Yup, I got movies and also a few series (Breaking Bad, Desperate Housewives etc type things.) Only DVDs, mainly because of ehh, never got the point of Blurays and man those are pricey even when used and scratched. I tend to pay like 0 to max 5€ per DVD, or like max 10-15€ for a series box. DVDs are usually 1€ each, gotta be special to actually pay more. We watch those every weekend, it's nice to just have a bookcase to look.

Yes, we started purchasing very early on with DVDs, when they were the new thing (I started with Betamax and VHS ;) and we never had any reason to quit using them. My spouse and I tried streaming very early on but after a few interesting years they quickly devolved into a very unchallenging crap factory merely trying to promote this or that type of ideology (we both dislike propaganda, no matter who's "camp" it's pooped from) so we cancelled and went back to our more valuable than ever collection of (great) movies on DVDs.

Like you: no BR discs because, as a GNU/Linux user, I don't want to bother with their DRM crap.

The same with CDs, btw: we also own a large collection of those. With a difference: it's 100% ripped, so I don't need to actually load the discs.

Yes, my wife had a bunch before we even met and we’ve watched all of them during the past five years. I tried buying a box set of Hercule Poirot but got a box of the most crap disks that were skipping on first play.

A few records, but the rest is digital and backed up.

I have two big CD folders with movies on DVD as well as PS2 games. Only thing I have to watch 'em on is my PS2 (unless the PS5 can read DVDs? I never thought to try 🤔). My PC has no disk drive, and I don't have a regular dvd player. Even if the PS5 can, I doubt it works with burned disks and half the movies are the backup copies I have for originals I lost. I also need a composite to HDMI thing for the PS2; my TV has no composite inputs :/

I have a growing physical movie and TV collection. You can easily get around the Blu-Ray DRM with MakeMKV to make backups, but you'll need to watch out for revocation lists. You'll need a 4K drive that is LibreDrive compatible, and then you'll need to flash the firmware with something that can't be bricked by a revocation list.

My TV and Movie Collections:

Not a ton.

A few hundred DVD s and blurays, maybe a dozen vhs, and maybe a half terabyte of digital.

My thing about physical film media is the extras. Music? You can snag liner notes and cover art easy enough. But a good DVD is going to have all kinds of extras, navigable in one place with less effort. You often have better sound, and you definitely have less hassle with subtitles or alternate dialogue tracks.

The thing I hate is that no storage media is eternal. I've had hard to replace movies just fail completely due to age.

How obscure we talkin

Yep. DVDs mostly but some VHS in there. Also the library is still a good source for DVDs(and CDs and LPs).

My main prize is a VHs tape of an airing of the Doctor Who episode of The Chase that still has the Beatles scene intact.

Yes. I buy really weird DVDs used. Sometimes they are like $5 on Amazon. I like to collect what I consider the very best and the very worst films of all time. I'm a sucker for good bad movies.

Yes mostly box set.

Given how streaming video "purchases" have turned out to be fake, I should start expanding it again.

I still have a few DVDs of obscure stuff that is hard to find on the internet. But everything else is in files, mostly "MKV 1080p HEVC" or something equivalent.

normalize everything being able to read music files from SD cards and USB drives (which ofc includes hard drives/SSDs).

Well said, I might use that if I happen to defend those collections again.

In a world so obsessed with reducing costs, as public servants, they should really be a lot more careful when pointing out at anything as 'a waste of money'. Really.

Feel free to share with them that comment from a random French dude, that probably has no clue at all what he is talking about, you chatted with online on that odd reddit-like forum ;)

From what I have been told when talking to them, they just see the music and movies as a waste of money and space.. But yeah, full agree.

Exactly.

They're committed to render themselves useless: if people, aka citizens, do indeed need to pay a sub for accessing media they won't own (like stuff borrowed from the public library) why should they then be expected to also pay taxes in order to subsidies those public libraries, as well as the librarian's salaries? What will be their purpose in that model?

I'm really surprised the employees are not working hard against such a shift, it's quite obvious this won't end up well for them.

Yeah, this is what I have been thinking and what I have tried to tell them. Music (and movies) are culture and people should be able to access culture without paying or having to watch ads.. The streaming services are not an answer since they keep rising their prices and limiting what they offer, filling their lists with non-human creations for profits.

It's also utterly moronic: they're a library, they're supposed to be holding onto physical copies of whatever they offer to their users. Without that, libraries themselves will soon be considered... pointless and a waste of public money. Which may be the plan?

Sad times we live in.

You're right. And they're all backed up (I finished the backlog somewhere around 2008 or 2009 and then only had to slowly add each new album)

I've had a a few rotten discs already. Not enough to disqualify the entire concept of CDs as a pointless medium but too many of them no matter what as back then they were not sold to us as 'time limited medium'.

Buy physical when you can. Movies, books, music. It's always better.

Especially with bands like Pink Floyd

I'd suggest you back them all up, CDs don't last forever, they are susceptible to "rot", especially if the manufacturer cheaped out or self burned ones

My CD collection, each and every single album I purchased since, what, the early 90 or the late 80s, never left me. Maybe they did not get the memo informing them they were declared obsolete and replaced by streaming? ;)

Thinking about it, I wonder how much I would have had to pay in monthly sub in order to listen to any album I purchased one time, say in 1990, and still can listen to this very day at no extra cost?

None of the flow of a good album.

That's actually the reason he gave me, they're a young band and they need to "really find their sound" before making an album worth listening to. Exploring Birdsong say the same thing in their interviews. Check them out if you're into prog BTW, awesome band.