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Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k)
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On Reddit we have r/dvdcollection, r/boutiquebluray, r/4kbluray, r/steelbook, r/vhs, etc but let's start simply with a community to cover all the forms of home video collecting.
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Are we going to pretend discs can't get scratched? I've had to deal with a lot more broken discs then glitchs with Netflix, which are essentially non-existant these days.
The biggest flaw with physical media is you have to pay 30$ for a 2 hour movie. The amount of money my parents spent buying and renting movies when I was a kid is mind boggling. A TV series was like 80$.
Streaming is insanely convenient compared to physical. It sucks we don't have extras but jfc, physical is not better. Not to mention the pollution it brings about.
Have you done a study of physical media vs all the infrastructure and maintenance required for streaming?
I feel like we really don't know which is worse/better.
From what I understand, it's about equivalent but only because people are able to watch a lot more.
The average family before streaming would maybe buy a movie once a month. Now we can binge watch a different series every few days. If we compare 2 hours of streaming to one movie, streaming wins, but we watch much more media then we used to which makes up for the difference.
Also imporrant to note that this is going down as the grid slowly drifts towards renewable. The environmental cost of Blu-ray won't be going down in the next decade.
People remember back to scratches on DVDs, but protection from scratches is built into the bluray spec. It's not a problem anymore.
That's great to hear but streaming problems have like wise been solved.
Yes, it is better. In the process of enshitification, lossy compression got used more and more aggressively in streaming, to save bandwith and storage costs.