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
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
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
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.
I have a few physical books left to read and I have a lot of DVDs to watch. I would’ve liked to have had a few video game consoles and the amount of games I’d want to have per console, but the used video games market has been broken for a while now.
Music remains digital, I just outgrew CDs entirely.
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).
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
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’:
I’ll always prefer physical media over streaming for things I like.
It’s mainly Bluray nowadays, but also some older DVDs.
Yep, torrented content on hard drives, using media servers like jellyfin, audiobookshelf, calibre, and navidrome. Accessible on any device, anywhere in the world.
Nope, that ship has sailed years ago.
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.
Yes, CD’s, SACD’s, DVD’s, Blu-ray’s, Ultra HD Blu-Ray’s, and vinyl records. Also have some HD-DVD’s (I regret getting into it because the discs and hardware are unreliable) and Minidiscs (also regret getting into).
Like actually use?
No, not anymore, though I do prefer to purchase media (movies, albums and the like) on physical media. It then gets ripped to digital and the originals stored against future need.
I’ve had my trust broken a few too many times.
