I read the starting post on here with real dismay. I’ll never forget the day that Oppo announced it was ceasing production of its players. Luckily I signed up in time to win the right to buy my Oppo UDP-205 (whew!)
I retain all the LPs I ever bought from 1956 onward, also the tape cassettes, the VHS Tapes, the Laser Discs,the CDs, the SACDs, the DVDs, the Blu-ray Discs and I still have working media gear for them all.
i now stream 99% of the time. All my CDs are ripped and all the many I still acquire, though most of the time they are used because they only need to play perfectly once and that is to produce a rip. I do subscribe to Tidal but only to preview some music I’d like to buy. High res downloads typically sound fantastic!! But they do cost too much considering there is no physical copy..
One of the things that really annoys me is that TVs no longer provide legacy inputs for our vintage players! One of the things that worries me is if I have a drawer failure on my various players. I don’t need them very often, but I like having them just in case. I do wish I could easily rip my DVDs and BLURAYS. Then I wouldn’t worry about my player going down and a replacement unavailable.