In any format? I prefer to buy video games physically and have a respectable book, VHS and vinyl record collection. Though the majority of my music and video-based entertainment are digital.
I think nowadays MP3s are physical media.
(And technically they’re stored on a physical medium in your possession).I guess it’s no different to a CD really. Just a smaller file on a bigger storage medium.
Just books
Only vinyls because I think its fun to collect. Movies/shows are streamed from my server. Games are all on steam. Books I sometimes get but I also read a lot on my eink android tablet. And I get Spotify through my work so I listen to that when I’m out
Yuppers, my kids have a huge DVD and VHS collection of various kids movies and nature docs. I believe it promotes agency and choice better than picking through a never ending void of selection of media on streaming services. Plus we live like kings at flea markets, usually a dollar a tape or DVD.
100% . I also find with adhd it helps a lot, I dont like unlimited choice
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I’m still resolutely offline when it comes to books. I also have a lot of DVDs and Blu-rays. I sometimes even still buy some. I also still have a box of music CDs in the basement but I only listen to MP3 (no streaming).
I’ll always prefer physical media over streaming for things I like.
It’s mainly Bluray nowadays, but also some older DVDs.
I read a lot of physical books. Everything else is digital for me at this point. I pirate everything. In a world where media can be endlessly distributed essentially for free, it feels somewhat wasteful to insist on physical copies of that media.
As much as I love collecting books, I’ve decided now my shelf is so full, my next reading purchase will be a kobo instead.
Most of my music comes from CDs, but I have ripped them to use on my iPod and in Plexamp. Also have a heap of books and dvds but more digital with these
Physical backup media. Hot mount SATA spinning drives and also USB 3 spinning drives. Some times software on flash drives. Flash drives for emegencey boot media. I sometimes transport files on flash drives too.
I prefer buying CDs for music & physical games for my consoles when I can (physical games on PC is kind of a distant dream now…). For TV, I think the only option to actually own your media is through BluRay/DVD. The digital stores (like Amazon, Vudu i think?) only let you watch on their platform & don’t give you any files.
I do have a small number of vinyls & cassettes, but that’s more for novelty than any practicality.
Those aren’t really the only options to own your movies/shows ;)
Touché.
Me and my 100GB of ‘Linux ISOs’:
Nope, that ship has sailed years ago.
Yep, torrented content on hard drives, using media servers like jellyfin, audiobookshelf, calibre, and navidrome. Accessible on any device, anywhere in the world.
The idea of classifying DVDs or videogames carts as “physical media” is twisting my brain. It’s physical storage but the data is still digital.
That said, I do prefer to backup my media physically, even if I downloaded it initially, and primarily use my own library instead of streaming.
I do have a small collection of vinyl and a huge collection of books. I still have all my old CDs, too, but most artists seem to sell new albums as vinyl-with-digital-download-code these days and that’s what I usually do.
Yeah so like if I put all my games on a HDD is that now physical?
The storage is physical, the media is digital.
Yes. Computer games have always been digital data on physical media. These days many people have access from someone else’s physical media, but if you own the media then I guess it counts.
Yes. Tons of physical music. Tons of physical movies both DVD and vhs.
Games, I sadly have only digital for the most part for pc, but I have ps1 ps2 atari n64 nes genesis snes Xbox physical games still.
To me, there is a huge push to make us own nothing and be a slave to corpos. This upsets me. And I’ve always loved physical media. Its much more real.
A hard drive full of non drm files is fine too (especially for tv shows, since stacks and stacks of dvds do take up space) but its not quite the same.
Oh ya and i have a small library maybe like 300 books
