In any format? I prefer to buy video games physically and have a respectable book, VHS and vinyl record collection. Though the majority of my music and video-based entertainment are digital.
I wanted to buy physical books and movies for myself but I have a small room (in parent’s basement) and don’t yet got my own place. There’s no space for it, really.
Yep, torrented content on hard drives, using media servers like jellyfin, audiobookshelf, calibre, and navidrome. Accessible on any device, anywhere in the world.
Most of my music comes from CDs, but I have ripped them to use on my iPod and in Plexamp. Also have a heap of books and dvds but more digital with these
Yes. Tons of physical music. Tons of physical movies both DVD and vhs.
Games, I sadly have only digital for the most part for pc, but I have ps1 ps2 atari n64 nes genesis snes Xbox physical games still.
To me, there is a huge push to make us own nothing and be a slave to corpos. This upsets me. And I’ve always loved physical media. Its much more real.
A hard drive full of non drm files is fine too (especially for tv shows, since stacks and stacks of dvds do take up space) but its not quite the same.
Oh ya and i have a small library maybe like 300 books
When I was still playing Nintendo games up to the switch, my games were physical.
On PC I have steam. But I still have various install discs from years gone by.
And I have various CDs, DVDs and blu-rays.
I don’t have any streaming subscription services. I canceled all of them a long time ago
I keep it around and don’t use subscription services or DLC, but the physical media itself doesn’t see everyday use, excluding books. When I had a bit more time during the quarantine, I digitized about half of my physical media library. Now if I need to pull something off the shelf, I’ll digitize it individually while I’m at it. After that point, I just run it off a hard drive or whatever portable device it’s on.
Most of my media purchases nowadays go to independent artists/developers where producing a physical copy is not always practical. Old stuff that was released on physical media often can be tracked down on archive.org since trawling eBay and thrift stores for those can get unsustainable. Everything else may be found in the high seas.
As for books, I’ll take physical copies whenever I can. I can’t stand prolonged reading on a backlit screen and I don’t do a good enough job keeping my e-ink reader charged.
I think nowadays MP3s are physical media.
(And technically they’re stored on a physical medium in your possession).I guess it’s no different to a CD really. Just a smaller file on a bigger storage medium.
Well, MP3s are lossy compression so from a technical standpoint they’re very different from CDs.
If anything, FLAC files are closer to CDs than MP3s are because those are lossless, and of course WAV rips are raw, uncompressed rips similar to what you’d get with DAT.
No, but MP3s are closer to MDs or DCCs in that those are also lossy compression, with literally being an evolution of the codec DCC used (MP1) while MD used Sony’s homegrown ATRAC codec, than they are to CDs, while FLAC is lossless so it should be the same as a CD with WAV or AIFF rips literally being an uncompressed copy of said CD.
Yeah that’s my bad. You are literally correct. I was meaning more figuratively and going with MP3 as a general term rather than the format specifically.
That’s fine, I’m just nerding out.
While I do use steaming services for tv/movies and music, I’ve also got reasonably large collections of DVDs/BluRays, hard copy video games, books (never liked ebooks or even audio books) and most of all, vinyl records (over 1000 in my collection and ever -growing!)
Happy with having a mix of media, and increasingly keen to make sure I own things rather than only having them available through a stream, convenient though that is.
Just books
I have a huge collection of DRM free movies, shows, books, music, etc.
It’s physically in my house, but digitally on my hard drives. With quadruple redundancy, including offline backups.
Only vinyls because I think its fun to collect. Movies/shows are streamed from my server. Games are all on steam. Books I sometimes get but I also read a lot on my eink android tablet. And I get Spotify through my work so I listen to that when I’m out
I prefer paper books when I can afford them as I find it easier to focus when I have a physical book to hold. And it just feels like a nicer experience.
Yuppers, my kids have a huge DVD and VHS collection of various kids movies and nature docs. I believe it promotes agency and choice better than picking through a never ending void of selection of media on streaming services. Plus we live like kings at flea markets, usually a dollar a tape or DVD.
100% . I also find with adhd it helps a lot, I dont like unlimited choice
I prefer buying CDs for music & physical games for my consoles when I can (physical games on PC is kind of a distant dream now…). For TV, I think the only option to actually own your media is through BluRay/DVD. The digital stores (like Amazon, Vudu i think?) only let you watch on their platform & don’t give you any files.
I do have a small number of vinyls & cassettes, but that’s more for novelty than any practicality.
Those aren’t really the only options to own your movies/shows ;)
Physical backup media. Hot mount SATA spinning drives and also USB 3 spinning drives. Some times software on flash drives. Flash drives for emegencey boot media. I sometimes transport files on flash drives too.
