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⌈ Secret Post #5304 ⌋

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[Pride and Prejudice]

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[Foil, Arms and Hog]

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[Ace Attorney]

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[Ducktales (reboot)]

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[Youtubers "Slice and Rice"]

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Do you still buy them or no longer have a need for them?
Do you have a favorite one that you intend to hold on to or have you ever been disappointed by the content on it? (ie: like buying a dvd not seeing the movie/show before?)
Do you have something like a VHS tape as a form of merch or is streaming just more convenient by comparison?

I've not bought physical media in at least two years. Honestly, I probably won't buy anymore because I don't watch the ones I do have. If I want to watch The Lion King, I'll just use the Disney Plus account my sister has.

However, I do miss special features. Especially gag reels.

I don't really buy dvds any more, but I have a handful of movies and an anime collection from before 2016 with the exception of two series I got as a Christmas present since then.
I have to admit, as annoying as it can be when it takes up space - it's disappointing when you can't find a particular movie or your streaming service just gets rid of it without any warning; which is the main appeal of owning a copy of anything you'd like to rewatch again in the future.

I have a nice DVD library of lots of my favorite TV shows and movies that I would never want to give up.

I don't buy new physical media anymore but I have saved the old ones for their extra material, like Futurama DVDs for the commentaries and Lord of the Rings extended set for all the bts stuff.

I've kept all the stuff I bought before but when it comes to adding new stuff I'm a lot pickier. There's only been one show I've liked enough to buy in the last few years and there's only a handful of music artists whose physical work I still buy.

When it comes to video games, though, I buy the physical copy. IDEK. I just do.

I think I have like... 500ish discs between movies and TV series. With the advent of streaming I've definitely been pickier adding to my collection (usually DW or other stuff where I can't watch without subscribing to a whole new channel).

I also still buy CDs for imports and stuff (j-rock etc) that don't show up on Spotify or Apple Music.

I still buy DVDs, yeah, because I like having physical copies of shows I like. Sometimes streaming sites will pull shows, or they'll stop airing the reruns on some channel, or whatever. So if that happens, well, at least now I have the DVDs there for me to watch anytime I want.

I have a bit of a hard time getting used to streaming. I still like watching stuff on a regular TV channel, with a set time and a set schedule, and I find it easier to do rewatches that way, too. I can just go into the DVR and watch back any episodes I saved, I don't have to go to a site and sign in and go to this page and whatnot to find the show and everything, and I don't have to sign up for anything just to watch something. I'll do streaming if a show I like is exclusively on a streaming service and I really want to watch it, but if I can watch the show on a TV network, I will, and I prefer it that way.

I don't have a ton, but I do still buy DVDs and Blu-Rays because I don't want to subscribe to all the streaming services, and I can never keep track of what movies are on each service. (Like, if I wanted to watch Amelie right now, where is it? Hulu? Netflix? Amazon? IDK, man.)

I would never buy a non-hard copy of anything unless it was the only option, honestly. Seen too many people get burned when something gets removed from a service, or their console/computer died, or their account got hacked. If there's any chance of me seeing a movie/playing a game more than once, I want to make sure I will be able to access it even years down the road. I might stream something once to see if it's something I want to buy, if the fee is lower than buying a hard copy.

I absolutely still buy DvD's of media I love or I know I'll want to rewatch so I can do so whenever I want. Streaming services are fine for me to watch something once or the first time, but I don't rely on them to keep the shows/movies on their service so I'll always buy a physical copy if I know I want to watch it many times again in the future.

I don't buy them unless it's a show or movie that I love enough that I know I'll want to watch it multiple times. 99% of the stuff I watch, I watch once and that's it. I don't tend to come back to things unless I really, really love them because I would rather put my media time into watching new things that I haven't seen yet.

I've bought exactly two things on DVD in the past five years. One of those was a TV show that I've watched four times already so I knew it was worth it to purchase, and the other was a movie that I wanted the DVD of for all of the bonus features that were included. Aside from that? Streaming all the way.

we find ourselves frequently buying dvds because the thing we just rememebered exists/was worth re-watchng is not available on ANY streaming service so what the actual fuck, I guess we have to buy it on dvd. A year later, it's on hulu. Great, but we wanted to watch it a year ago, not today.

I have some VHS copies of things that will never be found in another format ever (mostly: 90s videos of songs from subgenre artists) so I'm debabating having them copied just in case. I don't intend to share them so much as have them in a format I can easily access vs a literal dead format I can't touch.

I still have DVDs though no reliable DVD player, lol. (Heck, are they still making DVD players?) I think if I could get a hold of a reliable external CD/DVD drive for my computer, I'd just transfer everything I needed. But it's definitely been a while since the last time I bought a DVD.

I still buy dvds and blu-rays, because my collection is probably less than 150 disks all told and my home internet is shitty enough to make streaming a hassle before even getting into the costs of all the different streaming services.

I don't like many movies or shows enough to want to own them; I buy maybe one or two a year.

I mostly switched to ebooks though because a) I work at a library so I have access to tons of books b) I was running out of shelf space both as room on extant shelves and space for new bookshelves and c) I have hoarder tendencies and a hoard of ebooks fits on my phone but my hoard of physical books could kill me if there was an earthquake or something.

I don't buy DVDs/CDs any more. There was this quiz about how much slave labor goes into the goods we own and apparently there are (were?) minerals that go into physical media (and electronics generally) that are considered "conflict minerals." So yeah, even though I didn't commit the details to memory I haven't been interested in buying the things.

Like yeah, sure, Amazon will eventually screw me over with my digital copy but eventually a hard copy would decay/break/get lost anyway.

I wildly miss director/cast/crew commentaries though. Screw HD vs. regular definition I'd pay an extra 2$ for extra features.

I have a library of my favourites. Chasing them all around streaming platforms would get insanely expensive.

I don't buy hardcopies anymore. I barely even have a functioning disk player. The only disk player I have is the one in my last laptop, which has a busted hinge and boots up through a blue screen every single time.

About a year and a half ago I bought a giant 400 capacity disk case, and proceeded to throw out all my CD and DVD cases. It was hard to do, especially with the boxed sets. The cases feel like such a part of the thing itself. But we don't have space for things that don't serve any real purpose.

I did keep the cases for Fight Club and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, because both are so masterfully well designed.

I buy a few hard copies a year of things I adore and will watch multiple times. Especially if they are a bit more obscure. I've been burned too many times of having my fav's leaving a streaming service and then being unable to find or purchase them.
I think I will start paying more since there are now so many streaming services that even cobbling together my own and using family members' subscriptions, I'm missing a lot of content.

I buy them when it's for a show I really love and I tend to buy the limited edition versions because I'm a sucker for collectibles. The LE boxset for My Love Story is absolutely gorgeous and the extras are adorable. The one for the first season of Kamisama Kiss is great too, even if I can't actually use the hair stick as intended because it's too heavy.

I regret buying the first two seasons of Sailor Moon Crystal. I didn't like those seasons, but I also didn't like how lonely the third season looked by itself.

I no longer have a VHS, but I still have the tapes for the Digimon movie, the first Yu-Gi-Oh one, and a few of the Sailor Moon ones.

I have a pretty big library of DVDs but for convenience I usually try streaming something first. But we only have Disney, Amazon, and Netflix so it’s a real crapshoot if something we want to watch is available. I downloaded the first X-Men movie to my iPad but when I went to watch it two days later the license had expired because the month changed and Disney lost streaming rights to half the X-Men movies. We’ve had series disappear during binge watches plus lots of shows that have never turned up on any of the services. We don’t have much room for expanding our dvd library but we do still add to it after careful consideration. Our next addition will be Tales from the Crypt and I can’t wait!

If it's something I'd rewatch or reread, the idea of not owning a hard copy is wild to me. Relying on a digital copy or streaming service means one day it'll probably up and disappear just like that.

I have a couple VHS tapes still - family stuff.
Have some DVDs because they're things that are hard to find and/or have lots of extra content, like the Lord of the Rings.

Here's my question back at anyone - is there any way to buy digital downloads of your preferred media WITH all the extras and whatnot? I mean - if I buy LoTR as a digital download, will it have the option of different commentaries, all the extra behind the scenes stuff, etc.?

Because that's about the only way I'll ever buy a movie again.

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