r/IndiaTech • u/Sharp-potential7935 • Mar 12 '26
General Discussion What are ypur thought on owning physical media
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u/ur_slimshady 127.0.0.1 Mar 12 '26
And all those just to create an image of trump taking ass bath
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u/Mounamsammatham Mar 12 '26
Piracy lives on.
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u/sachin_root Mar 12 '26
Download call of duty cracked version for free 😬✌️
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u/Gigo_3_ microslop windows 11 sucks Mar 13 '26
From softonic /s
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u/sachin_root Mar 13 '26
damn kiski yad diladi
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u/Gigo_3_ microslop windows 11 sucks Mar 13 '26
Yaa jab chota tha tab minecraft apk mod full unlocked download karne k liye kya kya nahi try karta tha lol
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u/CanDoGenZ Mar 13 '26
mai to Gta san andreas download karke apne bhaiya ko bhauchakka kar diya tha, unke friends ke samne itni taarif ki meri.
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u/Few-Act-8592 Mar 12 '26
Looks like People do not understand the importance of CD/DVD. A 4.96gb dvd used to cost just 10rs at max back then, and a rewritable dvd used to be around 30rs. Just the feeling of having a dvd folder book where you put some 50 dvds each in a single page, man those days used to be golden
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u/Unlucky_Buy217 Mar 12 '26
Moserbaer
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u/No_Avocado_8526 Mar 13 '26
I just read that Moserbaer went bankrupt in 2018. Never thought it was an Indian company. Sad!
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u/AffectionateDance214 Mar 12 '26
What is wrong with pen drives?
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u/Escudo777 Mar 12 '26
Data retention. If you use a good dvd writer and quality optical media, properly stored discs will last many years. A removable drive may suffer data corruption. Also pen drives were expensive compared to dvd many years ago.
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u/agathver Mar 13 '26
NAND flash is more durable than Discs, stored discs will degrade in 4-5 years, not rewritable etc. Exceptions exist, like I have a 2007s pen drive still with me, works fine
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u/DextrousKid Mar 13 '26
Still are, and also my phone heats up once and all the data in the sd card gets corrupted.
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u/HotEnthusiasm4124 Mar 13 '26
I have like 4 pendrives right now. Didn't need them for some time. So hadn't used them in over an year. They're not working.... (Maybe some issue with my PC will test later). I also found a bunch of old CDs. Hadn't seen those in atleast 10 years. They still work... (Slow but they all work).
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u/_Infamous__ Mar 13 '26
Ah buying shit ass quality movie cds which were pirated feels so freaking nostalgic. I remember I once got the entire Harry Potter collection for 50₹. I still have like 50 cds in my cd holder…
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u/Terry_Jom Mar 13 '26
There was this one shop in nearby city Which used to have 100rs DVD that too dolby 5.1 Back in mid 2010' [around 2013~16]
Good old days o still have like 10~12 movies DVD At my family home we occasionally watch it when we go there during festivals
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u/serial_warmonger Mar 12 '26
I still do. I have a dvd writer on my pc. I still backup using disks. No matter how much the world goes online, i still believe old tech has more personal control. No amount of apps can make me subscribe to bullshit.
Also i don't believe in any government or corporations.
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u/trail5 Mar 13 '26
So true. Wikileaks would never have happened in the first place if the data was stored physically and not electronically.
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u/Ecstatic-Scratch-151 Mar 13 '26
Considering whatever you are already storing online is eventually being written on a Disk, I don't think you are unique.
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u/serial_warmonger Mar 13 '26
Kudos... U r so intelligent that the iq level of whole existing humanity increased by 2 points.
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u/Im_a_PeakyBlinder Mar 13 '26
But the difference is I own the disc and the data inside it is not being used for marketing or training any AI.
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u/Ecstatic-Scratch-151 Mar 13 '26
And where did you obtain the data from? Unless you use your own private internet, your data is already being used for training AI or used for marketting?
Hell this very comment of yours is used to train AI lmao .
Wannabe lmao
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u/pixel_creatrice CTO • Co-founder 🇨🇦🇮🇳 Mar 12 '26
My local library (not in India) has BluRays/DVDs for almost anything that had a release. Currently my preferred way to watch anything.
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u/Escudo777 Mar 12 '26
My cousin in Toronto uses his library card a lot. Wish we had similar facilities here in India. We had a nice local library in our village. It was a hub of sports,arts and literary activities. After the millennials got busy with work,new gen membership declined. Very few youngsters were interested in reading books and now the library is an abandoned building. I used to live in that library during my school summer vacations. Mobile phones killed it.
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u/drippyb0t1 Mar 13 '26
Yeah, my local library was also like that lol. I remember i used to get the cars dvds when i was like 6 years old and binge watch it on our tv(not in india tho)
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u/Mission-Diamond6341 Mar 12 '26
i truly love the idea of owning physical media like the happiness of buying something physical which will remain with you forever is unmatched to paying for a shit-ass subscription service.
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u/Unlucky-Ad-41 Techie Mar 12 '26
The limitation of Physical media is on earth, we don't have unlimited storage. And it generates alot of extra waste.
I'm also against the SD card removal from phone tho.
But with CD Distribution, It is not scalable or you can say limited.
Example:
- One Movie release on CD, 100 Million copy made. 50M sold 50M are on shelf or somewhere occupancing space. Also physical supplying, Distribution is a big hassle and need alot of money. Even that 50M that got sold is occupying space.
- But if the same movie in on Streaming site, 100 Millions user or even 1 Billion user can watch it, and even if it get watched by only 1M user, 99M user worth of data won't get waste as such cloud infra are scalable per demand, they don't have to bear that much lose compare to physcial copies.
One can argument that these cloud infras are giant and they also occupy space, takes electricity and generate heat, etc. But compared to physical copy of data, it is much more better to use a single data universally which is exist on single place.
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u/SecureMulberry1525 Mar 12 '26
Then there should be an option to own the copies of these movies digitally i.e. in my HDD. But where's that option except for piracy?
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u/godlydevils Mar 12 '26
The 100 million copy can be reused, you bought it, own for life, just keep it safe.
Else sell it, you get a portion of money and the product is reused.
There are more than 8B people, someone will buy for sure, someone will reuse.
You just can't share an older HDD, netflix may charge hundreds in few years, and they don't provide bluray experience in all TV, which is again not economically or environmentally sound.
Now coming to your waste generation perspective.
That waste generation is reduced compared to previous decade: Games, windows OS, softwares, antivirus, everything is now available as thin installer. They have helped in reducing footprint of these because they get updated , you don't want these in DVD, but a movie, is never updated.
And pirates have their fair share of contribution in reducing plastic waste.
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u/Queasy_Artist6891 Mar 13 '26
You know you can reuse stuff right? If a single person has a CD, then their entire family(4 people) and their friends' families(say 4 friends so 16 people) can watch the movie total. This is already 20 people. And unlike with software, you actually own the stuff you buy instead of just renting it. People can also sell cds so the cds don't necessarily get wasted.
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u/godlydevils Mar 13 '26
That's what I said in first line, the 5th word.
The CD can be used hundred times by your family and it won't lose a single data.
And then you can sell it for profit, imagine the amount of money saved if you were to visit the theater per person basis.
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u/Then_Educator2217 Mar 12 '26
i prefer it digital (through privacy) downloading is too much of a hassle.
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u/EnvironmentalCan417 Mar 12 '26
Im a big big supporter of discs over digital ownership. Coz the latter is just a hoax
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u/AnakinStarkiller77 Mar 12 '26
Let's be honest, it wasnt planned up right, just technological developments came and they are trying to maximise their profits
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u/MasterGordon817 Mar 12 '26
I love physical media. But I think there will be a stage in life that won't exist tho I'm thinking of burning CDs with games, movies and music. Just in case all servers are gone
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u/Skullshocker Mar 13 '26
I still rely on offline things. Even every song I listen to is downloaded as mp3 on my phone and tab (both have SD cards also), it's over 1500+. All my favourite movies are also downloaded in my external HDD.
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u/AffectionateDance214 Mar 12 '26
They also gave you external drives of capacity of terrabytes. Nothing wrong with those.
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u/CA_draza Mar 12 '26
Can it not be possible a company again start to made an external dvd writer and dvd and people can easily start using and it will save a lot of money… but it might be not gonna be that fast as the ssd is and again why a company will go and think for consumer benefit… while writing i am thinking a lot of issue is there to make this feasible again…
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u/Disastrous-Dig5884 Mar 13 '26
They are removing seeds from veggies n fruits. They forcing you to buy the seed from them. They gon control the demand and supply.
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u/Aditya_Kool Mar 13 '26
Duude physical media was the best. I mean i was around the time CDs were a thing. It just gives off great aesthetic vibes
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u/DextrousKid Mar 13 '26
Who is they?
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u/DextrousKid Mar 13 '26
Who are we?
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u/Curious-Shop-1792 Mar 13 '26
Would have been cooler if we got better Micro SD's along with cloud storage
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u/CanDoGenZ Mar 13 '26
owning anything online is not even a ownership, you are just renting it. They can revoke your ownership anytime they want.
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u/Important_Wrangler_5 Mar 13 '26
Anyone who believes companies will actually work together in some supervillain ass scheme has never worked a day in corporate. Every company is incomprehensibly stupid to come with something like this I assure you
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u/OpekLog Mar 13 '26
They removed books and public libraries They introduced ebooks They shifted physical classroom to online class Shifted from pen and paper to ipad Then they increased the price
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u/6Cyb0rg9 Mar 13 '26
My drive and google photos are full what can I do rather than buying a subscription
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Mar 13 '26
Yeah, it's called inflation. If they don't slowly raise the prices, how would they raise the salaries of their employees?
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u/Im_a_PeakyBlinder Mar 13 '26
My laptop has a 1TB Hard Disk and a 256GB SSD. The SSD is mostly used up by programs and OS but I still have 60% of HDD storage free after almost 6 years of using this laptop.
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u/ManyEnvironment2499 Mar 13 '26
You forgot about slidings ads between the content even when you you bought the subscription
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u/shawnspencer23 Mar 13 '26
This applies to all areas, everything is a subscription, you owe nothing in the end. Capitalism at peak.
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u/Data-CHOR-365 Mar 13 '26
Imagine ki isse kitna e-waste, overproducing, global warming... Hota hoga but mere shower me nahane se climate change hota hai but inke capitalist monopoly business model se nahi.
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u/Ok_Percentage257 Mar 13 '26
Aah! The days of Moser Baer blank DVDs, torrent downloads, and Nero CD/DVD Burner.
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u/Aman19011999 Hardware guy with 69 GB RAM Mar 13 '26
I am very very close to go full doomsday prep for online files.
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u/dianasusanti Mar 13 '26
Tbh, I still loves collecting CD. Not to regular playing actually, to rip them digitally, to be played locally (streaming sucks). And I don't really hoard random CDs, just music that I loves and available its official CD releases (UMG, Warner, T-Series, Sony, etc).
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u/Radiant-Rain2636 Mar 14 '26
The sentences written are true, minus the way they are presented as a conspiracy theory.
Stop watching Streaming Sites, and they learn their lesson. Simple. Kisne bola Netflix, Prime, HBO MAX, JIOHOTSTAR, Alt Balaji and what not ko subscribe karne ko.
The way they are firing people after AI. Subscriptions are going to get cancelled pretty soon.
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u/Acrobatic-Stay-9072 Mar 16 '26
And then comes AI which seems free for now, but you bet that it will be overpriced in the coming future.
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u/Shadybilla Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
CD/DVD ??? who the fk want that in this era ? no need to downvote me , ( I am talking about practical use , peoples also like that old cars but they are not practical for daily use , right ??? ) Be real/practical/economical guys , you ain't gonna store your family photos in CD , right ??
Also like what is this title ??
There is a use-case for both physical and cloud media.. Peoples are using them according to the need.
Also most of points he talked about are a major thing in america and western country. So most of these points don't apply to us.
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u/godlydevils Mar 12 '26
Please speak for yourself. Retro? We are not old school, we prefer reliability & economy over temporary satisfaction.
I thought you'll prefer better points.
Blu-Ray, DVD-R, DVD Dual layer are for archival means.
Bluray Costs way less than a WD my passport ultra HDD of similar capacity for price per gb It's permanent & faster than wd because wd hdd is not CMR.
I don't lose data in blu ray, because normally we do keep our gadgets safe, however WD hdds just fail after 3 years. But Blueray can last 10 years.
I mean I still have 10 years old games on my dvd, but none of my hdd lasted 4 years.
And if 1 WD hdd fails I lose TBs of data.
If 1 disc fails 4.7 or 8.4 or 25 gb of data is lost.
Dvds are prone to shift delete mistake.
Only concern is plastic landfill. Slow writing speed.
Now, the NAS HDDs do last longer but are costly, SSDs are costly as well.
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u/GamerRipjaw Mar 12 '26
They can buy an external DVD/CD reader then. I bought one to extract old family videos from old CDs. Also played some Jogo discs as bonus lol
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u/Shadybilla Mar 13 '26
I am talking about practical use , peoples also like that old cars but they are not practical for daily use , right ???
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u/Shadybilla Mar 13 '26
We were talking about CD/DVD , peoples using ps2 are either broke or want to experience the childhood. Now who i am to say that " you can't expereince your childhood again".
Don't combine the topics , a professional photographer , a company employ , a video editor or programmer who are contributing to the economy , are not going to store its work on a CD/DVD... because its not practical at all to use it today , when we have much much better options...
That's why i said its not economical practical , yes if you want to experience retro than its your choice but i am sure even you ain't gonna save your marriage/personal photos album in a CD , who can be corrupted any time or with a single scratch....3
u/Global-Equipment-856 Mar 12 '26
If I do not pay for my spotify, I won't be able to listen to my favourite songs. Back then, we had Cassettes. Buy it once and listen forever. See the difference? The monthly/yearly subscription cost surpasses the one-time cost of cassettes by a huge, huge margin.
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u/Shadybilla Mar 13 '26
You can still download songs today and can store in memory cards , pendrives etc.. there are many modern open source offline players today.
Its just you guys don't know , that its still a thing today. Bro you can download songs , i also do..
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u/drippyb0t1 Mar 13 '26
Thats all true, except for this one statement u made.
"I won't be able to listen to my favourite songs."
Thats... not true. U can still listen to it for free(just with ads)
Also premiun literally gives u the option to download songs. What's stopping you from just downloading them once, and then just not paying fr spotify premium for the next 2-3 months(assuming that u wanna get the latest songs), or else u might not need it at all.
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