In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, "streaming anxiety" is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.

Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing::In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, “streaming anxiety” is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    9 months ago

    Anyone who thinks physical media on disc is a good way to preserve a work in perpetuity has never heard of disc rot.

    Rip it, store it digitally, make periodic backups. Or obtain the IMAX film reel and keep it hermetically sealed for decades.

    • the16bitgamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      But don’t you know. They put a do not copy sticker on the disc. That means that you super Dooper can’t copy this disc or you’ll be in trouble.

      • 000@fuck.marketsEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        They also put “warranty void if removed” stickers on everything, yet can’t legally void your warranty if you remove the sticker and open a device.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        This is what I’m currently building.

        Crashplan used to have a backup-to-friend option. Guess it wasn’t selling their backup so they canceled it.

        I’m working on the same thing using mini or micro pc with enough space inside for perhaps 4 SSD’s. (Trying to keep power consumption down).

        Running UnRAID, using the Tailscale plugin, everyone will be able to connect to each other, anywhere, over my Tailscale net.

        Setup quotas, define how to backup stuff (e.g. Phone photos, etc), and it’s your own Personal Crashplan in a box.

        Can also run PiHole in unRAID. So now you have DHCP/DNS, ad-blocking too. Now I just need enough horsepower to run Jellyfin on the box…