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Burn your "acquired media" to physical media now folks. The powers that be are purposely limiting physical media so the have an excuse to phase it out
Or save them redundantly to several archive-quality hdds. Why have 20 blu-ray dvds for one copy of a collection when you could have 3 complete copies on 3 hdd. Both are life limited media, both will eventually require re-archiving. One has potential for mechanical failure, the other more likely to physically degrade. Pick your poison, or do one of each.
instructions unclear, set fire to my entire DVD collection
No they’re not, hard drives are for sale everywhere and not being phased out any time soon.
I was talking about blu-rays
Why not talk about floppy discs?
Just because Blu-Rays are going away, does not mean physical media is going away. We have better physical media options, use them.
While we do have floppy disks, the storage capacity limitations do not make them practical in today's era
I wouldn't consider floppies superior to Blu-ray.
Genuinely curious how are publishers limiting physical media? I haven't bought a blu-ray in a long while.
Exactly!
Not the publishers fault, for the vast majority it's by choice and not necessity that they don't buy physical media anymore.
Almost all big box stores are significantly limiting or completely removing physical media from their stores
Yeah, but that's not some massive conspiracy to remove them. They just don't sell, like CDs before them. Blu-ray never really won its format war. It just staved off the execution of discs for a few years.
£25 for one movie is a hard sell when it will come to Disney+ in a month. Even more so when it can get you a VPN for 6 months and you can have it now.