To all you physical media “Chads”
When your collection starts getting disc rot in 20 years, then what? You rebuy thousands of dollars worth of movies? My digital collection on my Apple TV will remain there in 20 years tho. Hell when I’m 80 my digital collection will still be there, and I’ll never lose a movie, break a disc, or get disc rot =)
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a.) You don't understand what physical means
b.) You don't understand what digital means
c.) You are low IQ
Disc rot is a meme, my CDs from the early 90s are still fine.
Also
I have dvds from 1998 that are still in perfect shape. also and
>physical doesn’t actually mean physical and digital doesn’t actually mean digital!
Thanks for shitting up another thread with your low IQ takes Raj
discs are digital
You fricking idiot. Don't pretend that you don't know exactly what people mean.
I know you're a moron for thinking something on a harddrive is different than being on a disc for storage.
NTA but it is different, tard. They're both digital, but completely different physical mediums. The physical medium is what matters here, not the way data is encoded. That's not even part of this conversation, so you're dumb. If all of your media is stored on a hard drive, or several hard drives, the likelihood of failure is much higher than having a bunch of discs on a shelf. And don't pretend as if all the pirated movies floating around and half-assed compressed rips people do are comparable in quality to the actual blu-ray release. I'd wager 99% of all films are only available in sub-par quality on filesharing sites, if they are even available in the first place.
>If all of your media is stored on a hard drive, or several hard drives, the likelihood of failure is much higher than having a bunch of discs on a shelf.
What are you basing this on exactly?
Experience and knowledge. Consumer-grade hard drive failure rates are higher than consumer-grade optical discs. Whether it be dead sectors of straight up mechanical failures. And you're presumably storing hundreds of movies on one single hard drive. Even if you have something like a RAID array for storing digital media, the failure rate is higher than the chance of disc rot. A blu-ray will last 100 years, a hard drive maybe 10 if you're lucky.
Hard drives can be repaired, though. If a disc rots, it’s over. They’re too fragile to repair with much rate of success.
You can see physical signs of disc rot long before the disc becomes unreadable. Recovering a hard drive is expensive if its just to restore a hard drive of pirated movies.
The best approach is to make high quality rips of discs yourself and upgrade your storage medium every 4 or 5 years. Then save the old hard drives somewhere as a backup.
Hard drive failure rates are based on usage. If it's cold storage they're functionally no different.
You're correct if someone is hypothetically storing their media in cold storage with infrequent access. Most people watch movies directly from the hard drive that they're storing them on, and continually add new movies to it.
Posts like this are why Cinemaphile makes fun of this board so much
Bait or moron. Either way, frick you.
Some of the fungi that grow from disc rot are a delicacy though. I have truffles growing on some of my old discs which finance new copies when sold
Based. I made pasta with shrooms from my old X-Files DVDs for my GF and some of her friends last night. Served it on the original disks. They loved it so much they all took turns sucking my dick and my GF begged me to get her and all her friends pregnant this weekend.
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lil bro doesn’t know what “at least” means 😀
Start buying digital NOW. There is NEVER a need for physical media. Op is right, as usual
digital files take up physical space. its the same shit just a lot smaller
Your digital collection sits on corporate server farms that aren't owned by you and are dictated by terms of service that are hostile to you.
My digital collection sits in my house, on redundant drives I own, pulled from physical media I own.
We are not the same.
Blu-rays last 100-150 years
>When your collection starts getting disc rot in 20 years, then what? You rebuy thousands of dollars worth of movies?
Disc rot estimates were from research in the 80's, and basically just guesses, and disc manufacturing processes were new and had flaws. Very few discs suffer from disc rot as of today. It only happens to some CDs from the 80's when the process was new, and discs from specific manufacturers with defects. There are websites which document what specific discs suffer from disc rot. I have many DVDs from the late-90's that play fine with no sign of disc rot. I've only seen it on one disc ever, and it was a known disc with manufacturing defects (an American Psycho blu-ray release). Blu-rays shouldn't experience normal disc rot for at least 100 years.
In the unlikely event I start seeing disc rot in my collection, it'd be trivial to just rip the disc. You would start seeing signs of disc rot years before the disc becomes actually unplayable.
no one cared the last time you posted this, homosexual
I have blu rays from 15 years ago that still work.
Disc rot is actually quite rare. But when it happens it’s a bummer. There was a huge disc rot problem with Warner Bros. discs from the 2000s. They cut corners and really screwed a lot of people over, especially when it came to DVDs that were no longer in print. Like, other than getting your money back, there was nothing you could do about that lost media.
The best thing to do is to preserve your content library by copying the material onto hard drives. It sucks, but everything has a shelf life, and if you want to preserve media, that’s really your best option.
>what are millenium disks
>what is making a copy
is it still a pain to rip bluray?