It's better to go out into the real world and fix the problems.
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i can have hundreds of movies in 1080p, thousands of pages of manga if I prefer that, my issue would mostly be music, last.fm shows that I listen to 2000 unique music in a month
Depends on your goal: do you want to preserve what you can at its best, or do you want to ensure you have plenty of entertainment to go by?
I'd probably go with the lower quality. We watched TV in 480i and under for decades, and 720p is still quite watchable even today. In HEVC or AV1 you can really pack a decent collection.
Better to own physical media and not worry about it. :) You can rip it yourself and use whatever compression you're comfortable with or just play it directly.
Up until the disc rot gets ya.
I have CDs and laser discs from the 80s that still work perfectly well. Rot is an overblown phenomenon.
There are some known issues with Warner Brothers releases from a certain period of years, but that's limited to Warner and 2006-2008.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/still-clinging-to-dvds-some-warner-bros-discs-have-started-rotting-away
In this day and age of compression, you can get a very small file in good quality.
If your hardware will run it, MKV/265 is fantastic! Especially the 10 bit rips
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