I recently started buying movies on Vudu. I was struggling for a long time with whether or not I wanted to collect media on physical disks or digitally.
Right now that’s what I’m doing but there’s always the looming fear of anything I buy being taken away if the service gets shut down.
I’m curious how others keep their media collections. Are you a Blu-ray or 4k UHD collector? Do you use a digital service like Vudu or something similar?
Tell me your thoughts!
I have a bunch of physical copies that I store standing up in one of those 200+ DVD binders. I don’t have the space by the tv to store the boxes. So this solved that concern.
Also, for streaming, I have digital copies of movies that came with the physical, but I do not purchase anything digital. I have the same concern that one day my purchase will disappear.
For movies I watch a lot (kids) I put those on my jellyfin server to watch via the Roku. It’s just easier and doesn’t need to look or sound the best.
Buy stuff to support the creators, but always have a seperate personal storage/library, don’t use services.
There’s recently been some drama on twitter, where media providers have changed the parts of some movies. Movies that were in the libraries of those who purchased them. They replaced them with a different version - some with censors, some with commentary removed, or some with whole different endings.
You never acutally own the media copy if you depend on an external service.
Exactly why I’ve been scrubbing secondhand outlets for all my favorite older movies and TV shows.
I’m on Vudu too and constantly wondering when it’s going to disappear on me, especially when the website crashes. I just can’t get past the convenience though. My external hard drive requires all these extra steps and cords to hook up to my laptop. It won’t hook up to my iPad at all, even wirelessly. None of my tech except the PlayStation even has a disk drive anymore.
It’s just too easy to pull up the app or website and hope it works for another day. Although the sellout from Walmart to Fandango was frustrating, it still wasn’t enough to give up the convenience.
