Are you concerned with the end of physical media CD, DVD and BD
>>107512616As a collector not really. There's all ready so much readily available for anyone top have a decent sized library and anything that was made after the move to digital/streaming is almost never worth owning or watching. Just go out and collect, because most people won't until it's too late.
No point. Just put it on Google Drive or Microsoft 365
>>107512616local digital > physical >>>>> "cloud"
>>107512616people forgot they exists and don't realize they're vanishing
>3000 movies and 500 shows/anime on 0.1pb of hdds in my office served to me anywhere in the world via jellyfinNot really
>>107513686Good fucking riddance a CD can only have 80 minutes of audio, and not a second more. File size and ulity dont matter, 80 minutes, qhich is no more that 30 songs at most. I have 150 songs in a folder. They take about 600mb. A CD could in theory fit them all, but oh no EIGHTY FUCKING MINUTES, or it maybe will play, maybe it won't (mp3s on a CD aren't standart, because fuck you)
>>107512616I recently assembled my local hoarding-box, so not really a problem for me.Sure, it's "fuck streaming" all day, but a personal media server... this shit is far better than hoarding physical media could ever be.
>>107512616Not really.For media like anime, physical editions must be ripped to preserve their content. If you rip the DRM from a streaming service, you get the same result in the same way. It doesn't matter if you don't own a license to the anime.For software, DRM is a lot more concerning because the license may be important (if not, see thee point above). Even physically distributed software is usually just an installer + a license key, and you have to register an online account to use the license. This is pozzed as fuck, there's no difference between physical and digital. The right thing to do would be to get a serial number which works with offline activation, but basically no software does this in 2k25.
>>107513593>>107515149I'm gonna be the faggot for today and say I like physical media for the experienceyes, physical DVDs are worse in every conceivable way, but popping in a disc and watching 2000s anime on a CRT has levels of sovl that a personal media server will never matchhowever it goes without saying that torrents still have infinitely more sovl than streaming services
>>107512616nothing stored on cds, dvds, hdds, ssds, cloud etc will survive til the end of XXI centurythe physical media will degrade and clouds will start deleting stuff after you die and no longer access itzero culture our civilization created will survivefucking stone tablets will be around much longer, testament to ancient cultures. it just shows much much value we put into media created today by effort we spent to preserve it, fucking ZERO
Physical media is not going anywhere.
>>107512616Why would it end? Japan still exists.
>milenary usb stickskind of sick, but yeah, clay or stone tables go a long way as evidenced by midle eastern ancient cultures
>>107512616if you rely on Jewish corporations to keep your media safe for you, you'll have to live with them letting AI rewrite it to fit their political agenda (as well as build advertising into it)
>>107512616No, most media is garbage
The disc data themselves are just irl tokens at this point. DVDs just whirr and sputter while piracy chads just double click a video file.
>>107512616I would be if we were still making good movies and shows.
I want us to go back to Laserdiscs, but with modern bluray laser tech. We could fit something like a terabyte worth of data on a single disc (twice as much if we use A/B sides like Laserdiscs could, and twice that again if we use multiple layers), and the MPAA would love it cause there would be no way for pirating the discs on account of no burners existing in that form factor.
>>107516468what if the disc gets a scratch? usbs...
>>107512734Enjoy loosing access to everything on a whim
Personally I don't see much value in "physical" media as it concerns the data itself. The packaging, though, like for video games including all those fun instruction books, are what are cool to me. If I were rich I'd start a box/booklet collection because I love going through them. You could recreate the game experience with a flashcart and many people do, but holding an actual booklet requires the original.
>>107516777I've had USBs randomly fail on me much more often than discs. At least with a disc it's guaranteed to last at least 20 years if you don't fuck it up.
Nope, I'm all digital. Books, music, manga, films, etc. I buy digital because I want to support creators, I will keep pirated copies as back ups.
>>107515630Yeah I was gonna say, if they really go through with something like this it will probably drive demand back to physical media.
>>107512616There is no "end" to physical media. The masses grabbing dvds off the shelves waiting in line at drug stores has ended. Collecting has increased within a diminishing segment. I see more people than ever with an interest in collecting, its just not every jackoff. Which is fine, browsing through used dvds and blurays you see the buying habits of the masses and its pretty bad, they probably got things better now with streaming. Streaming is becoming more and more like cable everyday so we will see more "cord uncutting" just not to previous levels. Not sure about numbers but it feels like the laserdisc days.
>>107515609https://www.techpowerup.com/331520/sony-to-stop-manufacturing-blu-ray-media-effective-february-2025
>>107515288I agree, and a even a media server is overkill fo most people. I, for one, just download whatever I want, and keep it. That's all there is to it. >>107515565Based and EA Nasir-pilled
>>107512616I don't think it'll "end" theres always going to be enough enthusiasts for a certain level of publishing. Especially as the overall quality is higher too.It'll shift more into being about special editions rather than Walmart specials though.
>>107517681>Streaming is becoming more and more like cable everydayStreaming is the biggest rugpull I've ever seen. Normalfaggots really thought 8 bucks a month for every movie and show they could imagine with no ads was going to continue forever. They deserve every single rate hike and intrusive advertisement they get.
>>107515288This. I bought a Blu-Ray drive and some BD-R’s as an additional back-up for some family pictures. It’s just fun playing around with physical media.Plus it’s a lot more based having physical discs to watch movies rather than having a Netflix subscription
What's up with zoomers and physical media? I know a lady who runs a thrift store and she says teenagers to late 20s people are constantly looking for TV show box sets and older movies on DVD or BD. Apparently this is a common thing she's heard from talking to other people in the same business.
>>107518025because zoomers are broke so they can't afford subscriptions and moden stuff (games, movies, tv shows, anime, literature) is dogshit aimed at low iq low impulse control specimen who will gobble all that goyslop up and ask for more
>>107512616I sometimes daydream about opening up a good ol' video rental place. I miss the days when you could simply rent your VHS, DVDs and later Blu-rays for a few cents a day. It's a shame that the jews destroyed streaming with their greed.
>>107514970We're not talking about mixes you fucking faggot. If an artist made an album that ran longer than 80 minutes they would put it on two discs. It's shrimple.
>>107515288I second this faggot.And I want to add that the act of standing in front of a wall of movies, to choose one, running your finger over the back cover till you find that one movie you want to watch is a part of the experience too. I look through my movie wall more often, to find what I want to watch, than I spent in my movie database.Like back in the day, when renting a movie from a video store was a thing. It's a part of a good saturday evening.
>>107518025Zoomers have realised how soulless xennials have made everything in the name of convenience and created a situation where every media company is consolidating instead of the diverse amount of companies that they had back in the day.
>>107517690It's mistranslated news. Sony's recorded media stopped making writable blu-rays for consumer and business markets. That's it. They still stamp blu-rays. Japanese people watch real TV and buy physical media.
>>107518145Enjoy your fragile waste of storage space
no, that shit goes bad. I am concerned about archive.org though
>>107512616It's all on my hard drive
the problem isn't digital media. it's DRM. you can have free digital media, like mp3s and mp4s, and you can have locked down physical media, like BluRay
>>107516468I have 100s of laserdiscs, mostly import Japan market anime titles, and they are the peak of physical media form factor. The box sets are incredible and cost insane prices new, full of books and posters etc. and original cover art.
>>107512616yes, how will I watch my dad's old hentai collection when the internet goes out? fuck the cloud and streaming services
>>107518558This. Also they just released a new entry level 4k blu-ray player.
>>107518311Genx here. Dont fucking group us with milenials. I actually like zoomers and they are better than sissy millenials.
>>107519093Enjoy your poorfag eurocope, I have plebty of space to waste.
>>107519107Disc rot is meme and is not a thing for factory pressed discs. I have cds from the 80s that still play fine.
>>107522880Meanwhile back in reality xcucks are responsible for 90% of everything that's cancerous today.
>>107518025It's rather resellers or they just like the box art. I still buy movies if it's something I like and even keep the price tag on sometimes. Like I got the Rocky 5 movie DVD box set and it has a $1 price tag on it.>but what about rocky 6That's a separate problem.
>>107522880You're just as retarded as boomers
>>107512616no, as long as it exists at all it's fine and that can include being on a hard drive. if anything it's better that way, i was gonna just put the cd/dvd into my computer anyway and probably rip it so i dont have to fuck around with changing discs
>>107522904>>107523122>as bad as boomers>as bad as millenialsWe are a half generation that is only guilty of doing nothing. Probably the least political of all generations but if you actually knew any genxers you would know they are naturally more based than boomers and millenials they are just the least politically active until recently. Zoomers are the ideological children of genxers as millenials are of boomers. Your ideas come from us. Pay more attention.
>>107512616Its only the end if you don't associate with the cultureLaserdisc never "went anywhere" obsolescence is not realPisses me off that you gotta buy a 100 plus dollar fucking external upscaling device just to play Smash 64 on a ShamShit Smart TV with da bois sluggin down 40 oz's, vodka and smokin fat ass doinks (dutch master stuffed with 2 grams of OG Kush)No oregano.My homies wife would go bipolar if we lugged in the 32 inch behemoth Zenith CRT into their apartment literally call tye copsSome people are deathly allergic to "obsolete tech" like don't you dare offend our space
>>107512616No, that’s what a two-disk ZFS mirror set is for
>>107512616What do you mean the end? If I want files on a CD I can write the files on a CD.Nothing "ended".
what's an usb that's as portable as an usb yet way faster?
>>107526066A faster usb?
>>107526101no evolution? Maybe usbc? just asking
>>107512616yesenjoy the (you) and have a good day op
>>107518558It’a sign of technology moving backwards. 128 GB BD-R’s? Gone forever. Best you can buy nowadays is 100 GB BD-R’s.
>>107518269it also makes you much more mindful of what you watch and get to better understand your own taste. Consuming whatever the algorithm feeds you on the other hand...
