Im torn. On one hand yes everything is available digitally. On the other I like having hard copies and not thinking about backing up 3 hard drives and random hard drive failure and managing an even larger library on a computer…its nice just to have the media exist. And what happens when our ability to own media disappears (which looks to be a very real possibility).
They do take up space. I may keep the ones I really like and get rid of others.
I easily have over 300. Along with dvds, but im keeping those.
VHS is low resolution and degrades over time, no reason to keep it unless you have tapes of things that don’t exist on better formats.
Yeah, a backup that gradually destroys itself on such a short timescale isn’t much of a backup.
Plus if you’re worried about ownership, just remember there arr always other acquisition methods.