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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I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital (gizmodo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to c/homevideo@feddit.uk

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[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I want cartridge based physical media like how Nintendo does it. DVD storage is my main issue but if I could do the significantly smaller size I would buy way more

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I talked about this in another thread, but there are many reasons we do not use SD cards/flash memory devices for movies and TV:

SD cards have extrenely slow read rates compared to optical.
Optical discs are a much more reliable data storage format than flash memory devices. SD cards and other flash memory devices need to be used every few months, or the electric charge will wear out, causing the data to be unreadable. On the other hand, a professionally-pressed Blu-ray disc can theoretically last 50-100 years.
SD cards are more expensive to manufacture than optical discs.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago

I pulled an SD card out of the cupboard I literally haven't touched in ten years and not a single file's checksum had changed

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