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Is there really a point in backing up media? Unless you've ripped it yourself, I'm sure anything you have is easily obtainable again.

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al_borland 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Some things are popular in the moment and very hard to come by 10-20 years later if they aren’t pretty popular. TV shows especially.

I’ve been considering buying some of those giant DVD lots that come up on Craigslist from time to time, or checking out flea markets for good deals.

With the way things are heading, one of my fears is I will get old and lose access to some of the shows are movies I loved in my youth. Licensing with streaming services are so fickle, and some others are removed or edited if they around found to be politically incorrect a decade or two after being made. I want to make sure I still have access to the original versions.

I do often wish I was one of those people who didn’t care, and could be happy with an iPad as my main computer, but it’s not in the cards for me.

	▲	chillfox 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		This, if you have some favorites or just movies that remind you of your youth, don't wait, go get them on dvd now. It gets harder and more expensive the longer you wait. I have been hunting down the movies that I was watching when growing up and it's been a real mission, especially the really old ones that were made before I was born.

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bigstrat2003 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's the other way around if anything. If you ripped it yourself, you still have the original media and can rip it again. If you sailed the seven seas, it may or may not be around if you go to look for it in the future.

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dharmab 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Another one I realized - content is often edited in later versions. Two examples in my collection are the theatrical vs current versions of the Star Wars trilogy, and Top Gear, which had the original licensed music replaced by worse generic music in newer releases.

	▲	l72 a day ago \| parent [-]
		This is a major issue for me for both video and music streaming platforms. Do you know what version of the Abyss you are going to get? Is it that theatrical version that cut out a major plot point or the director's cut that includes it? What about Blade Runner? Do you want the original theatrical version or the super duper pointless extended Director's Cut? You don't get a choice with streaming, and you often don't even know what version it'll be. I find this is even worse with music. Take the Beatles. Their songs have been remastered many times. Some of the remasters are good, and some of them ruin the music for me. But what version are you going to get? And, you may be listening to a good version today, but due to label negotiations, have it swapped out with a different version tomorrow. I take a lot of pride in curating my personal media collection. I know these issues aren't important to everyone (and some people who might care are just unaware), but they are incredibly important to me.

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dharmab 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have a lot of media from countries that are not the US. That kind of stuff tends to disappear from the internet and market.

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switch007 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah my TV/movies drive is just mergerfs of two drives. I view it as a cache but I'm lucky to have a gigabit connection.

Anything I want to keep I'll make a specific decision and move it to my RAID1 drive which is backed up off-site.

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chillfox 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My initial though was to not bother with backup, I still have the DVDs/Blu-rays if the HDD dies, but with the amount of time it takes to load in I changed my mind on that.

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sunflowerfly 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A lot of my media are home movies.

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ThrowawayTestr 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You'd think so but lost media is called that for a reason.