Comments on: How to fix the industry, part 6

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:30:07 +0000

…it’s easier to click a mouse button and open a video than stick in a DVD and use its menu interface and seek ability to get to where I want to be.

And people think I’M lazy.

By: OGT

OGT — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:29:35 +0000

I’d rather have mp3s (or ogg, or FLAC), too–they’re convinient, 30GB of them fit in my pocket rather nicely, and it’s nice having that variety. Same with videos–it’s easier to click a mouse button and open a video than stick in a DVD and use its menu interface and seek ability to get to where I want to be.

But I also live in perpetual fear of a hard drive crash, where all my data is lost and I have to hunt rare stuff down again. In that case, I’d rather have the CDs handy, since I can just pop them in and rip them straight to my preferred format of the moment. CDs/DVDs don’t last forever, either, even when properly kept, apparently, so there’s no way to escape that–but it’s much less likely that you’ll lose all your DVDs in one single moment of painful disc grinding.

It pretty much comes down to convinience, and I wouldn’t mind official, legal DVD-quality .mkvs of series that I could burn to DVD myself–but I still think spending money and getting something more perceptible than electron states is pretty cool.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:47:54 +0000

…and I’d rather have mp3s than those little plastic things.

Philistine! :p

By: otou-san

otou-san — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:23:19 +0000

I like physical objects myself, but DVDs have never been something that really got me going. Even with music, I always prefer records to CDs, and I’d rather have mp3s than those little plastic things. Seeing as how there are no equivalents to records for movies, digital is fine by me, with a few exceptions.

By: omo

omo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:02:42 +0000

I like physical object as much as anyone, but I hate those crappy cardboard stuff and worthless DVD extras that just clutter rather than provide any sort of satisfaction. I like QUALITY physical objects. Like shelves made from trees older than me, with a nice finish and hand-crafted details…

Anyways.

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By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:53:42 +0000

The satisfaction of purchase is part in that I am paying for intellectual property that I downloaded illegally and therefore legitimizing my wanton piracy, and also because being able to touch something you own is really cool. Also I am a hoarder. Also I am crazy.

Ditto for me.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:34:12 +0000

College pretty much wiped out the DVD craze for me. I have a fairly decent sized collection from high school but from all the moving around in college, I very quickly embraced the “less is more” mentality. Most of my friends brought as much of their collection as possible and it took them longer to set up/take down and their room became much smaller. I’m still kind of in that mode on the off-chance I’ll be changing apartments.

By: OGT

OGT — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:54:00 +0000

ADDENDUM: I have a massive fetish for physical objects. I support the digital distribution method, but at the end of the day, I still want a DVD with cover art, an actual disc, a ~~waste of cardboard~~ badass box like the Code Geass box, and a useless T-shirt that has seifuku printed on it because God only knows when that sequence of 1s and 0s will vanish from your HDD forever, and, quite frankly, I love having things to collect dust. I’d love, however, to pay for the privilege to watch a series as it runs in Japan with consistent, professional subs, legally. I just want THE DVDs.

The satisfaction of purchase is part in that I am paying for intellectual property that I downloaded illegally and therefore legitimizing my wanton piracy, and also because being able to touch something you own is really cool. Also I am a hoarder. Also I am crazy.

And I can provide pictures of my actual collection (it is hard, because it’s on a double-stacked shelf, and I had to get a giant bin that was supposed to fit under my bed but since my bed wasn’t an IKEA bed it didn’t so it’s sitting in the corner taking up a lot of space and put less-used bins) but it’ll have to be email because I do not trust the internet with such things anymore. Don’t ask; long story.

By: Omonomono » How to Fix the Industry: Move On

Omonomono » How to Fix the Industry: Move On — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:26 +0000

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