Thats true. Iam also a collector of physical media. But there is one disturbing problem. There are some labels which disc Arent working after years anymore. Iam from germany and habe About 600 blurays. 2 discs in the collections Arent readable anymore.
For years, people scoffed at me buying everything physically, saying it's silly when everything is on Netflix. Now they all get pissed when their favorite show or movie gets removed and ends up in the ether or on a different streamer.
You should also mention the higher quality of physical media. A 4k HDR Bluray delivers more picture and audio information than a 4k HDR stream. You can see the difference.
No....I'm not sure what you mean. Hooking your Blu-ray player up to the internet doesn't affect the disc itself, nor can the company alter the movie.@@flavaj13
It is. A lot of people clearly don't know about CD buffing machines for those of us who have hundreds of dvds and thousands of music cd's. The un-informed will aways hold us back as a society.
@@Swisshostblurays last 30-100 years. And they can be just archived to other storage devices. And there are also M-Discs, which theoretically last 1000 years
What's insane is just how quick digital-only owners are to slam physical media. Not only are they happy to surrender their ownership, but they're all too happy to ridicule those who think it's important.
If you want movie studios to release more films/shows on physical media then start buying physical media! The more sales increase the more content will be released on disc.
I've just dropped most my subscriptions, reduced my viewing by 90%, and took up about 6 different hobbies and started hiking to stay entertained. Happier and healtheir!
@@SENATORPAIN1 A normal human watches movies only on physical media at home or waits for them to air on TV. Physical media will be the law thanks to an act of Congress.
@halfbakedmovieslol you can still install the data on 5he disc and edit yourself into the film via green screen, thus making you a member of the production crew
@@freeman10000 No, you don't understand. Have you seen what they did to games? Some games need a permanent server connection - even if they are single player games. The fact that the games come on a physical disc doesn't mean anything anymore. The same nightmare could become true for movies.
People need to do something like protest against digital taking away physical copies. It’s not just movies and shows it’s also games the people need to do something.
Max’s purge of shows like Close Enough, Infinity Train, and Summer Camp Island shows why physical media should still be around and protected. They can get rid of whatever they want on their service. But if you have a disc, you can still watch it
We are always going to want to have physical media as an option. Neither Hollywood or the games industry is ever going to get audiences to stop people from buying or seeking out physical discs/media of content. It’s just ingrained in us as fans, we love to own something tangible.
@@yacobell7108 Exactly! Everyone seems to forget the companies that actually make the physical media can stop at any time. Sure,there are boutique labels,for now.
The inner hoarder in me smiled to my belly's fill after hearing this affirmation that my desire to buy a SeriesX and buy physical media boxsets doesn't make me MAD.
One issue not touched on in this video is that physical media can be the original TV show/movie. So many shows are being edited for PC reasons - if one wants to watch the original version, best to look for older versions of the DVD/VHS tape.
If your collection is more non-english like mine, you been already done knowed that physical media is the only way to go as there you are guaranteed to get yhe original language version and you get all the neat extras
There is still Redbox where I'm at, and buying dvds are $5 a piece. The only drawback about collecting physical copies of media is storing it. Not everyone wants or has the ability to set up shelving space.
I'm here for this kind of content! the irony of big businesses is they are resistant to change, then make wild swings to adapt to it, then have to make drastic changes to correct their bad choices made after denying change in the first place...
Physical media WINS in my book. 💯 This is especially true given the seemingly endless subscription service price hikes 🤦🏽 I have returned to collecting my movies on DVD and bluray 🎥
Prime example not owning what you watch will come back and bite you. The same can be said for renting your software...lol. Nothing is forever when companies are involved.
my sister found a twitter/X post saying that 28 days later is out of print and in licensing hell. so the Dvd that my older brother got years ago is a neat collectors item :)
You're preaching to the choir, at least in my case. I've been shouting from the rooftops this exact perspective for over a decade and a half, going back to the early Amazon ebook days. The public has made their own bed here, trading actual ownership for smoke and mirror promises of convenience and "forever" subscriptions. Now, suddenly, with content getting removed at the whim of providers and people hopefully are starting to see the problem - that they've been renting content. Go watch Louis Rossman and get educated. And get MAD....
Huge number of films from 60s and 70s were on vhs but never made it to DVD format. Finding some of them in digital is impossible as well. For same reason more than 3/4 of films from 1930-60 period are gone.
If not physical piracy, I’d say digital piracy has the same or even more problems. Collectors don’t buy original because the love giving money to corporations. Look it up a bit
you know there's digital piracy too right? Ever hear of limewire, frostwire, piratebay.....? Older examples yes but physical media doesn't drive that market. The digital files do.... How do you think they get on to disc in the first place?
You don't mention the edits and outright deletions of scenes of material, Disney being a major one where they show an original show and a few weeks later it gets edited, meaning the original release is simply gone forever!
Ehhhh physical media not immune to this either. Wong Kar Wai changed color grade for the blu rays of his films. So if you want the original release you have to resort to lower quality DVDs. Also like with Star Wars the unedited physical releases carry an inflated price on sites like eBay.
Finding tv shows let alone movies on dvd is getting harder by the day. It has to be concerning, let alone companies throwing money away. Don’t get me started on ads being introduced
Don’t forget about libraries! Most libraries allow you to borrow movies for free with a library card. So important that we continue to use physical media and public institutions
Another aspect of physical media is that it paradoxically does a better job of sorting for quality at the front end, as a specific investment is required to get the art, but also does a better job of preserving lesser and less popular material at the back end, because physical copies, once produced, don't require ongoing profitability to simply exist. All this implies a general acceptance of mass reproduced culture, which honestly is not a universal opinion, and deserves interrogation. Adorno and others have given us tools to unpack what mercantile replication does to culture.
@@Djboyrimo Disc rot is (for the most part) a myth. It applied to a VERY small line of CDs back in the 90s. Since then. disc rot has been completely eliminated and no longer exists.
Also, things like Netflix etc will only ever continue increasing their prices every month. And then do other things like adding adverts, surveys etc to increase their revenue.
There is NO substitute for having a physical backup. You never know when some conglomerate will buy some parent company or something and then your favorite classic disappears.
My hope is even if physical media drops from the mainstream, there’s enough people that keep buying it that they keep making it. Similar to how with music, most people don’t collect vinyls but enough people do that they’re still available.
Arguing against physical media doesn't really serve anyone. If you don't like it, cool, don't buy it. But why would anyone want the option to disappear for everyone? What do you get out of other people not getting what they prefer?
Was watching a digital version of Name of the Rose the other day and noticed that one important scene was removed that my old DVD had. Not only is availability of some movies threatened, but sometimes they alter content for the political correctness of the day or some legal/rights technicality.
@@GameArmorGameplay Yeah they did that a lot back in the day, but this was a commercial free stream, and they really don't care if it runs long these days because it doesn't need to fit in a time slot.
Another issue is cancel culture - if an actor or movie or subject becomes controversial, it can disappear overnight. Like he pointed out - it can even happen to your purchases. A purchase is not purchasing a movie, but purchasing unlimited views of something in their catalog *as long as it stays in their catalog*
But greed got the best of them, so here we are. Disney did the same with their back catalogue - leased it to Netflix until it created Disney+. Disney+ is now a huge financial drag on the whole company, with Disney themselves predicting that it won't be profitable until 2025! That's a long time to subsidise a failing part of your business. Especially when they could have just continued raking in easy money for lesaing their content at no effort to themselves!
Not only can it never be deleted or removed but you get much better picture and sound quality. If you want to watch a movie in the best quality possible and really take advantage of 4k Dolby vision HDR and Dolby Atmos surround sound, you need a 4k Blu-ray player and 4k Blu-rays
It's so strange how most people seem to agree that physical media isn't just better, but vital for all art forms, yet the statistics generally tell a different story. Of course there will always be pockets of people to keep the physical "thing" alive (vinyl has had a relative boom but is of course still defunct at a truly macro level), but the tide is still moving towards full blown digital.
Replace "Piracy" whenever you hear the phrase "physical media" in this video, and you have the answer to the problem that studio greed created for themselves. This. Is. The. Way.
Speaking of sony, they own funimation and crunchyroll. Funimation got mostly swallowed by crunchyroll and will disappear completely, your purchased digital anime will not be transferred. So they simply learned fanbase x is bigger than fanbase z, so wave goodbye to what you like.
Very small titles were for a long time burned to (short-life span) BD-R, and sold professionally, that way. Possibly, it will be a wide-spread practice to order physical media on demand, for example on BD-R or BD-M (which, however ALREADY are made to lesser quality standards). No pinpack racks in stores, but burned and printed for you in volumes of 1. Like self-printing services for book authors and their very few book buyers.
Pawn shops and flea markets are gold mines for old media at dirt cheap prices. One pawn shop I would scavenge dropped their DVD prices down to 10 cents. That's how saturated the market is. What used to be treasured (and quite expensive) is now virtual trash.
Funny you use the clip from The Dark Knight Rises, consider the imax shots are altered in the digital versions. Making the only way to watch the movie as intended is with the physical version.
Highly accurate, super valid. But the cost of owning and purchasing all the physical media you want is extremely expensive…20$ a month compared to 20$ per movie is a tall hill to climb, if the price per physical media dropped severely than perhaps this would be more feasible.
It's all great until you have to move. Though right now I've shed a lot of DVD's and Blu-Rays and just keep 50 or so that are beloved or classic films.
Physical media is clearly superior. You own it forever no matter what.
Thats true. Iam also a collector of physical media. But there is one disturbing problem. There are some labels which disc Arent working after years anymore. Iam from germany and habe About 600 blurays. 2 discs in the collections Arent readable anymore.
Well for as long as you have the means to use it. After that it might as well be toilet paper.
@@gamingrealmhd1444 That is true. Same thing goes for CDs and DVDs. It is very rare though, but it did happen to me as well.
You will own it forever tucked away on a shelf collecting dust.
Unless your dusc gets sratched and skips or freezes. Lol
Very surprised that this video even came out. Physical media should never disappear.
Si
Indeed! 💯% agree!
*WILL NEVER
Yeah, it was random. But appreciated
Amen to that
For years, people scoffed at me buying everything physically, saying it's silly when everything is on Netflix. Now they all get pissed when their favorite show or movie gets removed and ends up in the ether or on a different streamer.
🤓☝🏻
Same!
Irony
It's funny you got the last laugh, as long as you have a working Blu-ray player you're fine.
Yes! I know a few ppl who said this & we now buy movies & trade with each other
You should also mention the higher quality of physical media. A 4k HDR Bluray delivers more picture and audio information than a 4k HDR stream. You can see the difference.
My favourite is when you get a random internet drop and you have like 6 pixels on screen until the video starts to buffer again.
A 4k HDR Blu-ray is still digital, and if you ever hook up your player to the internet, the movies can still be altered.
No....I'm not sure what you mean. Hooking your Blu-ray player up to the internet doesn't affect the disc itself, nor can the company alter the movie.@@flavaj13
@@flavaj13 you.. have no clue what you're talking about. shush
@@flavaj13 You heard it here first guys, watching your films on VHS, with a giant box/tube TV, is the way to go! 😤
Never gave up on physical media…Never will!
Same here.
Yeah. Me too.
Same
Yuuup
Yes sir!
Sometimes, the internet goes down. It happens. Things just happen sometimes. Physical media should never go away.
Physical media has a life span, the data is then broken.
It is. A lot of people clearly don't know about CD buffing machines for those of us who have hundreds of dvds and thousands of music cd's. The un-informed will aways hold us back as a society.
@@Swisshost They can make DVD'S and Blu Ray movies again. They used to do it often every 10 or 20 years and call it "collectors edition."
@@Swisshostblurays last 30-100 years. And they can be just archived to other storage devices. And there are also M-Discs, which theoretically last 1000 years
@@xXRealXx Wow. What are, "M-Discs"? This the first I've ever heard of them before.
Also, physical media prevents any altering or censoring that these corporations now do.
What's insane is just how quick digital-only owners are to slam physical media. Not only are they happy to surrender their ownership, but they're all too happy to ridicule those who think it's important.
Yeah, it's ridiculous!
Digital doesn't mean Download. Blu-rays and DVD are digital.
As long as digital means you have an .mp4 on your computer of your movie or show, it IS superior. Unfortunately thats rarely the case.
@@jer1776how does that make it superior? lol
@@DONWASABIJUAN Not everyone wants a giant shelf full of DVDs, nor can you take all those with you on a trip somewhere with limited cell service
Started my 4k uhd/Blu-ray collection last year, no looking back! It’s actually so fun to build up your own personal catalogue of films and tv.
so is going outside and not wasting ur money and life
@@poopedcheetah2How long has it been since your wife left you?
@@poopedcheetah2 why even bother posting that comment just cause someone else is enjoying their life more than you are yours
that higher bitrate :)
@@poopedcheetah2
You can do both my dude.
If you want movie studios to release more films/shows on physical media then start buying physical media! The more sales increase the more content will be released on disc.
Maybe when economic inflation goes down.
This!!
I've just dropped most my subscriptions, reduced my viewing by 90%, and took up about 6 different hobbies and started hiking to stay entertained. Happier and healtheir!
The bonus features (I.e. deleted scenes and commentary) are one of the advantages of owning physical media
You can watch deleted scenes and other bonus content straight from RUclips.
@@adrianelias2365 until RUclips deletes it for violating copyright or the company chooses to delete it.
@@adrianelias2365it depends. These companies are usually pretty strict with their copyright ©️ policies.
100% youtube is great but one day it will become another myspace lost to time
And the warning screen, that any copies are illegal 😂
Physical media will always be relevant. This past holidays we were visited by friends and family every weekend and we played DVDs everytime.
DVDs? What a nightmare
@@SENATORPAIN1grow up.
@@Anonymous-wb3nz cram it mam
@@SENATORPAIN1 A normal human watches movies only on physical media at home or waits for them to air on TV. Physical media will be the law thanks to an act of Congress.
"Physical media will always be relevant. " ...unless the content owner decides not to release physical media anymore. Which already started to happen.
Never stopped collecting, Physical Forever!
Same here
Same
Physical copies are always better because it means you actually own it.
Exactly.
@halfbakedmoviesdo you have an IQ below 70, or are you just a troll with no life? You know exactly what he means, so grow up.
@halfbakedmovieslol you can still install the data on 5he disc and edit yourself into the film via green screen, thus making you a member of the production crew
@halfbakedmoviesDon't be pedantic, you know what he means.
@@freeman10000 No, you don't understand. Have you seen what they did to games? Some games need a permanent server connection - even if they are single player games. The fact that the games come on a physical disc doesn't mean anything anymore. The same nightmare could become true for movies.
People need to do something like protest against digital taking away physical copies. It’s not just movies and shows it’s also games the people need to do something.
Buy gamepass and never own anything again, problem solved.
Don't forget Netflix and Amazon subscriptions. @@benjaminbaer5485
@benjaminbaer5485 you've missed the point entirely
@@benjaminbaer5485game pass doesn’t have everything and they remove the games after a year
Yeah
Max’s purge of shows like Close Enough, Infinity Train, and Summer Camp Island shows why physical media should still be around and protected. They can get rid of whatever they want on their service. But if you have a disc, you can still watch it
Never give up your right to full ownership in exchange for convenience...
Unfortunately that's precisely what the majority of people do
It's just a fact of life now. We own nothing
@@IAMthatIAM992speak for yourself.
That is exactly what PC gamers have done and what console gamers are doing now.
@@IAMthatIAM992 - Ooont vee vill be happeeee !!!
(31/Jan/2024-11:23pm🇦🇺EST)
Physical media for the win once again!
We are always going to want to have physical media as an option. Neither Hollywood or the games industry is ever going to get audiences to stop people from buying or seeking out physical discs/media of content. It’s just ingrained in us as fans, we love to own something tangible.
Sure about that? Major retailers like Best Buy have already pulled all forms of physical media
@@yacobell7108 Exactly! Everyone seems to forget the companies that actually make the physical media can stop at any time. Sure,there are boutique labels,for now.
@@yacobell7108 you still have Walmart, Target, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, eBay and others.
I've been preaching this on the plantation for YEARS. Bless you for this.
The inner hoarder in me smiled to my belly's fill after hearing this affirmation that my desire to buy a SeriesX and buy physical media boxsets doesn't make me MAD.
The ps5 is a better media player then the seriesX fyi
@@ishkapiska4516series x plays cds
Higher quality and you actually own it... Yeah, my favourite movies, and albums on physical media ALWAYS
One issue not touched on in this video is that physical media can be the original TV show/movie. So many shows are being edited for PC reasons - if one wants to watch the original version, best to look for older versions of the DVD/VHS tape.
If your collection is more non-english like mine, you been already done knowed that physical media is the only way to go as there you are guaranteed to get yhe original language version and you get all the neat extras
There is still Redbox where I'm at, and buying dvds are $5 a piece. The only drawback about collecting physical copies of media is storing it. Not everyone wants or has the ability to set up shelving space.
If you don’t want physical home video formats to not go away, simple, people have to buy them.
I'm here for this kind of content! the irony of big businesses is they are resistant to change, then make wild swings to adapt to it, then have to make drastic changes to correct their bad choices made after denying change in the first place...
A reminder. You can get A LOT of blurays and DVDs from your local library.
Another argument for physical copies. Studios are constantly making changes to older movies and shows to fit modern audiences.
Physical media WINS in my book. 💯 This is especially true given the seemingly endless subscription service price hikes 🤦🏽 I have returned to collecting my movies on DVD and bluray 🎥
Only buy phiscal. Don't let someone else own your stuff.
@halfbakedmoviesOwning a home is a better investment as you have equity in it.
own your own movies and home its the best.@halfbakedmovies
You only bought the licence to watch the movie. You don't even own the physical disc.
@@Swisshost 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
@@Swisshost , people don't realize that ignoring the fine print doesn't change the terms of service you agree to without reading.
Prime example not owning what you watch will come back and bite you. The same can be said for renting your software...lol. Nothing is forever when companies are involved.
my sister found a twitter/X post saying that 28 days later is out of print and in licensing hell. so the Dvd that my older brother got years ago is a neat collectors item :)
Physical media: dies
Digital media: rises
Piracy: rises a ton
You're preaching to the choir, at least in my case. I've been shouting from the rooftops this exact perspective for over a decade and a half, going back to the early Amazon ebook days. The public has made their own bed here, trading actual ownership for smoke and mirror promises of convenience and "forever" subscriptions. Now, suddenly, with content getting removed at the whim of providers and people hopefully are starting to see the problem - that they've been renting content.
Go watch Louis Rossman and get educated. And get MAD....
My man ✊
Right!
That's why they are pushing all the fancy computers WITHOUT OPTICAL DRIVES!!!
Sad to say...
Forever physical 🙏🏼
one of the best videos i've seen from this channel. couldn't have said it better myself 👏
Now you know what it was like for cinephiles before VCR's (and the movies themselves) became affordable!
All of my favorite movies ARE in one place. On my shelf 😌👌🏾
Huge number of films from 60s and 70s were on vhs but never made it to DVD format. Finding some of them in digital is impossible as well. For same reason more than 3/4 of films from 1930-60 period are gone.
This is why piracy will continue to flourish
If not physical piracy, I’d say digital piracy has the same or even more problems. Collectors don’t buy original because the love giving money to corporations. Look it up a bit
you know there's digital piracy too right? Ever hear of limewire, frostwire, piratebay.....? Older examples yes but physical media doesn't drive that market. The digital files do.... How do you think they get on to disc in the first place?
I’m kinda shocked any media outlet is allowed to say this. Your corporate masters must be pissed.
inb4 announcement "We have discontinued our collaboration with Seth due to differences of opinion."
You don't mention the edits and outright deletions of scenes of material, Disney being a major one where they show an original show and a few weeks later it gets edited, meaning the original release is simply gone forever!
This!
Ehhhh physical media not immune to this either. Wong Kar Wai changed color grade for the blu rays of his films. So if you want the original release you have to resort to lower quality DVDs. Also like with Star Wars the unedited physical releases carry an inflated price on sites like eBay.
@@shinycheeto5779 That's not exactly the point. When you already own the discs there's nothing that can be done against them
@@andrzejkopalnia It's exactly the point. Physical discs will already contain altered versions.
Do you have any examples of Disney doing this?
This is the best video you guys have made this year. Hopefully this blows up. Nice Job.
Finding tv shows let alone movies on dvd is getting harder by the day. It has to be concerning, let alone companies throwing money away. Don’t get me started on ads being introduced
For newer stuff yes... But older movies and shows are abundant! Not like the newer stuff is better anyway...
We have to protect physical media at all cost. Physical and Digital can coexist together.
This vidoe needs to go viral 100%
That $5 WAlmart bin is so clutch. Sometimes up to 5 movies in a single disc.
It doesn't help that retailers are dropping DVDs etc
Then. Buy. Them.
Censorship also plays a part ether removing the whole thing or cutting/ altering portions of media.
not to mention you're at the whim of the version they give you. You want the original color grading, audio, cut, ending, etc.? Well too bad
This goes to Disney, which ended physical media in Australia
for those not aware *disney empire (ie fox, pixar, marvel) so many movies you wouldn't even think should be related.
Disney will be required by law to have all its movies on physical media.
Just boycott them. Nothing of value anyway.
We knew they would take it away from us, but we still walked into their slaughterhouse.
Sounds like a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Lyric 😅
@@DanKeatisby order of the Peaky f**kin Blinders!
Got the Office on DVD box set when it moved to Paramount. Never got Paramount, and - after similar smaller purchases - just ‘cut the cord’ on Netflix.
Every time they do something anti consumer a new pirate is born.
Arrrrrrrr
@@justinwaddell2956 shhhhhhh
Stremio 🫣🫣🫣
This is an important video. Thanks for making it
Don’t forget about libraries! Most libraries allow you to borrow movies for free with a library card. So important that we continue to use physical media and public institutions
Another aspect of physical media is that it paradoxically does a better job of sorting for quality at the front end, as a specific investment is required to get the art, but also does a better job of preserving lesser and less popular material at the back end, because physical copies, once produced, don't require ongoing profitability to simply exist.
All this implies a general acceptance of mass reproduced culture, which honestly is not a universal opinion, and deserves interrogation. Adorno and others have given us tools to unpack what mercantile replication does to culture.
*me looking at my $15,000 4K / Blu ray collection smiling from ear to ear*
Disc rot still exists so be mindful of that
Keep those movies on a hard drive to fully future proof them
@@Djboyrimo
Disc degradation tends to take multiple decades though...but you're right, it will happen eventually.
@@Djboyrimo Disc rot is (for the most part) a myth. It applied to a VERY small line of CDs back in the 90s. Since then. disc rot has been completely eliminated and no longer exists.
Woah that's a lot of money to brag about
Yo, same here.
I’m surprised RUclips and the Corporations haven’t taken down this video. Censorship left and right. YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY!
Love physical media as it actual proof you own it, also if there is a global internet outage at least i’ve got it on DVD 😂
Also, things like Netflix etc will only ever continue increasing their prices every month. And then do other things like adding adverts, surveys etc to increase their revenue.
There is NO substitute for having a physical backup.
You never know when some conglomerate will buy some parent company or something and then your favorite classic disappears.
"Physical media" is also a file you download and keep forever.
My hope is even if physical media drops from the mainstream, there’s enough people that keep buying it that they keep making it. Similar to how with music, most people don’t collect vinyls but enough people do that they’re still available.
Still own all my physical media and totally refuse to get rid of any of them
Just more confirming the idea that the powers that be want us to "own nothing and be happy"
Arguing against physical media doesn't really serve anyone. If you don't like it, cool, don't buy it. But why would anyone want the option to disappear for everyone? What do you get out of other people not getting what they prefer?
Was watching a digital version of Name of the Rose the other day and noticed that one important scene was removed that my old DVD had. Not only is availability of some movies threatened, but sometimes they alter content for the political correctness of the day or some legal/rights technicality.
This also happens for movies shown on broadcast TV. They will edit certain scenes to make room for commercials.
@@GameArmorGameplay Yeah they did that a lot back in the day, but this was a commercial free stream, and they really don't care if it runs long these days because it doesn't need to fit in a time slot.
Another issue is cancel culture - if an actor or movie or subject becomes controversial, it can disappear overnight. Like he pointed out - it can even happen to your purchases. A purchase is not purchasing a movie, but purchasing unlimited views of something in their catalog *as long as it stays in their catalog*
Lol the only DVD left at my local goodwill is a Bill Cosby stand up disc. Nobody dares touch it.
Yesterday, saw someone laugh at a request to use a physical usb stick to store something - "that's such an old way to do anything!"
USB stick much more secure than the Cloud.
@@GameArmorGameplay Exactly! But it's like people think the cloud is safer/ everlasting?
If you really care about it you should definitely own it
The problem is their budget, companies don't really know how much time they will be able loosing money. Physical media will be back.
Arguably, Paramount would earn more from leasing the properties to Max than they would gain in subscribers for the old movies. Like, a lot more.
But greed got the best of them, so here we are. Disney did the same with their back catalogue - leased it to Netflix until it created Disney+. Disney+ is now a huge financial drag on the whole company, with Disney themselves predicting that it won't be profitable until 2025! That's a long time to subsidise a failing part of your business. Especially when they could have just continued raking in easy money for lesaing their content at no effort to themselves!
@@simonfrost7094
Go
Not only can it never be deleted or removed but you get much better picture and sound quality. If you want to watch a movie in the best quality possible and really take advantage of 4k Dolby vision HDR and Dolby Atmos surround sound, you need a 4k Blu-ray player and 4k Blu-rays
The best are the rare blu rays that you hunt down 😁
This is why we should own Physical Media.
got all 11 films on dvd star trek and 2700 films in all blu and DVDs and tv shows
It's so strange how most people seem to agree that physical media isn't just better, but vital for all art forms, yet the statistics generally tell a different story.
Of course there will always be pockets of people to keep the physical "thing" alive (vinyl has had a relative boom but is of course still defunct at a truly macro level), but the tide is still moving towards full blown digital.
People mostly don't agree. Entertainment has always been mostly ephemeral.
Replace "Piracy" whenever you hear the phrase "physical media" in this video, and you have the answer to the problem that studio greed created for themselves.
This. Is. The. Way.
I've never left the box set.
Spread the news guys!
Speaking of sony, they own funimation and crunchyroll. Funimation got mostly swallowed by crunchyroll and will disappear completely, your purchased digital anime will not be transferred. So they simply learned fanbase x is bigger than fanbase z, so wave goodbye to what you like.
Of course physical media forever. I've been telling people for years but kept being called all the names in the book for it.
Very small titles were for a long time burned to (short-life span) BD-R, and sold professionally, that way. Possibly, it will be a wide-spread practice to order physical media on demand, for example on BD-R or BD-M (which, however ALREADY are made to lesser quality standards). No pinpack racks in stores, but burned and printed for you in volumes of 1. Like self-printing services for book authors and their very few book buyers.
It's a sad time when the only way to watch certain shows /movies is through pirating
we are lucky we have pirating links
Also love that there are actually hundreds of interactions on many posts here. Others are feeling this pain too!
agree slowly growing my collection but keeping it manigible this time
Hope it works out for you
Pawn shops and flea markets are gold mines for old media at dirt cheap prices. One pawn shop I would scavenge dropped their DVD prices down to 10 cents. That's how saturated the market is. What used to be treasured (and quite expensive) is now virtual trash.
Never ever sell your vinyl records.
Funny you use the clip from The Dark Knight Rises, consider the imax shots are altered in the digital versions. Making the only way to watch the movie as intended is with the physical version.
Easy having a wfi outage or waiting for wifi ? Just pop the disc in you still get 4kUHD
And this - among many other reasons - is why piracy remains necessary now and for the future.
Lets just remember digital books never replaced physical.
Highly accurate, super valid. But the cost of owning and purchasing all the physical media you want is extremely expensive…20$ a month compared to 20$ per movie is a tall hill to climb, if the price per physical media dropped severely than perhaps this would be more feasible.
Many physical DVDs and Blu-rays can be bought for between $5 and $13 on Amazon and other sites.
Are you only looking at new releases? You can find tons of titles for under 10 bucks. Even cheaper if you find them at Thrift stores and pawn shops.
My physical media are movies (.mkv) files on my 22tb hard drive with a second drive as a backup. 👍 I stream my moves lossless with plex server.
Do you still need an internet connection when you use Plex to watch your movies?
Well this is a great time for the secondary markets for DVD and other physical media.
It's all great until you have to move. Though right now I've shed a lot of DVD's and Blu-Rays and just keep 50 or so that are beloved or classic films.
Not all of us are lazy.....
I’m a physical copies collector. As gamer and cinema fan. It’s amazing experience.
I’m rebuilding my dvd collection subscriptions can go to hell.