I shop estate auctions. DVD/Blu-ray lots and the players always bid up I’m little bidding wars. Boxes of music CDs that are not classical or country get bid up pretty high. And vinyl that is not classical or country goes through the roof. Granted, that last one appears to be a popular wall ornament with the mid-generations.
Where are you? Most people I know can’t give away DVDs or music cds. They are effectively etrash at this point.
Vinyl on the other hand, suckers born every minute.
I agree a 100%
Pirate and burn to a disc. I threw my old LiteOn BD burner in an external case. No ragrets.
Why would you put it on a plastic disc? It’s a file, save it to you hard drive.
Archival purposes. Movies and shows you watch often; games you’ve bought through GOG or Steam that you want to keep but don’t always want clunking around on a hard drive. I have an 8TB network drive that I throw more ephemeral files on. It also houses a bunch of ROMs.
Maybe to save on storage space? Also, many people like to have their media on a physical disc, so that could also be why.
Basically this. Archiving old games and things that you want to play but you don’t want them to constantly occupy hard drive space. I have an external 8TB drive connected to my router for other stuff I actively use.
Lately I have to remind myself to refrain from suggesting friends to buy some of my favorite games because that money doesn’t go anywhere close to their creators anymore.
