Which do you prefer? Both have their pros and cons. DVD lets you own it but disc can easily get scratched and become unplayable. Digital lets you stream and have easy access but is unplayable when internet is down. Some content is only available through DVD or digital but not both. I prefer a combination of the two. I only buy DVDs that I really like and will watch a lot and digital for the casual content.
Porn: DVD vs Digital Content
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I would love to say that DVD has a place in my heart, if only for the HD vids I can burn to them.. but I really cant.
Cheap manufacturers in EVERY sector have jaded me ~ whether made by vivid or burnt to a DVD-R I got from the local tech shop, I really havent had much luck. Bit-rot is real, and I find discs to be less permanent than I would like.
Granted the 10 years or so that I have burnt discs is plenty of time to upgrade to the next level and copy over... e.g. I copied all my floppies to CD back in the day, CD to DVD, bluray, so on, so forth.
Like you said, tho... scratched discs are a big concern. Heat warp, cold brittleness, bit rot over time, or just burnt badly the first time and the program didnt consider it bad enough to scrap the whole session.
Flash drives, SD cards, even hard drives arent much better.
Not that I expect the tech to last forever, but everything is still pretty fragile.. so.. I guess I vote for convenience over ownership ~ digital, plz.
Cheap manufacturers in EVERY sector have jaded me ~ whether made by vivid or burnt to a DVD-R I got from the local tech shop, I really havent had much luck. Bit-rot is real, and I find discs to be less permanent than I would like.
Granted the 10 years or so that I have burnt discs is plenty of time to upgrade to the next level and copy over... e.g. I copied all my floppies to CD back in the day, CD to DVD, bluray, so on, so forth.
Like you said, tho... scratched discs are a big concern. Heat warp, cold brittleness, bit rot over time, or just burnt badly the first time and the program didnt consider it bad enough to scrap the whole session.
Flash drives, SD cards, even hard drives arent much better.
Not that I expect the tech to last forever, but everything is still pretty fragile.. so.. I guess I vote for convenience over ownership ~ digital, plz.
This is my personal preference in order of what I think is the highest quality:
- Blu-ray (Abandoned now but several studios released extremely high quality discs back around 2009-2012-ish)
- Digital for HD content (Since DVD is the only physical option these days)
- DVD for SD content (Anything old enough to not have a digital HD version. QTGMC does wonders for interlaced content and imo beats the average SD digital download)
- Digital for SD content (I try to avoid at all costs. Full of problems like converting to progressive without deinterlacing, improper handling of non-square pixels, etc.)
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