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Something that just bugs me.

I've been a DVD collector since before I even knew I was collecting them. Growing up in a time when if you missed a movie on TV odds were you would never get to see it or at least would have to wait a year or more to have another shot made me really appreciate the value of owning something I could watch whenever I wanted. Then came the latest age where everything is streamed and it seemed you could find anything you wanted to watch for free at anytime...until you want to see something specific and find out none of the services have access to it or they want to charge you $4 or more per viewing. Back to collecting I have gone. There will never be an easier way to watch Hollywood Knights than to grab a copy off the shelf and pop it into the vintage DVD player. Which reminds me I should get a couple more players for back-up too. Done the digital conversion to hard drive but still prefer to hold that disc and see them all filling the shelves. Must be the hoarder in me.
 
I think the degradation has a lot to do with storage conditions. At least I hope so. I should probably keep digitizing everything too.
 
I still buy a lot of CDs as well. I actually get most off Amazon because you get the digital version to easily download and can listen to your collection through them anytime too.
 
Evidently Blu Rays are more resistant to "rot" and are supposed to last for decades.
I ran across this list I heard about somewhere else. An anecdotal list of rotted DVD's from a specific manufacturing facility that supposedly is guilty of some manufacturing faults. This guy must have a used movie store or something. The only two that worried me were some Kubrick flicks. Gotta go check on those.
 
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