How attached to you to physical media

Music definitely and moreso tv/film I'm digital only. Can't remember I bought a physical CD (as opposed to buying downloads) and can't imagine why I would. i don't even burn CDs anymore. too much hassle.

Some books I love if they're well-made on creamy paper etc, others are just a way of transferring words. I used an ebook reader for a while, and it was fantastic. I churned through the books on it much faster than on paper, too. I've given away hundreds of books in the past few months, and now I have BookMooch that'll be going up.

Print still rules for photography.

I'd rather go to the cinema to watch a film, and it's just easier to record a TV show or watch it when it's on. The idea of downloading films/TV programmes just seems too time consuming - if it's not instantaneous it has no advantage - and I mean, download to media device. Oh, but someone along the line you've got fiddle around with some kinda file, urrrggghh.

And, I won't be seriously interested in new media devices until the day you never have to charge them up.

I was happy as it was about 10 years ago.

i can't move for books either but ebooks i can't get excited about

I wouldn't really care either way -- but I find it much easier to get the obscure stuff, particularly covers done live, as MP3s.

OTM about films: the cinema stomps all over DVDs. T/S: £10 a month for a screen the size of a bus and a stereo running into the hundreds of thousands vs a too-dear 30" TV and five speakers with cables everywhere.

I agree with Stet: couldn't care. either way I get to hear it.

well at least in the olden days of audiogalaxy et al, I was happier at finding obscure MP3s as those things might actually appear. As opposed to seeing one in a shop at one point over ten years and have to pay bigbux or kiss it farewell...

I will always subscribe to the print New Yorker, because I don't want to take my laptop into the bathroom.

In a way though, I think the CD's decline was partly it's own fault, as, unlike a record, it was never a particularly aesthetically pleasing, fetishizable object.

don't care about bitrates &c., though i do prefer cds -- still don't know how to shot p2p and i doubt i'll get into serious torrentage.

dvds are better than cinema partly because tv is better than cinema. i don't watch that many 90-100 minute films any more; and the films i do want to see (ie old films) are much easier to get on dvd.

I have the same feeling, but I don't think it's very far removed from fetishization or hmmm-ism, it's just a bit more unconscious. I find myself listening to downloaded albums 4 or 5 times before I feel like I've "heard" them in that assayed, catalogue-y way I "hear" cds I pop into the car radio. The fact there's just a lot of mediocre shit passing through my desktop obscures the issue of course. I kind of grew up with tapes and cds so vinyl still kind of smacks of novelty to me, no matter how sold I am when I hear Teddy Pendergrass in a cd vs. vinyl taste test. I dunno

comic books -- I hadn't read them in 10 years but I've taken to the computer comic readers. When I used to read it was like the pages turned themselves without me realizing and the same happens onscreen CHECK. YEAH.

Still need books for the train trip though, but I don't mind giving them away.

What I really want is a good way to archive the stacks of old zines, print clippings, I've collected. I'd sell off my run of Ptolemaic Terrascope if I could just push a button and instantly get a set of high-quality PDFs.

Music, I don't care so much about physically owning stuff. There was a time when I really really did, and I won't get rid of a lot of my old vinyl because there's an association with how much it meant to me at the time, even though I wouldn't have that obsession with it now.

I own a whole stack of films on DVD which I never watch. I am a rubbish consumer, by and large. Owning stuff is wasted on me.

I still watch TV the normal way too. Watch stuff as it's transmitted on TV, recording to watch later if it isn't. T0rr3nting means that stuff would just join the stack of film DVDs I never watch. Though when nice people do me copies of things like Lost and old TV shows that don't get repeated that I would like to see again, I really appreciate it. I would never think to do it myself though. I am quite luddite about things, really.

Why do I have all these books? I've read maybe half of the fiction and won't read it again. But, I loan books out, so someone sometime in the future may want to read these books and when that time comes I WILL HAVE IT to loan to them. And then I'll be the hero. Or something. I really can't justify all of them. But it comforts me to have them around.

"Best Buy Prepares for the Post-DVD Era"

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/best-buy-prepares-for-the-post-dvd-era/

“All these guys — Best Buy, Blockbuster and Netflix — realize is that the era of the boxed DVD is about to end,” said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, a technology consulting firm. “They all have to make the transition to the next generation of movie distribution, streaming directly to the consumer.”

^ this same stuff gets reported every week. I mean, it's going to come true eventually, but it's years down the line. The problems are format compatibility, a maze of usage rights legal issues that companies have to navigate and deal with, and a lack of a current audiences. College students stream stuff all the time, but who really has a dedicated home theater PC besides a select few videophiles? Apple TV flounders around without dedicated Apple support, all these streaming media startups fail to make their mark, and internet bandwidth still sucks. Netflix is the one exception that leaves me hopeful, but considering that the only real way to get DVD-quality video or better is the PS3/XBOX movie rental service or to download torrents, I'm pretty skeptical.

otm

The idea, said Chris Homeister, senior vice president for entertainment at Best Buy, is to let consumers pay once for a DVD and then eventually be able to play it on any device: television, Blu-ray disc player, personal computer, handheld media player or smartphone.

This I find the most far-fetched idea in the article. It sounds like the exact scenario that media industries have been rallying AGAINST the last couple decades.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/5670786/sony-earnings-adjustment-impairment-charges