I gave up physical media for streaming

[@TheLWebb100]

Every time I want to stream a specific movie its NEVER on any of the services. I got fed up and started buying 4k blu rays three years ago.

[@spectrexr1]

That's what got me. That's why I use both but love physical

[@TheLWebb100]

@@spectrexr1 Yeah I do use a friends HBO max for streaming on the side. Like I wanted to watch Godzilla Minus One, low and behold it's not on streaming lol.

[@servare2599]

So your thought process was… Streaming > Physical Media Why not Streaming > 🏴‍☠️ > Physical Media

[@Sampson.entertainment]

I learned the value of physical media again last night when my internet went out for a day. So I went to my physical collection so I could watch something.

[@Mrig12000]

Physical media is great for survival situations. I have about 4 or 5 portable DVD players that I keep on hand for hurricanes or natural disasters. Also have a few marine batteries wired to a cigarette lighter socket and a power inverter. I remember the hurricanes in I believe 2003 or 2004 I was out of power for almost two weeks. I was bored out of my mind I told myself never again.

[@servare2599]

Hard drives / SSD exist, all can fit in the palm of your hand and store as much as you desire.

[@Sampson.entertainment]

@@servare2599 hard drives fail

[@servare2599]

@@Sampson.entertainment very rare, I work IT and deal with large storage arrays / backups. I’ve only ever seen 2 drives fail in 5 years. You can have backups of media on multiple drives, that would require 2 copies of a disc to be redundant on optical. Those drives are also being hammered constantly all day in an enterprise environment, that’s not the same as a retail drive you use briefly every now and then.

[@jaashua27]

@@servare2599exactly what I do bro, I DO buy 4K Blu-rays to support the filmmakers, but I don’t use my player anymore. I extract the discs into a MKV file with all the audio tracks and subtitles that I need. Same quality, all in one place. I organize the movies by folder and a picture of proof; example: inside the “Hulk (2003) [4K]” folder there is the movie and a picture of the disc just to show it’s an actual copy I own.

[@Dont_Hug_Me_Im_Squared]

If you live in germany you have it even worse at times, since our country either likes to censor movies or blacklist them which means they either wont get sold/broadcasted to the public or are fully banned. Now the problem regarding streams is for discs by now we often get Extended Cuts, Directors Cuts etc which are uncut for the most part but if you want to stream movies you more than often not gonna have them in those versions on the streaming platforms but in the cinema cut or the approved censored version. I have to import some movies from Austria since those censorship issues don't exist there which often means it's gonna cost more but I accept those extra costs if they're still within reason. It's one of the main reasons I chose to become a movie collector.

[@josearqco]

The only problem I find is to get an actually good Blu-ray (4k as well) player, because I don't like to expend a large amount of money through a web site; I like to have a person in front of Me that can explain so many things about the product I'm buying, and if I have any problem with the product, He'll fix it.

[@gurdipvirdee7176]

Physical media is the way my friend.❤

[@Gaming-Enthusiast]

That was the same as me , I gave up buying physical movies once we got Netflix and Disney plus. Now I’ve canceled my streaming services and jumped back into collecting Blu-ray and 4k movies for my home cinema. Way better experience to watch movies on physical media .

[@JoelakaJC]

I remember the good ol days of 2016 and a little before that time I move into a new apartment and there was a Best Buy store really close by within walking distance and I remember browsing all the new and old movies and blu rays they had, even had a small anime section, but now I think Best Buy made a huge mistake getting rid of the Best way to browse and buy dvds and blurays, I’m thankful there are channels like yours that still champion the cause of physical media and I’m all for it 🤟💿

[@nicklindsay1340]

When he said he threw out the actual cases I died a little on the inside 😭

[@emanuelespinoza9325]

I could never bring myself to do that. It pisses me off that people throw out the cases.

[@bromane5thfloor]

This man is dial into all his movies.knowing directly where they are located.Respect

[@SulphurBorne]

Real collector type shit love shit

[@abaramyasharal1056]

The DVD version of Friday will always be the best. 👍🏾

[@JohnDoe-bz4yl]

And what makes it harder for us Australian physical media collectors is some places won't ship overseas There have been some great bargains from Barnes & Noble criterion half price sales but they won't ship to Australia

[@JamieToomeyPresents]

Yeah that’s why I go through a contact to get overseas stuff, they’ve found a way around it

[@DwemerTom]

After watching your channel, I was inspired to buy the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray of the Super Mario Bros. movie! Really excited to play it on my Xbox Series X

[@josearqco]

Which player do You use to play your discs?, people say that the Sony's frizzes while playing 4k!

[@plaidpunk]

Good to see you around again Jamie! Love the vids! I know you're worried about the mic stuff right now, but I hope you get it all sorted and start building your community. I know for a fact you are doing something incredible. I just love the way you talk about things. See you around bud!

[@bhirawamaylana466]

Remember when Streaming really help us to reach movie/show easier, affordable, and we can watch it anytime we want, but now days its just TV Cable with pause and resume button enable.

[@the80sguy80]

Good Morning, I had considered switching over to digital a couple years ago, to conserve space. But I heard a few horror story's, much like the ones you described about logging in and finding stuff that you had paid for disappearing and such. So I decided to stick with physical media. The only thing I buy digitally is games and I`m a little leery about that nowadays. Thanks for sharing & Happy Easter.

[@OwtDaftUK]

You can have the advantages of digital with physical buy copying the movies form the blurays onto a hard drive and then your phyical copies don't get scratched with you constantly taking them out.

[@JTW3159]

nows the time to buy dvd/cd etc ,dirt cheap on the second hand market, I picked up 10 blurays at vinnies for 5 bucks a piece all near mint,

[@wesleywyndam-pryce4081]

Let's say you want to buy them digitally even the stores don't have every movie different digitall stores have different movies available to buy and different versions or some are not available not to mention digital stores close to like the playstation psn digital movie store closed they've relaunched now but in a different way. You can't rely on any digital store. While I'm sure youtube Google play or Amazon prime will be around a long time they still take movies of the store when licencing issues come up and different regions have different movies available to buy. It would be perfect if you could buy every single movie in the format you wanted digitally in one big unlimited library but unfortunately it doesn't work like that

[@ChrisTheCasual]

Tbh video game physical media is dying as well it’s sad

[@Plan-C]

I just did the same wanted to watch a movie I had on dvd. All the sites wanted me to rent it again. In the future, we will have to pay over and over for the same old crap. I didn't bother in the end.

[@1165mac]

100% agreement that we should be able to watch what we want and decide how we personally feel about it without a corporate “nanny” trying to instill its typically Woke values on our viewing experience.

[@starshipsofgreatness]

I'm very blessed I have a good collection of physical media. I do stream movies, but I don't watch it as much as I do with my physical media movies. great video and just subscribed to your channel.

[@naciremasti]

Was fun seeing a premier, maybe start a discord in the future.

[@JamieToomeyPresents]

I’ll consider it, but I really gotta fix that microphone first 😂

[@JoelakaJC]

A discord server for fellow lovers of physical media would an awesome idea! I’m all for that! 💿📺

[@murasaki312]

Quick tip: leave just a wee bit of slack on each of your shelves; so your discs are not so tightly squashed together fighting for breath! It improves ease of access immeasurably, and lessens the chance of accidental damage to SteelBooks etc.

[@bondjovi4595]

Never again.....right

[@Skullcandy5282]

Just wanted to add something my biggest concern with digital 4ks, I've picked up a few but some are exclusive to digital and not purchasable like breaking bad, I own two or three copies at this point but it's 4k on netflix with no way to obtain it legally you just have to be subbed to netflix at full price or pirate it. You'd need a massive hard drive just for BB in 4k. I Would definitely pick up a 4k boxset of BB and better caul saul. A few others I've seen are wall street or gone girl, I'm sure there's more, both have no physical, I have a decent Internet but digital 4k will always be sub par to the actual disc because of streaming compression and bandwidth limitations. I really hope physical media doesn't die as digital isn't really a good substitute, with the limitations and licensing issues. I mean if breaking bad can't support getting a 4k release what hope do other films and TV have? Great vid mate :)

[@sirducksworthythe3rd842]

That was a mistake, no one should stream only, it's not a viable future like they want you to believe

[@BasicSneedEducation]

The Jolly Roger 😂

[@tmacnavyseal4789]

KZbin keeps suggesting your videos to me so I subbed

[@lasergame98]

I see you are wearing a Wolf Pac t-shirt. You are just, too, sweeet! 🤘😎🤘

[@TheCaptain610]

Don't worry Jamie, you returned like the prodigal son and that's all Jesus asks of you.

[@refineme]

Rip it all and put it on a plex server.

[@crazygamer646]

i decided to buy some movies since they're now discontinuing dvds and blurays in stores and there is always a chance that they could take that away from me for whatever reason so i re bought some movies just to know this is mine and you would have to literally break into my house and take it away from me i have some digital movies that at any moment they could either lose the license or delete it for whatever reason

[@crankyfloridian]

Here they did something interesting with Gone With The Wind, they have a sign in the beginning saying "This is Racial offensive but presented in its original format" so they didnt yank it.

[@medialen72]

Don't know if you were a media collector in the VHS era? But you end up in a dilemma when the transition to DVD came and later Bluray, 4k. A dilemma if you were to stay on VHS, buy everything on new media. Thanks for good and thoughtful content

[@brianm2238]

why not convert them all to disk?

[@80sdreamwave32]

Streaming ok love physical Media

[@jayd5360]

Wolverine is on 4K bro. I got it

[@tony714keene]

This youtuber said he was watching MD house on Netflix at that time, right in the middle of watching house, and Netflix yanked it off of Netflix. Do you have any tv series?

[@alexhouston5480]

Could u make a video on disc rot?

[@KyleYoung2012]

The past few years of my life I switched too digital or pirate because I'm not going too pay 200 $ for a Ps2 game like God Hand for example. I know many people are against this type of thing even the emulator i play it on doesn't really support piracy but I don't care I do it anyway

[@RetroSmoo]

Buying games 2nd hand doesn't support the original developers anyway lol

[@brutalbown1]

You cannot beat 4K blus period. Wildly better sound and a nicer picture. Why wouldn't you??

[@anaerobic]

Money?

[@brutalbown1]

@anaerobic Na. You can buy em well cheap if you buy standard editions and secondhand. Plus I've never understood why some collectors buy absolutely everything! I mean AS IF they like them all. Pointless and a waste of money.

[@SanAndreasToday]

I though you just released a video talking about how steaming is becoming a disaster.....I’m out lol

[@JiroRicky]

So you prefer shit to the chocolate

[@thecollector1993]

what do you mean

[@StanleyManIX]

I believe he means that at one point, he gave up physical "to the Jolly Roger" and decided to stream. He regretted it and started physical collecting again.

[@thecollector1993]

@@StanleyManIX physical is better and cheaper. once you own it its yours forever

[@naciremasti]

Jolly Roger means pirating. ​@@StanleyManIX

[@StanleyManIX]

You guys are complete idiots, I was making a joke because HE calls pirating the Jolly Roger. I was making it seemed like his term for "pirates/pirating" stole his collection, so he went to streaming services for a bit. I understand completely that physical is better...you own it yes, I get that.

[@mr.horseshoe2301]

Physical is too much of a hassle. Takes up a gargantuan amount of space. I buy digital copies, but I always make a backup copy and put it on my 100TB NAS that has redundancy.

[@horrorfan6710]

You guys and your physical collection LOL