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Let’s talk about media collections: How do you keep your library of your favorite movies and TV shows? (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years ago by Sean_Thomas@beehaw.org to c/entertainment@beehaw.org
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I recently started buying movies on Vudu. I was struggling for a long time with whether or not I wanted to collect media on physical disks or digitally.

Right now that’s what I’m doing but there’s always the looming fear of anything I buy being taken away if the service gets shut down.

I’m curious how others keep their media collections. Are you a Blu-ray or 4k UHD collector? Do you use a digital service like Vudu or something similar?

Tell me your thoughts!

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[–] jeff@social.birding.blog 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Sean_Thomas@beehaw.org Back in the early 2000s, I remember my dad spent 💰 and so much time buying and organizing physical DVDs into one of those huge carousel machines. He then made a printed catalog of all the movies with pictures, details, and disc numbers to browse and select a movie from his collection. So much manual work considering the whole thing needed to be reprinted each time a new movie was added.

Nowadays, I'd recommend a Plex server haha.

[–] Sean_Thomas@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah your dad definitely went through a lot of work for that DVD collection! 📀

There’s something really special about that though. A labor of love I guess.

Something else too is that formats are always evolving. I feel like it would hurt a little to build a big DVD collection and then have Blu-ray and 4k come out. 🫤Of course I guess resolution-wise there’s only so far we can go before it doesn’t matter too much.

[–] LemmyAtem@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I have something like 250 DVDs that I never watch that I've been lugging around with me for more than a decade. The binder of them is currently in my closet on the office, collecting another tree ring esque layer of dust. IDK why but I refuse to get rid of them. Any time I think of something I want to watch that I have on DVD I just download it and add it to Plex anyway.

[–] jeff@social.birding.blog 2 points 2 years ago

Yep! He was a casualty of the HDDVD vs. Bluray battle at the beginning of the hi-def disc wars. 🤣

It was definitely a labor of love and a love of organization. Something I've picked up as an adult.