I remember listening to old records in the basement of the UVic library and imagining the time that they were released, long before my birth.

I’m not one of those record nuts but the physical experience of playing records does have something about it that captures a past era, from the huge cover art to dropping the needle onto the big spinning disc.

DVDs don’t have that. They’re just a video file on a disc that you stick into a slot, and they either work perfectly or are scratched. Often they have preroll ads or other unwanted content. That video file is better archived on a hard drive these days.

I don’t own a single DVD anymore and the last PC I built doesn’t even have an optical drive.