{"id":5335,"date":"2022-04-11T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/11\/open-thread-do-you-still-use-dvds-or-videos-has-your-collection-survived\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:39:42","slug":"open-thread-do-you-still-use-dvds-or-videos-has-your-collection-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/11\/open-thread-do-you-still-use-dvds-or-videos-has-your-collection-survived\/","title":{"rendered":"Open thread: do you still use DVDs or videos? Has your collection survived?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Sydney\u2019s \u2018last, best\u2019 video shop closes, what\u2019s the future for physical media in Australia, and for the communities who collect them?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>We\u2019ve love to hear about your film collections, big or small. Share them in the comments below<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2015, between dusty rows of shelves in a small op-shop somewhere in suburban Sydney, I made a vow to myself: whenever I spotted a copy of Dude, Where\u2019s My Car? on DVD, I would have to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>There was no deeper thought behind the mission. To this day I have not even watched the movie. But something about its cover \u2013 Ashton Kutcher, wide-eyed, hamming into the camera; the extremely Y2K gradient; the charmingly chunky letters spelling out its title \u2013 felt right. It felt soothing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2022\/apr\/12\/open-thread-do-you-still-use-dvds-or-videos-has-your-collection-survived\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c2f629fb3a4ea7c02068f83cdf8714ad0c016bc9\/0_194_5200_3123\/master\/5200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0e7f454b62e5c1abedf3460af5f7f3da\" title=\"Open thread: do you still use DVDs or videos? Has your collection survived?\" \/>As Sydney\u2019s \u2018last, best\u2019 video shop closes, what\u2019s the future for physical media in Australia, and for the communities who collect them?<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve love to hear about your film collections, big or small. Share them in the comments below<br \/>\nIn 2015, between dusty rows of shelves in a small op-shop somewhere in suburban Sydney, I made a vow to myself: whenever I spotted a copy of Dude, Where\u2019s My Car? on DVD, I would have to buy it.<br \/>\nThere was no deeper thought behind the mission. To this day I have not even watched the movie. But something about its cover \u2013 Ashton Kutcher, wide-eyed, hamming into the camera; the extremely Y2K gradient; the charmingly chunky letters spelling out its title \u2013 felt right. It felt soothing. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Sydney\u2019s \u2018last, best\u2019 video shop closes, what\u2019s the future for physical media in Australia, and for the communities who collect them? We\u2019ve love to hear about your film collections, big or small. Share them in the comments below In 2015, between dusty rows of shelves in a small op-shop somewhere in suburban Sydney, I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/11\/open-thread-do-you-still-use-dvds-or-videos-has-your-collection-survived\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open thread: do you still use DVDs or videos? Has your collection survived?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}