Digital or Physical media?

its all physical

Both have their pros and cons but digital is more convenient especially if you don't live near a major shopping center.

Digital, everything!
- Netflix for movies and series
- Deezer for music
- PSN for ps4 and vita games
- epub for books, cbr for comics
- manga rocks app for manga

It's nice to have physical copies but digital is more convenient and involves fewer moving parts. From what I have gathered, most people who are against digital feel that way either because they can't resell used software or because they think the DRM could kick in locking them out out in the future. Those are valid points, but with the current rate of technology future generations are more likely to accept it.

On the other hand, digital's biggest enemy is the growing number of ISPs who are establishing data caps. If you have a 200GB data cap you could burn through that downloading four or five PS4 or Xbone games, or by watching a few dozen Netflix movies at maximum quality.

Digital all the way. I've a 7 TB file server full of music, movies, books, games, etc. Far nicer to use throughout the house streaming to different TVs or accessing it through desktop and laptop computers.

I don't like the future

I like your philosophical take on it. "the more unnecessary end of materialism". That's how I view it.

for music/shows that i really like, i get a physical copy.

everything else is pretty much digital.

Digital is becoming more popular, but will never fully gain traction until you can rightfully re-sell the license for a digital property you own. Not being able to re-sell your license should be made illegal, in parts of Europe it already is.

Physical copies will always have that re-sale factor over digital. You own physical copies more than you own digital copies in the sense that you can play with it and also re-sell it, so it has more financial value and worth.

Hopefully one day we will be able to re-sell our digital licenses in the U.S.

There is the re-sale factor, which is a valid point, but in the end, it just takes up space and adds an extra step between you and entertainment.

Digital pretty much for all except books and reading stuff. Plus I like to print research papers and the sort and make written annotations in them.

Digital ... unless its a collectors addition i really wanted.

I go digital all the way. It's far more easy. Except movies. Hollywood still hasn't developed a cost effective and simplistic method of distributing DRM free movie to the consumer so I'm stuck with buying blu-ray.

Physical...much much better and it will be a sad world when that ends.

Same.

When I liquidated my gaming shelf, I couldn't bring myself to get rid of the collectors ed.'s

the movies I didn't give a shit about.

Physical.

I don't wanna say I'm a collector, but I do have collector tendencies. I like seeing and displaying my little collection of show series and music.

Just ain't the same with digital. Feels like I don't really own it.

Also, no new product smell either.

Physical for me since our internet services here are crappy.

Physical for music and digital for games.

Physical for games and movies, if the future is digital then I'll stick with retro gaming.

Physical for an album/game/film that I love, digital for something that I like.

It won't end. People always say "this or that is dead", but when it comes to art most of that stuff is still here. People said that opera was dead, but they're still here. People said that vinyl was dead, but it's still here. People said that large format film photography was dead, but it's still here. There's always going to be a conflict between convenience and quality, and most people do in fact gravitate towards convenience. But we're still talking about art here, and as long as there are people around to appreciate the quality, then the inconvenient (but better) will usually remain. If I want to see a da Vinci fresco or an Andreas Gursky image, I could just download the image off of the internet. But then, that image is shit, and I haven't seen the work unless I was there in person viewing the actual physical work. And that's why that kind of physical work is still getting made.

There's a psychological aspect too. People feel like if it's all digital then it isn't actually worth anything. That if it's "just" information, then it should be free. So a collector is gonna be hard pressed to shell out the same money for a digital file that he's willing to shell out for physical media. Suppose someone has a rare album that's highly sought after for the obscurity of the songs. Another dude rips the album and puts the stuff on the internet. Even if the audio quality of both versions is equally as good, the physical version is gonna be worth more because one is scarce and the other is not. One is endlessly reproducible at the same quality, the other is not.

Of course, in MOST cases people just go with convenience because they feel it's convenient while still being "good enough". But there's usually enough people adhering to the old ways for the old ways to survive. Sure, not EVERY musical artist is gonna be releasing their music on vinyl, but there's enough demand for it that SOME of them still do it. Now, this isn't to say that CDs and Blu Rays won't die. Sure they might. 8 track is dead, floppy discs are dead, and laserdisc is dead. But PHYSICAL media is still freaking here, and I think it always will be in some capacity.

Yeah, if you will buy blurays, boxed games and cd's in the future, you'll be like the vinyl buyers and photo film users of today..... a hipster ;-)

I wasn't even specifically thinking about blurays or boxed games or CDs. I'm not sayijng that ALL physical media doesn't die. After all, VHS pretty much DID die (AFAIK) because it fucking sucked. But note that it wasn't just "let's go digital". It got "replaced" by another physical medium, which means that physical media still freaking lasted.

Physical media is NOT going away. It's just gonna get marginalized.

And to say that it's just hipsters who prefer physical media is ignorant. The point is in the final product, and the preferred medium is gonna differ. Is Gravity on my iPhone the same as Gravity on an IMAX screen? Hell no. So don't google Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel work and then act as if you've freaking seen it just because you saw a simulacra on your cell phone.

^ Serious much?

What I see happening is physical media becoming a niche. The "collectors" edition will be a standard for big releases, because those are the only type of people who want physical media..I guess.

The thing with vinyl is that there is a reason for it; better sound quality/alternative mixing. There is nothing on a DVD/BluRay that can't be done with a download. Other than the packaging and.."smell" *facepalm*

Yeah, that's why 8 track and VHS died. It wasn't because they were physical media, it was because they were garbage. People were willing to put up with how shitty they were because of convenience, but convenience was pretty much the ONLY thing they were bringing to the table. As soon as more convenient (and higher quality) stuff came along, those older media died. Take CDs, for example. The physical disc's only purpose is for storage of the data, which renders them kind of pointless once vastly superior storage becomes available. My mom recently had to go on a trip, and she complained to me about how the rental car didn't even have a CD player. And I'm like, "of course it doesn't, CDs are crap. The car comes with a USB slot and you own a freaking iPhone, so why the hell do you want a CD player?"

Digital and physical compliment each other well imo. I like having a library of books, movies, and games (especially books). That being said streaming movies and shows to my tv is extremely convenient. Not to mention having all your movies and tv accessible on your computer is a wonderful tool.

So you I'm not exactly ready to let go of my library of physical possessions there is definitely merit to having both.