Anyone on here buy or collect physical media?
- Thread starter EmperorNihilus
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I collect. Lots of DVDs and Audio CDs. Tons of BDs and Laserdiscs. I plan on moving in the next year or so my LD collection will be slimmed down. Ripping BDs to x265 is really nice. Using ffmpeg and a nvenc gpu (GTX 1650 Super) I can cut down on a lot of the file size without it looking like ass. Like 50-60% or even more depending on the source. More accessable too since I can play them on really any device. DVDs too, but they require Deinterlacing. Plus they're small enough as is to store full rips and deinterlacing on most devices today for SD sources is near perfect.
Bought a bunch of old Strategy Guides for some games recently. Late 90s - mid 00s. There's a ton of great scans on Archive.org, but its just nice to pick a guide off the shelf and leaf through it.
For BDs, most of them are from either Vinegar Syndrome or Severin Films. Love me B/C/D/Z grade stuff. Been getting the full year completist set from VS during their black friday sale the last two years. Not sure I'll do it for a third this year.
Bought a bunch of old Strategy Guides for some games recently. Late 90s - mid 00s. There's a ton of great scans on Archive.org, but its just nice to pick a guide off the shelf and leaf through it.
For BDs, most of them are from either Vinegar Syndrome or Severin Films. Love me B/C/D/Z grade stuff. Been getting the full year completist set from VS during their black friday sale the last two years. Not sure I'll do it for a third this year.
Thumb Butler
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Used to buy CDs and DVD until about 3 years ago. Now both are getting hard to find and way more expensive. Especially post-covid.
Online Fossil
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I collected DVDs for a long time, mostly because my parents were those people who would subscribe to Columbia House, buy the bare minimum to get the free stuff, quit and repeat.
I stopped buying DVDs a few years ago, but I started again last year after all those sitcoms got episodes pulled for blackface jokes that were all actually jokes about how dumb the person doing it was, because context doesn’t matter now I guess. Woke me up to the realization that if you don’t own the thing, it can be taken away from you whenever the powers that be decide. I’m not into much edgy stuff but then again, I wouldn’t have considered the Michael Jackson episode of The Simpsons edgy at any point yet the only (legal) way you can watch that now is if you have the old DVD sets.
CDs I buy for my very favourite artists or if I see something interesting at the thrift store. And books, I actually read probably an equal number of physical and e-books/audiobooks but it’s just nice decoration and convenient to have physical books around so I like those too.
I do also kind of love that every shitty company developing their own streaming service is driving people back to piracy after they’d managed to break most people away from doing it for a good decade with consolidated streaming options.
I stopped buying DVDs a few years ago, but I started again last year after all those sitcoms got episodes pulled for blackface jokes that were all actually jokes about how dumb the person doing it was, because context doesn’t matter now I guess. Woke me up to the realization that if you don’t own the thing, it can be taken away from you whenever the powers that be decide. I’m not into much edgy stuff but then again, I wouldn’t have considered the Michael Jackson episode of The Simpsons edgy at any point yet the only (legal) way you can watch that now is if you have the old DVD sets.
CDs I buy for my very favourite artists or if I see something interesting at the thrift store. And books, I actually read probably an equal number of physical and e-books/audiobooks but it’s just nice decoration and convenient to have physical books around so I like those too.
I do also kind of love that every shitty company developing their own streaming service is driving people back to piracy after they’d managed to break most people away from doing it for a good decade with consolidated streaming options.
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- Dec 17, 2019
I just have a small collection of PC games on CD/DVD, with three big boxes that I got from my uncle who didn't need his game collection anymore since he started a family. Also got a Commodore 64 with a bunch of tapes from him.