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Physical Media Is Cool Again. Streaming Services Have Themselves to Blame (www.rollingstone.com)

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[–] can_you_change_your_username@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can hedge the risk of hard drive failure with backups, you can't hedge a digital service company turning off your access to certain media. Storage is getting bigger and cheaper and, especially older, media uses relatively small file sizes.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Plus in some situations you can reduce the space requirements quite a bit - as long as you're willing to exchange some quality for that.

And often the quality loss isn't even a huge deal. For example, I always convert my videos to 720p, using H.265 coding; I can see the difference between 720p and 1080p, but it's 1/4 the file size, so IMO worth it.