Still got all of them! Moving in with my partner soon and I don't think she quite understands how much I own. I've still got an extensive magazine collection despite selling loads on eBay over the last year. I'm having to move the mags into a storage unit till I make a firm decision what to do.
I keep as much of my physical media as possible. I had some shitty experiences with stuff like iTunes way back when, so I can't trust them. I love the convenience of accessing my digital stuff from anywhere, but that can be taken away.
I can't stand iTunes. It's deleted all my music more than once, plus I don't want to use any service that gives me a 'gift' of free music (looking at you, U2).
All my FLAC files are on my PC and I can access them pretty much anywhere with Plexamp. Love it.
I still have a few shelves of DVDs & Blu-Rays. But needed to take about 2000 books to the charity shop when I had to move in a bit of a hurry a few years back.
That was...painful😖
We're tackling books tonight. It's a tricky one because there's something so personal about them. Then again, I probably don't need Pub Guides or Lonely Planets from 20 years ago!
I’ve shed some vinyl as my tastes have changed but I have more vinyl LPs than anything else in my collection.
Gotten rid of most of all my CDs and DVDs but have kept a few boxes of VHS for fun.
I downsized massively over six years ago. Ripped everything to digital. It's just stuff and takes up too much damn room, and who has the time for it all. Once your dead it's junk your kids have to deal with. I'm not going to be that asshole. Roflmfao.
I have my DVDs and CDs. I also have some VHS tapes, but nothing to play them on. These days, with streaming services taking away things that customers have paid for, I like the idea of having my films and music on physical media.
I have my CDs and DVDs. We still use the DVD player once in a while. I never had that much of a collection of CDs so keeping them wasn't a big storage commitment.
All of my physical media (LPs, DVDs, Blu-Rays) are in the lounge with the kit to play them on. I still keep buying all of the above formats when I can.
My Blu-Ray/DVD player despite having internet connectivity, is not connected to the internet because I don’t need it to be. 😎
Got about 500 dvd and blu rays in packing crates. Keep meaning to put up shelving to store them all but the wife is pretty against going back to the days of the media wall.
Kept it all, use it all. Sometimes it’s the only way to get some media or watch something that you can’t get in our in demand need to consume media. Online streaming doesn’t have everything
I had a few of my must keep Vinyl records, tapes and CDs but almost started fresh, I need to get rid of my vinyl collection now as I can't lift it around anymore (I will keep some favs)
Still have them....but my longer term fears are if/when certain players (eg my ageing pioneer dvd player),go that play region free,I'm stuck with cheap & nasty alternatives that'll be lucky to survive a year.😔
I got rid of a lot of more generic CDs but do regret some of the ones that I sold (though I have MP3s of them). VHS virtually all went, quite a lot of DVDs went but kept a lot in wallets to save space. Tapes... I kept a handful and need to transfer a lot of the off air ones to MP3
I keep my DVDs and have actively sought out and bought further DVDs and CDs for material that just isn't available to stream anywhere. Reliance on streaming platforms is increasingly dangerous as more and more content disappears / rights expire etc.
Hell yeah, I’ve got some 30+ year old CDs that are still in pristine condition.
I have also known people who made discs unusable just a matter of days after buying them and had the audacity complain that they were not ‘more durable’! 😤😤😤
I have kept all my cd and vinyls. I dont think I'll buy a cd again unless its soundtracks. I never liked em tbh even as a kid 🤣 always loved vinyls though. I want to get a small collection of OSTs on vinyl
Yeah I've got a box in the loft containing my DVDs in their original fancy boxes, but if it was a just a film I've just taken it out of the plastic case and kept it on a spindle. For when the EMP bomb destroys all the digital copies!
Anything on tape has gone apart from a few random ones that keep appearing in cupboards. I'll always keep buying other media for as long as they make it.
Kept them all and thank goodness, planning to set up a Plex server so I don't have to bother with Netflix etc. Whenever I want to watch something specific (say randomly Ferris Butler's Day Off) it's never on any platform. Their libraries seem big on the surface but are actually quite small.
Plex Server is the way to go. I've still got all the items I've burned but the ease of Plex (and Plexamp) makes it a rare occasion for me to get the physical media out.
Yeah, only reason I haven't started yet is because I have hundreds of dvds / blu rays to burn which will take a fair while so I need a bit of a strategic plan haha!
Make a spreadsheet, put together all the right software and make sure you have the settings exactly the way you want them, do a bunch a day. It's the only way!
Anything I sold, it was out of need for money. But I have kept a lot of what I had, from cassette tapes to NES games. I still have all my VHS stuff too.
Short answer: Yes. I don't have a record player, and everything except the DVDs are collecting dust. On the retro computer side of things I've acquired means to load games and programs via digital media so the tapes/discs have seen no use in ages.
Asking because as I get rid of swathes of my gaming collection, I'm filling the empty shelves with other "old media" that is either in places I don't want it, cupboards or boxes. Will be nice to see all my CDs, DVDs etc. all on display, and it also means I can get to them on the odd occasion!
Have them all in boxes in the garage. Happy I've kept the majority of stuff although to be honest they haven't been out the box for 7 years...so do I need them?
I kept everything, and I still buy music, movies, and games on physical media. I'm gonna be king when the streaming and digital license bubbles implode.
I recently stuck most of the cases for them in a box and shipped it up to the loft and put the discs in a folder. Simply don't have the space for them otherwise.
It did take 3 of my old workplace delivery boxes for them which says more about my lack of impulse control than anything else!
Once upon a time, I had around 700 CDs. I'm now down to 80 "essential" albums that I can't part with, despite the fact that they've not been in a CD Player for five years or more.
I had sold some of my gaming stuff about twenty years ago, not too much.
I did also sell most of my CDs, and I did end up repurchasing some of them years down the line.
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FUN FACT: Both Mark Knopfler and Chris Rea did a joint album. Sadly it was a bit shit. Called Dire Rea.
All my FLAC files are on my PC and I can access them pretty much anywhere with Plexamp. Love it.
That was...painful😖
Gotten rid of most of all my CDs and DVDs but have kept a few boxes of VHS for fun.
My Blu-Ray/DVD player despite having internet connectivity, is not connected to the internet because I don’t need it to be. 😎
I still have these too ...
And my old Betamax.
We also throw away the boxes for board games - full weirdo mode in this house.
I have also known people who made discs unusable just a matter of days after buying them and had the audacity complain that they were not ‘more durable’! 😤😤😤
But I kept something in the garage
It did take 3 of my old workplace delivery boxes for them which says more about my lack of impulse control than anything else!
I did also sell most of my CDs, and I did end up repurchasing some of them years down the line.