Physical media is great and all until you have so much you physically can’t get anything else
I live in a hybrid world. Downloading digital media and putting it on physical media
I tried to buy Avatar 2 today. Disney doesnt sell to Australia anymore. What do i do?
You’re copying it, not erasing it on Disney’s end…
Does having all of my music and video on a server next to my bookshelf count? The hdd is physical too…
If you own it and aren’t licensing it through a service, then that’s the next best thing to physical.
I would argue that keeping your own digital library on a home server is “better” (more convenient) than a bunch of discs that will also degrade over time.
Indeed. The CD is just a box the digital media comes in.
Tbf CDs are of the worst of the physical media, yet one of the best due to the ease with which one can back them up I guess.
Most of my CDs, DVDs, and tapes were entirely unavailable with any (conventional, anyway, or I’d have known) means of piracy (real obscure shit), or were purchased before limewire and ipods existed (of course I’m old). But vinyl has a certain charm to it, there’s absolutely no replacing physical books or comics, cart consoles are better than emulators if you have both, and sometimes just popping in a tape and being off to the races is better than hunting through netflix, yes we’re watching Rodan again.
That said, I still back everything up when possible, physical is just part of the redundancy. I have The Princess Bride in book, VHS, DVD, and .mkv format.
Define “own”
Possess.
No matter how you acquired it…
Aye aye captain o7
If you burn a book the information inside it disappears. If you shatter a hard disk the information inside it disappears.
All data has always been on physical mediums. Anything in the cloud is just someone else’s hard drive.
Computers aren’t magic, and neither are books for that matter. They are just different ways of encoding information on physical media, one is just significantly more advanced than the other.
Incorrect, Data transferred live across radio waves is not, live TV/radio/live streams(Ram has to be updated constantly it technically counts) all are not stored.
Counts
I’m a fan of physical media and at the same time I don’t believe in its supremacy; I don’t think it’s more practical than digital files for example.
I still like it because 1) it can be a way to directly support artists that I like and 2) it’s a way to own content instead of renting it.
How long do CDs last?
Some estimates put conventional CD and DVD lifespans at 25 years, however they can last decades longer than that if they are stored away from UV light, and stored in a moderate temp and humidity controlled location. Their lifespan also largely depends on the quality of the manufacturing process from the factory.
Under similar conditions, blu-rays are estimated to last around 100 years, and blu-rays that use non-organic dye layers (such as M-disc) can reportedly last 1000 years or more.
As moisture finds a way between the layers, the disc will degrade. Too much bending or flexing of a disc will encourage separation of the layers.
Source: am a big optical media nerd
Good to rip them to your physical storage. Netflix, not so much.
Only because I’m unable to link to my hard drive or to the spirit of Ella:
“no healthy upstream”
I do for books. We just came from a park where I sat and read a book for an hour because that makes me happy.
