Hollywood Keeps Reminding Us Why We Need Physical Media More Than Ever

A new year means yet another shuffling of the films and television shows available on the myriad of streaming services that customers now have to keep track of. But despite the age of digital media promising unlimited access and more options than ever, we have often seen the opposite actually happen in practice. For a pressing recent example, most of the Star Trek films were taken off of Paramount+ in the United States at the start of 2024, with only the newest trilogy of films starring Chris Pine remaining on the service. Paramount may have promised that their in-house streaming service was the place for all your Trek needs, but if you want to watch the first 10 films on streaming, you’ll have to fire up HBO Max.
This is not an isolated incident. Although most of the major film studios now have a proprietary streaming service of some kind, the idea of every piece of media from fan-favorite franchises all being in the same place has largely proven to be a mirage. So much confusion about where various installments are, and the anxiety of knowing that the powers that be could yank them away at any given moment, is further proof that it may be time for physical media to make a big comeback.
Why should you consider going back to the way of the box set? Let’s take a look.
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[@Mysticbladegod]

Physical media is clearly superior. You own it forever no matter what.

[@gamingrealmhd1444]

Thats true. Iam also a collector of physical media. But there is one disturbing problem. There are some labels which disc Arent working after years anymore. Iam from germany and habe About 600 blurays. 2 discs in the collections Arent readable anymore.

[@DanteS-119]

You should be ripping your physical collection onto hard drives and have sophisticated backup solutions. You will also have to replace hard drives every so often as they fail. If you are new to that, perhaps buying a networks storage solution out of box may help you, like Synology

[@DanteS-119]

You should be ripping your physical collection onto hard drives and have sophisticated backup solutions. You will also have to replace hard drives every so often as they fail. If you are new to that, perhaps buying a networks storage solution out of box may help you, like Synology

[@johnseller7641]

Well for as long as you have the means to use it. After that it might as well be toilet paper.

[@youtuber7799]

@@gamingrealmhd1444 That is true. Same thing goes for CDs and DVDs. It is very rare though, but it did happen to me as well.

[@Sjvm017]

Very surprised that this video even came out. Physical media should never disappear.

[@chrisbanos1112]

Si

[@jacksong8131]

Indeed! 💯% agree!

[@MrComradebuttons]

*WILL NEVER

[@packedentertainment2866]

Yeah, it was random. But appreciated

[@OneSockOff_95]

Amen to that

[@braybruh9238]

Never gave up on physical media…Never will!

[@Anonymous-wb3nz]

Same here.

[@jacksong8131]

Yeah. Me too.

[@packedentertainment2866]

Same

[@AceHuman]

Yuuup

[@Harvdigity]

Yes sir!

[@cadeonder3793]

For years, people scoffed at me buying everything physically, saying it's silly when everything is on Netflix. Now they all get pissed when their favorite show or movie gets removed and ends up in the ether or on a different streamer.

[@josendrado]

🤓☝🏻

[@theredhead42]

Same!

[@sidvicious332]

Irony

[@axelfiedel3793]

It's funny you got the last laugh, as long as you have a working Blu-ray player you're fine.

[@stefanstrauss-aigner3221]

You should also mention the higher quality of physical media. A 4k HDR Bluray delivers more picture and audio information than a 4k HDR stream. You can see the difference.

[@user-ds8rj2vc4v]

My favourite is when you get a random internet drop and you have like 6 pixels on screen until the video starts to buffer again.

[@flavaj13]

A 4k HDR Blu-ray is still digital, and if you ever hook up your player to the internet, the movies can still be altered.

[@adamsultana8380]

No....I'm not sure what you mean. Hooking your Blu-ray player up to the internet doesn't affect the disc itself, nor can the company alter the movie.​@@flavaj13

[@halfbakedmovies]

​@@flavaj13that's actually completely untrue that they can be edited through the disc after the fact. Why do you feel the need to spread misinformation despite clearly not knowing what you're taking about?

[@flavaj13]

@@halfbakedmovies , believe what you want, reality begs to differ. As long as you connect to the internet with their licensed property, you are at their whims, period. Now if you want to be safe, go back to VHS, betamax, basically anything made last century.

[@mAcroFaze]

What's insane is just how quick digital-only owners are to slam physical media. Not only are they happy to surrender their ownership, but they're all too happy to ridicule those who think it's important.

[@DavidMartinez-ce3lp]

Yeah, it's ridiculous!

[@reh3884]

Digital doesn't mean Download. Blu-rays and DVD are digital.

[@jer1776]

As long as digital means you have an .mp4 on your computer of your movie or show, it IS superior. Unfortunately thats rarely the case.

[@DONWASABIJUAN]

@@jer1776how does that make it superior? lol

[@jer1776]

@@DONWASABIJUAN Not everyone wants a giant shelf full of DVDs, nor can you take all those with you on a trip somewhere with limited cell service

[@phredbookley183]

Sometimes, the internet goes down. It happens. Things just happen sometimes. Physical media should never go away.

[@Swisshost]

Physical media has a life span, the data is then broken.

[@sidvicious332]

It is. A lot of people clearly don't know about CD buffing machines for those of us who have hundreds of dvds and thousands of music cd's. The un-informed will aways hold us back as a society.

[@jacksong8131]

@@Swisshost They can make DVD'S and Blu Ray movies again. They used to do it often every 10 or 20 years and call it "collectors edition."

[@xXRealXx]

@@Swisshostblurays last 30-100 years. And they can be just archived to other storage devices. And there are also M-Discs, which theoretically last 1000 years

[@alexkx8599]

@@xXRealXx Wow. What are, "M-Discs"? This the first I've ever heard of them before.

[@johnw8578]

Also, physical media prevents any altering or censoring that these corporations now do.

[@thenathanimal2909]

I've just dropped most my subscriptions, reduced my viewing by 90%, and took up about 6 different hobbies and started hiking to stay entertained. Happier and healtheir!

[@arnoldtaylor8128]

If you want movie studios to release more films/shows on physical media then start buying physical media! The more sales increase the more content will be released on disc.

[@redfoe77]

Maybe when economic inflation goes down.

[@meganhartmann180]

This!!

[@sonicfan3409]

The bonus features (I.e. deleted scenes and commentary) are one of the advantages of owning physical media

[@adrianelias2365]

You can watch deleted scenes and other bonus content straight from KZbin.

[@Whooshta]

@@adrianelias2365 until KZbin deletes it for violating copyright or the company chooses to delete it.

[@packedentertainment2866]

@@adrianelias2365it depends. These companies are usually pretty strict with their copyright ©️ policies.

[@dwall365]

100% youtube is great but one day it will become another myspace lost to time

[@carl2k6]

And the warning screen, that any copies are illegal 😂

[@chargingbadger_]

Started my 4k uhd/Blu-ray collection last year, no looking back! It’s actually so fun to build up your own personal catalogue of films and tv.

[@poopedcheetah2]

so is going outside and not wasting ur money and life

[@Cawd217]

@@poopedcheetah2How long has it been since your wife left you?

[@match30xgaming]

​@@poopedcheetah2 why even bother posting that comment just cause someone else is enjoying their life more than you are yours

[@user-pe3tt7iu7g]

that higher bitrate :)

[@user-ds8rj2vc4v]

@@poopedcheetah2 You can do both my dude.

[@lucasstchur5441]

Media remaining physical will bar any chance for the studios to edit films for sensitivity or censorship reasons. Don’t let them rewrite history or undermine artistic vision.

[@ztk1138]

Like Star wars special edition?

[@user-ds8rj2vc4v]

@@ztk1138 And Little Britain.

[@LoliconSamalik]

@@ztk1138 to be fair that was an artistic reason but whatever

[@conservativegamer9047]

@@ztk1138 And Criterion Collection's release of the The French Connection?

[@tbc9096]

@@LoliconSamalikHe’s talking about existing physical media, you smartass

[@lmeowkin]

One issue not touched on in this video is that physical media can be the original TV show/movie. So many shows are being edited for PC reasons - if one wants to watch the original version, best to look for older versions of the DVD/VHS tape.

[@Zer-ty5gx]

Physical copies are always better because it means you actually own it.

[@halfbakedmovies]

Not true. You don't legally own the film. You just own the physical disc that houses it. You have no rights over the film itself.

[@Anonymous-wb3nz]

Exactly.

[@Anonymous-wb3nz]

​@@halfbakedmoviesdo you have an IQ below 70, or are you just a troll with no life? You know exactly what he means, so grow up.

[@Bugplanet8840]

@@halfbakedmovieslol you can still install the data on 5he disc and edit yourself into the film via green screen, thus making you a member of the production crew

[@freeman10000]

​@@halfbakedmoviesDon't be pedantic, you know what he means.

[@camgates]

Never stopped collecting, Physical Forever!

[@s.patterson5698]

Same here

[@thiscorrosion3843]

Same

[@OffensivePlayer316]

Physical media will always be relevant. This past holidays we were visited by friends and family every weekend and we played DVDs everytime.

[@halfbakedmovies]

Yes, your personal and anecdotal example is enough to completely change the tide on physical media. Well done.

[@SENATORPAIN1]

DVDs? What a nightmare

[@Anonymous-wb3nz]

​@@SENATORPAIN1grow up.

[@SENATORPAIN1]

@@Anonymous-wb3nz cram it mam

[@stanfordite1]

@@SENATORPAIN1 A normal human watches movies only on physical media at home or waits for them to air on TV. Physical media will be the law thanks to an act of Congress.

[@jokerjosh3]

Never give up your right to full ownership in exchange for convenience...

[@CouchCit]

Unfortunately that's precisely what the majority of people do

[@mgiebus1869]

It's just a fact of life now. We own nothing

[@Anonymous-wb3nz]

​@@mgiebus1869speak for yourself.

[@anubisg8621]

That is exactly what PC gamers have done and what console gamers are doing now.

[@ts7844]

@@mgiebus1869when you’re dead you leave with NOTHING. Stop surrounding yourself with worthless clutter that your family have to get rid of.

[@martintinajero9140]

People need to do something like protest against digital taking away physical copies. It’s not just movies and shows it’s also games the people need to do something.

[@benjaminbaer5485]

Buy gamepass and never own anything again, problem solved.

[@jase276]

Don't forget Netflix and Amazon subscriptions. @@benjaminbaer5485

[@Mr.StevenKerr]

​@benjaminbaer5485 you've missed the point entirely

[@penguinguy2167]

@@benjaminbaer5485game pass doesn’t have everything and they remove the games after a year

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah

[@RavenousSpectre]

Physical media for the win once again!

[@matthewkincanon9674]

Max’s purge of shows like Close Enough, Infinity Train, and Summer Camp Island shows why physical media should still be around and protected. They can get rid of whatever they want on their service. But if you have a disc, you can still watch it

[@1anre]

The inner hoarder in me smiled to my belly's fill after hearing this affirmation that my desire to buy a SeriesX and buy physical media boxsets doesn't make me MAD.

[@ishkapiska4516]

The ps5 is a better media player then the seriesX fyi

[@jakejameslugo]

We are always going to want to have physical media as an option. Neither Hollywood or the games industry is ever going to get audiences to stop people from buying or seeking out physical discs/media of content. It’s just ingrained in us as fans, we love to own something tangible.

[@yacobell7108]

Sure about that? Major retailers like Best Buy have already pulled all forms of physical media

[@QueenoftheBlackCoast]

​@@yacobell7108 Exactly! Everyone seems to forget the companies that actually make the physical media can stop at any time. Sure,there are boutique labels,for now.

[@Hilbrandi]

​@@yacobell7108 you still have Walmart, Target, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, eBay and others.

[@RocStarr913]

If you don’t want physical home video formats to not go away, simple, people have to buy them.

[@roborbob2913]

It doesn't help that retailers are dropping DVDs etc

[@FreeManFreeThought]

Then. Buy. Them.

[@LouisWritingSomethingCrazy]

A reminder. You can get A LOT of blurays and DVDs from your local library.

[@thystaff742]

There is still Redbox where I'm at, and buying dvds are $5 a piece. The only drawback about collecting physical copies of media is storing it. Not everyone wants or has the ability to set up shelving space.

[@matthewbrzozowski6123]

Only buy phiscal. Don't let someone else own your stuff.

[@halfbakedmovies]

Do you own your home or do you rent it?

[@NostraSamus]

@@halfbakedmoviesOwning a home is a better investment as you have equity in it.

[@beadelf8158]

own your own movies and home its the best.@@halfbakedmovies

[@Swisshost]

You only bought the licence to watch the movie. You don't even own the physical disc.

[@beadelf8158]

@@Swisshost 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@West3rror]

Higher quality and you actually own it... Yeah, my favourite movies, and albums on physical media ALWAYS

[@Stanlos]

If your collection is more non-english like mine, you been already done knowed that physical media is the only way to go as there you are guaranteed to get yhe original language version and you get all the neat extras

[@karoltakisobie6638]

Huge number of films from 60s and 70s were on vhs but never made it to DVD format. Finding some of them in digital is impossible as well. For same reason more than 3/4 of films from 1930-60 period are gone.

[@Dudameister]

With physical media, data and quality will come from a direct source. Enthusiasts wouldn't have to worry about bandwidth, internet speeds, and pixelated pictures.

[@mrchrisliddell]

All of my favorite movies ARE in one place. On my shelf 😌👌🏾

[@acuredreamgift]

This is why piracy will continue to flourish

[@bestbry1]

If not physical piracy, I’d say digital piracy has the same or even more problems. Collectors don’t buy original because the love giving money to corporations. Look it up a bit

[@quitefranklyjosh]

you know there's digital piracy too right? Ever hear of limewire, frostwire, piratebay.....? Older examples yes but physical media doesn't drive that market. The digital files do.... How do you think they get on to disc in the first place?

[@joesatchton212]

You're preaching to the choir, at least in my case. I've been shouting from the rooftops this exact perspective for over a decade and a half, going back to the early Amazon ebook days. The public has made their own bed here, trading actual ownership for smoke and mirror promises of convenience and "forever" subscriptions. Now, suddenly, with content getting removed at the whim of providers and people hopefully are starting to see the problem - that they've been renting content. Go watch Louis Rossman and get educated. And get MAD....

[@andrzejkopalnia]

My man ✊

[@cmdkaboom]

Prime example not owning what you watch will come back and bite you. The same can be said for renting your software...lol. Nothing is forever when companies are involved.

[@JayTemple]

Now you know what it was like for cinephiles before VCR's (and the movies themselves) became affordable!

[@MWcrazyhorse]

Right! That's why they are pushing all the fancy computers WITHOUT OPTICAL DRIVES!!!

[@msptv6247]

Sad to say...

[@camaradiop3731]

I've been preaching this on the plantation for YEARS. Bless you for this.

[@_iamallsins_]

Forever physical 🙏🏼

[@kasey-hx1ms]

Physical media: dies Digital media: rises Piracy: rises a ton

[@sidetrack3d901]

You don't mention the edits and outright deletions of scenes of material, Disney being a major one where they show an original show and a few weeks later it gets edited, meaning the original release is simply gone forever!

[@andrzejkopalnia]

This!

[@shinycheeto5779]

Ehhhh physical media not immune to this either. Wong Kar Wai changed color grade for the blu rays of his films. So if you want the original release you have to resort to lower quality DVDs. Also like with Star Wars the unedited physical releases carry an inflated price on sites like eBay.

[@andrzejkopalnia]

@@shinycheeto5779 That's not exactly the point. When you already own the discs there's nothing that can be done against them

[@loganmedia1142]

@@andrzejkopalnia It's exactly the point. Physical discs will already contain altered versions.

[@pieterboelen2862]

Do you have any examples of Disney doing this?

[@amiciprocul8501]

We knew they would take it away from us, but we still walked into their slaughterhouse.

[@DanKeatis]

Sounds like a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Lyric 😅

[@SSJ4Vegiito]

@@DanKeatisby order of the Peaky f**kin Blinders!

[@AdamLynnPowell]

I’m kinda shocked any media outlet is allowed to say this. Your corporate masters must be pissed.

[@krasky]

inb4 announcement "We have discontinued our collaboration with Seth due to differences of opinion."

[@user-ph8or3wn5r]

PHYSICAL DISC RULES!

[@RH1812]

Finding tv shows let alone movies on dvd is getting harder by the day. It has to be concerning, let alone companies throwing money away. Don’t get me started on ads being introduced

[@quitefranklyjosh]

For newer stuff yes... But older movies and shows are abundant! Not like the newer stuff is better anyway...

[@Gooden_Eye]

I'm here for this kind of content! the irony of big businesses is they are resistant to change, then make wild swings to adapt to it, then have to make drastic changes to correct their bad choices made after denying change in the first place...

[@hallowedclaret]

Physical media WINS in my book. 💯 This is especially true given the seemingly endless subscription service price hikes 🤦🏽 I have returned to collecting my movies on DVD and bluray 🎥

[@justinwaddell2956]

Every time they do something anti consumer a new pirate is born. Arrrrrrrr

[@johnrobberts7936]

Censorship also plays a part ether removing the whole thing or cutting/ altering portions of media.

[@cs8712]

not to mention you're at the whim of the version they give you. You want the original color grading, audio, cut, ending, etc.? Well too bad

[@zzzarkka]

That $5 WAlmart bin is so clutch. Sometimes up to 5 movies in a single disc.

[@richardcummings3468]

This goes to Disney, which ended physical media in Australia

[@dwall365]

for those not aware *disney empire (ie fox, pixar, marvel) so many movies you wouldn't even think should be related.

[@stanfordite1]

Disney will be required by law to have all its movies on physical media.

[@krasky]

Just boycott them. Nothing of value anyway.

[@bennythargrave]

It’s the pirates life for me 📀🔥😉🏴‍☠️

[@oldfreddyfrenchfry1]

Another issue is cancel culture - if an actor or movie or subject becomes controversial, it can disappear overnight. Like he pointed out - it can even happen to your purchases. A purchase is not purchasing a movie, but purchasing unlimited views of something in their catalog *as long as it stays in their catalog*

[@James_Austin]

Lol the only DVD left at my local goodwill is a Bill Cosby stand up disc. Nobody dares touch it.

[@wcorsaro]

The end of this video says it all. You should definitely seek out the expensive physical media if you are a lover of the art and a collector. What percentage of the population are those things? Very small. Most people don't care. Is that sad? Maybe, but unless that changes.....

[@iFYMxDRKNSFALLS]

my sister found a twitter/X post saying that 28 days later is out of print and in licensing hell. so the Dvd that my older brother got years ago is a neat collectors item :)

[@stormphillips854]

This vidoe needs to go viral 100%

[@bennysunday907]

Don’t forget about libraries! Most libraries allow you to borrow movies for free with a library card. So important that we continue to use physical media and public institutions

[@Xanarch_Vigil]

This is the best video you guys have made this year. Hopefully this blows up. Nice Job.

[@alepop19]

one of the best videos i've seen from this channel. couldn't have said it better myself 👏

[@MrMarkOlson]

"Physical media" is also a file you download and keep forever.

[@scottwaldron3475]

Another argument for physical copies. Studios are constantly making changes to older movies and shows to fit modern audiences.

[@oocloudoo1549]

*me looking at my $15,000 4K / Blu ray collection smiling from ear to ear*

[@Djboyrimo]

Disc rot still exists so be mindful of that Keep those movies on a hard drive to fully future proof them

[@user-ds8rj2vc4v]

@@Djboyrimo Disc degradation tends to take multiple decades though...but you're right, it will happen eventually.

[@Talon97]

@@Djboyrimo Disc rot is (for the most part) a myth. It applied to a VERY small line of CDs back in the 90s. Since then. disc rot has been completely eliminated and no longer exists.

[@WildVoltorb]

Woah that's a lot of money to brag about

[@Anonymous-wb3nz]

Yo, same here.

[@HeyItsJon92]

Love physical media as it actual proof you own it, also if there is a global internet outage at least i’ve got it on DVD 😂

[@user-ds8rj2vc4v]

Also, things like Netflix etc will only ever continue increasing their prices every month. And then do other things like adding adverts, surveys etc to increase their revenue.

[@bestbry1]

This is an important video. Thanks for making it

[@manomusic007]

Got the Office on DVD box set when it moved to Paramount. Never got Paramount, and - after similar smaller purchases - just ‘cut the cord’ on Netflix.

[@norwegianblue2017]

Was watching a digital version of Name of the Rose the other day and noticed that one important scene was removed that my old DVD had. Not only is availability of some movies threatened, but sometimes they alter content for the political correctness of the day or some legal/rights technicality.

[@GameArmorGameplay]

This also happens for movies shown on broadcast TV. They will edit certain scenes to make room for commercials.

[@norwegianblue2017]

@@GameArmorGameplay Yeah they did that a lot back in the day, but this was a commercial free stream, and they really don't care if it runs long these days because it doesn't need to fit in a time slot.

[@Colorcrayons]

Replace "Piracy" whenever you hear the phrase "physical media" in this video, and you have the answer to the problem that studio greed created for themselves. This. Is. The. Way.

[@paulrose319]

got all 11 films on dvd star trek and 2700 films in all blu and DVDs and tv shows

[@SwoffBass]

There is NO substitute for having a physical backup. You never know when some conglomerate will buy some parent company or something and then your favorite classic disappears.

[@yajy4501]

My hope is even if physical media drops from the mainstream, there’s enough people that keep buying it that they keep making it. Similar to how with music, most people don’t collect vinyls but enough people do that they’re still available.

[@toshineon]

Arguing against physical media doesn't really serve anyone. If you don't like it, cool, don't buy it. But why would anyone want the option to disappear for everyone? What do you get out of other people not getting what they prefer?

[@anubisg8621]

Of course physical media forever. I've been telling people for years but kept being called all the names in the book for it.

[@kennethhymes9734]

Another aspect of physical media is that it paradoxically does a better job of sorting for quality at the front end, as a specific investment is required to get the art, but also does a better job of preserving lesser and less popular material at the back end, because physical copies, once produced, don't require ongoing profitability to simply exist. All this implies a general acceptance of mass reproduced culture, which honestly is not a universal opinion, and deserves interrogation. Adorno and others have given us tools to unpack what mercantile replication does to culture.

[@Fredrik-iz4ou]

Very small titles were for a long time burned to (short-life span) BD-R, and sold professionally, that way. Possibly, it will be a wide-spread practice to order physical media on demand, for example on BD-R or BD-M (which, however ALREADY are made to lesser quality standards). No pinpack racks in stores, but burned and printed for you in volumes of 1. Like self-printing services for book authors and their very few book buyers.

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

Still own all my physical media and totally refuse to get rid of any of them

[@jansenart0]

Arguably, Paramount would earn more from leasing the properties to Max than they would gain in subscribers for the old movies. Like, a lot more.

[@simonfrost7094]

But greed got the best of them, so here we are. Disney did the same with their back catalogue - leased it to Netflix until it created Disney+. Disney+ is now a huge financial drag on the whole company, with Disney themselves predicting that it won't be profitable until 2025! That's a long time to subsidise a failing part of your business. Especially when they could have just continued raking in easy money for lesaing their content at no effort to themselves!

[@Kanwarmahanvir]

@@simonfrost7094 Go

[@aidanpang]

We have to protect physical media at all cost. Physical and Digital can coexist together.

[@oneuptheextraman]

The thing is, buying the DVD's of a series can be cheaper in the long run. If you watch a show a few times, and only watch that show for weeks\months on end, a couple watch throughs later (like 2) you are making profit.

[@jamieposeidonmccarthy]

The best are the rare blu rays that you hunt down 😁

[@HAIDAYY]

It's a sad time when the only way to watch certain shows /movies is through pirating

[@midnightblue3285]

we are lucky we have pirating links

[@loftlegacy]

Bond on Prime in the UK pops up “free” every now and again but not in 4K in the last session, even though they were previously available in UHD. They have been sat on a hard drive for 20 years in 4K after Lowry Digital restored them, and they were even rereleased at the cinema, one a week, in 2022. However, apart from the Craig films, they are not available in 4K Blu-ray, which seems an odd thing not to squeeze another release in another format.

[@matthewharvey3556]

It’s not about the media, it’s whether you can control the use of the contents. For instance, downloads would be perfectly acceptable.

[@JORDAN23TV]

If you really care about it you should definitely own it

[@Brotacon]

It's all great until you have to move. Though right now I've shed a lot of DVD's and Blu-Rays and just keep 50 or so that are beloved or classic films.

[@Anonymous-wb3nz]

Not all of us are lazy.....

[@tygressblade]

Well this is a great time for the secondary markets for DVD and other physical media.

[@xxczerxx]

It's so strange how most people seem to agree that physical media isn't just better, but vital for all art forms, yet the statistics generally tell a different story. Of course there will always be pockets of people to keep the physical "thing" alive (vinyl has had a relative boom but is of course still defunct at a truly macro level), but the tide is still moving towards full blown digital.

[@loganmedia1142]

People mostly don't agree. Entertainment has always been mostly ephemeral.

[@P3DR0877]

agree slowly growing my collection but keeping it manigible this time

[@lee_rock_films]

Hope it works out for you

[@mrfroghello]

Physical forever!

[@jasonmann9497]

Great video, fully agree!

[@davetorres8529]

Highly accurate, super valid. But the cost of owning and purchasing all the physical media you want is extremely expensive…20$ a month compared to 20$ per movie is a tall hill to climb, if the price per physical media dropped severely than perhaps this would be more feasible.

[@hartsickdisciple]

Many physical DVDs and Blu-rays can be bought for between $5 and $13 on Amazon and other sites.

[@seagrey75]

Never ever sell your vinyl records.

[@scott3805]

My physical media are movies (.mkv) files on my 22tb hard drive with a second drive as a backup. 👍 I stream my moves lossless with plex server.

[@ishkapiska4516]

Do you still need an internet connection when you use Plex to watch your movies?

[@MayurPatelZA]

Also love that there are actually hundreds of interactions on many posts here. Others are feeling this pain too!

[@RolandHawlett]

I’m a physical copies collector. As gamer and cinema fan. It’s amazing experience.

[@tacocat9178]

Time to sail the seven seas

[@robertt9342]

Honestly, do what’s right for you. If that means digital or physical then that’s fine.

[@pmjeterjr]

Thank You!

[@gman3229]

Funny you use the clip from The Dark Knight Rises, consider the imax shots are altered in the digital versions. Making the only way to watch the movie as intended is with the physical version.

[@Rico34]

For physical media to comeback, we require devices to playback on…as we’re all aware, this phase out has also occurred. Best we can do is scour e-bay & Amazon for used devices

[@ganymedehedgehog371]

Honestly game consoles are probably the reason blu rays have stuck around as long as they have. They’re a dvd/blu ray player with a secondary purpose.

[@Swisshost]

Yes but consoles go slowly the digital way now too.

[@loganmedia1142]

@@Swisshost And they cost a fortune.