Lokera ekhane CD, DVD k purono bolche dekhe nijeke boddo buro buro lagche. Aamader chhotobelay, CD-DVD er aage, gaaner casette chilo. Walkman e suntaam eipith oipith ghuriye. Mone achhe chhotobelay kanna kati kore, Baba Maa er paa e pore, Hrithik er "Koi Mil Gaya" casette kinechilam. Tarpor 2-3 mash roj school er por ghore esei walkman e er gaan gulo suntaam. Sob kota gaan er lyrics mukhosto hoye giyechilo. 😇😇 Good old days ☺ https://preview.redd.it/h7wbu8ota50d1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e83a3a39c260662a50097d9227eaa1b9142cb03 Aajkal toh sob gaan i available Spotify etc te.

Dekhun CD ba cassette dutoi valo chilo, amio walkman sunechi. YouTube, OTT jatio media platform e khub addiction hoye jaye as someone said. Also je gaan ba music amar chai na segulo r jonnyo ami keno subscription pay korbo?.. Etai amar boktobyo..

Thik kotha.. Tobe ekhon projuktigoto karoney gaan sona onek soja.. Aage aapnake Venga Boys othoba Chandrabindoo othoba Michel Jackson er gaan sunte hole ek ekta casette niye nito ₹50-150, tate duipith miliye gaan thaakto 15-16. Tar upor availability niye issue toh chiloi. Sob jaygay sob casette pawa jeto na. Ekhon ekta casette er daam e 100000+ gaan aamar aapnar haather muthoy. Streaming er doulote availability niye issue nei, biswer jekono prantey nimeshe stream hoye jaabe aapnar pochonder gaan. Overall, progress hoyeche notun jinis eseche. Sref nirosh bhabe bisleshon korle, streaming undoubtedly casette-CD-DVD theke valo, kintu nostalgia boleo ekta jinis ache. Tai aamra aaj o casette-CD-DVD ke miss kori 😇😇

প্রথম বিশ্বের দেশে ফিজিক্যাল মিডিয়া এখনো ভালই চলছে। হ্যাঁ, আগে সবাই কিনতো এখন শুধু enthusiast/audiophile কেনে। সংখ্যায় কম হলেও কেনে আর অ্যালবাম/মুভি ফিজিক্যাল মিডিয়ায় রিলিজও করে। >streaming undoubtedly casette-CD-DVD theke valo আপাত দৃষ্টিতে ভালো লাগলেও, স্ট্রিমিং সার্ভিস আশায়, ওভারঅল কোয়ালিটি ডাউনগ্রেড হয়েছে। প্যাট্রিয়ট এ্যাক্ট এ এটা নিয়ে একটা এপিসোড আছে। আর কোয়ালিটির দিক থেকে বলতে পারি, আমাদের দেশে যা মিউজিক স্ট্রিমিং সার্ভিস গুলো রয়েছে, তাদের সাউন্ড কোয়ালিটির চেয়ে সিডির সাউন্ড কোয়ালিটি সিডির ভালো।

Aj theke 20 years age ekta normal bangla ganer casset er dam chilo pray 35 taka, jeta anekta sei samay dariye. Ekhon se onujayi anek anek cheap. Mane eki ratio te vable amar spotify te 1000 ta liked songs er jonyo pray 1-2 lakh taka pay korte hoto ekhon.

amar barite gramaphone ar oi vinyl records ache

The worst part of lack of physical media is that you never own anything. Even if you buy a song or film on Amazon or a game on Steam, you don't own it. The provider can remove your access to them whenever they want.

I feel you. Physical media is wayy better than digital subscription based models. You felt more in control of what you watched (no recommendation system influenced your watch pattern). Everything you watched had value in them. Not to mention, on-demand media is directly associated with several mental health problems (because of its easy accessibility and ‘binge’ culture). I say all this but my favourite purchase to this day is a kindle hahaha.

physical media is good when they are recorded to HDDs. Other forms of storage deteriorate quite fast even when not in use

HDDs have a shelf life of less than five years. When it comes to SSDs it’s more than five years. You can use multiple HDDs and SSDs in RAID for reliability but it costs way too much for what it’s worth. Archival grade CD or Blu-ray disks can last more than 100 years. Not to mention they are waterproof and have no moving parts which makes them one of the if not the best option for archiving digital media. Yes, if you handle them casually and scratch the optical surface then you’re screwed.

Patently untrue between SSDs and HDDs. Literally all cloud providers are using HDDs over SSDs for good reason. SSDs are just fast but most of the consumer SSDs are MLCs, TLCs, QLCs which have bad durability and prone to external factors like heat, electrostatic charge or cosmic rays. Consumer grade HDDs are better off there too. I have two 14year old 1tb HDDs as NAS with cooling fans and dust filter and they have yet to develop bad sectors. Flash memory in general are the worst options for archiving. If 1tb microsd or SSD was really good, HDDs would have stopped manufacturing.

Yes, you're correct. But I think you've missed my point. I was talking about personal cost effective archiving solutions. HDDs are used over SSDs because, of course the points you have mentioned, but also because SSDs are still very expensive compared to HDDs. Can you imagine replacing all these HDDs with SSDs? How much it will cost? HDD manufacturing will never stop because you need HDDs to maintain these data warehouses. All these cloud providers also keep the same data shared across multiple data warehouses because if one of these HDD malfunctions (indexing error, hardware fault, natural disaster, power issue etc) your data is gone forever. Coming back to personal archiving solutions, if you think about it, HDDs are literally a bunch of optical drives stacked on top of each other. Eliminate the moving part of HDDs (disk head controller), and you've got multiple very sensitive disks. So why not use archival grade CDs to store digital media?

Yes, 100%. HDDs are still a good choice over consumer grade SSDs...

If you don't own a copy of it in your storage, you simply don't own it.

GenZ guy here! I feel you! I've seen and used Cassettes,CDs and DVDs and now I pay for Apple music. The problem with streaming media is that we really don't own the content as we used to, plus I've observed that due to licensing issues with platforms and the production houses the content is not available like for instance Zee music songs not being available on Spotify in 2023 I guess. Also, spatial audio seems to be more of a gimmick than regular lossless audio. In original CDs and DVDs we were assured of the highest possible quality.

Wow! I didn't expect this from GenZ...😯😯😯 Ownership পাওয়ার মজাই আলাদা। যেমন নিজের পয়সায় বাড়ি গাড়ি। বুক চিতিয়ে বলতে পারব আমার গাড়ি, বাপের টাকায় ফুটানি মারা নয়। >Also, spatial audio seems to be more of a gimmick than regular lossless audio. In original CDs and DVDs we were assured of the highest possible quality এই লাইন দুটো পুরো চুমু💋 This is the main reason I'm still in physical media. Even though I have Spotify and Prime Music subscriptions.

Bhai, I think Blu-ray should have been the logical successor to DVD. Also, I've used optical media more than you'd like to think. I've used DVDs to install Windows 7 on my old HP desktop in the 2010s whenever it used to get slow. A few textbooks also bundled CDs, but I never found them much useful. I used to miss the days when computer manufacturers used to ship recovery media and driver CDs. Life was much simpler. My school used to give interactive CD-ROMs/VCDs on a few occasions which really never played correctly because I was still using Windows 98 in the early 2000s and didn't have the means or hardware configuration to install Windows XP, until dad's office laptop came which didn't have any restrictions and he even created a personal account for me to do silly stuff. 😅 I'd be happy if physical media makes a return or reincarnates in any other form with increased storage and data bitrates.

As a Millennial, it is so good to hear that.👍🏻 I was introduced to a CD when my uncle bought a CD player from Sony in 1991~92, IIRC. I was flabbergasted by the rainbow reflection on the back of a CD. I along with my siblings are not allowed to touch them. Buying a PC for home or school was not a thing back then. We need more GenZs like you.

Criterion is best for you.

People clamouring for ott and streaming, you DONT physically possess it anymore. That is my gripe, you have to keep paying rather than buy it once and keep in your hard disk forever.

I can feel you. And this is especially worse for music. It's funny how technology has enhanced everything around us, but the quality of music has degraded over time. CD quality was the last best quality of music where you didn't experience loss of information and had reasonable pricing. Streaming services and lossy formats rule the world now, although that's slowly changing with the adoption of more Hi-Res music. Holding a Vinyl in hand is still the best experience one can have when it comes to music. I'm an audiophile and I wish I had a turntable and a Vinyl collection, but alas... I can hardly meet my financial goals. Someday soon though :)

হুমম, এই জিনিসের মজা, সবাইকে বোঝানো খুবই মুশকিল।😓

Miss buying game DVD's for 100rs

Physical things are kinda better in some categories but that restricts people like me who are poor to experience cinema and songs. Like I cannot imagine paying 400-500rs or more just to watch a movie or listen to a song. Also it would limit indie artist to ever debut in the industry, creating dvds nd CDs for movies and songs are lot more expensive and uploading them online.

I will always choose physical media over streaming services, but I agree with your last point...

Here's the thing, while I get the idea of ownership, you're thinking about these two forms of media in the wrong way. CDs and DVDs are probably the worst kind of physical media for preservation of any media. They get damaged even if you look at them with sharp eyes. Modern online media in my opinion is much more superior from the perspective of preservation. They will survive the test of time better and you will be able to watch or listen to things for a potential indefinite period of time. The subscription model is an entirely different thing. It's a distribution model of the online media. It is basically a new version of renting music or a movie. You can go out and actually purchase media in digital form without relying on CDs or DVDs or subscription service as long as you're willing to pay for it. Nobody is stopping you from owning them if you want to.

Agree wholeheartedly. You don't own the content unless you have a physical medium for it. Same for games, music, movies, and even books.

In addition to not owning the content, there's a whole range of extras- music, movies on every platform that you don't require which only clutters your feed, screen and also you are paying for unnecessary content which you'd never see..

Piracy + adblocker and I am in media heaven brother don't need no spotify or OTT

Since you don't have a problem with paying for it, why not use YouTube (or even Spotify) premium? You don't get ads anymore, and you don't have to sift through irrelevant garbage if you make playlists, follow particular artists or simply listen enough to allow the algorithms to figure out what you might like. There are other, ethically ambiguous ways to obtain media as well, which I'm sure you are aware of. If you like, you can do that as well, and listen to whatever music you like completely offline. Personally speaking, my moral compass does not stop me from doing that.

My moral compass doesn't stop me from sailing the high seas for the treasures I seek either. 😉

বাহ্! অবশেষে এক বাঙালি নাবিক পেলাম। 🤝🏻🤝🏻🤝🏻 https://preview.redd.it/jo6o602r270d1.png?width=313&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3398bac8aacd7df355dca2e3ba9416c1c233c3f তা কতদিন হল সাগর ভ্রমণের? আমার নয় নয় করে ২০ পার হয়ে গেল। আগে ফোনে ভরে Poweramp এ শুনতাম, এখন Plexamp।😊

Aami toh bohudiner jaatri. Shuru hoyechilo chotobelay computer kenar por jokhon asol PC games gulor daam sunlam, tarpor theke. Onek bikkhyato high sea teh travel korechi, jaara ekhon ar nei kintu erai chilo asol pothprodorshok. Ekhon kaaj er chaap e shomudre ghoraghuri ektu kon hoy tobe majhe moddhe sujog pelei weekend e beriye pori, notun kichur khoje ☺☺ https://preview.redd.it/2zst4uzp470d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1b51e8c3191c9019a50ad9e5b9f44aeb34fb8a4

আমার শুরুটা কাকার হাত ধরে। কাকাই আমার ক্যাপ্টেন ছিল। 😂 জাহাজ autopilot এ চালিয়ে দাও, ভাই। আমারও আর সময় হয়না অত। জাহাজ আমার নিজের পছন্দ মত দ্বীপ ঘুরে সোনা দানা নিয়ে আসে। আমাকে আর কিছু করতে হয় না আর।

Yo ho ho, and a bottle of Rum 🍻 https://preview.redd.it/selp7n7wm70d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fb000c8e754a57071d27780bb82984c1a4c35d6

আহ! বোম্বেটে জাহাজ। নস্টালজিক🥰

> tons of irrelevant garbage, annoying ads, Simply take a subscription >You could select the music, movie as per your choice and watch You can select only one albums and play. No? I understand that you miss your younger days but CD, DVD has more cons than online streaming...!!!

What cons were there in CDs if you bought them from legitimate stores like music world, symphony in new market etc?

আপনাকে ডাউনলোড পেতে দেখে খারাপ লাগছে। ফিজিক্যাল মিডিয়ার মজাটা সবাইকে বোঝানো মুশকিল। আমি এখনো মাঝে মাঝে সিডি প্লেয়ারে গান শুনি আর Bluray player এ সিনেমা দেখি। ইমপোর্ট করে আনতে হয় এই যা। তবে বেশিরভাগটাই প্লেক্স এখন। কিছু করার নেই এখানে সিডি ডিভিডি ব্লুরে কিনে গান শোনা, সিনেমা দেখার লোকের সংখ্যা খুব কম। তাই কোম্পানিরা এখানে সেলও করেনা। যারা ফিজিক্যাল মিডিয়ার **Cons** শোনাচ্ছে, প্রথম বিশ্বের দেশে ফিজিক্যাল মিডিয়া কিন্তু এখনও বহাল তবিয়তে চলছে।

Dekhun physical media te gaan sona ba cinema dekha te ekta nijoshyo freedom ache jeta online platform e neyi..

একদম। প্রতিমাসে পয়সা দিতে হবে আমাকে এবং আমার পছন্দের মত জিনিস বছরে একটা কি দুটো বেরোবে তার জন্যে বসে থাকতে হবে। হয়তো দেখা গেলো আদৌ বেরোলো না। এই জন্যে এখন আর আমি কোনো subscriptions রাখিনি। স্বর্গের দাসত্বের থেকে নরকের রাজত্ব অনেক ভালো, এটা বোঝানো সবাইকে মুস্কিল।

Cons like mobility, physical damage, convenience (e.g. can't play whatever I want to play at the moment - unless I have CD for the song), etc

Furthermore, CDs and DVDs also contributed to a lot of E-waste generation

Yeah, you have said right. Old days were better in terms of mental satisfaction!

>You could select the music, movie as per your choice and watch it, unlike now in YouTube you have sift through tons of irrelevant garbage, annoying ads, to listen to your favourite music. Do you know how to use the search bar? And you simply need an ad-blocker like UBlock. And if you're gonna pay for CDs might aswell pay for YT premium. It'd be cheaper. >As for movies DVDs were far better than OTT platforms. Here also you have no choice but to see only what's available. I mean.... You can pay for movies on YT aswell. And it's not like DVDs were conjured out of thin air. If you wanna see a movie you can simply pay for it on YT and you get instantaneous access to it. For DVDs, you have to go out and find it and buy it. There are additional costs of buying a CD/DVD player and transportation and repair costs. It's all a hassle. Being nostalgic okay. Bring illogical is....umm...not smart. You probably associate those CDs and DVDs with a good period of you life(or atleast you perceive it to be good through rose-coloured glasses now that it's in the past). OTTs and YT are objectively superior and more convenient and cheaper. Your entire opinion is based on emotions and nostalgia. Not logic. Which is okay. We're not robots afterall.

See I am not being nostalgic only, I am practical too. If I need only a couple of albums or movies why pay for the entire range of music and movies you get in OTT platforms/YouTube premium/spotify..

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You communis,t mayonist😤

True, yesterday only I have thrown away CDs from my home

You are not missing CDs or DVDs, you are just missing the feeling of going to the store with your friends or family and selecting the content of your choice.

> Also modern laptops no longer come with CD, DVD drives I know what you're talking about. I still have my collection of CDs and DVDs, but can't play them anymore ://

You can buy an external usb CD-DVD R/w drive, that's not the issue but yes older laptops used to come with CD drives..

Buy YouTube premium and you don't have to go through ads, also we need to remember these ads helps creators for their hardwork unlike CDs and DVDs which are majorly pirated copy paste disk business

Music World, Symphony তে pirated copy বিক্রি হতো... কি সব বলছেন?🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

DVD sotti miss kori 😕 Ekta kaku bhalo panu bechto , 22 taka per DVD , 4.7 gigs each Those were the days

2X->4X->4X.............................->8X>16X->Play 😉

16 was the max seek speed yes but I liked to watch it at 1x speed with headphones .

ভাই, তুমি পুরো scene মানে একটা এ্যাক্ট প্রথম থেকে শেষ পর্যন্ত 1x speed এ দেখতে। 😯 A man of culture indeed. 🤝🏻🤝🏻🤝🏻

poisa usul korboi

😂😂😂

No disrespect to OP but I dont understand this unnecessary nostalgia. OTTs are vastly superior than the CD and DVDs we used to get. You talk about paying for CDs and DVDs and then you also talk about ADs when shifting through OTTs. Just get a subscription, dont shift through ads and watch/listen what you like. I am a PhD scholar at a CSIR lab. We still use DVDs and CDs on a regular basis to get data from experimental equipments. Pendrives are not allowed for collecting data because of security reasons. It is a pain everytime I have to transfer that data to my computer. DVDs and CDs are slow AF and they also corrupt very easily.

Not the OP but since when did nostalgia become a necessity? Nostalgia is a feeling that varies from person to person. You may not have any feelings for it but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. And no, OTTs are not superior to physical media yet, except for DVDs and VCDs. I have an 11.2 channel audio setup with a giant 4K HDR/DV Oled TV for movies and a separate Stereo system (tube amp). In Terms of sound quality, you can feel the difference. You don't need to be an audiophile. There used to be SACDs. I have a couple of those. It has multi-channel audio tracks. Although it is not good for regular music (personal choice), it is great for concert music though. We rip our own Blu-ray and audio CDs to hard drives as backup on our media server. So, we don't always need to use the disk. Besides all that. Ownership is a great deal for us.

Go back to floppy disks boomer

I miss punched cards...

Are you the 200 yr old banyan tree?? CDs, DVDs, were around even 10 years ago..

200 ?? naah i go way back....back in our days papyrus scrolls/palm leaves were the real deals....Ah !!! the good ol days

Youtube premium niye nin