Why I Collect Physical Media

[@alydematti]

I totally share your sentiments on collecting. I grew up around vhs tapes and dvds and at one point decided to start my own collection that I’ve been growing and curating for at least 15 years now. Movies have always been super important to me and I love being able to have a physical copy that I can revisit whenever I want! I do stream a lot of movies but if I like things enough I’ll eventually add them to my collection, and like you said.. a lot of titles aren’t available to stream anywhere so if you have them in your collection it feels extra special and like you’re keeping it from being forgotten.

[@KillerPizzaVideos]

Exactly! One of the best parts of starting this channel is talking to so many cool and like minded people like I don't feel like a pretentious movie fan like some others can be like if someone streams that's cool as long as you're watching movies that's awesome but at the same time I feel like it's almost like a cool secret club when I talk with other collectors. Long live physical media!

[@k.stauffer9088]

Hey, man, loved the video! I tend to lurk and not comment but this is also something that's pretty important to me, and since you invited everyone in the comments to share our stories, I figured I'd throw my hat in the ring. I'm a lot like you in that I grew up around video rental stores and I had a lot of relatives with huge VHS (and eventually DVD) collections, and I always wanted a collection of my own, but at first I approached it kind of casually. When I was starting out at my first job and learning to budget it was buying a DVD that I really wanted every once in a while and otherwise just waiting for my birthday or Christmas to roll around. It was actually Netflix that really spurred my collecting though. In early 2013, Netflix had like, every X-Men cartoon there was on the platform and I got super excited. My husband and I were on our first anniversary and had really gotten into sharing stuff we loved from childhood and I was kinda like "oh dude, the X-Men cartoons are on Netflix, I wanna watch them with you", because he'd never seen them. Lo and behold, we barely got into watching them when Netflix started pulling them off the platform. The worst was we'd gotten 7 episodes into one of the cartoons and were binge-watching, but when Netflix tried to autoplay the next one, it got stuck and crashed because they pulled that title AS WE WERE WATCHING. And this was before they got on the ball with putting up those banner alerts about "this title is leaving in 2 weeks" or whatever, so we had to contact Netflix about the crash and they told us it happened because the cartoon got pulled. Husband was disappointed but I was livid. Ever since, I've been hardcore into collecting physical media, especially if it's something we love. Still have to budget, still have to take time to really plan for more expensive titles, and I'm still learning a lot. There are so many awesome sites dedicated to selling physical media and the secondhand market has been good to us (mostly; there've been some misfires and duds and whatnot,) but even if I'm still learning to this day after 11 years of collecting, it's a lot of fun and it's hella worth it. Thanks again for the awesome video and stay chill!

[@KillerPizzaVideos]

Well I'm glad you decided to comment and join the conversation! I absolutely love that story about showing your husband the X-Men cartoon because there is nothing like sharing something you love with someone you love. That's a prime example on why streaming can suck and crazy how it was pulled mid watch. I feel at times streaming sites are almost threatening like how the cable companies used to be like "two weeks left you better watch" that's why I bought the complete series of certain shows like the Office, Shameless, and South Park I love those shows and can watch them anytime I want. Once again I appreciate you doing the chat and sharing your story and thanks as always for watching I really appreciate it. Physical Media forever!

[@DisheveledByDawn]

Great video. Get stories, it brought back memories of my family renting videos and taking turns watching them. I love my physical media as well.

[@KillerPizzaVideos]

Thank you for the kind words and for watching! Yeah the experience of the video store is something new generations will unfortunately miss out on it truly was a unique experience and nothing beats bonding with friends, family, or loved ones over movies and physical media.

[@BeyondTheGraveMedia]

My origins began with VHS in the 80s/90s. Picking up horror and movies my parents wouldn't buy from Kmart and Suncoast, then it exploded! Lucky to have parents who loved watching movies

[@KillerPizzaVideos]

Same! Funny story my mom recently talked to me about the movie April's Fools Day which me and my sister used to watch almost the time and said something like "that movie was gory I can't believe I let you guys watch that" and I was thinking shit that one isn't even violent we were watching so many movies that were soooo much more brutal lmao

[@BeyondTheGraveMedia]

@@KillerPizzaVideos Mom that one was so tame! Lol, same story man!

[@bose5160]

Pretty confident that in the next 10 years there will not be any movies or shows releasing on physical media…

[@KillerPizzaVideos]

I disagree. Look at vinyls records.

[@ChannelWackadoo]

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