You can hedge the risk of hard drive failure with backups, you can’t hedge a digital service company turning off your access to certain media. Storage is getting bigger and cheaper and, especially older, media uses relatively small file sizes.
Exactly. Plus in some situations you can reduce the space requirements quite a bit - as long as you’re willing to exchange some quality for that.
And often the quality loss isn’t even a huge deal. For example, I always convert my videos to 720p, using H.265 coding; I can see the difference between 720p and 1080p, but it’s 1/4 the file size, so IMO worth it.
You can hedge the risk of hard drive failure with backups, you can’t hedge a digital service company turning off your access to certain media. Storage is getting bigger and cheaper and, especially older, media uses relatively small file sizes.
Exactly. Plus in some situations you can reduce the space requirements quite a bit - as long as you’re willing to exchange some quality for that.
And often the quality loss isn’t even a huge deal. For example, I always convert my videos to 720p, using H.265 coding; I can see the difference between 720p and 1080p, but it’s 1/4 the file size, so IMO worth it.