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Originally Posted by Fish
Man, I used to spend so much time gathering and organizing media collections. Movies, TV, music. I had apps like Couch Potato that would routinely scan for and download new media when it was released. I'd format the names, download artwork, and organize it all.
Then Amazon did their online music thing where they would allow you to upload any music you had whether it was pirated or not, and it would host all of it online, which I could access from anywhere on just about any device. Which worked so well it completely broke my OCD media routine.
Amazon has since abandoned the free music upload collection ability(  ), but I'm pretty much 99% online streaming at this point. I still have my collection on my computer, but it's getting very dated at this point. If society ever completely collapsed, I'd still have local access to a pretty sweet collection of 90's-2010's movies/TV/music. So, I got that going for me.. |
I think about the society collapsing thing all the time.
More realistically, in everyday life, physical copies are really only useful over digital when you still have power but no internet. Having DVDs has actually saved us from a few hours of extreme boredom in the aftermath of hurricanes from time to time so I don’t mind keeping a few handy in case of emergency.
The convenience of streaming is absurdly amazing but I do hate the fact that you don’t actually own anything and are basically just leasing it, having to pay for it forever.
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Originally Posted by BigRichard
I have several TBs of movie and tv data. I haven't broken it out in a while but I also have two large disk binders stocked full of DVD I copied. I am guessing there is a 200 movies in there from probably 10-15 years ago.
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I have the same for CDs lol
Just taking up space in a box in the closet for the last decade now. I’m no pack rat but even I’ll have to wise up and just throw that all out one day.
It is always a nice nostalgia kick when I go through the box and find the binder. Remember keeping those things in your car? Flipping through it to find the next listen while your friend is driving? Ah. Those were the days.