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I get the desire to not hoard, but a dvd binder doesn't take up much space.
Do most people just normally get rid of shit they spent good money on that still works just because it isn't the new hotness? That seems so damn alien to me.
No I had a box full of DVDs and cases and when we cleaned out the garage I kept a few but almost all I had already replaced with digital copies anyway. And sure I still have those now but my kids are big on watching DVDs and videos the "old fashioned" way.
Ehhh I get appreciating vinyl, crazy good quality and ritual. I definitely get appreciating VHS, there something really aesthetic/vibey about tape tracking artifacts and all that. I feel nothing about DVDs. Now they’re just mediocre, not vibey like VHS or beautiful like files on a HDD or Blu-Ray. I only have a couple DVDs I’ve kept over the years, DVDs of rare stuff that I can’t find on public or private trackers. The rest of everything is files on hard drives that look infinitely nicer than a DVD would, or VHSes with commercials from the 90s and 00s.
Hence why I got rid of them lol, but the same kid who helped me go through them and pick out which ones to keep now says we should have kept all of them.
I threw out all my old CDs, but I've since converted all the stuff I wanted to keep to FLAC and everything is digital now. I really, really hate clutter.
I've also had to move house a lot over the years, so cutting down anything you have to haul around is a good bet. Learned the hard way some 15 years back when I had to leave my books behind on a cross country move and I could only take what fit in the back of my hatchback. I moped around sad about it for a while after the move and my wife insisted I get a Kindle. It was life changing. Now all my books, games, and music are digital, stored on my NAS in RAID5, as well as with offline backups for most of it.
Guessing you've never had to panic move from a 2400 sqft house into an 600 sqft loft. Physical media was one of the first cuts. Actually most of it still may exist with my parents and friends who took maybe like 2/3 of it, but at that point when you have mere days to figure it all out, priorities change rapidly.