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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 281793" data-attributes="member: 134">I'm completely digital on PC, and Steam is entirely to blame. I didn't use my PC as a game system until I downloaded Steam for I think Portal. Once that door was opened though, whoosh. Music I went digital simply because of having an iPod. When you are converting everything to digital anyways, and then you get used to having 15,000 songs to pick from rather than 10 CDs in your car, yeah. Also I don't have the ears to be snooty about MP3 vs lossy vs analogue. I prefer physical media for my consoles for a few reasons, but I do have digital downloads too. The main thing is because of the sheer size of the games, I keep running out of hard drive space and then have to delete something. I didn't use to have good high speed internet and it would take 18 hours to download a game. So even though it downloads from disc to hard drive anyways, I could start playing inside of 5 minutes. Also, I forget what games I have in digital as opposed to looking on my shelf. Yes, I know where to look on my PS4 to see what I own, but it's not organized as nicely as Steam allows you to do. But look at RDR2, that thing is over 100 gigs! Once you put that on your hard drive, are you really going to be quick to delete it knowing how long it'll take to redownload?For movies, I am 100% physical media. I don't care how good your bandwidth is, the picture quality is not as good as the disc. Unlike my ears, my eyes do pick up on all the digital artifacts. I also like all the disc extras, which typically are missing from a digital copy. The other day something happened to my router that wasn't letting it connect with my TV, and I had been planning on watching Netflix. My first reaction was, well good thing I can just put on a movie in my collection instead. I don't watch movies on my phone, I don't watch on a tablet or laptop, I watch on my 65" 3D capable, 4K TV. I'm not hurting for space, I like having a wall of movies (my wife does this with books), and I never have to worry about them 'disappearing' from my library due to a license not being renewed.</blockquote>

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