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Physical Media... like tears in rain?
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Hi All,
I've come to a conclusion - I've got too much physical media, much too much.
I've got a Blu Ray collection that takes up a large sideboard and a bookshelf in the living room that barely moves.
For some reason I started buying CDs again
I recently built up a large collection of Vinyl.
Mrs Ed is understandably vexed. In addition I have DVD box sets in a suitcase in the loft that I have kept "just in case" that need to probably go...
I need to take the plunge and (apart from the vinyl) really, seriously cull the herd. The Blu Rays need to be the top target really.
Anyone else reached crisis point... physical media, guitars and regular sized 3-bed semi I've no intention of leaving full of kids and a Dog - something has got to give!
Also... the following has become abundantly clear...
1. Bandcamp returns more money directly to the artist than physical media, and is more environmentally friendly.
2. Vinyl prices currently are taking the piss more than a very efficient sewerage system.
3. A Blu Ray costs more than a 4K HDR stream version, and they are quite inconvenient.
4. DVDs look like you've smeared vaseline on your telly these days.
Anyone got opinions?
I'm keeping my copy of Blade Runner, BTW.
We have to be so very careful, what we believe in...
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Be careful where you dispose of those.
Not taking the mick genuinely curious - if I moved in that direction my wife would divorce me for sure - she already says she feels surrounded by all my shit!
I'm generally against them making changes to shows, but my favorite editing of problematic episodes comes from South Park. Obviously the show is full of problematic content, but they handled this one pretty well.
There was a Black character originally called Token Black. In the 25th series they did an episode where we learn his name is actually Tolkien, and everyone but one character (and the audience) knew this all along. They corrected the subtitles on every previous episode at the same time. If you went to check old episodes you would find it was Tolkien all along, your rascist mind just misheard it.
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The DVDs are where it hurts, it looks really low res now on a 4k TV, and I bought most of these films on release day, imported lots from America too. I used to really collect them and must have spent a few thousands of pounds on them and now they are worth about £50 total. The spine of the boxes also have been damaged by UV and been de-coloured, some of them more than others.
How many kids have you got, and how much space does each take up?
(Be warned, they tend to take up more space as they get older, not just because they grow bigger).
How many pairs of socks or jeans does one person really need? How many mugs or plates? How many of those pesky kids?
It's rarely about need and generally about want. And then you look at the reasons behind the want, because those are many and varied - different for each of us.
It's only really a problem if the effect of the want hits a constraint - funds, storage space, social acceptability, whatever - and whether you then decide to try to stop the wanting or try to relax the constraint.
If you're going to reuse that space in the loft (conversion for the kids perhaps?) then you might need to clear it out. If not, then make use of the handy storage space.
At some point I will go through the films I've got seven or eight copies of, and only keep the best versions.
I'm never going to "rip" anything because there's far too much.
The licensing problem is still massive and affects physical media as well, one disagreement can lead to physical media withdrawn from sale.
Almost like those limited-run Gibsons which all end up on Reverb at double the recommended price before the general public have even seen one.
It's quite good, I watched it once years ago - survival horror, Liam Neeson, Wolves. Wolves are cool.
Do I keep the film, and get rid of any I like LESS, or does it go...?
Also of course, there are the worthy films...
Two Hitchcock box sets, a Kubrick box set... am I ever going to watch Clockwork Orange again? Brilliant, yes, nice? Definitely not, it was a hard watch when I was a cynical teen, it's probably worse now, I wouldn't know because not watched it in 20 years!
You say that in jest. Somebody my cousin is mates with, family, so not just the person my cousin is mates with, also his father and grandfather, all collect movies and TV series. I can't remember if it was this person's father or grandfather, they both worked for the BBC, is partly the reason why today we can watch the ''bloody'' version of the movie the Dirty Dozen, and not be stuck with the ''ruddy'' version. Due to censorship laws at the time the word 'bloody'' was substituted for ''ruddy'' for the UK, as in instead of the phrase ''those bloody Germans'' it was changed to ''those ruddy Germans'' - it's an old WWII film, and of course the original master of the uncensored version was lost/destroyed, and it's only because of collectors that the original uncensored version is still available today. There is actually a huge list of films and TV series that the master recording where either lost, destroyed, and even over written, that companies like MGM, 20th Century Fox, ITV/Granada, Disney, even the BBC are desperate to find and make available again, like a number of episodes from Dad's Army.
Mrs Ed just surprised me with a copy of Sir Pat Stew's new biography - so really the least I can do is clear out the movies I'll never watch again!