Why do people still buy physical disks?

It's true, nothing is completely permanent, but...

By "digital movies", I'm assuming you mean digital downloads. Movies are stored on physical discs as digital data too.

Picture and sound quality (the picture and sound data on digital downloads is more heavily compressed), plenty of special features (I don't know where you're getting your "bonus features" on digital downloads) and the data, as long as the disc is properly cared for, stored in a cool, dry place, won't corrupt for a very long time. I still have DVDs from 1997 that play just fine. If it's not already in the works, you can bet Hollywood wants your digital downloads to self-destruct after a short time so you have to buy them again if you want to watch them again.

Same useless thread, different useless answer: because they're smart enough to go with what works instead of falling for the latest retarded money-grubbing scam. Just like how people still buy CDs and vinyl instead of storing their entire "collection" on an Ipod.

I've yet to meet this person who still has every file they've ever saved in their life and they are all still runable without any problems which they are guaranteed to to, forever.

It's a myth made up by people who make tons of illegal downloads to make them feel less guilty.

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I don't know anything about illegal downloads.


I purchase all of my Movies/ TV shows/ Music from iTunes.

Oh yeah. I've never heard of anyone losing or screwing up their Itunes library. IT never happens.

Glasgow's FOREMOST authority Italics = irony. Infer the opposite please.

You're on the youngish side, aren't you? I'm guessing not older than 25yo? It's not a criticism, but you'll learn some tough lessons...such as Hard Drives have a tendency to suddenly fail, and when they do almost always that means everything you've stored on them is gone. At least when a CD or DVD goes bad that's only one film or album you've lost, not 500 films or 3000 songs.




People believe what they want to believe. One term for this is Faith. Another is Delusion.

You're on the youngish side, aren't you? I'm guessing not older than 25, yo? It's not a criticism, but you'll learn some tough lessons... such as hard drives have tendency to suddenly fail, and when they do it almost always means that everything you've stored on them is gone. At least when a CD or DVD goes bad it's only one film or album you've lost, not 500 films or 3000 songs.

^-- This.

I guess I'm sort of in between the two extremes. I buy physical DVD-video disks and I dump them to a portable hard drive using DVD Shrink (requires a level of knowledge above that of your average cell phone packing teenager). That way I can run them on the computers in their original resolution and still have the source disks remain in like-new condition, and save my optical drives from wear and premature failure. I don't even have a standalone DVD-Video player console any more. At least this means when the hard drive eventually takes a dump (it will) nothing is really lost, because I still have the masters.

I do download movies sometimes (rarely) and usually I export them to optical disk as soon as the transfer is finished, at the lowest speed the disk/recorder combination supports.

Even the most elementary of computer users knows the first rule: keep backups and have them ready. At least I like to think they do. Sad fact is far too many don't. Optical drives fail too, but not as catastrophically.

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You're on the youngish side, aren't you? I'm guessing not older than 25yo? It's not a criticism, but you'll learn some tough lessons...such as Hard Drives have a tendency to suddenly fail, and when they do almost always that means everything you've stored on them is gone.
In that matter you most certainly represent only yourself, and not people over the age of 25. I'm older than 25 twice over, and know all sorts of things, like a HDD is not a proper noun, how to build RAID arrays and do other things to protect my files from any single point of failure.

Only you can explain why you have failed where others have succeeded in storing digital files. All I can say is that it's not all that hard to do.