You Can't Rely On Streaming: In Defense of Physical Media
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- As we watch studios edit, alter slap warning labels on, and completely remove classic movies and TV shows it's time to go back to owning physical media, because allowing streaming services to be the only means by which we access things is the fastest way to lose them all.
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As a Millennial (92), I also grew accustomed to buying VHS tapes (or recording movies by VHS) and buying things on DVD. Physical media is nice because you can actually OWN the thing you bought, where with digital, you don't. And, like most other things, there are some things convenient and inconvenient with streaming. I find it interesting that streaming is basically becoming cable 2.0 ... which I felt was going to happen anyway.
Your point on a centralized service is one of the reasons I never bothered with streaming. Especially because things can change. For instance, as a sports fan, at one time, I could have gotten certain channels on one service. But just as I was about to, those channels were gone from said service.
I'm with you on societal "softness" as well. The censorship and sensitivity issues are nonsense. And how people accept it is beyond me.
I certainly appreciated the convenience of digital versions of things, but there's just something about holding a thing in your hand, right? Nearly all of the photos I've taken, and I take a ton, since my sons were born 21 years ago now are digital, and they're great...but because they don't exist as negatives in the world, I've gone through painstaking effort to have copies all over the damn place so as to never lose them. Pros and cons...
I was caught off guard by the splintering of streaming services, though it seems obvious now. It's actually an issue for me as someone that "reviews" stuff here, because as a fan first and foremost (and someone that hates pissing money away) I'm not all that interested in subbing to most of them, which means I don't have access to everything that comes out.
I had to rein in the Carlin bit here as it could have been it's own video, though it would have likely been a bit outside of what I normally do here. It's a sore spot for me. Generally speaking, I'm not a fan of being an asshole towards people. Seems easy enough. But I also don't think "bad words" exist and the ludicrous suggestion that was can still use a variant of the word ("The N-Word") but not the word is mindboggling to me. Louis CK had a fantastic bit about this, but essentially he explains that is just forcing the listener to rebuild the word in their own head...so it's no different than just saying thee word! It's not magic...none of them are. Best way, in my not so humble opinion, to remove the power of most things is to remove the taboo that surrounds them. But so long as so many people are as fragile as they seem and wildly overreact to hearing sounds made by others, they'll remain "bad" in the eyes of most.
Thanks for the comment, and allowing me to rant a bit. ;) MAB
@@themiddleagedbaby You're welcome! Reading your rant was enjoyable, and it's nice to know that someone out there thinks like I do about all kinds of these things. There are benefits to physical and digital media, but there are cons to both too.
As far as streaming goes, yeah... the ideal of "everything you like can be found here" has obviously not panned out the way people thought it might.
Re: Carlin & language... oh boy. As I've gotten older, I'm far more cynical than I used to be, to a point that younger me may not like modern-day me. Things can have their place, though people would never agree on what's acceptable in what scenarios anyway ("think of the children" in one corner, "they're a certain age, they're old enough to understand" in another). It's sad that, basically, everyone goes against their own interests and we squabble over that all the time.
I agree...it's always great to realize the beliefs you hold are also held by others, or many others as the case may be. Back when Rush Limbaugh was still alive he'd take heat from opponents who thought he was swaying people, and he'd try and explain that all he was doing was saying things he believed (whether you agreed or not) and people rallied to that because they were hearing someone say the things they already thought. Since I've started this, I've had a bunch of people say versions of this, and that's awesome to hear! All I'll ever do here is say what I think about things, and I'll tell you the truth. Oh, I'm certain to be wrong now and again and not everyone will always agree with my opinions and that's cool too...but it'll always be exactly what I believe.
Well, as the name suggests (though the name is actually a nickname my oldest called my youngest years ago) I'm still very much the same as I was as a kid. I was kind of a grumpy dick from early on... ;)
Thanks! MAB
Underrated channel
Damn, appreciate that! Glad to have you.
Wait...was this about my channel?!? Geez, I kinda' of hope so now...😉 Thanks, MAB
I own every movie that I intend to watch again in the future.
I won't pay a streaming service that will deny me the ability to watch whatever I want whenever I want to watch it.
As free options get more difficult to find it am even more likely to find what I want on dvd.
Not to mention the censorship.
Well done! It's a bummer thinking of how many times I've gotten and replaced hard copies of things over the years. Just with movies I've had VHS tapes (a ton from when I worked at a video store in the early 90s) then DVDs and then Blu-Rays. Then, stupidly, got rid of many of them when streaming started. I've made a real effort to begin grabbing ones that I know are first on the chopping black as well as others I simply want to ensure I have access to. Lesson learned...😉
Thanks for the comment, MAB.
@@themiddleagedbaby you're right about this being a gateway to total control of what we see and think.
@@ericvulgate Hadn't thought of it that way until working on the video, but looking back it feels like it, right? With all of the benefits we've gotten from nearly instantaneous information, we've also given up a ton. We allow people to spoon feed us info/content and accept whatever comes. Streaming was SO EASY and we were fine with it. Most of us no longer own a proper dictionary, or an encyclopedia. We are actually well on our way to "owning nothing" without ever having thought about it.
Lol, ah yes I remember! We all had a cassette tape ready and waiting in our stereos in case one of our favorite songs came on. Then we would slide it into our walkmans and hear our tunes. tunes that were full of DJ talking at the beginning and end of the songs but hell, we didn't care because we could listen to our hits! VCR's just blew my mind! I could have all my shows and movies on my shelf. I have all seasons of Remington Steele because I stayed up to record it every night at 12:30am for months. I got so good with my VCR pause button that I was able to record it sans commercials . And though my friends and family thought i was just wasting time, every single time they missed an episode of their favorite show, my phone would ring. I loved having physical media but I never thought one of the reasons would be the censoring of older programing. I believe I have Aladdin on VCR with the original lyrics about cutting off your hand and I'll keep that one forever even if I never watch videos anymore! I work at a library and the new younger librarians are doing a purge and every week they discard more and more books. And you can bet that I go through the bin and grab any Roald Dahl or Fleming books I see! And if I see Mark Twain? Yeah. I will NEVER stop collecting. Even if I have so much physical media that I run out of space and have to use them to create my furniture! (Or maybe I'll just rent a storage space and not be an insane person). Great vid as always MAB and thanks soooo much for the shoutout! I appreciate it!
Is there anyone our age that doesn't remember having a cassette sitting in the stereo waiting to record songs off the radio? Or making mix tapes of albums? As a kid, before Walkmans, I carried around one of those old rectangular tape recorders you'd maybe see on the table of a police procedural when they were taking a statement on field trips complete with an old man single white earpiece headphone!
Our first VCR was a BEATAMAX and was actually fantastic, and yup...I recorded everything on that. Must have watched Excalibur a million trillion times because it had come on cable and I'd recorded it there, plus tons of Saturday Morning cartoons and sports. I still have several boxes of stuff I recorded in the 90s and 2000s but don't have a VCR right now, but can't bare to get rid of them!
And yeah, I'm not sure why but it really didn't occur to me either that I needed to keep these things because they'd be erased and destroyed out of the culture. I just assumed they wouldn't be played again, so I'd better copy it and hold onto it if I liked it. Now it feels like a service. I need to find better ways to store things though...I'm running out of room!
Happy to point anyone I can in your direction! This was the second time I'd specifically mentioned collecting media so it made perfect sense. This video hasn't gotten much traction yet like the last three did, but hopefully it does and some people head your way. ;)
Not sure Disparu needed a shoutout but I really did love that video of his and done a bunch of reading (much of what he referenced in his video) before doing mine and the more I played with the script the more it felt like I'd just be doing "MY" version of his video if I ventured down that same rabbit hole, so it just made more sense to send them there, ya' know?
Thanks Rob...MAB
I suspect that the movie companies will have to show some love to physical in the near future.
Streaming isn't the infinite cash machine they thought it was.
They need new revenue sources and physical is money on the table, even if the studios rely totally on the boutiques to handle distribution.
There are too many streaming services now it's becoming the new cable. Just go for physical media 💿💿
I got rid of over 500 DVDs and it breaks my heart.
That wasn't a bright move....
I memorialize the best by purchasing their blu-ray
Yeah, it doesn't make sense that the networks decide what the viewers shouldn't watch.
Why don't these streaming services at least give people the choice between watching an unedited version and an edited version?
This is so true... I can already see a dystopian near-future where woke gov'ts/media corporations start 'tinkering' with more old classic works...even re-editing classic movies and removing scenes altogether if they deem certain things too 'problematic' and then streaming those versions online instead of the originals (wait...that might already be happening!). It is a form of re-writing 'cultural history', just as they are trying to do in schools with actual history... Keep all those 'hardcopies' of DVD's, CD's, etc...boys and girls!
Looking back it started small. Remember Ted Turner colorizing old movies? And no kids, I don't mean the way Netflix now "colorizes" them. ;) I mean, adding color to old black and white movies because our then "modern audiences" had trouble relating to black and white movies. haha Then think George Lucas tinkering with the original Star Wars just before he released the sequel trilogy. Spielberg removing guns from FBI guys in ET and replacing them with flashlights...only to realize he had been an idiot for doing that and putting them back later! Now it's gotten to removing "problematic" words, phrases, scenes, depictions, storylines, morals, subjects, etc.
Imagine modern progressives getting their hands on old paintings (not gluing themselves to them, btw) or sculptures or musical compositions to better reflect today's beliefs and tastes? In their effort to sanitize everything they miss two things:
1- How on Earth will we ever know what the past was actually like if we go back and "fix" things from then? these stories, artwork, etc are historical records the same as any others. If you go back and change them to make it seem like "today," then you've literally destroyed yesterday. Like Orwell said, "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” None of this is accidental, and it's only being sold as being "tolerant" because that gets people to go along.
2- They fail to grasp, as creators, their works are now also subject to being completely rewritten in the future was twats as useless as they are. I realize they think they are the end of history, but they're not. Once you allow for this type of behavior, the doors are off the barn.
Thanks for the comment... MAB
@@themiddleagedbaby SO true and very well put on all of that!