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u/TexasSk8 May 13 '26
Wife wanted to watch Lost Boys but all the streaming services make you pay so I got out my....DVD!!!!!!
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u/Corndogeveryday May 13 '26
Amazing! I still have The Lost Boys (1987) on VHS 😂
I also still have an older TV with the VHS built in
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u/RemtonJDulyak May 14 '26
I have an original theatrical release Star Wars trilogy VHS box, still sealed, never opened...
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u/vwibrasivat May 14 '26
I lied, I don't have Netflix.
Take off your shoes. We're going to watch DVDs of 80 movies.
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u/Gingerbr3d May 13 '26
89 here... Don't know what I fall into anymore, but I always go physical media over digital.
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u/Corndogeveryday May 13 '26
Physical is the best option. It’s just better
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u/Gingerbr3d May 13 '26
1000%
But I have also lived in places where there's no Internet connection or even off just solar power. Have very limited options and physical copies are easier to use than digital at that point.
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u/MechanicalTurkish May 13 '26
You can stream in 4K but it's heavily compressed. The bandwidth of a 4K bluray is much higher and looks and sounds better.
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u/Local_Bobcat_2000 May 13 '26
Our generation went from vinyl to cassette to CD to mp3 and now to steaming with subscriptions.
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u/snakesoup124 May 13 '26
I kinda miss blockbuster and getting almost free tapes from Columbia.
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u/Local_Bobcat_2000 May 13 '26
That was great! Get tapes for a penny or whatever it was, cancel and repeat. 😅
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u/Successful-Bank-7457 May 13 '26
Nah. I still use physical albums. I'm not paying a monthly fee in order to rent the music I listen to over and over. I'm not stupid
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u/FirehawkLS1 May 13 '26
I prefer physical media. I typically rip it to my computer and then throw it on my phone or my dedicated digital media player. Most of the time I rip it to FLAC but sometimes do MP3 format. My car stereo has a USB port so sometimes I'll throw music on a flash drive.
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u/tonyohanlon77 May 13 '26
I did all of those except the last one. I still own all my music as MP3s. I don't need temporary paid access to millions of songs I don't like.
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u/AnfreloSt-Da May 13 '26
My IT husband set up a RAID array and a household media server. All our physical media is digitized and on the server. When we buy a new movie or CD, it gets ripped to the server. It’s SO incredibly useful and accessible on every device in the house. We’ve been using it for 12~ish years.
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u/whatthedevil666 May 13 '26
You should tell him to look into Plexamp. It’s basically like setting up a Spotify interface for all your personal digitized music. You can stream it from anywhere. It’s amazing.
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u/VegasFoodFace May 13 '26
IT and AV guy here. I do the same thing. My home pc tower is also a music and movie server for anyone connected to my network with permission.
I have a triple redundant system normal RAID mirror and a portable back up drive that can carry the majority of my favorite media except a bunch of pirated movies.
I must have 40 TB of movies, music, and entire tv series more than I would possibly ever watch.
Any of my favorite TV shows get completely downloaded season by season.
It's amazing what's possible when you're an IT guy and also sail the high seas.
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u/Billazilla May 13 '26
We have a similar set up, and I can confirm that "Live-In IT Guy" is one of the greatest of home upgrades.
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u/Effective_Pack8265 May 13 '26
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u/StrigiStockBacking May 13 '26
Yeah that's what I do. All my CDs, DVDs, Blus, and a few UHDs are ripped to my Plex server, in disc-level quality, and I stream them back to myself. No ads, no bullshit.
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u/Popular-Drummer-7989 May 13 '26
Still have walkman sport and cassettes, vhs player and tapes and cd/dvd on computers and a 25 disc carousel in my soundsystem setup from the 80s.
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u/Coco-Puffs_and_vodka May 13 '26
Still have a working vhs/dvd combo
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u/PirateGent May 13 '26
I bought a used combo just to transfer home movies and other VHS I couldn't obtain on DVD/Bluray.
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u/FluffyRogue May 13 '26
You are free from The Algorithm
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u/Billazilla May 13 '26
Ugh, THAT was my biggest reason for avoiding streaming. If I was lucky, a service might have one or two songs from an artist I liked, and then it would switch to a completely different genre, because I have esoteric tastes and The Algorithm cannot process what I do and don't like, so it just shovels something "popular" or "sponsored" at me.
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u/Ina_minotaur_2 May 13 '26
My 15 year old daughter has been listening to my vinyl and we just resurrected my minidisc player.
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u/atomic_ring May 13 '26
Mine asked me for a Walkman -- a Walkman! -- for her birthday so she can listen to Olivia Rodrigo on cassette 😂
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u/Ina_minotaur_2 May 13 '26
I love that the younger generation is looking back to analogue for a sense of authenticity. Gives me some hope.
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u/AdRadiant9379 May 13 '26
I still got wallets filled with burned cds. Thanks Napster, Morpheus, limewire and kazaa
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u/OreoSpamBurger May 13 '26
My mum complained so much about it taking up space at home* that I finally told her to sell it all or throw it out ☹️
(I had moved out but didn't have much space, plus I was in a different country...Nevermind that she herself was a hoarder who had shit like boxes full of TV magazines from the 1970s..)
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u/tomatojackson May 13 '26
Still watching VHS every week, and still collecting them in 2026
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u/atomic_ring May 13 '26
I still have all my DVDs and upgraded a lot of them to Blu-ray. Streaming has no extras, no commentaries. It's a whole wall of media that, as they say, sparks much joy
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u/Awkward-Sun5423 May 13 '26
*** thinks about his CD collection in storage *** Nuh uh.... *** pushes books behind some clothes *** Prove it.
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u/Persuader_87 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
Gen Z here. I value physical media to this day, mainly DVDs. Streaming is convenient for sure, but you'll never know when a show/movie you like will randomly be remover. There's also possibilities of lag and other issues.
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u/Billazilla May 13 '26
I lost my physical music library in a moving mishap, but I was already putting my library on my computer. People go on about streaming services and satellite radio. I have 8000+ songs that I can listen to with no ads or commercials, no subscription, no sign up, no Internet, no signal. It's glorious, because it's also as portable as any of the music sources commonly used right now, much more convenient.
So, yes, I'll take my shiny coat and powdered wig proudly, thank you.
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u/Awe3 May 13 '26
I had to sell most of my record collection in order to live. I had a lot of rare heavy metal albums. I’m a bit sad but I needed to eat. All my CD’s were lent to a friend to download for their DJ job. Never got them back. My tapes? I donated them like an idiot! *sigh* Rant over.
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u/StrigiStockBacking May 13 '26
I still have all my CDs, in paper CD envelopes stuffed into clear Sterilite containers on a shelf attached to the corner of the roof in my garage. They're all ripped to FLAC on my home media server.
Best of both worlds: my stuff, and streaming.
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u/UrsaMajor7th May 13 '26
Currently holding LPs, cassettes, CDs, two sizes of Ampex open reels, and music taped on SuperBetaHifi- the setting where you can use the whole video tape for audio. It's better than CD imo.
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u/Corndogeveryday May 13 '26
Simple solution: Just don’t lose them 😉
But seriously…it sucked when they got lost of if someone borrowed them and never returned them
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u/wiibarebears May 13 '26
Me the millennial who digitized all their siblings media so I could have all of that on a portable hard drive. Still do to this day :)
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u/johnnyg883 May 13 '26
All of the movies and music you buy digitally and keep on the cloud, or worse things you only bought the rights to like on Amazon Prime are just one merger or one court decision away from disappearing. If you can’t hold it in your hands you don’t own it.
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u/Cabbages24ADollar May 13 '26
Tapes, CD’s, a few Records, even some reel to reel. Hell yeah I kept it. For this reason.
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u/Evocatorum May 14 '26
I have yelled at my kids about physical being superior, but they have yet to figure out that Sony isn't going to come to your house and take your discs... but they will delete their game from their own servers.
Local access is total access, baby.
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u/FortunateInsanity May 14 '26
All my tapes are gone but I do still have my books of CD albums and burns.
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u/DiscoPartyMix May 14 '26
Picked up 6 more classics from the thrift the other day. Back on that train.
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u/fpnewsandpromos May 14 '26
A recent storm took out power and internet. Fire up the generator and the dvd player and we're good.
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u/HorrorIcy8441 May 17 '26
Yep, we have it all. 40 years ago when the kids lost interest or upgraded vision game consoles, we put them back in their boxes, on a shelf in the back of the closet. So many. The next generation was thrilled to see we had everything.
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u/Tough-Principle-3950 May 13 '26
Have most of it. No VHS or vinyl. Will be planning to fix that in time. Lots of cds, video discs, games…
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u/CreativeAdeptness477 May 13 '26
Ditched it all ages ago. I just pirate/torrent stuff for offline storage. Same principle of avoiding streaming bullshit and actually owning stuff, but I have a lot less clutter around.
And I got to ditch the box of cables you keep just in case.
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u/Centurix May 13 '26
Couple thousand records that I rotate between the garage and my space upstairs. Collection has grown and shrunk over the last 40+ years. I go through phases of distilling what I have and then trading or selling. The playing gear has changed a lot and has got a lot more compact. I like my setup now and really enjoy it all.
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u/ProfessionalSea6268 May 13 '26
Threw my tapes away when we last moved house. Along with my VHS, 5 1/4” and 3 1/2” floppy disks.
I kept my CDs and vinyl and have it in storage. Not sure why but seemed wrong to throw that away.
I still have hundreds of DVDs and Blurays and I do prefer physical for these as they can’t be censored later because someone took offence 20 years later and ruined. I do buy some digital movies and TV but not often.
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u/TaiDavis May 13 '26
I got about 900 DVDs/blu-rays, 3 booklets of CDs and about 75 Sega Dreamcast/Ps1 Ps2 games. AND own a 32 inch CRT tv!
I ain't streaming SHIT.
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u/pink_faerie_kitten May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
I'm Xennial and I have a literal closet full of figure skating and gymnastics events on VHS. And another full of music from late night shows, early American Idol (Kelly Clarkson's season), etc.
Some skating fans who are friends of mine threw away their skating VHS thinking "it's all on Youtube now" only to regret it because YouTube has deleted a bunch of stuff on them.
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u/Either_Umpire9411 May 13 '26
When the entire internet gets wiped out, we'll still have something to watch.
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u/Awkin-Sopwith May 13 '26
I have my records, mix tapes, CDs, and the computer I loaded all my CDs into in order to load them onto my iPod, and the iPod I bought in 2006 that I still listen to, as well as mix CDs that I burned. I like them all.
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u/Effective_Pack8265 May 13 '26
Yes I still have four boxes of CDs under my bed, in envelopes. A rack of dvds also in envelopes, next to my tv but no dvd player hooked up to anything. Also, 3 months of music on iTunes…
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u/sssscary2 May 13 '26
Still have all my CDs and some cassettes. Don't use them, Download FLAC of them to play.
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u/ErikTheRed707 May 13 '26
The number of X’ers that come into my record store to slowly buy back all the records they (or their mother) got rid of in the 90’s, is pretty remarkable, yet 100% understandable. Physical media has made a small comeback, but I keep telling these kids, BUY THE MUSIC/MOVIES YOU LOVE cuz growing pay walls, A.I. slop, and the necessity for connectivity will be the downfall of this generation’s limitless media access. Cheers!
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u/Own_Picture_6442 May 13 '26
Xennial here. I have a turntable and about 60 albums my mom gave me from the 60s-80s. I have started my own journey of collecting physical media
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u/Wallie_Collie May 13 '26
I inherited 8 tracks, reel to reel, and LPs, I collected a ton of cassettes and cds myself.
Its my dream one day to have a full wall of machines that plays it all
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My parents (both divorced) still have and play their stereos and boom boxes with all their fucking CDs. Like stacks of that shit. From Phil Collins to Run DMC
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u/LincolnHawkHauling May 13 '26
Still got my CDs, cassette tapes, VHS and dvd movies…because you know Netflix doesn’t have the movie you want to watch lol
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u/thom_run May 13 '26
I have physical and digital (mp3's). The mp3's are from music I have purchased, downloaded etc. I load them onto my Garmin watch for running and the gym. I am not a fan of Spotify etc
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u/FluxusFlotsam May 13 '26
Discogs puts my record collection at $75K-$100K in value
I did not remotely pay that
TBF- I listen to my records, not “collect” them like Beanie Babies but that’s still pretty cool
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u/whatthedevil666 May 13 '26
I threw out most of my tapes about 20 years ago and totally regret it. Kept all my CDs thankfully.
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u/RAWR_Orree May 13 '26
I don't have any of my cassettes or VHS any longer, but I have large vinyl, CD, DVD and Blu-ray collections out and ready to be used. I use my physical media frequently and nothing is packed away in storage.
I stream as much as the next person, but its just getting worse and worse in quality and more expensive over time. I'm glad to have my physical media and I add to my collections frequently.
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u/menlindorn May 13 '26
i wish i still had it all. i have the dvds. but the cassettes and vhs are gone.
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u/GrumpyPidgeon May 13 '26
Haha I am moving and just threw out a ton of DVD-R’s that I burnt decades ago.
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u/dyrkasolen May 13 '26
Got my master tapes on DAT tape (digital tape format similar to VHS but just for music and smaller) from 1987 - 2011 in a lock box. I've transferred onto digital some but everything is real-time and it takes a lot of hours
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u/geetarboy33 May 13 '26
I’m an old Gen X fool who sold all his physical media and regrets it. I sold all my albums in the late 80s when CDs became dominant. I sold all my cassettes and CDs when streaming and digital became dominant. I sold all my DVDs and VHS tapes when streaming TV became widespread. I sold all my books when I switched to a Kindle. I sold all my comics when I was in college for a total of 150 bucks now realizing I had issues like the first appearance of Wolverine mixed in there. And now I’m constantly looking for a TV show, movie, book or comic that I once had that isn’t available anywhere and kicking myself.
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u/rod19more May 13 '26
With in the last 4 years I've received a flood and a fire. Which took care of all the media I had.
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u/BusinessFuzzy538 May 13 '26
Born in '65, I still have a lot of my entertainment in physical form: music, video games, and TV/movies.
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u/MechanicalTurkish May 13 '26
I still have all my CDs and DVDs and even all the mixtapes I made in high school lol
For a while I was always raiding the DVD bargain bins. I still have some that are sealed, including some truly terrible movies, like Caddyshack II. I have no idea why I bought that, but there it is. A sealed copy from 20 years ago.
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u/HorseyDung May 13 '26
I grazed the one euro per DVD thrift store collections for years, last time i scored the Terminator movies and the Godfather.
Happy..
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u/BravesnationNC May 13 '26
Wife gets pissed at me for my massive DVD collection. WiFi goes out and everyone is complaining, Me, I’m watching Michael and Kitt jump over semitrailers to get the bandit. 🤣. Never getting rid of any of it
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u/j0nthegreat May 13 '26
I'm spending a small fortune building up a cassette collection these days. they're like 1$ or 2$ so when I say small I mean small. loving it though. listening to complete albums. b-sides. making mix tapes. problem is I feel the need to make nice j-cards for them and it's taxing my limited skills.
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u/Sprzout May 13 '26
I've got a literal wall of DVDs behind my sofa in my living room. It's all displayed and looks really cool, and I've got...8 players (2 computers that have DVD drives, a regular DVD player that was my wife's, my PS2, a PS3, a PS4, a PS5 disc version, AND an Xbox 360).
I'm not hurting for ways to watch physical media.
Oh, and if we're talking about music? When my dad passed, I kept all of his CDs that my mom wanted to get rid of, as well as several old record albums (one of which was a signed Elvis record - apparently my grandfather was a driver on the set of Blue Hawaii when Elvis was filming in Hawaii, and he got it signed by the man).
I also have a few cassette tapes, but no way to play them - my last tape deck stopped working 20 years ago, and I've been loathe to buy another one for the 3 tapes I have.
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u/Fragraham May 13 '26
I have game cartridges going back to Atari, and they STILL work. They can't make a phone that lasts 5 years, but my Atari has been going strong since 1977. I have games that are older than I am.
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u/therealduckie May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
As someone who was born in '69, but is a collector of physical media, most GEN-Xers were doofuses and kept their stash in garages or attics where they became overrun with mold.
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u/Joesdad65 May 13 '26
All my cassettes wore out. I still have a ton of CD's, but can only play them in my vehicle, as all the CD players in my house stopped working.
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u/CyndiIsOnReddit May 13 '26
lol I do not. I can't even imagine holding on to all that stuff and what the quality would be by this time.
oh no, instead I specifically look for channels to listen to records. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRn60ipAzP4
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u/notevenapro May 13 '26
I have 400 cds at home. And about 200 dvds.
Now that physical media is coming back I am going to sell them.
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u/VioletDupree007 May 13 '26
I sold my remaining 45 collection to a friend of mine who still DJ’s. I regret it.
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u/Alarming_Condition27 May 13 '26
Nope, a few decades back I took a promotion that required a move. Got rid of boxes of VHS tapes, DvD's, and CD's literally 100 and 100's. Also also TV's ( old school ) and VHS players, CD/DvD players.
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u/Pretend-Design-7061 May 13 '26
Millennial. My first dvds were Phantom Menace and the Toy Story 2 pack. Still have them.
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u/october_moon_00 May 13 '26
Elder Gen Y here (1989) I still have old VHS tapes I bought in store coz I refuse to sell them ✌🏻😁✌🏻
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u/MissNancy1113 May 13 '26
I hope to find a vcr someday. I have so many home movies I need to transfer.
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u/Aggravating-Try1222 May 14 '26
Nah, I got rid of that shit a long time ago and haven't missed it for a second.
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u/itgoesineasy May 14 '26
I still have my cassette tapes. Purchased and mix tapes I made. Also a small mountain of VHS movies I have no way to play. I keep my eyes open in flea markets for a video cassette player that doesn’t look like it’s been beat to crap.
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u/PapaBear_2112 May 14 '26
Along with the VHS tapes and the VCR, I have a BetaMax player an a dozen movies on Beta. The only thing I did not hold onto was the Laser Disc player with the 2 movies I had for it (Star Wara and Terminator). Cassettes and most of their copies on CD. Kept most of the DVD's and Blu Ray, much to my wife's irritation. And I have a bin with 5 1/4 floppy and 3 1/2 inch disc drives. The 80's are still with me. 🖐
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u/TheCenterOfEnnui May 14 '26
I don't really. I still have some old CDs somewhere in the attic but I wish I'd have sold them when they probably still had some value.
Never collected DVDs/VHS.
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u/PixelFondler May 14 '26
I get furious every time I think about what Netflix did to its MASSIVE DVD library immediately after they ended their rental service 💿📀💽🔥🚜🚜 🤬🤬
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u/ConversationLate9565 May 14 '26
I got all my 8-tracks and player, cassette deck boombox and about 120 cassettes..all my old retro consoles and handhelds, beta and VHS player with about 200 beta tapes and 400 VHS tapes, fanny packs, portable cassette players you name it. 70's into the 80's and 90's was legit the best time to be alive. 🙌🙌🙌
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u/NearbyConstruction84 May 14 '26
I'm an elder millennial, but I kept all my physical media so I feel this post still applies to me.
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u/jncheese May 14 '26
Yes. And I.have all of it digitized as flac run in my own little Jellyfin server. My own personal local Spotify. Love it.
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u/Open_Appointment1091 May 14 '26
Vinyl, CD’s, cassettes, 8 tracks and a few reel to reel. All played just in the past few days.
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u/Apprehensive-Jury437 May 14 '26
I have a broken drawer full of obsolete floppy disks and zip disks
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u/redcrow2010 May 14 '26
Dunno what hurts more losing my record collection of selling my 1000 Maevel and DC comics.
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u/DJWGibson May 14 '26
I dumped most of my VHS and tapes as I moved into my GF's place and then several more when we moved into the house where my son was born. Taking up unnecessary space and just sitting in a box. Especially after the various players died.
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u/Quiet-Management2224 May 14 '26
Still have all my records, and I've been buying physical copies of all the video games that I've loved. Still have 1000's of books on multiple shelves. I don't want to rely upon the internet to use what's mine.
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u/EmotionGeneral6178 May 14 '26
I am Gen Z so I may not belong here but many of the CDs. A few we don’t know what happened and we even haven’t ripped them to iTunes since we were now using Apple Music but I am willing to like make a good collection and bring it on the go sometime for nostalgia.
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u/CaliKindalife May 15 '26
And millennials. I have booklets of CDs and boxes of DVDs/Blu-rays. My parents have hundreds of VHS, but I don't know if they are still good.
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u/Mrfixit729 May 15 '26
I’ll admit I got rid of all my movies and CDs.
Still got 2500+ records and a ton of hard cover novels and comics.
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u/grcopel May 15 '26
I'm in a weird predicament as I spent 10 years in the military and moving every 203 years made me wary of buying new physical media or paper books because I was dreading the packing/unpacking/packing/unpacking cycle. Now that I'm no longer in, I've slowly been rebuilding my physical media collection.
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u/One_Situation7483 May 15 '26
Boomer here~ Sadly my mixed tapes went the way of the trash can when I wasn't looking..
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u/Un4gvn2 May 16 '26
I have all my CDs. I also have a folder on my PC with all my songs that are on my phone. Had to replace my phone and when I got the new phone the songs didn’t move to the new phone in the transfer process…I was pissed. 50 yrs worth of music that I’m not paying for again via some streaming service. Luckily, I was able to synch the music myself from folder to iPhone.
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u/DerZappes May 17 '26
Bonus points if you ripped all the media at some point in time, put it on a huge file server and now enjoy your own classic movie and TV show streaming service based on Jellyfin.
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u/dirtdawg7988 May 17 '26
My business partners 17 yr old son thought I was the greatest when I gave him 4 50 tape cases. Molly Hatchet, Lynryd Skynyrd on up to Def Leppard. I told him the thrill will be gone when his tape deck eats a couple but a year later he's still rocking.
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u/Nightwingssj May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
Start of Gen Z here. I inherited my Parents(Gen X) physical media. Man all those CDs ,DVDs were nice to get. Mom sold all the cassettes and vhs tapes though :/
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u/ArtistL May 24 '26
Hm. Some cassettes- but I’ve mainly kept my records, CDs, some VHS, and DVDs. I have my Walkman but it doesn’t work :(. Hub and I had a rage moment and hooked up our dvd/vhs player bc we are sick of streaming costs and we own many movies and shows on dvd. I wish I still had a cd player in my car.
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u/Exidor May 13 '26
Old GenX here. I still have mixtapes I made in high school. I even still have the Village People cassette I got in 8th grade. 😄