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This isn’t nostalgia. This is ‘Unless i own the physical thing, they can take it away because with digital you never really own it you only have a license to use it.’
I own my digital files.
I didn’t necessarily purchase all of them but i still own them. No one is going to delete them off my computer.
We also have the ability these days to back up a lot of our physical media. It wasn’t so easy back when those things were new.
I understand that only if you’re into collecting. Personally I am not, and while I am nostalgic for the “scarcity” disks gave, I just don’t see a reason to go back to a physical library. As for ownership - no one can take it away as well, since there is no DRM.
Quality is reason. No stream is as good as a UHD copy of a movie when it comes to audio and video.
There’s an argument to be made for DRM-free digital downloads over UHD discs, though those aren’t easy to obtain legally (in case legality actually matters to the user).
It is nostalgia. As the article correctly describes: If you just want your physical copy, the humble Audio CD is where it’s at. Every other audio format is worse. I also collect vinyls, but that really is not about the audio quality and if they weren’t so unspectacular, collecting CDs would make more sense
