Hollywood wants you to forget about DVDs and physical media

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@sk3tch982
@sk3tch982 11 ай бұрын
Good information! Thanks Bert from Sesame Street!
@medium_x
@medium_x 11 ай бұрын
lol best comment so far, this is getting pinned
@TheRealDinduNuphen
@TheRealDinduNuphen 11 ай бұрын
@@medium_x How could you tackle a topic like this, forget to included the most vital shift from the physical era to the digital via the signing of DMCA after the rise of piracy, and not mention the fact that the action of digital piracy never hurt the physical sales of something good? That's like making a video about the Paul brothers and forgetting to mention Prime Energy and Cryptozoo. Not one single mention of Nintendo shutting down everything involving their physical game/movie releases being posted/talked about on the internet for the past 2 decades? Not one single mention of the 2 decades long "release it unfinished and maybe fix it later" modern game/movie development mentality? Come on man!
@medium_x
@medium_x 11 ай бұрын
Because you can't fit everything in a 10-12 minute video! And in this particular video I was focusing on movies/TV and not video games, which will get addressed about eventually. It's a marathon.
@TheRealDinduNuphen
@TheRealDinduNuphen 11 ай бұрын
@@medium_x Besides the most recent generations of video games that force you to install off the disc and/or download when were video games not a part of "physical media"? At least add "Part 1" to the video title so it's not misleading.
@TheRealDinduNuphen
@TheRealDinduNuphen 11 ай бұрын
@@JDS4K It just makes common sense to label the 1st of a multi-part series of unfinished videos as "part 1"... This subject is bigger than just Hollywood... leaving those who liked the video and would want to know more on a cliffhanger title is the obvious choice. This video is like somebody making a fan made documentary about Halo and being okay with them going from Combat Evolved straight to nowadays with Master Cheeks. If it doesn't paint the entire picture "part 1" is mandatory.
@RenePeraza
@RenePeraza 11 ай бұрын
The reasons to buy physical media are: 1) you don't need a subscription. 2) you don't need internet connectivity. 3) you get the best, consistent image quality. 4) you don't fear it being removed from online catalog. 5) you better support the maker/artist with a traceable sale rather that a stream (ask the struggling Spotify streaming musician)! 6) Oh, and you potentially keep the original edit which might later be censored or 'changed' (think French Connection, ET or Star Wars).
@bibobabu8756
@bibobabu8756 9 ай бұрын
Let me add one: You value the media more since you are the one who picked it and had to spend effort searching for it other than with services like Netflix where thousands of series are fighting for your attention at the same time. The whole dynamic between viewer and media is completely different with physical media.
@karldicker1702
@karldicker1702 9 ай бұрын
All my reasons too with owning physical media.
@michaelmanus7765
@michaelmanus7765 8 ай бұрын
best video and audio makes it a winner and not subject to the state of an internet connection
@Reality.juiced
@Reality.juiced 8 ай бұрын
They really just acted like one of the best episodes of Community didn't exist.
@dustinbollnow6391
@dustinbollnow6391 8 ай бұрын
My reasons exactly too! I’ll never stop having and collecting physical copies.
@mind-of-neo
@mind-of-neo Жыл бұрын
It honestly disgusts me to see physical media going away. And to see physical retail in general going away.
@trailerwager8850
@trailerwager8850 Жыл бұрын
Seeing life go away
@trailerwager8850
@trailerwager8850 Жыл бұрын
Seeing life go away
@MOLE60
@MOLE60 Жыл бұрын
not just cd's and DVD's this effects all forms of physical media , think of it this way " books don't need batteries or the internet ." the earliest form of history was recorded as hand-drawn paintings and carvings on cave walls , then it was inscriptions on stone tablets , from there it went to hand written paper scrolls and eventually modern day printed books and magazines . There has always been physical analog media . now they want to throw all of that away in favor of digital media ( numbers and letters on computer screens) which require power and WI-FI to access , without power and Wi-Fi a computer is a dead paper weight . the day that all media ceases being recorded physically is the day that recorded history stops.
@rong7496
@rong7496 Жыл бұрын
Isn’t going to happen. Not going to forget physical media.
@kp4588
@kp4588 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately there aren’t any good movies or music to buy on physical media. I already have a collection and it’s hard to find anything worth buying.
@Jared_Wignall
@Jared_Wignall Жыл бұрын
I’ll always buy physical media no matter what. Once I’ve got the film or show, I’ve got it and don’t have to rely on a streaming service to watch it.
@kazookast
@kazookast Жыл бұрын
I will typically buy a copy of a movie physically before I watch it, I have so many bad movies on my shelf and it’s great.
@medium_x
@medium_x Жыл бұрын
I generally have to try it before I buy it. Shelf space is limited so past this point it’s gotta make the cut
@tyson1fan487
@tyson1fan487 Жыл бұрын
I love physical media and having what I love!! I've grown up with cassette tapes and VHS and now it's DVD blu-ray and cds and I know it's easy to pull up music on KZbin or spotify but I hate commercials and ads!! Same goes for movies and I will do this at times but usually I'm grabbing the physical copy if I have it!! This goes for video games and gaming is nothing like it was and I refuse to buy digital!! I hope the newer games I play continue to give us a physical release. Over the years I lost so much from a flood or moving and what not and I'm handicap so I have to leave a lot to others and it hurt losing my movies TV music and video games but since '14 I've been trying to get what I can and it's not easy when you don't have much money but I'll grab something. I don't think physical media will truly die because look how many companies are doing amazing and Walmart is still a great place to find physical media but I have heard several that don't have much. Way too many people still love it and it's not gonna disappear like VHS and Cassette tapes! Game cartridges and 8 tracks!! Record's were gone and surprisingly returned. DVD and blu-ray aren't going anywhere but it's sad how things have become.
@westsidefucku8853
@westsidefucku8853 Жыл бұрын
Also no stupid ads they force you to watch
@laurenalexander4438
@laurenalexander4438 Жыл бұрын
Enjoy messing with 50 DVDs to watch a show. I found that so annoying. TV is so much better on digital. I find the episode I want to watch; I watch it. I don't have to fiddle with DVDs and reading the episode index to know what disc it's on.
@zedman6516
@zedman6516 9 ай бұрын
No thanks… I’ll keep my physical media. Nothing beats it. I pay for it once, and I have it forever, even if the internet goes down!!😊
@llothar68
@llothar68 6 ай бұрын
And i do retro gaming until around 2008 (after this most distributors required always online).
@mushroomcrepes
@mushroomcrepes 5 ай бұрын
i buy my favorite books, music, games, movies in physical format, It's nice to have a small little collection of everything
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 4 ай бұрын
@@zedman6516 yeah
@loicestrade4054
@loicestrade4054 4 ай бұрын
Amen that's for sure!
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 4 ай бұрын
@@mushroomcrepes yeah
@torom86
@torom86 Жыл бұрын
Reasons why I'll never give up physical media: - I LOVE having my shelves full of them - I want to be constantly reminded of my favourite movies/series/anime/music/games by looking at my shelves and want to feel them part of me through their physical presence in my home - I don't just watch what a streaming platform offers me, I know what I want to watch in a specific moment and look for it, and most times what I'm looking for is just not available for free on the streaming service I'm paying for in that moment - If I have to pay for a single movie, I will always prefer to have it on my shelf than in a digital library, even if the disc is a bit more expensive
@burgherozzo
@burgherozzo 11 ай бұрын
Also, the risk of digital purchases is that the streaming service could take them from you without breaking their terms and conditions, because you are only buying a license to "borrow" that piece of software - in this case, the movie. If you buy the physical media, all that bulls*** is irrelevant: you own that movie and you will always be able to enjoy that content (to the extent permitted by law, of course)
@torom86
@torom86 11 ай бұрын
@@burgherozzo yes, but the risk it would really happen is quite small. In the same way, a disc can be damaged or lost, so a risk is always involved, nothing is risk-free in this life. So, my point is that, if I have to pay for something, I want that thing to be a tangible good in my hands, and not just some bits in a server. Not because it's less risky, but because it offers a more complete relationship with that piece of art, that also involves the physical presence of an object I can hold in my hands. In just involves more senses.
@charlypower5724
@charlypower5724 11 ай бұрын
​@@burgherozzo so true 👍 that is why i started collecting movies
@glennross85
@glennross85 11 ай бұрын
Hopefully hardware to actually play the media dosent become more of an issue.
@torom86
@torom86 11 ай бұрын
@@glennross85 until a few enthusiasts are left, there will always be a second hand market for the hardware that will have become vintage and technicians able to repair it, so even if companies discontinue any production we should still be covered in our lifespan.
@RarebitFiends
@RarebitFiends Жыл бұрын
I slowed down on my physical media collecting for about 15 years, but streaming services deleting content for tax breaks got me to cancel all my streaming services and go full-force into physical media again. The selection of movies on bluray now is amazing.
@triggerverse01
@triggerverse01 Жыл бұрын
Underrated comment When you can't physically owning it. It will NEVER be yours. Aka "You will own NOTHING and like it!"
@boboboy8189
@boboboy8189 Жыл бұрын
Most Bluray movies got shortened because of inappropriate scene meanwhile DVD still have that all content
@ShadowAngel18606
@ShadowAngel18606 Жыл бұрын
Problem with Blu Ray: A lot of times they are "remastered" aka made worse. Good examples are Buffy (were the crew, cameras, lights, actors on the side are visible), Terminator 2 (turned the lasers from bright pink to blue, changed the daylight hue from orange to green, so everybody has green skin and removed all the film grain), Indiana Jones (now you can see the stunt men wearing prosthetics to look asian, also CGI crap added for no good reason) and of course cuts and changes for the woketard crowd who calls everything racist and sexist (Tom & Jerry is a good example, it's basically shredded to pieces on all modern releases) Just like with music, were the best course of action is to go find old non-remastered releases if you don't want to suffer, with movies the best way is to go for old DVD's that have still all the content intact, with the original picture format, all the film grain needed and everything else left as it should be.
@bluestreak711
@bluestreak711 Жыл бұрын
Great, now you just need to setup either a Plex, Emby or Jellyfin server and you can self host and stream all of that content to people in your household with all the conveniences of a streaming service but with the benefit of actually owning your own media.
@RarebitFiends
@RarebitFiends Жыл бұрын
@@boboboy8189 "Most"? Yeah that never happened unless you buy your bluray from Walmart, in which case the problem is the store where you do your shopping.
@CZsWorld
@CZsWorld 11 ай бұрын
Popular movies will continue to have physical releases as a collectors items. It's going to be very difficult to find less popular movies. It's already difficult to get movies from the 2000s that never got a blu-ray release. You can't even get this stuff on the seas anymore due to lack of seeds. I'm not a collector but it's concerning to think some movies will become impossible to watch.
@dominicarroyo6269
@dominicarroyo6269 11 ай бұрын
As long as we got stuff like arrow video, criterion and other boutique labels doing the less popular and some popular movies I think we'll be ok
@blargithonify
@blargithonify 11 ай бұрын
We need more people on the seas, people who care about the cause
@radiokunio3738
@radiokunio3738 11 ай бұрын
That are abound a dozen manga and movies that are effectively inaccessible to me due a lack of seeds.
@samuelsanchez6082
@samuelsanchez6082 11 ай бұрын
Torrents aren't the only way to pirate. Just Google "movie name" free online and stream it
@V3ntilator
@V3ntilator 11 ай бұрын
Movies that never got a Blu-Ray release frequently get a 1080p remaster for streaming services instead including obscure movies people barely heard of or never heard of.
@Thatlowdsg
@Thatlowdsg 9 ай бұрын
"You will own nothing and be happy" It goes much farther than them not wanting you to own physical media.
@starscreamthecruel8026
@starscreamthecruel8026 7 ай бұрын
Collecting things is what keeps some people going(me included). If the day comes where that isnt a thing anymore, I dont wanna still be here.
@nicholasvega8372
@nicholasvega8372 7 ай бұрын
Obey Big Brother 😂
@MoviesAtTheBar
@MoviesAtTheBar 7 ай бұрын
Exactly, World Ecenomic Forum one world government "great reset" ghouls
@Max1996YT
@Max1996YT 6 ай бұрын
@@MoviesAtTheBar Maybe if you can prove WEF is actually evil, or even relevant given the topic of this video.
@mayday6880
@mayday6880 6 ай бұрын
you buy and own nothing!
@siarnne
@siarnne Жыл бұрын
I guess what changed my mind about the streaming market was the way the streaming providers behaved. They took as much control as I would give them and exercised it. Buying physical media is not so much about owning the movie as it is having basic rights to it. One thing the era of streaming services has taught me is that no one has rights on the internet. If someone breaks into my house and steals my movie collection, I call the cops. Maybe they get arrested. Maybe my insurance covers it. The point is someone is accountable for injuring my rights to those movies. Netflix drops Battlestar Galactica, Futurama, Portlandia, Archer, SNL reruns, Star Trek, The Clone Wars, Parks and Recreation, I can't get a refund, sue them or claim injury. I had no rights when I signed their subscription agreement. But turn it around: if I share a log-in, restream on Twitch or KZbin or access content outside of my region, they have all the legal recourse in the world to wield against me. I buy a movie from Target, I'm done dealing with Target. I'm done dealing with Fox, I'm done dealing with Disney and I'm done dealing with the fucking warehouse of marketing spies they have trying to deconstruct me so they can shove their algorithmic dicks in my face. It's just me and the movie I want to watch whenever I want to watch it.
@jaysant6958
@jaysant6958 11 ай бұрын
So well put!
@violettracey
@violettracey 11 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@daniel.santos
@daniel.santos 11 ай бұрын
This would be an interesting case study. If I pirated movies that took me 10,000 hours to compile, and they're stolen by a burglar, would I sustain injury? Despite the content of the data, it is a physical disc and I have labor involved.
@glennross85
@glennross85 11 ай бұрын
​@@daniel.santosWhat if your drugs get stolen? You have no recourse for criminal activity.
@langreeves6419
@langreeves6419 11 ай бұрын
@@glennross85 sure you do!
@Bahamut_Mega
@Bahamut_Mega Жыл бұрын
Story time : When I was 18 I used Law & Order on Netflix to turn my brain off before bed. I owned one movie on DVD, my favorite.When I was 22, Netflix lost the rights to the show. I then bought a collection of all 20 seasons on DVD for $200 on Ebay. Today, I'm 32 and have over 500 movies, 200 Anime, and about 50 TV shows on DVD and Blu-Ray. All because Netflix broke my trust in streaming services a decade ago. True Story.
@dmo848
@dmo848 Жыл бұрын
I moved and had no Internet so I made my own Netflix. U get creative when u have nothing
@timzalusky
@timzalusky Жыл бұрын
@@dmo848 Plex is fantastic :)
@Theomite
@Theomite Жыл бұрын
I was raised on VHS, so I never trusted streaming. NEVER.
@goaway3717
@goaway3717 Жыл бұрын
Rip them to whatever your favorite format is, store the physical media safely (I use a large fire resistant safe) and watch your collection from a computer or media server (make a backup or two for safe storage). I've got about 10 TB of movies and tv shows from my DVD collection (including all the 'extras') that something I was inspired to do after some jackass burglar robbed my house and stole most of my DVD, music CDs, and software CDs while I was out of town on vacation.
@GoveaWorks
@GoveaWorks Жыл бұрын
That's crazy. I got into collecting physical media when Netflix took off the Back to the Future trilogy. Now my blu-ray collection consists of around 50-60 movies, including all the Back to the Future movies of course.
@johnettipio
@johnettipio Жыл бұрын
In a world where piracy is so prevalent, many of us want to do the right thing and buy our movies/shows. Hollywood and the tech companies are making it much harder and much less convenient to watch content the right way
@TheKazragore
@TheKazragore Жыл бұрын
Because they want us to keep paying for them forever so that line go up forever.
@sabin97
@sabin97 11 ай бұрын
wait. you say "the right thing" as if "piracy" wasnt the right thing.
@jnb756
@jnb756 11 ай бұрын
f the studios -they don't suffer - it's the writers and actors that get screwed
@mikethebloodthirsty
@mikethebloodthirsty 11 ай бұрын
Its not even that for me... i don't put money into the film industry by buying physically, I buy DVDs from charity shops... ten DVDs for £1 in some shops. I support the movie industry by going to the cinema, or will stream if I want to watch a Netflix serial. Otherwise I know many people who think nothing of watching pirated films, it's normal for kids to grow up with that. I hate the digital era, we are being forced into a world that is insane.
@gJonii
@gJonii 11 ай бұрын
Piracy is the right thing to do. Paying for streaming stuff etc is the less ethical, but sometimes easier path. I don't hate people who pay for media, but it is a civic duty of yours, pirate stuff.
@NoodlesBeforeDinner
@NoodlesBeforeDinner 8 ай бұрын
I'd rather pay one fee to have something forever instead of repeatedly paying for something that doesn't even have what I want to watch.
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 20 күн бұрын
Yeah I know
@zyphayt
@zyphayt 11 ай бұрын
I'm in gen z and I hate that everything is becoming digitalized. I love physical media as I grew up with it and find it more convenient, ironically enough, than pulling up streaming services. Especially when they have shit catalogs like Netflix, where there's no guarantee of the film I wanna watch being there and I have to either wait for the day they eventually add it or go through different services in order to find said film(s). Thats where I love blu-rays and DVDs. The films will always be there when I wanna watch them and plus, there's something sentimental and gratifying, to me at least, about physically owning something rather than accessing it through an online paywall. Collecting is also just fun in general and owning nearly 200 films (subtle flex lol) adds a nice touch to my room 👌
@lionheartroar3104
@lionheartroar3104 11 ай бұрын
You're one of the smart ones. Do not rely on the remote "convenience" of streaming media. They will paint you into a corner and screw you.
@Desperado070
@Desperado070 11 ай бұрын
You one of the not so smart ones, you never owned anything and you will never own anything. digital they at least honest about it (if you read the small print)
@zyphayt
@zyphayt 11 ай бұрын
@@Desperado070 When us collectors say we prefer "owning" physical media, we're merely referring to having a real-life, tangible copy of the media we enjoy in our living space, which we can both hold and proudly display. Not full-on ownership and rights over the property itself lmao. The films are only mine in that I can repeatedly view them whenever (and that its my choice to look after them) but with that of course comes a list of legalities pertaining to certain aspects of its usage. So yes, "own" is used quite loosely here but its just easier to say and most ppl simply don't care to look that deep into the technicality of it 🤷‍♂️
@thatguyalex2835
@thatguyalex2835 10 ай бұрын
I am on the cusp of Gen Z and Millennial, and prefer physical media, as the library has free DVD rentals, though I do use HBO Max and Prime. :) Also, if the movie world discontinues physical media, there is no guarantee that the film disappears forever if the streaming services all decide a film should be banned. What if the companies ban the Hunger Games in the future, or WWII documentaries? Who knows what would happen in this possible future. DVDs and Blu-rays for the win. A logical solution would be that movie theatres could charge an extra $10 on the ticket price to allow customers to download the movie on bring-your-own USB stick at a kiosk with USB ports after the film. That means moviegoers could have a MPEG-4 copy of the movie after the film ends.
@Tarzan1972
@Tarzan1972 10 ай бұрын
@@zyphayt What?!? You first wanted to have physical form of media so it would not disappear in a moment the internet would go down. What is it with your generation that is only looking at situations of the end of the world? If that situations happens, the world burns in lava everything would be gone. But aslong that doesn't happen, all everyone has been saying is data on a HDD or SSD is exact the same as of a CD or DVD, it is just a data storage form. Streaming you don't own anything and at these CD's and DVD's you never owned anything, you hired them for 30 years +/- after which the disk is dead. I wonder how you kids became so delusional
@staind687
@staind687 Жыл бұрын
When my internet was out for 6 hours, I was extremely grateful for my physical media collection lol
@medium_x
@medium_x Жыл бұрын
Physical media is an insurance policy against the end of the world (provided you can still generate electricity and have the luxury of free time when not scourging for food)
@GetOutSmore
@GetOutSmore Жыл бұрын
@@medium_xSolar for the win.
@paulhare662
@paulhare662 Жыл бұрын
@@medium_x Happily, I hung on to my James Fenimore Cooper book collection. Needs no electricity and in a pinch would heat the house for a couple of days.
@Dairunt1
@Dairunt1 Жыл бұрын
@@foxmccloud6438 Still a less likely situation than Netflix losing the rights to shows.
@braylin5003
@braylin5003 Жыл бұрын
​@@foxmccloud6438they tend to last a long time, and dvds don't usually wear out if you are careful
@anniestarlight
@anniestarlight Жыл бұрын
I buy DVDs and Blurays for dirt cheap from thrift stores, the $5 walmart bin, and occasionally for cheap from amazon sales, and have started accumulating a pretty sizeable collection of stuff I like. But I don't just leave them on the disks, I instead rip them onto my computer and store them digitally as MP4 files that I can easily access any of whenever Creating your own local "streaming service" out of your disk collection is awesome :)
@giantclaw138
@giantclaw138 11 ай бұрын
I do this with music that's blocked on KZbin, it's a good feeling
@jimmem5235
@jimmem5235 11 ай бұрын
Same
@jsnotlout3312
@jsnotlout3312 11 ай бұрын
Jellyfin is great for that
@lancebaylis3169
@lancebaylis3169 11 ай бұрын
This is another great point. Destroying the physical media market means destroying the secondhand market. I've picked up some great collections from thrift stores for next to nothing, while my money supports local charitable organizations.
@Swiftbow
@Swiftbow 11 ай бұрын
What software do you use to rip them? I have theatrical release Star Wars DVDs that I'm deathly afraid will get scratched and unreadable.
@AbrasiousProductions
@AbrasiousProductions 5 ай бұрын
the thing is about physical media is that once you own something, you own it, it's real, you can hold it, watch it and display it on a shelf, keeping a movie on a streaming service just lacks the intimacy you'd get when buying something phyiscal
@haroldromero2004
@haroldromero2004 Жыл бұрын
I’m 21 and I recently started collecting movies and shows that have affected me on a deep level. I want to have them physically so I can show them to my future children and not have to worry about where to stream or if they’re even Banned. I’ve collected the office show, Harry Potter, Star Wars, back to the future, the devils advocate, perks of being a wallflower and more. But I’ve limited myself to only buying them from the thrift store or garage sales
@sina.203
@sina.203 Жыл бұрын
my aunt does that too! your comment was my sign to start it too
@cindydott452
@cindydott452 Жыл бұрын
I just bought "Howl's Moving Castle" on Blu-Ray for a dollar, at GoodWill!
@ChickenMcThiccken
@ChickenMcThiccken Жыл бұрын
maybe your generation can bring back brick and mortar "arcades" .
@Joe-ey7cu
@Joe-ey7cu Жыл бұрын
If you only buy from thrift or garage sales without buying new releases, these companies assume that consumers are no longer interested in physical media. They have to see sales numbers.
@cindydott452
@cindydott452 Жыл бұрын
@@Joe-ey7cu Do you know how many "Out of print" titles I've found at thrift stores?
@anon9579
@anon9579 10 ай бұрын
This is why I’m boycotting streaming services and digital media. Find a thrift store guys
@AbrasiousProductions
@AbrasiousProductions 5 ай бұрын
I personally go to the flea market, lots of DVDs & VHS tapes there :)
@Meanbob2010
@Meanbob2010 5 ай бұрын
Pawn shops are good too, I have been able to find some really classic movies for a dollar or less.
@TheWill.Suttie45
@TheWill.Suttie45 5 ай бұрын
goodwill has a lot of DVDs for cheap too I got the first two seasons of the Big Bang theory on Blu-ray. and the first 10 seasons of Family Guy I got a grown-ups copy copy of the Rookie
@Butterscotch_96
@Butterscotch_96 4 ай бұрын
I just started my collection. Got a kickstart with my family’s DVDs but I’ve been buying a bunch of used BDs for like 5 bucks each.
@dhrutube
@dhrutube 3 ай бұрын
The last DVD I found in a store was 2016. They’re barely available and when they are, way too expensive.
@jackel54130
@jackel54130 Жыл бұрын
I am a physical media person for sure. I tried streaming and it just wasn't the same without the bonus features. Also, as he stated. As time goes on, certain films will get forgotten and never seen again. You can't beat the classics!
@PhobosDDeimos
@PhobosDDeimos Жыл бұрын
Devils advocate: There are tons of bonus features on Disney+ for example. Also: The convenience of streaming is immense, terrifyingly so.
@SmokeyPSD
@SmokeyPSD Жыл бұрын
It's tiring wanting to go watch a movie and needing to figure out which streaming service, if any it's on. The actual coverage of films on netflix, etc is really not as great as people think it is.
@SuperFlashDriver
@SuperFlashDriver Жыл бұрын
Dude, I'd hate to say this but I haven't seen a DVD/Blu-Ray disc that have bonus features as memorable as the ones form the late 90s early to mid 2000s ones. Sadly they don't really care about inserting bonus features into stuff like Ultra HD and Blu-Ray ones since 2010/2012. So whether or not we'll get them is up for debate. But again, as for me personally, pirates will always be there to find a way to download the movie, whether from a server or by digital download, and patch it to bypass the internet connection entirely, making us be able to watch the movie on our HDDs/SSDs without having to worry about discs cracking. And even then, sometimes it's a good idea too to use USB drives or find a company that still sells Blu-Ray discs and burn your own just for good measure and such.
@karaokeandrandomclips
@karaokeandrandomclips Жыл бұрын
@@PhobosDDeimosYeah, but if something happens and you don't have internet connection, you can't watch anything, and some streaming services might take down or edit certain shows or movies in the future.
@natbarmore
@natbarmore Жыл бұрын
⁠​⁠​⁠@@SmokeyPSDand that leaves me with a dilemma: do I reward the people who are the reason the Netflix catalog is so depleted? Netflix used to have “everything” (not literally, of course, but if it could be streamed, it could be streamed on Netflix). But then Paramount took back Star Trek and Grease and Dreamworks and CBS for Paramount+ , and NBC took back all its TV and all the Universal films for Peacock, and Disney took back all its movies and Marvel Studios and 21st Century Fox and Star Wars and Pixar and Touchstone for Disney+, and BritBox apparently outbid for Doctor Who, and…well, you get the picture. So do I abandon Netflix because of the missing content, and then sign up for the very services that are the _reason_ Netflix has so much less content? Isn’t that just sending the message “yes, please fracture all of the content across as many services as possible, and I’ll pay for each of them”? Or do I stubbornly refuse to subscribe to studio-captured streaming services to send the message that the way to get my money is by sharing - by putting your content on a streaming platform that you don’t own and which therefore has content from multiple studios/networks? Even if there’s less and less on Netflix that I want to watch?
@richkurtz6053
@richkurtz6053 7 ай бұрын
I'm 73 and have always owned the media: LP's, CD's, Laser Disks, DVD, BluRay. I still have 3 VHS players, 2 Laserdisk players, numerous CD players, and 3 BluRay players. I do not subscribe to any subscription services. I object to paying $3.99 to rent an online movie, when I can buy the disk for $2.99 at Goodwill. I cut the cord for cable years ago. I have a TV antenna.
@Greedo1977
@Greedo1977 5 ай бұрын
Insane im 16
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 3 ай бұрын
Not surprised
@HughMansonMD
@HughMansonMD Жыл бұрын
I used to buy digital because "it cant break" and you would "always have it". But between the Comixology/Amazon buy out, and Hulu removing the "Dee is Dating a Retarded Person" episode of IASP, I realized digital media is significantly more "breakable" than physical media. When I stare at my bookshelf and comic holders I feel pride in having a good collection with nice presentation. When I stare at my Comixology library I feel physical pain for the digital burnt pile of money that I "will always have". If anything happens where I desperately need money, the speculative market for collectors will take care of me. Amazon, Hulu, Paramount, etc. will just cancel my memberships and tell me to F' off..
@ktbmk
@ktbmk Жыл бұрын
yeah it was all an illusion. You never owned anything digital thru streaming and never will. The only "digital" you will own is when you download your digital directly like ripping ur own Blurays or pirating.
@BagzAndPresident
@BagzAndPresident Жыл бұрын
Nerd. Be proud of your artwork? NERD
@TheHEROFamily
@TheHEROFamily Жыл бұрын
Disney+ is notorious for editing/ changing or removing things they don't agree with anymore. Simpsons episodes removed. Movies edited to remove certain scenes.
@MrVariant
@MrVariant Жыл бұрын
Yeah you don't even get extras with digital half the time. Batman death in the family digital was a ripoff as it went communist digitally and omitted the interactive choices from the dvd/bluray to save/let Jason Todd die or have him battle scarred. I'm good with some digital but not paying a premium, as $20 digital rentals are bs. Then they made the puss in boots last wish art book for the same price, months later. Streaming is progressively getting worse for slower movie releases, but it is a necessary evil. There's so much content that it can be tough to find some movies. I do like free Tubi. I also think studio ghibli/Miyazaki will always have a ton of physical value.
@Jack-nj9pi
@Jack-nj9pi Жыл бұрын
Ahhh remember those days I love finding old DVDs just to see the bonus stuff. Wild how Amazon charges 16 bucks for an old movie yet none of the extras
@alexanderkeys8919
@alexanderkeys8919 Жыл бұрын
I finally started collecting physical copies of anime. Got tired of shows being removed off streaming platforms and losing/corrupting thumb drives. I hope DVDs make a comeback like vinyl did a decade ago.
@saininj
@saininj Жыл бұрын
I have so many anime series from ADV and Geneon that have been out of print for years. It's honestly a fun feeling knowing I can still access these shows.
@Smougda
@Smougda 11 ай бұрын
i always data hoard every obscure anime, so i still can have it when the seeds die.
@hollowsid9623
@hollowsid9623 11 ай бұрын
I mainly pirate anime, but I would love to buy a Blu-ray of Cowboy Bebop when I'm older
@The_SUN1234
@The_SUN1234 11 ай бұрын
physical media is all about taking controll of your own property.
@fruitsnackia2012
@fruitsnackia2012 11 ай бұрын
just fyi even physical media wont last forever. they will become obsolete or die of disc rot. i love pysicsl media too but i always keep an iso backup of all my disks
@taunfountainjr7942
@taunfountainjr7942 11 ай бұрын
Growing up my mom always had a huge collection of movies. Whether it was VHS and then slowly converting everything to DVD/Blu-ray. She had this sentiment that I kind of took to and that was “you can’t trust streaming, because on day it could all just be gone”. So whenever there was a project that connected whether it was film, tv, games, or music I will get a physical edition to preserve and support it
@marinadela1361
@marinadela1361 11 ай бұрын
You were taught well
@Desperado070
@Desperado070 11 ай бұрын
But those same CD's and DVD's will be gone in 30 years ... A house fire will destroy your whole collection. How you gonna lose streaming? once they done making a profit You stream it, you don't buy it and streaming cost 1% of the cost of buying it all. It just blows my mind how people can be this stupid
@BobY-vl2oj
@BobY-vl2oj 10 ай бұрын
@@Desperado070 You asumme a lot but you can't read for some reason...
@Desperado070
@Desperado070 10 ай бұрын
@EmperorPalpatine-zk3ry Are you a clown?
@metjovi
@metjovi 10 ай бұрын
I read this comment and all the replies to it and I have to say it all comes to preferences. Streaming services can disappear, yeah, but also the formats players may be out of the market soon. I know the bitrate of the streaming services is discussed, but most people can't even tell the quality difference between a disc and a movie in any platform, and those who do it, don't mind about it. However, I know how nice is the feeling of owning physically that movie, show or album you love so much. It's up to every one what to choose.
@BuIldogProd
@BuIldogProd 6 ай бұрын
The biggest issue I’ve got with digital media is the ability to censor or edit a tv show / movie when it’s “too controversial”, and therefore tampering with art. A physical copy can never be changed
@gamecubeplayer
@gamecubeplayer 6 ай бұрын
a physical copy can be changed before mastering
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 20 күн бұрын
Yeah I know
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 20 күн бұрын
@@gamecubeplayerStar Wars will be the only exception from my memory
@brianegendorf2023
@brianegendorf2023 Жыл бұрын
Years ago, when VHS was still popular, my dad made an invention that counts how many times a tape is played. He tried to sell it to hollywood, and they sent him a letter basically saying, "we're in this business to sell videos, not rent them".
@craigmcpherson1455
@craigmcpherson1455 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like the tape version of DIVX. Circuit City tried that business model of renting a disc without having to return it. It failed.
@brianegendorf2023
@brianegendorf2023 Жыл бұрын
@@craigmcpherson1455 If I remember correctly, the DIVX players need to be connected to the phone line to enable/disable the play of the disc. I think that didn't go over very well. In my dad's invention, the tape just counted and kept track of how many times it was played internally, and the store could then check it when it was returned. Several side aspect of his invention WERE used in the industry, but he never made a penny off of them.
@jasontaylor5061
@jasontaylor5061 Жыл бұрын
​@@craigmcpherson1455don't forget about those DVDs that expires after a certain amount a time and wouldn't read. Pretty much the biggest e waste scheme ever.
@fortynights1513
@fortynights1513 Жыл бұрын
What did he call his invention?
@Coneman3
@Coneman3 Жыл бұрын
What’s the point of that?
@p0k3mn1
@p0k3mn1 11 ай бұрын
I still buy CDs occasionally it’s a better way to support the artist and its one of the ways you can fight against “you will own nothing” The same thing is happening in music currently
@terrencereardon6374
@terrencereardon6374 11 ай бұрын
I haven't gone to a concert in nearly five years and I don't miss it. Now I'm retired from concerts and buy CDs and Vinyl. Many people will spend asinine money on vaping devices, tattoos and nicotine which smoking as risen as everyone does it.
@lionheartroar3104
@lionheartroar3104 11 ай бұрын
I agree, that's why I own 3000 cds. Some no longer available in physical form and the download quality sucks.
@HaggardPillockHD
@HaggardPillockHD 10 ай бұрын
Buying the CD funds the record company's not the artist (unless the artist owns the record company)
@veganconservative1109
@veganconservative1109 10 ай бұрын
Yep, fighting against the WEF is a must. Especially now when they are so close to bullying a lot of our governments into ceding total control over to the puppet WHO in the form of their pandemic treaties. (Because WHO did so well managing the 2020+ Covid plandemic they helped create. I mean pandemic.
@anyonecanart3394
@anyonecanart3394 11 ай бұрын
The fact that big companies are starting to keep the stuff that you buy digitally because of licensing arrangements and whatnot is going to be a big push I believe to keep physical media going
@R3CKSPLAY
@R3CKSPLAY 6 ай бұрын
this is really scary honestly. i've been feeling such an urge to rush to buy physical media just to have a slight taste of autonomy in a world where everything is turning into a subscription. "you will own nothing and be happy"
@SSSNoOne
@SSSNoOne 6 ай бұрын
No you will not be happy!
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 3 ай бұрын
@@SSSNoOneyeah
@lancebaylis3169
@lancebaylis3169 11 ай бұрын
The level to which they are *consciously* erasing physical media now is alarming. Only a few years ago it was still possible to go in any Wal Mart or Target and there'd be five or six rows of discs - now you're lucky if there's one. The strange thing is physical media and streaming can co-exist. Streaming is more like the old Blockbuster video libraries. You basically pay a reduced fee for the right to 'hire' a season or a movie for as long as the streamer carries it on their server. Physical media is an opportunity to own your favorites. Those are not really competing markets, and if the studios were actually smart, they could sell both as a selling point without ending one or the other.
@trystonkincannon8320
@trystonkincannon8320 10 ай бұрын
Yeah, the movie makers are trying to take it all back. As it was said Disney tried to sue Sony, and lost, this is there revenge story. Time to learn how to traval the 7 seas... Maybe not just yet though, I still got a good 200+ shows and movies to go though, not to mention my games.
@bloodeagle6458
@bloodeagle6458 10 ай бұрын
They don't want 50% of the profits from either they want 100% and they think they can get it with a digital monthly service/payment...they don't want a one and done customer they want a customer for life kinda like drug dealers gross isn't it
@johnjay370
@johnjay370 10 ай бұрын
​@@bloodeagle6458actually it more insidious then that. Thay want to be able to erase history and art so the studios can politically control the masses. Many people in Hollywood dont believe in art or even entertainment. Just mindless content to control people with. Remember if truth doesn't exist then we can do whatever we want, and so Hollywood does.
@Kewrock
@Kewrock 10 ай бұрын
It all comes down to the consumer. The numbers don't lie. The masses are no longer buying physical media. The media companies are OK with it, because they can now control every aspect of their properties. Rest assured. If people were still buying discs and rejecting streaming, They'd still be marketing discs.
@veganconservative1109
@veganconservative1109 10 ай бұрын
Media on streaming can be edited on the spot and only those who are familiar with the original content would be any the wiser. Imagine a history film showing Joe Biden battling during The Battle Of The Bulge... because the President said make it so... so they edited him in. So many things that can go bottoms up with digital renting.
@Towerr72
@Towerr72 Жыл бұрын
I called this a long time ago. The "You will own nothing and be happy" was from the WEF in 2016 and have been saying this for a long time now. Sad thing is, if you purchase something digital, you do NOT own said item, you own a license. If, whatever digital storefront you purchased it from, loses the rights to distribution, you lose you license to that copy...No refunds, no warning, it will just disappear. This happened to me twice on iTunes with 2 movies I purchased just last year. Couple stores removing physical media and increasing prices in streaming services, I do not like where this is heading.
@MickSupper
@MickSupper Жыл бұрын
Like you said, all by design irrelevant of what people actually want.
@MiguelY22
@MiguelY22 Жыл бұрын
I bought music years ago on Google Play Music. They shut down and if you didn't download your music after their notice, then you lost it all
@SeekerGoldstone
@SeekerGoldstone 11 ай бұрын
In fairness, you also dont own the content on your DVDs... what you bought was a "limited private performance license"... it tells you that at the beginning of every VHS and DVD.
@MickSupper
@MickSupper 11 ай бұрын
​@@SeekerGoldstone No one buys a DVD to charge for admission. lol
@SeekerGoldstone
@SeekerGoldstone 11 ай бұрын
@@MickSupper Yeah, but you might show one to a class of students or a youth group. That's technically illegal. They arent gonna kick in your door and repossess your tapes but I think they are technically allowed to revoke your license.
@ChristianKrogh-Denmark
@ChristianKrogh-Denmark 11 ай бұрын
I will NEVER drop my physical media, and I love my collection - brings me constant joy :-) Thanks for this video!! Great one :-)
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 10 ай бұрын
Yeah
@walterodim82
@walterodim82 9 ай бұрын
We go to the library once a week to borrow dvd/blu ray movies, video games, CDs and books. All paid for by donations & taxes. I consider the library my collection that I share with the town. It’s a beautiful system that I hope stays viable for the rest of my life.
@laurenceholloway2359
@laurenceholloway2359 Жыл бұрын
As a comparison, there's nothing like the smell of of an old book... Holding a hard copy of a book, dvd, bluray, or vinyl is immensely satisfying. Tangibility is everything... To hell with the digital age.
@007Julie
@007Julie Жыл бұрын
Amen!
@JimmyMcG33
@JimmyMcG33 Жыл бұрын
you're gonna be pissed when you find out how they store data on discs
@Adeyum64
@Adeyum64 Жыл бұрын
Somewhat true. I couldn't care less about DVD and Blu-Rays for movies which are... just fiiine I guess? But if it's something like Spongebob, it's definetly cool to have in a collection! Or same with Music, I bought the 40th anniversary Album because it's friggin michael jackson man, lol. However for the rest, streaming is enough. I really have no interest in owning a movie that I only watch once and never look back at again. Especially the ones that aren't even my favourite movies. If it's about preservation, we will always find ways to store them digitally.
@SpeedyJuiceMan
@SpeedyJuiceMan Жыл бұрын
Is dvd a digital media tho
@MiketheratguyMultimedia
@MiketheratguyMultimedia Жыл бұрын
I remember when dvds came with hours of bonus content. Commentaries, documentaries, alternate endings, rated and unrated versions of the movie, behind the scenes footage, etc. Even the oldest dvds had "actor highlights". Now you're lucky to get anything other than the film itself. I noticed this around 2016 or 2017 and attributed it to greedy studios trying to phase out dvds and push blu-rays instead. But now I'm seeing even blu-ray special features decline too. I guess the media of film enthusiasts is coming to an end. That's a shame, it was a really great couple of decades for film appreciation.
@hrvstmn31
@hrvstmn31 Жыл бұрын
Dude the big boxes of The Lord of The rings have like 16 hours of extras each.
@TheOtherKine
@TheOtherKine Жыл бұрын
It's also politics, and that whole thing about "having an opinion" - in other words, the studios realised, even with "opinions expressed on disc by the actors are their own and not of the studios" jargon, they realised that in this new social media world, NOBODY wants to ASSOCIATE themselves with any opinion at all, whether positive one way but negative another.......... it's not just that they didn't want to take away the content from you - they just didn't want, say, Johnny Depp's comments misconstrued about his ex-wife Amber Heard all jumbled up and mixed up with the movie when it has nothing to do with it, etc etc.
@christianman73
@christianman73 11 ай бұрын
There are still plenty of home video companies who put out large numbers of Blu-ray discs, and 4K discs too, with many bonus features. Kino Lorber, Shout Factory, Criterion, Vinegar Syndrome, and Severin are companies which release many Blu-rays and 4Ks with bonus features. There are so many movies being released on disc, with bonus features, by these companies that it's hard to keep up with all of them!
@mullboll33
@mullboll33 11 ай бұрын
Hollywood shoot its own feet off. Modern movies are boring, melodramatic, depressing, and cookie cutter
@crankyoldperson6871
@crankyoldperson6871 11 ай бұрын
The bonus features are…well, a bonus. Special features including documentaries, are too important to part with.
@CrimsionVision
@CrimsionVision Жыл бұрын
A great thing about physical media I don’t feel like gets talked about enough is how some libraries can carry the newest releases or old favorites on dvd (and even BluRay in some cases), and you can borrow them for free. No streaming service or digital rental, you can borrow a new movie for free and return it after you’re finished with it.
@huhnchengott8396
@huhnchengott8396 Жыл бұрын
Also, you can just borrow a copy, rip it (if its a dvd) and return it and you can watch it whenever you like!
@SofaPop.
@SofaPop. Жыл бұрын
@@huhnchengott8396you can rip Blurays as well with the correct equipment. A worthy investment in my eyes
@karaokeandrandomclips
@karaokeandrandomclips Жыл бұрын
@@huhnchengott8396 That's stealing.
@SuperFlashDriver
@SuperFlashDriver Жыл бұрын
@@karaokeandrandomclips Well, what do you do when you're stripped of cash?? Do you prefer to wait until you have enough to buy one thing, or would you rather borrow it from someone, rip it yourself with pirated software programs on your PC, Linux, or Mac laptop/desktop and watch it from there?? At that point you have to ask yourself, is it worth profiting off of movies that are nearly a decade or 5 decades old?? Because there are some movies from the 1950s and before that aren't as profitable as they used to in their prime. So much like the movies from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, they too eventually will become more of classics in the near future and most likely not be as profitable as say movies from the 2050s and 2060s. Trends come and go, things go by so quickly that it all happens within seconds of uploading or seconds it happens. It's as if even if you take a day off or a week off of work to watch whatever you want to watch, you may only be able to watch 5 to 10% of what you watched compared to the massive 90% of other content out there, plus new ones coming out every day or so. Heck, even try watching youtube videos or any video platform content on there, it's too much for one person to do at a time, and hopefully the video platformer doesn't take down the video you wish to watch or else you missed out on it.
@ozmond
@ozmond Жыл бұрын
@@karaokeandrandomclipsI rent red box DVDs and rip them to my computer
@rednax99
@rednax99 9 ай бұрын
I have a collection of over 400 films* and a few tv shows. I love that I'm just able to pop the disk in the player and watch it without having to worry if its still streaming somewhere.
@rednax99
@rednax99 Ай бұрын
*Over 600 now!
@TMCNJ
@TMCNJ Жыл бұрын
My brother literally asked me this tonight “why do you even bother with physical copies?” While he was browsing Netflix. I pulled the modem out and said “let’s stream a movie then…”
@xxxod
@xxxod Жыл бұрын
Piracy is better than streaming. it has a digital existence but doesn't live on the cloud so you can watch anything offline.
@samuelsanchez7874
@samuelsanchez7874 Жыл бұрын
"Scratches your disc* Let's watch your movie then
@TMCNJ
@TMCNJ Жыл бұрын
@@samuelsanchez7874 😂
@michaelhenry3234
@michaelhenry3234 Жыл бұрын
@@shadow4040 Best of both worlds is ripping the discs. The convenience of streaming with the security of actually owning the data, with the discs as a backup.
@tomatom13
@tomatom13 Жыл бұрын
You can have digital copies offline...
@TIMEPPF
@TIMEPPF 11 ай бұрын
I love DVD's, I love not having to worry about internet, or the monthly charges & the amount of different services add up, or if they will lose the license. I also like that I can keep track of what I've watched, like it's a history of what interests me and what I "accomplished" vs. just scrolling around and watching something and running into it years later and not even remember half of it.
@veganconservative1109
@veganconservative1109 10 ай бұрын
And some of those DVDs came with additional content. I have never streamed, does streaming even give those options?
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 10 ай бұрын
Yeah
@ParanoidThalyyMVS
@ParanoidThalyyMVS 10 ай бұрын
​@@veganconservative1109I have never seen commentaries or other bonus features such as behind the scenes on streaming services, at most you get trailers or recaps of previous seasons but that's about it.
@yooooo6296
@yooooo6296 10 ай бұрын
I’ve taken up the habit of buying shows and movies that I really like on blu ray. Some of this media will eventually be lost or delisted. I want to be able to show my kids and grand kids the things that were special to me. I want future generations to witness the beautifully crafted pieces of art that I was able to.
@ufreo3003
@ufreo3003 2 ай бұрын
That's exactly what i'm doing too ! Happy to see that people do the same
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 Ай бұрын
Agreed
@Musikyx
@Musikyx 5 ай бұрын
physical media is ULTRA IMPORTANT, owning your movie forever without the digital hurdles of agreements is IMPORTANT
@svr5423
@svr5423 4 ай бұрын
not sure what you mean. If I just download the movie in a standardised format and include it into my storage solution including offsite backup, I pretty much get to keep it "forever"
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 3 ай бұрын
@@svr5423to be honest you have to deal with the internet most of the time compared to physical media even if the internet is down you can watch it easily
@shariqhasan6220
@shariqhasan6220 11 ай бұрын
One problem with digital media such as Netflix and other services is that for no reason they will remove content after some time if the company feels fit to to do so and unless if they re-upload it, then its gone forever or even worse they will force you to pay for it again. In the case of physical media, if you purchase it then its yours forever as long as you don't damage it and you can keep re-watching the movie on DVD whenever you want to without spending any more money on it.
@Swiftbow
@Swiftbow 11 ай бұрын
You also don't have to fear that the studio will censor things out or remove entire episodes.
@johnjay370
@johnjay370 10 ай бұрын
​@@Swiftbowalso the streaming business model is unsustainable in the long run. Tv is quickly dieing. Physical media is also on the decline. Its like we are in decline in all forms of art and entertainment. All industries including entertainment and art are suffering from mass brain drain. We might be left with nothing but creative ashes.
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 3 ай бұрын
@@johnjay370yeah I know
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 3 ай бұрын
Yeah I know
@boondoggle4820
@boondoggle4820 Жыл бұрын
I still watch physical media because sometimes things go wrong with your computer or internet connection, and I can still immerse myself in a DVD. Plus, the biggest issue is that you’re at the mercy of licensing agreements, behind the scenes politics, whether the streaming services determine that it’s profitable to use storage space for something that you enjoy, etc.
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 2 ай бұрын
Yeah I agree
@ocarinagirlandthestories648
@ocarinagirlandthestories648 11 ай бұрын
What I like about physical media is that once you’ve bought it the higher-ups can’t really edit it, remove parts of it, or just take it away from you entirely like they can with a streamed movie or show
@Greedo1977
@Greedo1977 5 ай бұрын
I think Thats exactly why they prefer streaming 😂
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 3 ай бұрын
Yeah I know
@QuattroSG
@QuattroSG 7 ай бұрын
Hollywood isn't making anything worth printing to a disc anymore lmao
@buddy_love
@buddy_love Күн бұрын
Exactly. It's been steady unwatchable trash for the last 5 years
@XenoTronusWeePoo850
@XenoTronusWeePoo850 11 ай бұрын
I'm never letting physical media be forgotten in my home. I'm collecting as much DVDs and games as possible. I'd love to have a physical collection that I can admire and show people irl rather than having to turn on a screen. Heck, i might even buy some VHS's from eBay.
@darkhighwayman1757
@darkhighwayman1757 10 ай бұрын
rip them onto your computer and stream them via plex and not risking damaging your disks
@jimspencer2727
@jimspencer2727 10 ай бұрын
I agree I'll always collect movies I collect VHS laserdiscs DVD and bluray movies. I been collecting a lot of players for my stuff as well Incase if it gets impossible to find players . Either vcrs laserdisc players or bluray players.
@cat-sd5cr
@cat-sd5cr 10 ай бұрын
Same :)
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 10 ай бұрын
Yeah I know
@starscreamthecruel8026
@starscreamthecruel8026 9 ай бұрын
get yourself a good multi region VHS player, then you can buy them from any country without worrying about region lock nonsense.
@CuteSkyler
@CuteSkyler Жыл бұрын
I've gotten into collecting DVDs this year and it does give me the same feeling as physical goods such as Vinyl. The trailers in the DVD menu, the banger piracy ads, the advertisements, it all just gives me a sense of 2000's that no other form of media provides for me. Beyond this, trying to search for that one DVD on second hand sites (or entire shows, such as Avatar, which I'm still looking for), is an experience in and of itself.
@MimiRox13
@MimiRox13 11 ай бұрын
There's a killer DVD sale going on at Wal-Mart right now. They're taking advantage of being one of the last retailers to sell physical media, and you can find a lot of good bundles of shows. I highly recommend it because I'm sure they'll stop selling DVDs once they've made enough money.
@allsystemsgootechaf9885
@allsystemsgootechaf9885 11 ай бұрын
I managed to snag avatar airbender from amazon, in bluray. $25. Well worth it for a couple dozen hours of content
@CuteSkyler
@CuteSkyler 11 ай бұрын
@@allsystemsgootechaf9885 Lucky bastard, you.
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 6 күн бұрын
Yeah agreed
@Guillariedenormandie
@Guillariedenormandie 10 ай бұрын
The DVD/ CD is the greatest medium to ever exist.
@medium_x
@medium_x 10 ай бұрын
I think books might be the champ if there’s a contest between mediums. You don’t need to plug a book in!
@Guillariedenormandie
@Guillariedenormandie 10 ай бұрын
I meant for playing movies and music. Otherwise, you are absolutely correct.@@medium_x
@zoltanrudolf
@zoltanrudolf 7 ай бұрын
Amen!
@mayday6880
@mayday6880 6 ай бұрын
No, 4k UHD Blu-Ray is the greatest today
@illegalalien6542
@illegalalien6542 5 ай бұрын
@@mayday6880 NO
@JB-ou6fl
@JB-ou6fl 7 ай бұрын
I'm glad that more people are starting to realize the advantages of owning physical media over streaming.
@nicholashylton6857
@nicholashylton6857 Жыл бұрын
Screw that. They want consumers to permanently rent movies and tell us we're out of luck if they don't choose to stream it.
@stupid8911
@stupid8911 Жыл бұрын
You're not wrong. I have the same sentiment with music as well. I give in and buy the song from Apple, but it's been told to me that, technically, the purchase I made for the song or album is just for Apple to *license* me the music. I don't really think they'd go through the trouble of yanking my whole music library for the past 20 years, but it's a sobering reminder that they damn well could.
@pacsonic9000
@pacsonic9000 11 ай бұрын
I'm Gen Z and I still enjoy physical media for the same reasons you do. If I don't want to put in a disc, I just back up the episodes or film on a drive, though I still like having the physical disc, tape, or cart. I also like how you can find stuff not available on streaming services and can only be watched either physically or illegally.
@The_SUN1234
@The_SUN1234 11 ай бұрын
those codes annoy me...gen z, millenials... SAY IT LIKE NORMAL PERSON THE DECADE YOURE BORN IN..jesus...
@The_SUN1234
@The_SUN1234 11 ай бұрын
Also physical media is not generation dependant. anyone can love it or not love it. the difference is that older generations had no choice of internet.
@sailorjade
@sailorjade 11 ай бұрын
@@The_SUN1234boomers: 1946-1964, gen x: 1965-1980, millennials: 1981-1995, gen z: 1996-2012, gen alpha: 2013-current (exact years vary depending on who you ask)
@MrPolandball
@MrPolandball 11 ай бұрын
@@sailorjadedont you fucking ever count 90s and early 00s kids as Gen Z, we preferred to be labeled as “zillennials”
@veganconservative1109
@veganconservative1109 10 ай бұрын
I concede your point. I fall into the 'baby boomer' category, but that spans several decades. Fairly vague. @@The_SUN1234
@simoneadaminutrition
@simoneadaminutrition 11 ай бұрын
I didn't realize how serious was the situation until I bought a Blu ray player and started to go around in shops looking for physical Blu rays or 4ks. I live in Rome, Italy and in a 20km radius there is no one selling physical discs. 😢
@llothar68
@llothar68 6 ай бұрын
Only flee markets. I throw away a nice collection of hundert of VHS before i realized that i can sell them on ebay.
@my2commonsense476
@my2commonsense476 9 ай бұрын
Why would you want a DVD? Because when you own it you own it.
@ZachariasEnislidis
@ZachariasEnislidis Жыл бұрын
Physcal media is also a backup in case of major outage of streaming services...even forever. Imagine Netflix losing all movies from datacenters.
@ubernerrd
@ubernerrd Жыл бұрын
That is very highly unlikely to happen. Netflix has several copies of every title across their CDN, losing data isn't really a concern. The real issue is licensing.
@daveduffy2823
@daveduffy2823 11 ай бұрын
The end of physical media is the end of ownership.
@amb_.
@amb_. 9 ай бұрын
Literally
@mayday6880
@mayday6880 6 ай бұрын
@stonesfan285 yes re-encoded low bitrate, no extended and uncut version with aac 2-channel sound.
@llothar68
@llothar68 6 ай бұрын
And now imagine a world without physical cash.
@thequinlanshow3326
@thequinlanshow3326 5 ай бұрын
You are a clown. Physical media going away isn't the end of the world. You can still own literally everything else in your life.
@thequinlanshow3326
@thequinlanshow3326 5 ай бұрын
This is one of the most privileged spoiled comments I've ever read. All of you crying in the comments are pathetic
@philg8556
@philg8556 Жыл бұрын
My concerns about streaming are the licensing and censorship issues. How many shows or movies aren't being released because of a licensing dispute or issue when said movie is already on DVD? How many have been edited from their original versions? How many now have modern ads digitally inserted that have replaced the look and feel of classics? These issues don't even touch on the bitrates and pixel quality issues. I still own a vast physical media collection, but I love the convenience of not swapping discs, so I've ripped them all to a home media server. No internet required and I get the original content without fear of Disney or anyone else suddenly wanting to insert ads or remove my access because someone decided they needed more royalties for a 5 second sound clip of a song from the 80's. It also includes movies and media that have never been made available on streaming, but were once made available on VHS or DVD. I think the media corporations have a bit too much power here.
@Robd07
@Robd07 Жыл бұрын
I was pist when Netflix took off Stargate Sg1! And dont like hulu because of ads
@walker1984
@walker1984 Жыл бұрын
You'll start to get lost media that studios themselves create due to censorship. If a studio decides to change things because they feel it's inappropriate because of the times, then the movie that you watched may very well not exist digitally.
@finkamain1621
@finkamain1621 Жыл бұрын
Man... My friend recommended me Romero's Dawn of the Dead and told me not to watch it on any streaming service because it's all the censored version. He found the unrated cut here on KZbin for free and good quality and it's like 30 minutes longer than the censored ones because most of Tom Savini's effects were cut because they were too edgy
@washere3955
@washere3955 Жыл бұрын
​@@finkamain1621KZbin is a streaming service.
@washere3955
@washere3955 Жыл бұрын
If, or if ever comes a time when ripping becomes legal. Then I'll have my own server, but as of right now I'm sticking to plopping the disc in the player, and enjoying. Then having the exercise to get up and exchange the disc for another.
@LisaWagner-wy5li
@LisaWagner-wy5li 9 ай бұрын
Don't panic ! Just remember , there will always be flea markets , yard sales , garage sales...etc Physical media is important.Now is the time to buy DVDs .DVDs are so cheap to buy now.I say , buy what you like now.Get ahead of the game.Alsp get some DVD players and set them aside.This way you have backup.
@マウリツィオ-g6e
@マウリツィオ-g6e 3 ай бұрын
Only issue is that the physical media supply is drying up... In thrift stores it's quite hard to find anything more recent than the 2010s, maybe because people don't donate them, maybe because not many people bought DVDs after that...
@jhberg17
@jhberg17 Жыл бұрын
If vinyl can come back, anything can. It’s 150 year old technology. The problem with 4K is they never got it to the right price point. It really needs to drop at least 40 percent to be viable to the consumer.
@medium_x
@medium_x Жыл бұрын
That may be true, but if that’s the case then it probably won’t be a profitable enough medium for the big studios to deal with
@TheStOne1
@TheStOne1 Жыл бұрын
Maybe if they'd stop selling it together with the pointless standard blu-ray, it could be cheaper. And if they'd stop producing DVD forcing everybody to buy a Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray player, we could see some advancements...
@JorgeTorres-tl7vo
@JorgeTorres-tl7vo Жыл бұрын
They’re getting there. Best Buy had a crazy Black Friday sale that started last week and everything is pretty much already sold out now. With with 4Ks starting at $6 for classic like The Godfather, 2001 and the wizard of oz, who wouldn’t start collecting.
@JudeDefensor
@JudeDefensor Жыл бұрын
@@TheStOne1 as the video mentioned, it can cost as little as 2 cents to press a disc. they probably gain more sales by including the standard blu-ray compared to the negligible additional cost. there's likely a significant number of buyers who don't have a 4k player yet but end up buying the bundle in anticipation of an upgrade and because it doesn't cost much more than getting just the standard, or is the only option available.
@EnigPartyhaus
@EnigPartyhaus Жыл бұрын
@@TheStOne1 I'd rather have the 2K/4K combo set than go back to the era of it being DVD/blu ray combos
@Sir_Adam
@Sir_Adam Жыл бұрын
As a Godzilla fan, Physical media is ESSENTIAL to me watching the films again.
@Winter2k23
@Winter2k23 11 ай бұрын
Shin Godzilla!
@The_SUN1234
@The_SUN1234 11 ай бұрын
i see youre a man of culture. @@Winter2k23
@balthus9105
@balthus9105 8 ай бұрын
Living in the UK I have pretty much no way of watching the Japanese films except through piracy, I have the criterion collection book with the whole first series of films but the later ones were never released, it's really annoying.
@Sir_Adam
@Sir_Adam 8 ай бұрын
@@balthus9105 That sucks. I didn't think about different regions.
@weswolverine
@weswolverine 4 ай бұрын
@@Winter2k23 I was searching everywhere in stores and online for a dvd godzilla Minus One, and I finally found one that contained both it and Shin Godzilla, so that was pretty sweet
@STAYFRESHBABY
@STAYFRESHBABY 3 ай бұрын
If buying is not owning, piracy is not stealing.
@s1mplem4gic58
@s1mplem4gic58 10 ай бұрын
As someone born in 2006 i got to experience choosing from dvds and putting them in to watch but I’ve also grown up with streaming becoming dominant. We can’t let physical media die i love being able to see and choose from your _own_ personal collection!
@s1mplem4gic58
@s1mplem4gic58 3 ай бұрын
@@shinichi6235 and what? You think as soon as some streaming became available, all my family instantly switched over and we destroyed all our dvds? 😂
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 Ай бұрын
@@s1mplem4gic58 some people lost interest unless your a hardcore fan of physical media
@DrawinskyMoon
@DrawinskyMoon 11 ай бұрын
It saddens me that certain movies will never get a physical media version of them.
@Winter2k23
@Winter2k23 11 ай бұрын
Yep, titles like - Flight of the navigator, Krull, The Last Starfighter. Would be magic if ever. blu ray.
@robertandres7594
@robertandres7594 11 ай бұрын
Check your local comic convention bootlegger.
@shadrichardson6627
@shadrichardson6627 11 ай бұрын
​@@Winter2k23Compliance
@paperking_real
@paperking_real 11 ай бұрын
@@Winter2k23 The Last Starfighter got a 4K and Blu-ray release from Arrow Video.
@lanceash
@lanceash 11 ай бұрын
People kept telling me "Oh, cinema will bounce back after COVID is over." But it hasn't and it never will. It's so much more convenient to watch something at home. You can pause the film if you have to pee and you don't have to worry about being told where to sit. If you want to eat a giant pizza while watching, you can. Also, the movies they make now are crap. I don't mind watching something on a streaming service, especially if it's something I'm unsure of or know I'm only going to see once. But the classics I like to own on DVD. I wish I'd never given away my box set of obscure spaghetti westerns.
@ethanrichard4950
@ethanrichard4950 10 ай бұрын
I love physical media. It's easier to share, i feel more comfortable with something i own being in my hands, rather than a cloud, and it forces you to think about how much you actually want something.
@Partykular
@Partykular 5 ай бұрын
Because of the recent trends in censorship and price gouging, I started my own physical collection of DVDs and Blu-rays, and I can say without a doubt that I will never come back to streaming services ever again. Owning what you pay for beats the ease of use of streaming services any day of the week.
@MrCREWCRUSHIN95
@MrCREWCRUSHIN95 Жыл бұрын
Physical media is GROWING - not dying At its peak- DVD sales were 16K per year. Sales flagged when streaming started... During the pandemic it went back up to 16K Last year it was at 22K. The first 5 months of this year did 13K.
@h0laPlaneta
@h0laPlaneta 11 ай бұрын
this sounds amazing, care to share the sources please? want to show this to my "all digital" friends
@Kobenete
@Kobenete 11 ай бұрын
would also like to know where you got this information from. 16k for peak sounds insanely small?
@jimmy7434
@jimmy7434 Ай бұрын
This is nonsense of the highest order.
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 5 күн бұрын
Yeah I know
@Nerdtendo6366
@Nerdtendo6366 Жыл бұрын
I have the OG jackass the movie DVD from back in the early 2000’s. Tons of bonus content like commentary, ads leading up to the release of the film, bios about each staff member for the film, deleted scenes, a photo gallery and more. I found the movie on Amazon the other day and just wanted to see the quality of the film and it’s literally exactly the same. There is 0 reasons to go with streaming here
@hblaub
@hblaub Жыл бұрын
Even a directors' cut on streaming does not have any bonus stuff. I for example searched once for an interview and behind the scenes and I guess streaming bosses expect nobody to give a shit about it and therefore do not even bother to upload those parts beside the original DVD/BlueRay.
@Zalis116
@Zalis116 Жыл бұрын
@@hblaub It's the concept of "You want more, you pay more." Streaming is just a cheap avenue for those who merely want to watch the movie or TV show, so the interviews/extras get held back as incentive for hardcore fans to collect the home-video release. We saw this in the pre-streaming/"Blockbuster" era as well, as disc rentals wouldn't include any additional "Extra Features" discs, and even the main discs would sometimes be re-authored versions that stripped out extras that were on the retail releases.
@khakiichunk
@khakiichunk Жыл бұрын
@@Zalis116 interesting, id almost forgotten there was a totally different release for rental purposes, and I think i remember a bunch of dvds not having any other menu options/ the menu looking different to the retail release
@Takeshi357
@Takeshi357 Жыл бұрын
@@hblaub What's really annoying is when they drop bonus features from subsequent releases, like in the case of the Die Hard films, the old 2-disc special edition DVDs had loads and the first film even had an alternate cut of the film, but when they came out on blu-ray, much of the bonus content was nowhere to be found, forcing me to hold onto the old DVDs.
@DamienLavizzo
@DamienLavizzo Жыл бұрын
I live in Japan, a country where physical media hasn't quite died yet, since Japanese people are very reluctant to change something that's still working for something that's untested and "new". So I have a Blu-Ray writer and you can get dual layer BD discs here for about $30-40 for a 25 pack. So I put on my Captain Jack Sparrow hat and fire up my XBox One and go to town. If the studios won't give us physical media anymore, I'll just make my own. Not all advancement is beneficial to the consumer.
@i-use-4rch-btw
@i-use-4rch-btw 5 ай бұрын
Remember: These decisions aren't made by gen Z or gen Alpha. They're made by the fifty year olds in charge of big companies.
@urbanstarship
@urbanstarship Жыл бұрын
I stopped collecting physical media in music at some point, but I kept collecting TV Shows, movies and books. Some of us have to keep physical media alive. Part of what motivates me is the thought of history being erased, but I also just enjoy collecting.
@HughMansonMD
@HughMansonMD Жыл бұрын
I've been talking about physical media as comics, books, dvds and blurays, etc., but I kind of forgot that I started a small cd collection, and it all started because Google music removed an album I liked. I instantly noticed a pretty decent jump in quality between cd and streamed music, and the pricing isn't bad, so I've stuck with it.
@urbanstarship
@urbanstarship Жыл бұрын
@@HughMansonMD : If I like an album I'll buy a download of it so at least I can store it on a computer and feel like I own it, but my old CDs are in storage now and I got out of the habit of buying new ones...I was very early on Spotify Premium and admit I got hooked on that. I've bought and built so many bookshelves for the house (and had old radiators moved to accommodate them) that are full of other physical media, I just can't justify another collection!
@7ctony
@7ctony Жыл бұрын
Your the minority. Money talks . Steaming won already . roll with it or get over it . Stop wasting life crying about the past
@DTM-Books
@DTM-Books 11 ай бұрын
“Not having to get up and change the disc” is probably the top reason why streaming took over. Never attribute to malice what you can blame on laziness.
@_Dibbler_
@_Dibbler_ 11 ай бұрын
To change the disc? I had to go to a video library or store to get a movie. And I had to bring it back. I maybe bought 10 DVDs in my life and didnt really watch those movies that often. People like me is why streaming took over. I watch a movie/series once, thank you, next one.
@leadzeppbelly
@leadzeppbelly 11 ай бұрын
@@_Dibbler_Just once?
@Starwarsfearsome
@Starwarsfearsome 11 ай бұрын
And also discs take up a. Lot of space on the shelves I guess
@burnout3373
@burnout3373 10 ай бұрын
I'd change laziness to convenience
@DTM-Books
@DTM-Books 10 ай бұрын
@@burnout3373 "Give me convenience or give me death." - Jello Biafra
@Xero141
@Xero141 11 ай бұрын
They want you buying digital so they can sneakily edit them over time to remove ‘offensive’ scenes, turning it into something you didn’t agree to buying. Lawsuits should be filed in the future. I hope so.
@veganconservative1109
@veganconservative1109 10 ай бұрын
Changing Anakin's ghost in Return of the Jedi. So innocuous and 'understandable'... but maybe also testing the waters to see what they could get away with in the future. Especially now with AI. This is why you also want to keep physical copies of things like dictionaries from before the days of Microsoft.
@malusvir
@malusvir 10 ай бұрын
Just have to correct one detail: there's no such thing as "buying" digital. You're licensed to experience the movie/music/game, and that license can be modified or terminated at any time and without your consent because you don't own the media, the licensor owns it.
@The_NonDescript
@The_NonDescript 10 ай бұрын
They've already done so with the ebook version of Kendi's anti racism book. Heck, even your physical media needs to be checked, I know there are new "edits" of Roald Dahl books
@DelicateRedRose
@DelicateRedRose 10 ай бұрын
They did it with the comedy movie "Soul Plane". Left every racist joke against white and blacks even homophobia but they erased the ending scene poking fun at Arabs...
@surge3158
@surge3158 9 ай бұрын
This is an interesting point. Video games are playing this out right now, maybe the movie industry is watching and/or behind it. I have some ideas. Either 1) You release your content in full, never edit it, and it's yours until public domain hits 2) Once you make any changes to the online version, the online version is no longer available for sale. It's no longer THAT movie, so.... These are things we need to consider as a society BEFORE it's too late, and time is running out
@TimNoel2
@TimNoel2 Ай бұрын
The number one reason I prefer physical media over streaming: Netflix or other streaming services can remove a movie or show from their services at any time, whereas with physical media, no streaming service can remove it. You'll always have it as long as you don't damage the disc.
@aydenjenkins8760
@aydenjenkins8760 Жыл бұрын
I recently got the Blade Runner blu-ray set that has 5 cuts of the film. It is one of the coolest blu-ray releases I own. To be able to watch any version of a film whenever I feel like it without having to search for the film on streaming (let alone looking for a specific cut of a film) is wonderful. The shear amount of extra content you get on physical releases is so amazing and is something streaming will never be able to replace.
@gregorio5543
@gregorio5543 Жыл бұрын
Literally just got that last night haha. It's great isn't it
@finkamain1621
@finkamain1621 Жыл бұрын
I'm building up John Carpenter's movies and when I watch them all, I'll probably watch them all again with his commentary starting with his first movie until his recent
@IminNye
@IminNye Жыл бұрын
I have the original cuts of Star Wars on the bonus disc of my original trilogy collection. I would hate to not have that option and have to settle for just the newer versions on Disney+ as the only way to watch Star Wars
@mrblue8439
@mrblue8439 10 ай бұрын
Been collecting DVD and Blu-Rays all my life. I'll never stop. Makes me angry on how people want us to forget about trends and move on. I keep renting movies from the library weather it's DVD or Blu-Ray. Just finished watching a lot of anime TV shows on Blu-Ray. Now I am re-watching an anime series I saw 4 years ago. It's called Blood+ it was a popular anime series in the mid 2000's. At one point aired on Adult Swim.
@TheWhiteTaco
@TheWhiteTaco Жыл бұрын
Hell I just like the physical media to sort and go through movies and shows. Something about actually being able to see it rather than scroll is something I appreciate. And of course I agree with everyone else about potential censorship and licensing issues.
@club2772
@club2772 Ай бұрын
Millennial here, very rarely paid for streaming services. I’m more of a gamer and KZbin person. But I’ve recently had yearnings for old shows. Seeing streaming grotesquely evolve has led me to buying physical media a lot more recently. I might set up a home server but it will be nice to have a solid physical copy regardless.
@magicpumpkin3
@magicpumpkin3 Жыл бұрын
Long live physical media.
@navysteel
@navysteel Жыл бұрын
I like physical video game media because it frees up store space on my gaming consoles.
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 20 күн бұрын
Me too
@stupid8911
@stupid8911 Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your thoughts on this; I was explaining all the above to someone who asked why I prefer physical media. I absolutely love what Blockbuster did for film introduction for 80's-90's kids; a low-risk way to see what you like and didn't like. In my humble opinion, it would be great for Netflix and other streamers to act as Intro platforms so you can see what you like, and then decide if it's something to be enjoyed over and over again, justifying a higher, but more permanent way to view it at your pleasure. I don't worry a heck of a lot because of what I've seen with vinyl records (love you, Hipsters!). It's not available at every Five-and-Dime, but you can somehow get your hands on something within reason and/or distance.
@PopcornandVinyl
@PopcornandVinyl 11 ай бұрын
For years I amassed a large collection of DVDs and CDs. It wasn't just about having the movie/album, but almost a curation of my personality. "Here are all the things I love". What made those early days of DVDs special was the extra care taken in creating collectors edition packages with loads of bonus material, special packaging, etc. Now most blu ray releases are pretty standard, little care taken in the presentation and bonus features are an afterthought. I think the future of physical media is boutique labels like you mentioned. Similar to how vinyl has done it with limited releases and new artwork.
@evacody1249
@evacody1249 11 ай бұрын
The reason I don't want to go back to the days before streaming music is do to the lack of options when it comes to music taste. Or to put it this way there is no way to get your hands on or listen to music you like from other parts of the world.
@ThornEternal
@ThornEternal Ай бұрын
Thankfully my family has a significant collection and we uploaded almost all of it to a shared server we all have access to. We own it physically, but also digitally. The convenience is unbeatable and it allows us to have access to stuff when we decide it’s not worth paying for Disney+ Netflix etc.
@Justin-cw7rg
@Justin-cw7rg 11 ай бұрын
I’ve doubled back down on physical media. I’ve cancelled most of my streaming subscriptions. The prices keep rising, the content gets spread out across more channels, and is often edited, altered, or pulled. Streaming was awesome when it was just Netflix and it was like $8 a month for everything you could think of. I’m happy going back to physical, and I will support it until it dies. Hardly anything worth watching is being produced these days anyway.
@ParanoidThalyyMVS
@ParanoidThalyyMVS 10 ай бұрын
I have cancelled all streaming services I used to pay for, I started collecting in 2022, if it doesn't have a physical release, I would rather pirate it.
@TISUAL
@TISUAL 9 ай бұрын
I agree with everything you said. When I started collecting VHS in 2018, I noticed a two parts missing in white chicks that I never seen before. Also, I noticed how streaming services take things off their service and don't have everything on their service. Ex. Netflix didn't have the green mile nor the Scooby Doo movies (I'm talking about the live movies) on their streaming service. Also, with Nick shows, they don't even have all the episodes and they had the shows on their service before Paramount+ came in the picture. Also, with streaming services I try to limit it to 3 (Netflix, Disney+, and Tubi). I used to use Hulu, but my bro doesn't have that no more in the Disney+ bundle and I only use to watch AGT, The Simpsons, and mask singer on it while my mom watches 911. Now I can watch all my shows on Disney+ and Tubi except for AGT (which now I see you have to pay premium to watch that). So 911 is the only thing on Hulu. Netflix I barely used unless there is something I haven't seen on there or something that is new. I mainly watch Disney+ and Tubi which is free...for now. I wish cartoon network joined Disney+ to watch their stuff on it, but I think I am going to just buy the full collection of the TV shows from Walmart.
@TISUAL
@TISUAL 9 ай бұрын
And yep with the price raising that reminds me of what PlayStation did with their ps subscription. I ended my subscription for that since I wasn't using it as much and I had no need to pay to play online.
@JasonAdank
@JasonAdank 8 ай бұрын
Yeah the golden age of streaming... 2007 to oh about 2014. When it was just netflix. I knew as son as all the ther studios started talking abotu their own steaming services it was all gonna go to sht.
@TISUAL
@TISUAL 8 ай бұрын
@@JasonAdank sounds like the nes days when a lot of companies was making basically any game and lots of them
@Toy_Tomb
@Toy_Tomb Жыл бұрын
The reason I collect physical media is because of that streaming catalogue issue, I want to watch my favorite movies without spending half an hour checking streaming services for the film. I do think there’s hope in going the route of vinyl, from what I’ve seen boutique labels have only been getting bigger as big companies make their physical releases smaller.
@12max44
@12max44 Жыл бұрын
I used to be a DVD collector when that was a thing. Then later I started to buy the occasional bluray but used mostly streaming. But then I noticed a pattern forming. Every single time I thought of a film I wanted to watch, it was not available on streaming (I have Prime, Netflix and Disney+). We are not talking about obscure indie films but big budget hollywood 90s classics. I want to watch Last Action Hero again (not available).... hmm... how about Twister (not available)... A friend suggested I check out Congo (not available). This happened again and again consistently. The film collection on streaming is much much smaller then one would think and most original streaming content is super mediocre. After dozens of times where this happened I started to buy bluray discs again and have now over 500 blurays and about 30 UHDs. I barely use streaming services today.
@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ
@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ Жыл бұрын
Hey. I made the same experience. If you try to find the biggest top 50 or the best movies of every individual year, you stand almost no chance if you leave our current century. But even for the 2000s, it's tough. I had Prime, Netflix and Disney+. The biggest selection like on Netflix is pointless when I cannot watch what I really want to see. I bought a lot of DVDs but never got into Blurays although I bought a player with my first flatscreen TV 8 years ago. Now I own a couple of Blus for the reason of availability (if it costs more to buy a movie digitally on prime in certain cases I buy the 2nd hand Bluray) and of quality. I'm not into best quality ever but you probably made the eye opening experience of trying to watch a DVD on a flatscreen (mine is like 55" or so). And certain movies I want to watch in HD quality and not in DVD quality.
@RobHoffman83
@RobHoffman83 Жыл бұрын
I dropped Netflix a few years back for that very reason. The didn't have what I was looking for.
@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ
@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ Жыл бұрын
@@RobHoffman83 I paused Netflix because I currently watch two shows on Disney+ and I mostly watch youtube anyway, so paying €10-12 per month for something I rarely use is a waste of money. There might be a time in the future where I will subscribe to Netflix, e.g. to do my rerun of the Ghibli movies, but it's better to subscribe for at least a specific show or some movies instead of then being paralyzed because there's too much content and you don't know what to watch...
@12max44
@12max44 Жыл бұрын
@@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ "You stand almost no chance if you leave our current century. But even for the 2000s, it's tough." absolutely! So many great films that are not even that old are just left in the dust by streaming services. Worst thing is when films do not get a physical release and dissapear from streaming like the film "Hush" recently or the "WIllow" show on disney+. It is like the film or show never existed and I do not like that development at all.
@GotoMaki4Micah
@GotoMaki4Micah Жыл бұрын
oh boy absolutely. services like netflix only have 1% of what i search for. a hobby of mine is watching filmographies. i have 300 actors/actresses that ive searched movies for. that is a shit ton. for netflix to only have 1% which is usually the movie i have already seen is unacceptable. netflix is telling me what to like and making me pay for it instead of letting me actually choose. rot in hell netflix.
@kennyherrick1630
@kennyherrick1630 23 күн бұрын
My wife and I went the other way. Our collection is getting pretty big.
@kerrymattrobertsharris6707
@kerrymattrobertsharris6707 11 ай бұрын
You can't beat physical media. 4K, Blu Ray, DVD, CD, Vinyl, even VHS or audio cassettes.
@skywalkerhunter95
@skywalkerhunter95 Жыл бұрын
i went to literature major and the amount of students analyzing film as text is rapidly increasing, which mean they would need to quote, describe, and scrutinize the film. what is worriying, to me, is that there could be different versions of the same movie, and with studios can now alter the films, we need physical media in academics more than ever. its worrying when lecturers say its fine to reference Netflix. with the disc, you can state the version, distributor, release date, and even region code if applicable (running time for NTSC and PAL videos often differ) - this may seem trivial, but ill have to say, in academics, its extremely important. anyway, physical media is gone entirely in my country since over 5 years ago, so Disneys decision for Australia did not surprise me. if you can still easily find discs in your region, cherish it while it lasts. that $20 bluray easily translates to $100-200 for me to import, as theres no more disc distributor in my region.
@medium_x
@medium_x Жыл бұрын
It'd be one thing if the streamers made different versions of media available like patch notes, but otherwise I agree. It's troubling that something you watch one day might not be the same a week later
@luigi55125
@luigi55125 Жыл бұрын
I can't speak for all films, but I know for a fact that one specific scene being changed caused a huge freakout. Who shot first, Han or Greedo?
@medium_x
@medium_x Жыл бұрын
@@luigi55125 Han, obviously. But if you ask a random person they may say Greedo if they’ve only seen the recent releases
@luigi55125
@luigi55125 Жыл бұрын
​@@medium_x Wow that was a fast reply lol. I said that before I hit the part in your video where you mentioned exactly this, and came back to change it.
@MrChristianDT
@MrChristianDT Жыл бұрын
Well, with that specific aspect, if DVDs go down & we are left with strictly boutique labels- either for a time, or semi permanently- those releases will likely undo unnecessary alterations on most films & chose to release fan-preferred formats for collectors. Worst case scenario- Disney cock-blocks it for some stupid reason on theirs.
@fancyhandlegoeshere
@fancyhandlegoeshere 11 ай бұрын
Succumbing to streaming is acceptance of being able to view only what companies want you to view and for an ongoing price they want you to pay. I finally cancelled Netflix because after the seemingly millionth time I wanted to watch a specific movie, only to find they'd removed it from their service. Once they eliminate physical media, they will eliminate me as a consumer of their products. Period.
@veganconservative1109
@veganconservative1109 10 ай бұрын
Being old and of a suspicious mind (experience is worth something) I have never trusted 'renting' things I enjoy. That's giving power over some part of your life to others and history has shown that not everyone is trustworthy and that power transfers between the power controllers can happen a lot. (Just because the owner of a company IS trustworthy today doesn't mean he won't kick off tomorrow leaving the company to be run by a sleazeball.)
@LifeofBrad1
@LifeofBrad1 10 ай бұрын
I've never used Netflix. The only movie streaming service I've ever used was Zune back in the early 2010's. It was pretty awesome because it wasn't subscription-based and they had an enormous library of movies from the newest flicks right back to stuff from the 1940's.
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 10 ай бұрын
Yeah I know
@indiana2096
@indiana2096 10 ай бұрын
I was a longtime Netflix user; I just canceled the day they stopped sending out DVDs!
@JulianTheJedi
@JulianTheJedi Ай бұрын
I have so many physical copies of movies fro before 2010. People sell them for one dollar each at garage sales and it’s great. I rarely spend full retail price for something, and if I do it’s usually a tv show with multiple seasons
@Loco0089
@Loco0089 Жыл бұрын
As an anime fan that has been collecting for over 15 years, I understand the importance of collecting home media. It's even starting to get a bit difficult collecting anime on Blu Ray, since certain companies, **cough** **cough** Crunchyroll **cough** **cough**, like to take their time releasing some of their stuff on Blu Ray. I'm still waiting for the Konosuba film to come out on Blu Ray, even though it was dubbed in English all the way back in January 2021.
@fluffzone6100
@fluffzone6100 Жыл бұрын
Konosuba still doesn't have a blueray release?! Wtf
@matthewgaudet4064
@matthewgaudet4064 Жыл бұрын
i'm thinking of quitting anime all-together since Crunchyroll has inflated prices in the market across the board just by buying Funimation and closing Right Stuf. Monopolies mean they can charge anything, even like Half Of what a Japan set costs and get away with it. Or you are forced to stream. It has lead to everyone else also jacking up their prices including Amazon, its already cost me money.
@PainInTheS
@PainInTheS Жыл бұрын
I have the Konosuba movie pre-ordered, so it's almost out! Ordered it on Amazon UK 28th october. Delivery between 12 - 21 december, it comes out on dec 4th.
@michaelhenry3234
@michaelhenry3234 Жыл бұрын
@@matthewgaudet4064 Yarr! Time to hoist yer colors.
@callumdavies6473
@callumdavies6473 Жыл бұрын
@@fluffzone6100 I have it on Blu-ray myself I'm not sure where you live though I am based in the UK but I have both seasons on Blu-ray released by some company called "All the Anime." I don't know anything about them maybe check them out as I 100% have a authentic blu ray release of season 1 and 2
@jtmichaelson
@jtmichaelson 11 ай бұрын
I am old enough to remember CDs coming up in the mid-80s and DVDs and I got so involved in CDs and DVDs that it will always be my main source. I have a couple of streaming accounts, but I have thousands of DVDs. It's just not natural to spend money on a product and not own it.
@alwaysxnever
@alwaysxnever 11 ай бұрын
Exactly. I get that technically we are buying a license to view. But I rather that over renting/subscribing for access to a product and hope the servers never go offline. 😅
@Tjd1982
@Tjd1982 Жыл бұрын
I laughed so hard the last time the power went out and my 13 year old cousin had to watch my South Park blue rays and then Tropic Thunder with me. He wasn't having any of it and moped around the entire two days.
@pathegartyfilmssongs9487
@pathegartyfilmssongs9487 22 күн бұрын
Nothing beats physical media. I will keep buying.
@mostfrozenburrito
@mostfrozenburrito 10 ай бұрын
As someone who still buys CDs, I’m on your side 🙌🏻 with music streaming and Bluetooth, people aren’t buying CDs anymore and cars aren’t even being made with CD players 😭 it’s devastating for me. Because having CDs of my favorite albums is so important to me!! I also want to get back to buying DVDs because there’s waaaaaay too many streaming services. I can just buy some DVDs and not have to worry about it anymore. Physical media is so important
@alerobabes01
@alerobabes01 10 ай бұрын
my car still has a cd player. I'm going to add more dvds to my collection. I even have cassette tape collection. I go to flea markets, auctions and find physical media
@svr5423
@svr5423 4 ай бұрын
Nobody wants to change between hundreds of CDs while driving a car.
@attag_ua
@attag_ua 3 ай бұрын
​@@svr5423There are CD players for car that change discs without user interaction. We had a car that could store 6 CD discs in the same time
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 5 күн бұрын
Yeah I agree
@wyattsexton7083
@wyattsexton7083 11 ай бұрын
Many places in the US and around the world do not have internet access or people can't pay for internet or unlimited phone service. So DVDs, Blu Rays, VHS, etc is the main media these places still use.
@Greedo1977
@Greedo1977 5 ай бұрын
Still
@watchforever1724
@watchforever1724 5 күн бұрын
@@Greedo1977yeah I know for sure
@coffeecrusader4863
@coffeecrusader4863 Жыл бұрын
With 500+ blu rays in my collection, i ain't stoping. If they dont wanna release a film on blu ray, i'll buy a custom copy. The Tragedy of Macbeth didnt get a release, I bought a custom disc online and it looks better than most standard releases do.
@samcooper430
@samcooper430 Жыл бұрын
Serious question, how does one find out where to buy a custom disk online? I have been trying to look for certain shows but have not had any luck. Thank you.
@fivehundrediq5212
@fivehundrediq5212 Жыл бұрын
Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon: We will make you stop
@gabrielv.4358
@gabrielv.4358 Жыл бұрын
@@samcooper430 Just Torrent a movie and burn into the dvd
@real1mem3s
@real1mem3s Жыл бұрын
Did you really buy a torrented copy of a film instead of doing it yourself? That's just sad and pathetic dude
@folksurvival
@folksurvival Жыл бұрын
Isn't having 500 already a good reason to stop?
@tiagoraposo4191
@tiagoraposo4191 4 ай бұрын
Im gen Z and i can say that i absolutely ADORE physical media, i hate seeing it go away
@FrederickGreer
@FrederickGreer Жыл бұрын
I've always loved physical media, even since I was a little kid. Nowadays everybody's preferring streaming services because it's a whole lot easier to them. The fun part about collecting physical media is owning every single movie/show you loved and it's yours forever. If they ever take down the physical media run it would break my heart. we have to keep physical media alive no matter what.
@Ness_and_Sonic
@Ness_and_Sonic Жыл бұрын
Or at least until copyright laws make more modern stuff public domain, then we can DIY it legally.
@trailerwager8850
@trailerwager8850 Жыл бұрын
OK-- CONSIDER THIS: There is no "preferred" choice. The options are intentionally put where they want them to be. You are told to adopt and adapt, without options
@finkamain1621
@finkamain1621 Жыл бұрын
@@trailerwager8850 Lol and when you have some movies on a watch list and then they say "Leaving this streaming service in 3 days" and then you practically have to watch it before it disappears maybe forever
@thedarkforce9596
@thedarkforce9596 Жыл бұрын
That's usually what I do I buy the movies and TV shows on physical that I love same with games
@CaptainHero-h1q
@CaptainHero-h1q Жыл бұрын
Ist is Not forever, every disc has an expired date!
@RM2011ish
@RM2011ish Жыл бұрын
I spent most of my adult life collecting all of my favorite Movies, Anime and Television shows on DVD and Blu Ray and I still will to this day. I'd rather watch my stuff without interruption and having to rely on a damn internet connection.
@TheTech660
@TheTech660 11 ай бұрын
Thanks for this! You have pretty much covered everything from the pros and cons. All I have to say, and Ive been saying this for years is , "SUPPORT ALL PHYSICAL MEDIA!"
@elglowingjar
@elglowingjar 2 ай бұрын
Instant money, instant satisfaction, instant text, instant calls, we most laziest. More hungry INSTANT THINGS.
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