In any format? I prefer to buy video games physically and have a respectable book, VHS and vinyl record collection. Though the majority of my music and video-based entertainment are digital.
I think nowadays MP3s are physical media.
(And technically they’re stored on a physical medium in your possession).I guess it’s no different to a CD really. Just a smaller file on a bigger storage medium.
Just books
Yuppers, my kids have a huge DVD and VHS collection of various kids movies and nature docs. I believe it promotes agency and choice better than picking through a never ending void of selection of media on streaming services. Plus we live like kings at flea markets, usually a dollar a tape or DVD.
I’m still resolutely offline when it comes to books. I also have a lot of DVDs and Blu-rays. I sometimes even still buy some. I also still have a box of music CDs in the basement but I only listen to MP3 (no streaming).
I’ll always prefer physical media over streaming for things I like.
It’s mainly Bluray nowadays, but also some older DVDs.
Yes, CD’s, SACD’s, DVD’s, Blu-ray’s, Ultra HD Blu-Ray’s, and vinyl records. Also have some HD-DVD’s (I regret getting into it because the discs and hardware are unreliable) and Minidiscs (also regret getting into).
I wanted to buy physical books and movies for myself but I have a small room (in parent’s basement) and don’t yet got my own place. There’s no space for it, really.
While I do use steaming services for tv/movies and music, I’ve also got reasonably large collections of DVDs/BluRays, hard copy video games, books (never liked ebooks or even audio books) and most of all, vinyl records (over 1000 in my collection and ever -growing!)
Happy with having a mix of media, and increasingly keen to make sure I own things rather than only having them available through a stream, convenient though that is.
I prefer paper books when I can afford them as I find it easier to focus when I have a physical book to hold. And it just feels like a nicer experience.
Yep, torrented content on hard drives, using media servers like jellyfin, audiobookshelf, calibre, and navidrome. Accessible on any device, anywhere in the world.
When I was still playing Nintendo games up to the switch, my games were physical.
On PC I have steam. But I still have various install discs from years gone by.
And I have various CDs, DVDs and blu-rays.
I don’t have any streaming subscription services. I canceled all of them a long time ago
I keep it around and don’t use subscription services or DLC, but the physical media itself doesn’t see everyday use, excluding books. When I had a bit more time during the quarantine, I digitized about half of my physical media library. Now if I need to pull something off the shelf, I’ll digitize it individually while I’m at it. After that point, I just run it off a hard drive or whatever portable device it’s on.
Most of my media purchases nowadays go to independent artists/developers where producing a physical copy is not always practical. Old stuff that was released on physical media often can be tracked down on archive.org since trawling eBay and thrift stores for those can get unsustainable. Everything else may be found in the high seas.
As for books, I’ll take physical copies whenever I can. I can’t stand prolonged reading on a backlit screen and I don’t do a good enough job keeping my e-ink reader charged.
