JEMC said:
Besides discs going bad as Zkuq pointed out, space can also be another reason. It's far less bulky to have a NAS or an HTPC with several drives than all those discs and cases. Besides it's also easier to load 2, 3 or as many movies as you want in a laptop to watch them in long travels (assuming you're not driving, of course). |
I still have my physical discs, they are just in storage... Due to licensing legalities, I would have to delete my digital copy if I got rid of my physical.
The main benefit on why I am digitizing is A.I upscaling to improve visual quality.
1080P Blu-Ray and especially DVD's look extremely soft on an 85" 4k OLED... I can also apply a HDR pass to really let the colours and contrasts pop.
Gotten some good results on older DVD TV show boxsets that I loved like Buffy, StarGate etc'.
I try to buy UHD releases wherever possible, but not all films are guaranteed a release on that platform, UHD is generally just a straight rip unless it's a poor release like The Matrix/Pirates of the Caribbean where I might do a few extra passes to restore original colour grading and stuff.
| BasilZero said:
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I don't fly back until the 5th... But you may actually own more games on just Steam than I do on Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Playstation 2, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, NES, SNES, N64, WiiU, Switch, DS, 3DS, Mega Drive -and- Steam, combined.
Absolutely crazy amount. Will do a count when I get home.
Definitely slowed down my game purchasing to just games I wish to play these days though.
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