I will grab the occasional file that really interests me, but lately since I’ve discovered sites like Flixer or streamvaults, I will just stream the shows and movies that I’m curious about but don’t really feel the need to collect.
What about you?
I will grab the occasional file that really interests me, but lately since I’ve discovered sites like Flixer or streamvaults, I will just stream the shows and movies that I’m curious about but don’t really feel the need to collect.
What about you?
I buy physical discs for the stuff I really care, Steam for digital-only games, streaming and piracy for everything else.
Plus blu-ray has like five times the bitrate of streaming.
Yeah, they are also more durable then ssd/hdd
Disc rot is also a thing.
I find it’s best to accept entropy, that you’re going to die, that everything ends, that you will lose data, that there will be a last time you watch a movie or show, and keep running those ssd/hdds even when they’re in the yellow/red warning zone.
Years back I was sorting through ten years of emails. I got so sick of it, I simply deleted everything. You know what? No drawbacks even ten years later. Such a huge relief.
Reminds me of the artist Michael Landy who chucked everything he owned - pictures, clothes, artwork, his passport - into a shredder. Performance art, reaction against consumerism. He was understandably miserable doing it, but what a relief that must have been. To be free of all the crap. It is true that the things you own often end up owning you.
My grandparents hoarded all their lives, and after they died much of what they owned ended up in a skip, because there wasn’t enough time or interest to sell it. The supposedly priceless porcelain? Chucked. All the records? Sold. Furniture? Goodwill. The huge supply of sunlight soap? Really useful actually.
Disc rot is more probable on DVDs (and I mainly collect blurays).
I understand your point on collections and I’m an entropy guy too but I also appreciate a good collection of art for personal use during my lifetime, without compromises on quality/aviability, and maybe to left to someone in the future who will enjoy it after me. I’m kinda a minimalist for many things but not for art.