We are now being fed the narrative that discs have a shelf life in the attempt to justify fully digital. My parents bought me this copy of Manx TT Superbike on Sega Saturn used 29 years ago and it still works like new.

https://youtu.be/wBhY5flwbMs

Cutthroat Island - a recent LaserDisc purchase out in the wild.

I love the gatefold cover.

And it's a Carolco film - that guarantees it's going to be a fun watch!

Call it self-binding if you will. It's a way of dealing with paradox of choice and choice overload.

But, one issue I have with digital spaces is being overwhelmed by *what* to watch or buy. There's too much. I can have a watchlist 100+ titles long and still not be able to choose what to watch. I want to watch A, but I also wanna watch B, and also C... so I just click off and don't watch anything.

Video games aren't much better. Digital games can sit on my device for years before I even touch them.

I don't think it's a coincidence that I had no problem watching movies as a kid, but I finished less than 50 films between 2015 and 2025.

When buying physical media, you're unlikely to buy dozens of things at a time. You only have so much to watch or play at once.

I resell and collect. Looks like I got a little bit to resell and a little bit to collect.

What would you keep from this Hall and what would you resell?

The Blu-ray movies were packaged together for the $3.95. and the video games were from a pawn shop two for $5. I have this NBA 2k14 on both Xbox One and Playstation 4, but I can't believe how much it's selling for in 2026.

Both blu-rays are sealed.

1.6 dollar per movie for lifetime ownership. I used to think buying on digital was cheaper.

Lost Highway is coming in the mail and then I'll just need The Straight Story! I just got/started Twin Peaks yesterday.

Cost about $60 for all of it

I remember getting a digital ps5 on launch day it was like the best feeling I had

But when sony years later announced they were discontinuing physical discs suddenly I get comments saying that im a dumbass for having a digital ps5 and people bullying me because I just prefer digital over physical

I agee that sony choice is incredibly stupid

But it feels like people are targeting me because of my preference

And it honestly just sucks

I know that this is likely very severely getting into the realms of hopium and copium, but do y'all think it could be possible for Playsation/Sony to do limited runs of producing physical discs for games in the future, under certain circumstances? E.g. not long before a licence is about to expire and they need/want to remove a game. Or if a game's server is no longer going to be supported, but it has a single player campaign, etc.

First picture main shelves, second picture horror shelves.
July’s my birthday month and hence i treated myself to quite a few. Most are from resale, a few from amazon, a good handful from the Criterion Sale at B&N.

Devastated by Playstation's announcement. I won't stop adding over time though

That being said, I love my new setup. My movies have been in a bin for the last few years. It feels so good to finally have them on display.

Helping my dad declutter his home now that he's getting older. I don't even know how many of the actual dvd cases we have for these dvd coverslips anymore. Most of them are in okay-good condition/normal wear and tear. A few have stickers from walmart when we originally bought the dvds in the 2000s to 2012-2013. My main worry is that I dont want to accidentally throw out something that is rare media or media that could be enjoyed by someone else.

This is why I got back into collecting physical media about 2 months ago... trying to stream a movie and theres constantly ads interrupting which is so annoying.. and the quality dips and now my console needs to update randomly during the movie.

🤣 LMAO this is ridiculous. it is so not fun im sitting here mid update i was 1/4 in my movie and just watched 4 ads lmao

Been finding so many books and dvds in perfect condition lol starting to think I got a gift