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Never diss a book or record collection (aka physical media)
There's a lot to be said for reading a physical book vs on a screen - be it LCD or e-paper. When I was going to school a few years ago, whenever I had a choice between an e-textbook and the printed variety I almost immediately learned to choose the latter: it's easier to read a printed book
(this seems to relate to the ease of adapting a printed surface for best visibility under varying light conditions), easier to retain key facts or ideas, you can miraculously page to a specific reference in seconds, and there's no encryption/DRM to go badly wrong on you at the worst time.
I understand why the LP, 45, cassette, CD have largely vanished from the marketplace - music is something we tend to enjoy
on the go now as opposed to in listening rooms. You can store large quantities of high-quality audio on a cellphone; immensely more on a small computer with a typical hard drive. If you want to stream it like the cool kids, the bandwidth requirements aren't overly burdensome. Listening to the source physical media provides no benefit for most use cases. And for those that do, it's still available - albeit probably not from Best Buy provided you can find one.
But why is the market in such a rush to ditch it for video, which has immensely more data than audio? I get the convenience of watching
Game of Thrones the day an episode is released or as a substitute for what used to be a trip to Blockbuster. I even get ripping physical media to some open format like .AVI. But I don't quite understand why the market insists on streaming as the sole substitute for local copies - physical or digital - of media you
really want to watch on your schedule in glorious full quality. So many more moving parts - bandwidth, legalities, recurring payments, technical issues throughout - vs popping a disc (or queuing something from the NAS). On the latter local method - never has diskspace, processing power, and utility computing been cheaper or easier than it is now.