Since the pandemic I’ve been collecting DVDs and Blu-rays, because I started getting into filmmaking and valued the importance of physical media. One of my reasons was the horror stories I’ve read about licenses on DRM-protected purchases being revoked.

After we moved to a much smaller house, my Billy bookshelf containing around 200+ titles has been taking a huge amount of space. And the cases just sit there looking pretty. We never use the discs. There’s no Blu-ray player in our house. We all watch digital content on portable devices. I’ve filled up several hard drives with so many obscure, international films that will never get distribution here. And so, I’ve stopped buying discs. It’s also much more convenient to be able to play MKVs on every device in my house.

I was one of those people who constantly purchased discs to remux and encode them myself for use on a future server, but that’s a waste of time, energy and money as there are dozens of release groups who’ve done the work already for me.

It doesn’t make sense to keep all the clutter around. I also have 500+ DVDs in a binder with the cover art stored in folders, but it seems like a gigantic waste of money to buy a storage system for outdated standard definition media, when most studios have remastered editions readily available.

I’m thinking of selling the Blu-rays that aren’t rare to buy a cheapo Optiplex. The discs are already pretty worthless. I’m just scared that I might regret this decision.

  • McGoodotnet@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If they have cases I pay .50 on blu ray and .15 on dvd. The binder discs are pretty much garbage but .05 a piece seems reasonable. Prices are in CAD. No one has room for clutter it seems. Good thing I have a warehouse.

  • Sopel97@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I assume hard drives are not considered “physical” for some reason?

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  • 77765876543@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Remux 4K on the NAS. Discs only if I can’t find what I’m looking for with other means. Then rip and shelve until someone I know wants them.

    Reminds me of back in the day when cd’s went to mp3. I had spindles of retail cd’s that I couldn’t fit into binders. Ripped everything to flac and gave away the cd’s.

    Everything is digital/streaming now.

  • te5s3rakt@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    all of it. about 15 years ago when i started collecting digitally. never looked back.

  • SpinAWebofSound@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I backed all mine up and sold it. I can’t justify dedicating a whole room in my house to media when I can fit it all on a few hard drives.

  • dlarge6510@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m the opposite. I find it particularly inconvenient not having discs to simply pop on a player.

    I use a couple of streaming services but those really are just a video on demand channel.

    I have a few mp3’s here and there, lol many on dvd-r but finding those when they are scattered about then writing to a spare flash drive just to stick in the player to watch is just a bit inconvenient.

    Use a hdd? Well I could if I had the time to collect everything together and find a hdd and a caddy but I simply cba.

    Basically the primary source for video and audio in my hoard is off optical media itself. And I’m adding more and more, so will be getting a couple of Billy shelves in the new year.

  • notlongnot@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Box up the media and store it away if you got space. There’s are prob more worthless stuff in a box somewhere than media. Do whatever let you sleep better at night.

  • xeonrage@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    i’m moved from video (dvd/blu/4kblu) to vinyl as my financial disaster hobby

    will be selling off my large collection of movies early in the new year, including a large criterion collection mostly unopened

  • TastySpare@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I live in a small apartment (40 m², about 430 sqft), and I still like to buy physical media (although that doesn’t mean everything I own has to be on physical media).

    For me it’s mostly music (~700 CDs, ~500 LPs), and a handful of DVDs/BluRays. I guess I just like to have that stuff around me. If Amazon/Netflix/Spotify/Deezer/whatever other streaming services there are all shut down tomorrow I don’t even care…

  • SchmeepyDooDoo@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I got rid of all my books. Never really had dvd/bluray.

    Unlikely to get rid of photos as Id have to digitize all the old stuff and physical copies are a pretty good backup…

  • stowgood@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I never really like rewatching stuff so I never really had a collection, sold all my cds for pennies a decade ago.

  • Tha_Watcher@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I don’t throw out anything. I keep physical and digital media. Of course, I have a lot of rooms to store it.