Let's get physical, physical... or do you prefer digital?

[Despare]

There is a growing segment of folks who really don't care if they "own" anything and prefer to have their entire collection on the cloud floating around there in digital space. Are you one of those people? Or do you like to fill an entire room with plastic discs and boxes that take up a ton of space like I do?

[newb]

I'm old so naturally I have a shit load of DVD, VHS, RECORD ALBUMS ,CASSETTES,....but I could see you younger folk going the digital route. Much neater....my basement is a fucking mess

[metternich1815]

I prefer physical copies. I too have many DVDS and VHS's, as well as some Blu-Rays. I own like 20 digital films- all genres- but digital films, to me, do not feel real. In other words, when I own a film on digital, I sort of feel like I do not really own it. I will say that on a related topic, if there is a film that Netflix has on Instant, then I will usually hold off on buying it for at least a while, especially with the B-movies, but I do plan on even owning films offered through Netflix (especially horror). One reason is that Netflix can rotate those movies off seemingly anytime, but if they are in my collection that will not be a problem. Anyway, while I own some digital, I definitely do prefer physical copies.

[ImmortalSlasher]

Digital is easier and quicker. But one day people will realize that actually owning something physically is better than having a company own it. Usually these digital versions are the same price too. So I don't get having the digital copy only.

[realdealblues]

I voted both, with most being Physical. I still have tons of stuff that has never been released on DVD and so I have transferred old VHS Tapes and TV Airings into Digital formats. I do however then make a physical copy of the Digital copies.

I would never want everything digital. I figure one day we'll have a giant Electromagnetic Pulse from the sun or nukes and it will pretty much wipe out all the digital stuff. I might be able to find a DVD, TV and a DVD player one day in some remote region of the world that wasn't destroyed but in that post apocalyptic world the "cloud" is going to be history.

[Rawhead Rex]

I like things I can hold...
It still aggravates me that my Shield series is broken up into parts...about 4-5 seasons on disc, about 1-2 on Amazon's cloud.
Technology is great and all...but if your internet goes down and you wanna watch a flick instead, it kind of defeats the purpose if your library is only accessible online.

[The Villain]

I have two bookshelves full of DVD's and Blu-Rays in my living room and love having them their. It actually looks good in the room. I love collecting them and wouldnt want them stored away digitally. I'll probably have to get more bookshelves though as i add to the collection.

[Straker]

I still have tons of VHS and DVDs, CDs, Vinyl... Spare room full of movies, then tons more boxed up that haven't been watched in years. Can't see myself parting with a lot of the videos or DVDs I own but certainly see the advantage of going all digital.

[Angra]

Ol' man river, that ol' man river..

[MichaelMyers]

Agreeance with most of the sentiments already expressed here. Physical copies. You just can't replicate the pleasure of a home library of DVDs, books, etc. on a laptop.

[Sculpt]

I tend to go for the physical CD/DVD, but I'm warming up to the 'anywhere electronic'. CD/DVDs get scratched, and you don't get a free new copy. I've ripped some rare CDs to my hard drive for safer keeping. Even safer would be uploaded to a "Cloud" database, as hard drives go bad too. As far a movies go, if you don't mind foregoing the DVD' extras, having a fresh copy at a 'Amazon' is not a bad deal.

Any business can go out of business, but it isn't likely, and you can download your purchased electronic media files too.

I did purchase an electronic music album from passalong.com, which went out of business. Now no known program will play the music files (media player, rhaspsody, itunes) because they can't get the rights from passalong.com (because it doesn't exit). Luckily for me, I put it on a CD before it happened. Either way, it's not a big deal. It's just one CD.