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My wife teaches film, and it's inconvenient for her to lug around the thousands of DVDs that she owns.
I rip them, and store them uncompressed, and then allow her to sync and view the films on her mobile device which she can then use with a ChromeCast to send it to a larger screen. Or she can watch online.
We use https://plex.tv/ for that, but we still need to store many TB of video somewhere, uncompressed (because she sometimes needs to make clips, or access DVD menu features/extras, pause and analyse a frame without compression artifacts, etc).
And then we have my music collection, some 7,000+ CDs all manually ripped over 3 years and encoded as FLAC.
And every digital photo we've ever taken, stored in the highest possible format... usually both .raw as well as .jpg.
We store everything digitally. Even though we still keep all of the DVDs and CDs. But this system is so valuable to us, most of the music I own doesn't exist on a streaming service, and the vast majority of films we own are not available on a streaming service.
Velocio-
Fair enough, I can see why you'd need a lot of storage for that! I could do with more HD space and a RAID backup system but I'm currently trying to streamline my life and reduce clutter, not increase it. I have all my CDs stored in my parents loft but I will be donating [nearly] all my DVDs to a charity shop soon. I can't see the need for physical media is going to come back and I haven't watched many for years.
I wonder whether the google music scan/match thing will expand to video at some point?
Dramatic_Hammer
What are you storing? I have a 250GB HD and a 320GB HD!