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Physical Media in a Digital World
Even with everything seemingly going digital – music streaming, e-books, downloadable games – I find myself still drawn to physical media. There's a certain satisfaction in holding a physical book, admiring album art on a vinyl record, or having a game case on my shelf. It feels more tangible, more like mine. For instance, I just bought an old favorite movie on Blu-ray even though I could stream it, just for the special features and the feeling of ownership.
I wonder if others share this sentiment. In an era of instant digital access, what makes you still occasionally (or frequently!) opt for physical versions of media? Is it the collecting aspect, the quality, the artwork, the lack of reliance on internet or a subscription, or just the simple joy of having something you can touch and display? Or have you fully embraced the convenience of digital and never look back?
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This sentiment is 100% rational. Anything that can be served digitally can be revoked digitally. Sure, downloading and saving on, for example, a hard drive is a bulwark against that predatory behavior. But for many media types, that's still arguably a form of physical media.
I reserve physical media for myself when I find a resource (e.g., a book) to be extremely important. If it's an article, I might print it out.
Books, CD & vinyl are things we should keep.
I have a collection of digital music but still craving for CD & Vinyl to have a bigger collection.
For books I absolutely prefer a hard physical copy. Ebooks suck. The reading experience is not equivalent to a book in hand, no matter how good an app or tablet you have.
Movies/tv shows digital is way better because of how much you can store and that there's not really much value in the physical interaction with the DVD/VHS.
Vinyl on the other hand adds and the fidelity of the audio from the vinyl record is actually better than the highest quality MP3. The hiss actually makes it better.
The only reason I would ever choose an ebook over a print book is for the purpose of annotation/notetaking (e.g. copy-pasting quotes into an external document)
I do Kindle reading while outside only, at home I agree on the feeling of physical books, especially hard cover one (which I haven't had alot, mostly just a soft copy of the book)
It's tactile feeling of paper - page flip, or that you can put a physical bookmark and pick up reading in one touch (vs. hitting a button on a tablet to turn it on, touch again to open the app, touch again to pick the book, touch again to pick up from your digital bookmark).
Will they produce more storage devices for the increasing demand of data storage around the world?
I just curious that what's next, I mean ... in term of data storage, what will be the next breakthru? Smaller NVMEs but bigger storage capac? Moar big servers?
This is for the media, not to mention the data storage needs from those LLM makers.
Well I don't claim to be a market analysis expert, nor do I know exactly what the development of storage technology will look like, but I think physical ownership of media will get more popular and drive up demand for storage drives, including existing drive tech if it gets cheaper.
I saw bros from PulsedMedia build storage servers at big azz scale and that might be one way for me to looking into preserve my music collection.
Got recommendations for a FOSS music player that'll let me make playlists and such?
VLC
I switched to Linux recently, all softwares need to change.
DJ software now Mixx
Player VLC
And fck PioneerDJ for not having rekordbox on Linux
Buying game disks sucks now because the only thing on that disk is a license key to download the actual game. Used to be able to play offline just by putting a disk in. 🥲
No-CD crack era
Lollypop
Strawberry
Sweet players, do more than what VLC has to offer.
Thanks!!!!!
I just check, really great, falling in love hahahaa
Share some photos @rurutia
nothing can replace physical books. the scent of new book is from another world thing
Yeah. Serato DJ is the only program that i still use on windows. Everything else is on linux.
i burn physical CDs to play sega dreamcast