same with games, too. I'm so glad I kept my PS2 and all my original games. Not only are most of the games I own virtually impossible to find now, or priced at a ridiculous level I wouldn't be able to afford anyway, but as you said, pretty much all of these games would just be lost to time. One of my favourite FPS games of all-time on PS2, Black, has never been uploaded anywhere else as a game you can download or play. If I didn't own my PS2 and my copy, I'd never be able to play it again. And many of the games from that generation hold up better than most today -- It's not all about graphics, as you said; it's about replayability, fun, the story, and the PS2 gen had all that in spades.
This is soooo much more serious than how individuals prefer to consume media. I personally hate clutter. Collecting physical media could be inconvenient even when it was widely available. But the digitalization of everything was a mistake intentionally promoted to the benefit of corporations, government organizations and NGO’s intent on making everything a subscription (rent seeking) to services vulnerable to all sorts of political pressure, and the rent seeking is not just limited to media but housing (out of reach of most young people in many areas, making the building of stable communities very difficult) transportation, food, everything. But worse! It’s about control of information. We are facing a sort of Library of Alexandria situation. I’ve watched streaming versions that have clearly been edited for any variety of licensing or political reasons. Publishers are admittedly editing classic and children’s literature ( & not just for overt gratuitous racism, homophobia, etc…) The public library in my area has been purged of all but a very narrow spectrum of acceptable thought. Keepers of physical media are now defenders of history and culture. They’re the only backup file/ recovery for what looks to be a corrupted crashing real world operating system. I’m not opposed to digital content but if you love something or think it’s important you must preserve it because if it becomes inconvenient in any way to the powers that be or desired narrative (and that might simply be that some things, policies or ideas were actually better or performed better than what is currently prevalent, and alternatives are possible) it will at best be edited & at worst disappeared all together. There were those who promoted the idea that “you will own nothing and you will be happy”- W.E.F.. But they have proven untrustworthy with the world’s art, history and cultural heritage. We have to take it into our own hands. It’s safer dispersed among the people than concentrated under centralized powers. Humans need to maintain and defend their right and even ability to have divergent and even subversive thoughts. We are to believe that in the past there was always nothing but racism, sexism & homophobia, not beauty or and objectively better quality of life in many places and many ways. We are to focus only on the technological advances and convenience of not having to do things IRL or deal with other human beings. The alternative to resisting this is absolutely dystopian. The kind of thing that books and movies of the past tried to warn us about and the reason many of those very books and movies are at risk of someday being disappeared.
I agree with you 100% I’m also am very worried about the future of physical media and I been trying to explain it to people like my parents that we need to go back to physical media but they just don’t get it and say they won’t go backwards well if that the case then the future is bad because we need to saved retail stores and collectors that like to own things like me thanks I’m glad I’m not the only one that wants physical media to stay
100% agree with this video
Most modern current-gen video game discs are just barebones and you have to download it the rest of it. So what happens when those servers go down?
I bought the Spyro Reignited Trilogy basically day one and I'm still bitter about it only containing the first game. Especially considering the newer pressings contain them all if I'm not mistaken!
This is misinformation that keeps getting spread around because of the Xbox one. The majority of the PS4/5 and switch libraries are playable without downloading a patch. Xbox is where things get murky
I hope CDs and DVDs become hip just like vinyl again, I mean, most of the factors that would make it viable are getting aligned (Millennials reaching their 40s, as well as Gen Z entering the workforce, which inevitably will become a source of generational nostalgia), as well as increasing streaming prices and stuff.
I'm a zoomer who has, until very recently, expected music and movies to be "free" to access, and I don't feel shame to sail into the seas to find my juicy MP3s and FLACs, but then I look at the only couple of CDs we still have from maybe 15+ years ago, and they're still there, and even the most scratched CD my dad has could be ripped flawlessly onto his PC, whereas I had an SD card full of music break, and I haven't been able to recover a BYTE of that info. Optical media rules.
Let’s hope CDs and DVDs don’t increase in price like how vinyls did when they became trendy. Proud to own a solid physical media collection that could hold me over if the internet goes down.
@@blakedavis2447 yeah, I'm trying to get my hands on some classics to me, and I recently got a CD player, so I'm all in. Burning discs for backups also sounds like a good idea
I like to get my favorite stuff physically. Just can’t afford to get everything I’d like to have. And they’re not making it easier as time goes by.
It definitely has been a hassle for me to get some physical PS5 games
I am a huge fan of physical media and I still collect Blu-rays to this very day.
Interestingly, In Japan they still producing things Video Games, Anime, P***, Manga in Physical Media.
I agree, I have a whole library of C.D.'s and D.V.D's that I can watch at any time. For example, I've got "Tales from the Crypt", "Tales from the Darkside",and "The Twilight Zone" complete 80's series.. nice boxsets on D.V.D., shows which I remember and love, and which you won't find on any streaming service just because some executive arsehole decided their "not trendy" and "won't be profitable"!
Preaching to the choir, my fellow collector! I've got the exact same shows in my DVD Collection. I even have FRIDAY THE 13TH, THE SERIES. Great late 80's TV Series that was released by CBS Home Video on DVD.
Growing up in NYC during the 80's and 90's, there was something about getting to experience talking into rotary telephones, watching 60's TV show reruns on a Motorola Black and White 13" TV.
I even got to run around my local WOOLWORTH'S looking at Hagstrom maps and smelling the Yellow Pages. Yeah, tactile childhood!❤
@@JoseMorales-lw5nt Oh, yeah! Now you're talking! WOOLWORTH'S on a rainy Saturday morning, spending hours browsing through the L.P.'s, getting the new Queen or Metallica albums. Happy days! (And that TV show, of course).❤
If we're talking about the 'crisp-ness' of films, Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, etc, all compress the hell out of the things you watch, especially RUclips. Watching a film in "4k" isn't 3840x2160@23.97fps with an extremely high bitrate, it's a lower resolution at a real low bitrate. Buying a 1080p Blu-Ray disc can look substantially better than a 4k RUclips video or a Netflix stream, just because it doesn't have to be streamed to thousands if not millions of people at once.
All this streaming is nothing more than a money grab and tough luck to the fans.
Cheers for the video.
I think I'll buy my favorite games and movies on the disc to minimize the harm from an account ban or an internet outage.
The thing about Media quality is, CDs and DVDs are significantly higher quality than Streaming services.
The track Quality of an Album on CD is MUCH higher than what you get on Spotify.
And a Bluray DVD movie has much better image quality than any Streaming Service offers even with their 4k HDR option.
So if you want to watch the best quality version of the movie or listen to the best audio quality you need to buy physical media.
In my opinion it is actually the best argument for physical media. Because there is no way Streaming services will ever offer Bluray Quality Streaming.
And don’t forget bonus tracks on music cds and special features 😅😅😅😅
My GameStop closed down in May. I feel like digital games are definitely winning over physical games. Collect while you can before its gone
Yeah, it really feels that way. It's sad
I think that if gaming companies abandoned their previous titles like Sony have done with the entire back catalogue from the PS1,2 and 3 barring some remakes and rereleases it becomes fair game for piracy.
When I was a teenager I used to download songs on my old computer from music and archives websites back in the 2000s, before streaming came along. On my computer there were more than 5000 songs that I downloaded more than 10 and 20 years ago, some songs even dated back from the late 90s. Now I have copied all those songs on my notebook and edited some of them, fixing the metadata such as the title of the song, the album, putting the corresponding image, the year the album was released, the genre of the song, etc.
Although they are not physical media, but files, they have the same functionality, since I can listen to my songs whenever I want, without being subscribed to a streaming service or being connected to the Internet, which makes me highly value all the songs that I downloaded in particular, and physical media in general. We have to keep physical media alive.
Granted physical media is going to break down eventually, I guess the takeaway here is there's too much lost media at a rapid pace anymore and we need to take greater steps to preserve media in as close to its intended presentation as possible
Today I finally cracked 😂 I went to GameStop and started buy physical games and starting blu rays! Only games I’m buying digital, are games that REQUIRE online play! No more streaming etc. music will be tough but it’ll be my hobby until I die!
I don't stream. Physical for me, only.
Great video. There are so many technical limitations to streaming too, whether artificially put in place or not. For instance, it's virtually unheard of aside from very rare circumstances for 3D movies to be streamed. But I have literally hundreds on bluray!
There has never been a better time to collect CDs. They’re so cheap at op shops for a few bucks
There should be no reason for people to not get physical media, blu rays are reaching 128gb per disk and it’s enough for most modern games.
The only thing I disagree with is you harping so hard on the idea of the high graphics/quality thing. Like, I collect physical media too, I won't deny the experience of putting in a Blu-ray into my PS3 being a whole experience but... I mean idk sometimes it's just as fun watching old movies with their new 4K transfers and seeing how pretty they can look. Why does it have to be one way or the other? Why should we treat one method like it's superior to the other when they're just different experiences? Physical media has it's place and so does digital media.
I own a ton of physical games/movies and a ton of digital games/movies too, it really just comes down to the mood I'm in. Getting off an 8 hour shift at a retail job I hate, I'm much more likely to gravitate towards the convenience digital content/streaming offers when I don't wanna go over to my shelf, pick out a disc and pop it in. A Saturday night where I'm not working and I want to immerse myself in a gaming world or a cinematic landscape? Yeah, then I'll gladly go over to my shelf and pick out a disc and put it in.
I guess that's just my 2 sense on the matter
I bet Best Buy believe they made mistake getting rid of dvds & blurays, but they will never admit it! The stores have all this extra open space, and less customers when I go....😃
There gonna bank rupt I’m
Calling it getting rid of the 4K Best Buy steelbook they were known for were making money 😅
@@RobertQuant 😂😂
Just to clarify about Baldurs Gate 3 not being on disc. Japan actually got a physical release back in December 2023. I bought mine off of PlayAsia. This was before the developer made physical copies available on their website to purchase here in the US.
I don't pick up physical copies of all of the media I consume, but if it's something I particularly value, I will definitely make sure to have a physical copy of it. There's security in knowing that you can keep using it even if your internet goes down or the website or digital service you otherwise would've accessed it from takes it away or goes down. And beyond that, it's about more than just the content on the disc or cartridge itself. There's artwork on the packaging too, and a lot of physical video game and music CD packages have booklets with additional info inside them too. It's a whole experience that you don't get just from streaming something digitally, and you can put it up for display in your home.
I think this is the same mindset most people had before steaming. You watch a thing at the movies or you rent and if it’s good enough you buy it and curate a small collection just for you.
A conversation I am all too familiar with. I was super happy to see that my favorite game this last decade, Alan Wake 2, was finally going to be getting a physical edition. I was not happy to hear they were going to be digital only at first.
thia man is SPEAKING HIS MIND GIVE HIM THE DISC VERSION
My favourite game is road rash and the only way to play that game is through piracy
I m happy to pay money for the game that makes my childhood feel good as i play with my friends and even with my cousins
But because of corporate greed that game is available no where
I had to pirate it everytime i wanted to play it
That game is literally lost media and i m glad i had downloaded it from those cracked game websites and preserved it manually cause now those websites which i downloaded from are also shut down.
There are alot of games who are in lost media
Nobody cares
Steam, Epic and their mindless fanboys/girls can have their digital overlords. For the past 3 years I buy everything I can in physical medium only. Nobody can take it away or alter it "for my convenience".
I seem to remember several times where the media companies tried to Sue or work some sort of kibosh out on the used media stores. I think they're still around because I believe they lost those lawsuits this is another way to accomplish this ultimate goal how's going all the way to digital
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That was the best proof.
The only time I could see into the future,now only if I could see those lottery numbers.
Whenever there is a storm or random event, my wifi often stops working. I enjoy streaming things to avoid using my disks, but when my internet is down, I'm glad I have a collection of movies and games. When my phone dies or breaks I'm glad I still have cds in my car.
I need to buy an external discount drive so I can back up my new cds, though
You are exactly like me bro. I have a huge dvd and video game collection and I hate digital so much that I dont even want to buy it despite the studio being small. I am however pleased to see when devs wake up and actually announce a physical version of their game which happens more and more, Tunic, Tchia, Stray and lately Baldurs Gate 3, Tomb Raider 1 - 3 remastered and even Alan Wake 2 which i never thought would happen. I personally always use remasters like Warcraft 3 reforged and the GTA trilogy as an exsmple why digital blows ass. Amazing games being removed forever and in its place comes an inferior turd that people are forced to play till the end of time unless they have the old disc versions.
I mostly only want my tv shows on DVDs 📀 but for movies I stick with blue ray is wayyyyyy better 😅
Just got a 7” reel to reel tape deck, and I’m starting to see why we’ve evolved to streaming for convenience thru means of it braking down, but that’s half the fun. More of these kids might have to learn how to fix a broken record/vhs/dvd player. That, or keep that one ma/pop repair shop in business. Even prices at my local thrift and sell/trade shops for players have gone up
Physical media is the best use of space
Thanks for making this video!
Glad it was helpful!
im about to quit it all and move freely into a new world
Honestly even for indie teams, print on demand could work for physical releases. Sure, they may or may not be the most up-to-date version as time goes on, but it will still be there.
And who says physical media has to be a disc? USB thumb drives for an installer would also work just fine and would be even more accessible than CD/DVD/blu ray long term. Only downside being if you lose the damn thing 😅
We kind of have the usb idea with Nintendo switch cartridges. The problem is that they cost a lot to make. I remember with Minecraft first came out on switch it was digital only because the cartridge would have costed like an extra $10.
That "Abandonware' of movies is in my huge 4,000+ DVD collection 👍
I like the idea, howver, physical media gets deteriorated. Some Cds from a few years ago dont work anymore. Maybe the best would be having a local backup of everything
Guess I'm going back to buying FISCALMEDIA then.
If it matters enough I own the physical version. I have amassed quite the collection. But it's not hoarding if it's all in alphabetical order ;)
I love finding classic movie at thrift stores for a few bucks and owning them forever
E-Books Came And Real Books, Are Still A Thing (Will Be For 2000 Years Or More)
CD And Records Are Still At Local Targets (No Joke.)
Films And Games, Are Sadily The Ones Being The Most Affected. (I Really Don't Want To Say Steam Was The Cause Of It, But If It Is...I Feel Bad)
I decided to collect shin megami tensei games. I never realized before how infuriating it can be when something does not get a physical release. I am from Europa and we never got shin megami tensei 4 physical, it was digital only. We also never got shin megami tensei devil summoner 2 raidou kuzunoha vs king abbadon. I have to rely on ROM, buy a whole "new" system and game from a different region or give up. It makes me so irritated!
>illustrates importance of physical media with Schwarzenegger movies
Now I feel called out for passing on a copy of Total Recall when I was browsing St Vinnie's for used DVDs today.
You really gotta get that copy of Total Recall ;)
While physical is my preferred way to experience media, I do believe there is a room for streaming (if done right), with a similar philosophy to your indie digital only games. That being said, nothing will replace the joy of finding a movie/game you want to experience for a cheap price or saving up for a expensive, but worthwhile item.
well , a couple of items of good news...1. Baldur's 3 gate now has physical copies for Xbox series X ( mine is on the way ) and the WHOLE game is on four discs. 2. There is a new petabyte DVD like product coming to market that can hold data equivalent to 220,000 DVD's. The future of physical media looks bright.
Streaming and stuff was really only supposed to be for convenience but now we’ve relayed on it too much it’s going to be media’s downfall.
It’s gonna be our fault that film is getting worse and disappearing just as fast as it gets put on streaming services.
Putting games on the internet was supposed to be convenient and easier for smaller game creators to get their content to others because they don’t have the money to mass produce disc copies that major game companies DO have the money to do,
Sooo when bigger game companies put it online instead of selling a physical copy is just a big slap in the face.
We’re sacrificing convenience for joyful entertainment and a good experience.
Don’t even get me started on when they DO sell physical copies it’s much more expensive than buying or downloading it online… like be sooo for real.
Also- As someone who’s played on pc since I was like six I’m glad most of the games i played were on physical media (shout out zoo tycoon and WoW😼)
My parents used to own a gaming store that people can come in and just play from a bunch of different consoles and PC’s, sadly they did sell it was I was still pretty young but I think back to if they was still present today and I think about how much that might spread the awareness about physical media importance.
A physical copy on a modern gaming console dont worth nothing if you console is not conected to the internet you need to download a update and even install the game from the internet
What bothers me most is not having the entire game on disc or cartridge.
I first experienced this with master chief collection, but since then it’s everywhere.
Switch is the worst, with many bigger third party games requiring a large part of the game to be downloaded to even work sometimes.
Farcry 6 famously launched on a Blu-ray with just 700mb, requiring you to download the rest.
At that point, what’s the point of a physical release.
I get patches and future content, but the whole actual game at launch not being included in the box? So much for preservation.
Also, when it comes to independent developers whose publishers do not make a physical release, the developer more than often holds IP rights, so like what's happening with Adult Swim Games, the developer of Small Radios Big Televisions just gave away the game for free on their site.
This means that if enough people get that game on P2P, it's now healthily preserved.
If it doesn't get delisted, then people can still support the developer when buying it.
And mostly old tv shows are only available on DVDs 📀 that’s why I still buy them I’m not into new tv shows only cobra Kai that’s why I bought the DVDs 📀 that way I can watch them whenever I want
As a PC gamer I would dearly love to have physical copies of games but, the sad fact is, gaming is likely going to be 100% digital for all platforms before the decade is out. Fortunately for me I guess is that there are very few games I want to play anymore so, digital or not, it takes up less and less of my disposable incoming. Which leaves more money to buy my 4k steelbooks, vinyl records, cds, and actual paper books!
It seems like you’re a big Arnold schwarzenegger fan huh? Great video btw. It’s also crazy that even though we still have physical media TV streaming platforms like Netflix would have good Movies & TV shows that’s ONLY “original”. For instance shows like Stranger Things is Netflix Original. So any movie or show that Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, MAX or Paramount Plus “Original” we can’t own which sucks.
U do know most of the shows on Netflix are on DVDs 📀 cause people prefer to own them stranger things and cobra 🐍 Kai are on dvd 📀 I bought all seasons there mines forever I don’t need Netflix to watch it
The problem with buying the game on disc is that, the disc has a small % of the game and the rest is downloaded anyway, and the dlc you buy is locked to that account, but the upside here is, the disk version of the game can be used again on a other account :-D
Is there an upside to buy the disc version of a game, when 80+ games had dlc's and games more or less are a service anyway? But i can see the point, but when dlc's are locked to an account and only a small amount of the game is on the disc and you have to download the rest.
If you've got a laptop that doesn't have a disc player, you should be able to buy the portable DVD and Blu-ray players and plug them in.
That’s smart mines has a disc drive so I still burn cds 💿 to this day 😅
Maybe the reason all these digital copies are around is to stop hoarding?
I'm more on the digital side as i used to be a physical hoarder myself. Was running out of room and use to have 7 large shelves just for my dvds that took up most of the room in my house. I went from physical stuff to using hard drives to save space and keep my house looking clean. As for steaming i use a custom kodi to stream anything i want to watch at a touch of a button.However, im more on spending more on hardware than software now
Physical media4ever
i will die for right to ownership.
I absolutely agree!
hearing your take on BG3 makes me wonder how you'd feel knowing the next COD game is over 300 GB
They need to compress their files like a real game developer
I agree with you that's why i have started buying the movies and games i rip the movies onto my plex server and backing up the games onto my server as well in case games being removed from steam i also make back of my game for my emulators
the largest size a disk can ever get is 100gb, which is probably why baldurs gate is not on physical media.
two disks would work though.
Sounds like they should compress their files like a real company
They want you to bow to the gatekeeper.
I try to get all that I can physically
I don’t agree that fidelity shouldn’t be a concern; all of this media and art should be preserved and available in its purest, most unfiltered form. However, physical media provides more stable and high-fidelity viewing options than streaming. A 4K UHD Blu Ray is going to look much better than a 4K video stream being compressed through internet.
buy blu ray if you can, hd matters
Not sure modern PS5 games will become retro, as not much fun with no PlayStation Network there. Also the version on disc is full of bugs usually. Still buying games on disc, but it does sometimes just seem like an inconvenience having to swap discs to play 1 race of GT7.
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Funny you should mention high definition and streaming, "4K" isn't 4K, most of the time it isn't even 1080p
I'VE been thinking about why they never started making games on SD cards alot smaller and easier to maintain also holds more space that you can fit into a Disk
As someone who's a fan of the most volatile form of media on the planet (Anime) physical copies are an absolute MUST. I will ALWAYS own a physical copy of my favorite movies and shows on DVD & Bluray. Streaming has it's place but it has never been and will never be a truly viable replacement for ANYTHING physical, especially here in the States where internet access is spotty at best and outright unavailable at worst...
Proud to own the adv dub of Eva on dvd. Also got some shows that have been hard to find on the internet. Owing anime physically really is a must when licensing is so crazy.
dvd and blu ray are better
I don't know about you guys but late at night I like to sit in the middle of my room gaze and caress my collection of media. Yes there you go dear dear precious, they wants to take the precious! No no don't worry I shall protect you from the the evil corporatist! No no big brother, corporate cousin they shall not take the precious
Well here I go with piracy hehr
It's completely necessary for media preservation
@@SoulKeever Exactly. It makes me want to start downloading or record movies and keep them in a flash drive. And keep it all to myself. plus it's portable
what is physical and what is digital ? you can have all your media stored in external hard drives, is this considered physical or digital?
You know perfectly well.
Hard drives crash easily and get lost Cds 💿 are back ups for music and there yours forever 😅😅😅
I have abandonment issues, so I always liked the idea of having physical copies of my favorite things in hand.
I still pay for Xbox Pass, Spotify and Netflix though.
Yes, I think balance is good. I have a music subscription but I started buying vinyl after I got one as a gift. I liked the feeling of holding the media in my hand. I might switch to CDs though because the quality control is awful. I’ve been getting warped and defective records brand new. I exchanged one which required driving an hour. They didn’t have it in stock so they ordered it and shipped it to home, only for it to have the same issue and it also has a weird splotch that causes a scratching noise when the needle goes over it. I have a good enough player that the player doesn’t cause issues, there is just no quality control because the labels have to squeeze the pressing plants for every last penny instead of investing in more.
#TeamPhysical
Burning disks is passé? I disagree.
I know right ima cd 💿 seller in 2024 and I still have cd 💿 burners 😅😅😅 that’s how I make money selling cds 💿
But gog DRM so you actually own their games
I still got all my favorite movies on dvd saved up and video games 👍 one of these days they will get rid of all our favorite movies , shows, dvds ect. Not only that but the Internet will go down , RUclips will get hacked and have a lot of videos like classic music deleted and you will never find it again
Let‘s face it: Online is for losers