• Obinice@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do people not still do this? Isn’t it the most convenient way to store loads of DVDs and CDs?

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      1 year ago

      anyone that has any amount of physical media now also probably likes having the cases and art to look at

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        1 year ago

        Honestly yeah, I like having my CDs in their cases on the shelf so if I want to listen to a specific CD I can take it out and play it in a CD player. Sure I have so much music at my fingertips thanks to streaming, but there’s something really personal about taking a disk to listen to it. I guess I understand now what people used to say about vinyls back in the day

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      1 year ago

      I have one that i last updated in 2012 still. I had a nexflix subcription with 3 movies mailed to me that I’d rip in DVDfab and burn to another DVD and mail back the same day i received the movies.

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      1 year ago

      No, the most convenient way is ripping them and turning them into media files that I can copy to anything I want.

      Archiving them like this also helps fight against bit rot. They aren’t getting any younger (and by the CD/DVD’s last days, they weren’t exactly made out of the most high quality materials). I’m already experiencing this with floppies and retro computer stuff.

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      1 year ago

      I do, because DVDs can’t get pulled from streaming services or be region locked, and it’s worked out cheaper to buy discs than subscribe to yet another service

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      1 year ago

      i find the cloud and various nefarious streaming services are more effective these days