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It’s depressing knowing you own a license to access the digital file you purchased but that contract can be withdrawn at any time.
Besides you cannot replicate the same authenticity by showing your film library to friends and family when you sit down and scroll through your digital purchases.
Physical media isn’t the ultimate format people like to make it out to be. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with digital media as long as it’s files on a hard drive. Honestly, it’s probably a better format for preservation than a disc that’s locked into whatever video format it was published in. In 1000 years, it’s pretty unlikely anyone will be able to read files from a DVD or Blu-Ray. But a file that’s been reformatted to keep up with modern technology? That’ll be useful.
CDs themselves only last 100 years at most. Hard drives also fail. There really isn’t a great solution for something permanent unless you are changing its form/format every so often
There really isn’t a great solution for something permanent unless you are changing its form/format every so often
Right, that is what I meant by “reformatted to keep up with technology”, including copying it to new hardware that’s less likely to fail.
CDs don’t last that long. I had a buddy that worked for a radio program tell me that the tapes lasted a lot longer. This was mid 2000s and he was already seeing failures. I think they were fairly early adopters, but still it couldn’t have been that long.
I think DRM free digital media is viable as well. A hard drive doesn’t have the lifespan of a blu-ray, but modern drives are good about warning of catastrophic failure, and I suspect most people that have digital media libraries migrate them to new storage as wanted/needed.
There’s something satisfying about physical media that digital lacks. I get that appeal. But I don’t think it’s superior for media preservation.
Crazy times we live in.
I’ve purchased a few DVDs / Blu Rays of some of my favorite stuff. But I’m also trying to get my hands on as many “good” CDs as I can. I’m not really trying to be a curator or librarian, I just see the shitshow on the horizon (and already here, honestly) as physical media and ownership of media in general ends and streaming becomes the only option.
And owning media will get more and more difficult unless one format shifts the media (rips it) before there is no more hardware to do this.
Well, maybe not DVD given the shelf life, but certainly Blu-ray and Ultra HD.
I guess I’m in the minority as I was kind of glad to get rid of the CDs which I wasn’t listening to anymore.
I rarely watch the same thing over again. I find there’s some much stuff to watch these days, I couldn’t possibly watch it all.
I did digitize my CDs before giving them away which was hard to go as not many wanted them. This was just after Google Music took over Songza. I uploaded all my rips to GM then it was changed into YouTube Music and I’m not even sure how to access any of it now.
So I can see a world where the physical is important. Perhaps in the after times when things are being rebuilt again.
So I can see a world where the physical is important. Perhaps in the after times when things are being rebuilt again.
This sounds very good, I’m going to check it out, thank you.