I wanted to buy physical books and movies for myself but I have a small room (in parent’s basement) and don’t yet got my own place. There’s no space for it, really.

Just books

I think nowadays MP3s are physical media.
(And technically they’re stored on a physical medium in your possession).

Yes. Tons of physical music. Tons of physical movies both DVD and vhs.

Games, I sadly have only digital for the most part for pc, but I have ps1 ps2 atari n64 nes genesis snes Xbox physical games still.

To me, there is a huge push to make us own nothing and be a slave to corpos. This upsets me. And I’ve always loved physical media. Its much more real.

A hard drive full of non drm files is fine too (especially for tv shows, since stacks and stacks of dvds do take up space) but its not quite the same.

Oh ya and i have a small library maybe like 300 books

Only vinyls because I think its fun to collect. Movies/shows are streamed from my server. Games are all on steam. Books I sometimes get but I also read a lot on my eink android tablet. And I get Spotify through my work so I listen to that when I’m out

Yuppers, my kids have a huge DVD and VHS collection of various kids movies and nature docs. I believe it promotes agency and choice better than picking through a never ending void of selection of media on streaming services. Plus we live like kings at flea markets, usually a dollar a tape or DVD.

While I do use steaming services for tv/movies and music, I’ve also got reasonably large collections of DVDs/BluRays, hard copy video games, books (never liked ebooks or even audio books) and most of all, vinyl records (over 1000 in my collection and ever -growing!)

Happy with having a mix of media, and increasingly keen to make sure I own things rather than only having them available through a stream, convenient though that is.

Yep, torrented content on hard drives, using media servers like jellyfin, audiobookshelf, calibre, and navidrome. Accessible on any device, anywhere in the world.

I prefer buying CDs for music & physical games for my consoles when I can (physical games on PC is kind of a distant dream now…). For TV, I think the only option to actually own your media is through BluRay/DVD. The digital stores (like Amazon, Vudu i think?) only let you watch on their platform & don’t give you any files.

I do have a small number of vinyls & cassettes, but that’s more for novelty than any practicality.

I’ll always prefer physical media over streaming for things I like.

It’s mainly Bluray nowadays, but also some older DVDs.

I’m still resolutely offline when it comes to books. I also have a lot of DVDs and Blu-rays. I sometimes even still buy some. I also still have a box of music CDs in the basement but I only listen to MP3 (no streaming).

I have a huge collection of DRM free movies, shows, books, music, etc.

It’s physically in my house, but digitally on my hard drives. With quadruple redundancy, including offline backups.

I prefer paper books when I can afford them as I find it easier to focus when I have a physical book to hold. And it just feels like a nicer experience.

When I was still playing Nintendo games up to the switch, my games were physical.

On PC I have steam. But I still have various install discs from years gone by.

And I have various CDs, DVDs and blu-rays.

I don’t have any streaming subscription services. I canceled all of them a long time ago

The idea of classifying DVDs or videogames carts as “physical media” is twisting my brain. It’s physical storage but the data is still digital.

That said, I do prefer to backup my media physically, even if I downloaded it initially, and primarily use my own library instead of streaming.

I do have a small collection of vinyl and a huge collection of books. I still have all my old CDs, too, but most artists seem to sell new albums as vinyl-with-digital-download-code these days and that’s what I usually do.