Streaming Falls and Physical Media Rises

As streaming falls, physical media is on the rise! Find out why more people are turning to DVDs and Blu-rays for their entertainment needs.
Streaming Falls and Physical Media Rises
Why the FRIENDS 4k RELEASE is so important to the future of physical media!
With the recent failings and forced mergers to save their services, we may be seeing the end of Streaming while the resurgence of Boutique physical media manufacturers like #arrowvideo #vinegarsyndrome #criterion #kinolorber #secondsight #zavvi #grindhouse and others have #physicalmedia becoming more prevalent by the day!
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In this video, we explore the death of streaming and the resurrection of physical media. Find out why more people are turning back to DVDs and Blu-rays for their entertainment needs.
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[@AVAPopCulture]

HUGE Physical Media announcements, crazy #4kuhd boxset, and Streaming takes another step back! Let's talk about it, Pop that tape in, let's go do this!

[@jrlangdon89]

I have over 7300 movies and tv series in my collection long live physical

[@AVAPopCulture]

This is the way!!!!!

[@chuckhenson6896]

I got 4300 hundred movies not alot of tv series

[@DVDhoarder]

Ihave about 1400 movies and 100 seasons forth of tv series that I havent watched yet. But anyways, physical media is the way. Long live the DVD 🤪👍

[@jrlangdon89]

Physical is best

[@barteklatawiec8873]

I started collecting physical media 2 years ago and now have about 100 movies all in 4K, only the ones I love and rewatch. But now I will buy more and more because I love physical media.

[@AVAPopCulture]

This is the way!!!!

[@jameshollier9227]

Im seriously consider collecting a ass load of physical media myself brother

[@AVAPopCulture]

Get after it!! I'm making up for lost time now with the 4ks...buying everything I can!

[@alfonsoagren414]

Lets hooe. Physical media is for true lovers of film and series. Streamkng is for those that just care to the level of being able to say ”yes” if someone asks if they seen this and that. Before streaming those often watchdd films on crappy sites as deeamfilm and such. Just to have seen it. Not caring about quality or being intrested about extras or cover arts and more. Cheers!

[@perryfan49]

Physical media definitely needs this! It’s not dead but it does suffer a bit from nay sayers. I really want physical media to boom even better than it’s been lately.

[@MaxwellErwin]

Physical media is the best. I'm still watching old Stargate SG-1 and Buffy DVDs from one-time purchases that I made over a decade ago. I just wish I could get proper Blu-Ray of those two shows.

[@AVAPopCulture]

Buffy is one of my top 3 favorite shows of all time and I would love a Blu Ray or 4k release of it!!

[@superg50zero32]

I think this is great news for physical media, if it sells really well they might release more TV series in the 4K UHD format.

[@AVAPopCulture]

If it sells well, it will be huge for physical media!!

[@jameshollier9227]

Your KZbin channel is awesome brother

[@AVAPopCulture]

Thanks man I really appreciate that! I'm pretty passionate about it and having a lot of fun with it!!

[@heavensea141]

Were I live an shop recantly opened. They are selling phycical CD, DVD, blue- rays 1080p - 4K Music, movies and TV Shows. Doing very well succesfulwise! At the end of the day its in our human nature to phycical own have something hold it. Its like phycical Books. See it from an deep thinking point of weiv' Its about opinions ' Digital media don't takes phycical space Only Pro with digital. Phycical takes Phycical space but you own it. Phycical media on Games, music, movies its a million marked! Wounderfull VIDEO'S! Completaly agreed with everything you are saying!

[@thelastmoviestanding]

I cancelled all my streaming services (minus Amazon) in January & have not regretted it! I don't miss it at all! I don't even really watch my digital copies as much anymore. With Friends coming to 4K, Sopranos, & Blazing Saddles just getting announced, we need Gone With The Wind on 4k! There is no more excuse about "cost & time", especially with Friends getting the complete series. Makes it a stupid limited edition $200 box set, it will sell out lol.

[@AVAPopCulture]

I admit, I will probably buy friends if it hits the $200 mark and I agree wholeheartedly on Gone With the Wind! It would be epic in 4k! If more and more shows start coming out in 4k, things will get very interesting, and potentially tougher for streaming....once you watch 4k on a true 4k setup, it is hard to watch, or listen to, digital streams...I guess I will always have Prime because of the shipping and it is rolled in with my IMDB profile but once the final season of cobra kai is done, I will cancel my last streaming service...

[@thelastmoviestanding]

@@AVAPopCulture there's a few shows stuck just on DVD I would love to see get a Blu-Ray upgrade, Boston Legal, Californiacation, Scream Queens. I hate when TV shows only have a few seasons on DVD & a few on Blu. Modern Family has like 10 seasons & only 1-4 are on Blu, they stopped after season 4.

[@TrainedSniper12]

See people don’t get it if the internet goes out like at my house last night I can’t do streaming but I got 1,000 movies in my house

[@AVAPopCulture]

Exactly! and the movies you want to watch are there -nobody else can take them away from you at any time like with streaming!

[@Beetleejuicee]

Yup I believe it. I canceled my Netflix and peacock and some other ones in 2024 so good luck. They don’t realize these massive streaming services with monthly subscriptions can be dropped whenever I want if they piss me off. Streaming can NEVER sustain. If they don’t cater to the people they will lose it all. Streaming has to do a massive overhaul and get rid of ads and lower prices just so many things that aren’t going to happen. Streaming fluctuates way too much for these services and the need a massive amount of ads just to break even. Streaming is dying. They can pretend like everyone wants that but people are stopping all together instead of just slowing down.

[@AVAPopCulture]

100% agree

[@IndiephantomSofaSinema]

Love the backdrop. Just discovered the channel and already loving it. Not a fan of streaming but have been collecting physical media since like 1985. VHS, laserdisc, and now mostly blu-ray and DVD.

[@AVAPopCulture]

hey thank you so much! my sign in the background was a gift from my wife and all of the rest of the stuff is my various nerdome back there LOL but it is stuff that makes me happy to look at so it is nice to know other people enjoy it too! Glad you are enjoying the channel, Im pretty passionate about this stuff and I am having a lot of fun with it!

[@austinwillcut4919]

So streaming is NOT the future lol. I told ya so! "Physical media is dying".....yeah, right lol. Now we just need to get the video stores back and forget this streaming nonsense ever happened.

[@AVAPopCulture]

All it will take is a cool concept to get them going again...a video rental store/retro movie themed bar and lounge that serves snacks and drinks and lets you rent a movie with your first drink purchase or something...call it "dinner and a movie" at flashback video ro retro rental or something like that...not that I have given such a business a lot of thought LOL

[@mousec2600]

Good information. Completely restored full length collections of my favorite old TV shows will get my money (Especially 4K versions). These entertainment companies need to wake up to what it is we're all looking for. Maybe this is s good sign some of them are beginning to.

[@AVAPopCulture]

fingers crossed that Friends is the tip of the iceberg!

[@CryWolf-sm9iw]

I really can’t wait for that Friends set. It wasn’t my favorite tat the time but the nostalgia for that era of tv before the country went PC crazy is huge.

[@AVAPopCulture]

Yeah I'm looking forward to it! My wallet isn't though 🤣

[@TakeScareMedia]

Loving this channel also!!!

[@AVAPopCulture]

Hey thanks man! I appreciate it!! I'm having a lot of fun with it!

[@RMS5006]

Streaming sucks! Canceled all streaming. My pm. Is always superior to what they offer. No more chasing the cheez.

[@AtelierOfWeebs]

Price rising, commercials, password sharing Yeah, I'm going back to physical The problem is it's harder here in my country 😂 they really screwed us

[@MrEdWeirdoShow]

What (or who) is AVA? Just call it it Poppin' Pop Culture, man.

[@AVAPopCulture]

American Vintage Pop Culture

[@ericspalacio]

Oh yeah, couple years back I got that 70s show on for Blu-ray 1080 P, cool thing about that one is actually in DTS 5.1, and I purchased the old Adam West Batman‘s populate two years ago as well before they seem to be on shelves around the world, I have Smallville on Blu-ray but only the tent season, going to see if I can collect the eighth and the seventh soon, was not really much of a fan of the night season. It was kind of too cheesy for my taste. Yeah just in case I said ninth season nine, get it together, Siri.

[@stevenaguirre2488]

Good video brother. Keep it up

[@AVAPopCulture]

Thanks so much! I appreciate it!

[@danmann861]

I hate to say it but the normies don't care about physical media. I volunteer at an op shop here in Australia and the amount of DVD's we've been getting donated to us is kind of insane this year. I think the normies don't really care in this country. With that said, I love physical media. I certainly don't want to see it die at all. But yeah, I think the normies are still very much about what is convenient and streaming is convenient to them. Disney has completely abandoned this company in terms of physical media and there has been talks of others dropping out of the race as well.

[@AVAPopCulture]

I dont consider those people the "normies" , I consider them the brainwashed zombies who will be the first to get suckered out of their money with nothing to show for it LOL

[@ericspalacio]

Yo, I remember, I know what you mean, Netflix used to have an ass load of independent sci-fi and horror movies from back in the day. I used to be on Netflix lot back into 11 to 12, and yeah remember that, good times. 9:11

[@AVAPopCulture]

Yeah they used to have a big independent film acquisition department, and now they don't seem to bother...they should dip back into that market if they want to save themselves

[@hvitekristesdod]

Netflix has to put out some of their stuff on physical at some point. Though I don’t subscribe there’s still some of their content that I’ve seen that I’d like to own. The new Ripley show for instance

[@AVAPopCulture]

I got the 1st season of stranger things on DVD years ago with a Target Black Friday special and I havent really seen much else - I think Cobra Kai is on DVD maybe

[@loltanios]

I’m surprised they even bother with movies on streaming services. TV shows are the only real draw, for me at least. And that’s what they do best as far as new releases go.

[@AVAPopCulture]

100% agree! Streaming is tailor made for TV shows, both old and new, that is what they should focus on

[@JimmyG96]

I'm not 100% sure on the ins-and-outs of the Disney-Sony deal - I initially thought it is was going to be that Sony was taking over the manufacturing and distribution of the Disney releases (i.e. similar to the Studio Distribution Services joint-venture WB and Universal have had for the past couple of years)… that being said if Sony is COMPLETELY 100% taking over the Disney library physical media like your saying, and they're going to raiding the vaults... I'm all for it. As a BIG Disney fan I'd go BALLISTIC if Sony re-did the excellent Walt Disney Treasures series for Blu-Ray... Leonard Maltin has been BEGGING them to do that, but it's fallen on death ears (no pun intended)...but now, maybe this dream has a better chance of coming true.

[@alium4259]

I want George Lopez show in 4k

[@sir.reelcinema]

I already owned friends on Blu-ray, however to support the community I would be willing to drop $300 for having friends on 4K even though I don’t really need it. We have to support those that are willing to put their necks out for the physical market. Otherwise they will not keep releasing Stuff for us.

[@AVAPopCulture]

agreed! I will probably buy it as well! I only had the DVD and there is tons of extra content on this 4k release

[@ericspalacio]

No, no no, I cannot get with that commercial advertisement. PS, if I do stream most of the time it’s usually old TV shows or every now and then movies I actually purchased through a free digital license from the Blu-ray I have, or some movies I love them, but if I don’t like them as much, I’ll get them on streaming for like 499 to 799 but yeah, no no no with this commercial crap. That’s one of the main reasons why I left cable television, and the fact that you have way more control over the content you’re watching. But yeah, still love my HD DVDs just saw the Halloween criterion collection on my laser disk today, and probably I’m gonna watch some horrible movies on laser disk tomorrow night as well, did not really get back into BHS, I mean let’s just face it. Laser disc is like the superman of VHS. All I ever had when I was a kid just video cassettes here and there, my parents didn’t know how to pick out a PCR so they never looked too good, thing I love about laser disk is, it’s the exact same transfer. It’s a higher image of analog picture and audio. There is one thing that I do know that separates laser disks in stereo from stereo DVDs, I thought it was just me at first, but I didn’t notice that laser disks have Way higher fidelity quality in stereo than DVDs too. I put it on a simulated 5.1 or 7.1 and they sound but no, I was, kind of tripping out on how close to a true five point one. It sounded on laser disk, but I also have the AC three converter to experience laser death like Congo/Austin Powers/the relic and Forrest Gump sounds pretty good too in Dolby 5.1. I just recently purchased some DTS trackson laser disks and mad or forget about it, broken arrow and Crimson Tide, I mean, damn, I even got species on DTS and it sounds better than the DTS transfer that they released on the 4K, and another sidenote I said horror, horror movies not horrible, you suck Siri. 5:58

[@gallynuts]

They’re using the go woke go broke business model 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@ericspalacio]

Man, this sounds really cool, I’m hoping that Sony pictures will release for the first time in either 4K or just HD physical media ass Seinfeld Blu-ray box set, we already have cheers on Blu-ray through Paramount, at least I do, ha ha, come on Sony give us Seinfeld, don’t get me wrong. I love the DVDs but come on guys. Can you really argue with 1080 P or 4K at that level. Especially since Netflix actually had it put in a 5.1 format for the first time, at least a true 5.1 format for Seinfeld.

[@AVAPopCulture]

I am hoping if this Friends 4k release goes well, we will get a lot of shows released on 4k and if that happens and they all do well, it is going to hurt streaming because like you mentioned, I think a lot of people watch streaming for TV shows, both original and old shows...

[@theroguecybersoldier2629]

Also you can get used Blu rays cheap with people going to streaming

[@ericspalacio]

Yeah, only come on Seinfeld so I felt I felt come on, I think also everybody loves Raymond would be awesome to have on 4K, most of those seasons were actually shot on film as well, the only seasons were some reason and it may have been a budget thing, which is the second and third season that we shot on Laura Rez, don’t know why, You can totally tell on the DVDs though, the first season looks awesome and season four on are awesome as well, the cool thing about everybody loves Raymond on the fourth season is they started shooting with higher resolution cameras, HD and white screen format, still waiting for a 5.1 from them, though, we got it from Seinfeld, but we need this stuff on physical media. Come on guys, give us Martin on Blu-ray, everybody loves Raymond Hell I miss old show like threes company and all in the family yeah TV. 11:59

[@RandallStevenson]

I wonder if channels on the opposite end exist? with videos titled some variation of "physical media is dead!!! long live streaming!!!"

[@AVAPopCulture]

probably not, considering it is hard to build a passion and attachment to something that you cant touch and dont own! lol

[@physicalmediaeu]

Man... what is that release from Escape from New York at 0:45? is it the Scream Factory one?

[@AVAPopCulture]

Yes! And I love these! I am trying to track down the old one for big trouble in little china! They did one for it, one for escape from new York, and one for the first 3 halloween movies and 1 for the fog! I'm only missing the one for The Fog and Big Trouble... I think The Fog and Escape from New York are both still available from Scream Factory

[@physicalmediaeu]

@@AVAPopCulture nice, thanks! I have the one you say from Big Trouble. I love it. If I had to choose one film to come out in 4K, it would be that one. Will you do an unboxing of Escape from NY? would love to see that.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@physicalmediaeu yeah I'd love to see that in 4k too....they also did that set for They Live...damn I have a lot to get lol

[@AVAPopCulture]

@@physicalmediaeu I think I did an unboxing of it in my recent "Scream Factory Haul" video if you want to check it out

[@physicalmediaeu]

@@AVAPopCulture oh missed it! will check it out. Thanks!

[@riveraa903]

But physical media sales are dropping year on year🤷‍♂️

[@AVAPopCulture]

You sure? "4K Blu-ray sales rose almost 6% in the third quarter of 2023 compared to 2022 and boast a 14% increase to this point in the first quarter of 2024. The end of 2022 saw an overall sale increase of 20% year-over-year"

[@riveraa903]

@@AVAPopCulture I saw those pie charts from some youtubers and they say sales keep dropping compared to last year same months.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@@riveraa903 I mean, you can argue all you want, but you can see the facts with a simple google search - check Forbes and other... "The strong quarterly performance in theatrical new releases also benefited premium physical formats, with spending on purchases of 4K UHD Blu-ray titles up 15 percent for the quarter. Fans seeking to watch Oppenheimer at home in the best picture quality possibly reportedly drove retail storages of the title." - Variety

[@riveraa903]

@@AVAPopCulture I'm just seeing the raw sales numbers and they are down compare to last year

[@Anonymous-wb3nz]

No, they aren't.