Even before political correctness was an issue, I've preferred physical media. The whole idea of paying for ACCESS to something that could be here today & gone tomorrow with streaming services AND needing to have internet access at all times is ridiculous.
There is no guarantee even with physical media when it comes to things such as games or even film. DRM and stealth updates still happen. Some digital media isn't ever released physically.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejoIt is if you buy the "unofficial" copy from Scalpers. That's how I finally got to watch "The Orville" season 3 without a subscription to Hulu. Or "The Mandalorian" with no subscription whatsoever to Disney+
@whitmanmaleman Yes. But remember to back the thing up. There's nothing worse than a hard drive containing all your music and photos dying, and hard drives can suddenly just fail - happened to me once, giving a lesson I've never forgotten. Personally, I store all my music on my PC. Then use FreeFileSync to copy everything onto two external drives, one of which is portable and which I take when I visit my parent's house, where I use it on a different system, backing it up there (an off-site backup). Paranoid maybe, but I don't worry about data loss
The only problem is it requires a device to play it. One day there will be no DVD or CD players. Like if you buy an 8 track tape at a thrift store, very few people can use it now. Books are best because they require nothing to work.
@@mustang607 Oh that's a whole rabbithole in and of itself. I bet you your dictionaries are worth over $100 each and don't you sell them. I worked in books and places you'd think would have no need for more dictionaries sure loved buying them up. Very very spooky stuff. What would the Senate Library in the UK need with a 40 pound dictionary shipped at exorbitant price from America? It wasn't hundreds of years old or anything historic like that. @davidm4566 A true thing to worry about but so far all optical players are backwards compatible your bluray should be able to play a cd just fine.
I've long preached about the importance of physical media over digital media. Today's equivalent of "Fahrenheit 451" is the ever-increasing censorship and removal of unpopular ideas or whatever makes the most sensitive people uncomfortable.
And one of the first digital revocations was 1984 from Amazon Kindles. People bought bootleg copies, then Amazon erased the copies from users Kindles and refunded the money. Imagine if a book retailer did that with your physical library.
Yes, but the overriding message of Fahrenheit 451 is that it was _voluntary._ Books weren't outlawed by the Government, forcibly taken from people, wrestled out of their crying hands and tossed onto a bonfire. People were convinced to surrender their books _willingly_ as a virtue supposedly because reading made them unhappy and unsettled their minds, so they turned instead to television and mood altering chemicals. I witnessed this disturbing phenomenon myself during the whole 'comics cause juvenile delinquency' panic in America in the 50's when I saw old black and white newsreel footage of a whole mob of hysterically giggling and hooting children mugging for the camera and cheerfully hucking comicbooks that would probably be wrorth a small fortune today into a dumpster. This is how we ignore the warnings of history.
@@The_Mighty_Fiction today it is voluntary, gouvernments dont force anything they listen and impose the will of others, somewhat aa contrediction but if the gouvernment didn't listen we wouldn't have this problem.
Physical media is incredibly important in the world of video games. Not only does it make it easier for those games to be played without internet, but it makes it much harder for the developers behind them to take away your rights to play it. With digital copies, if you say some no-no words through voice chat, or the game gets too old and it's servers shut down, you can basically kiss it goodbye.
A wile back I bought a game and it only worked with internet. You had to pay extra for the online play. And everything else was a micro transaction. Whats worse the store employee told me this was not the case. I will not buy a game at full price then pay a monthly subscription fee and then pay for many micro transactions. There is a reason I have given up on games for the most part.
Sadly even physical copies require an internet connection to be updated or to allow playing. Games come half-baked and require Internet now even when single player.
@@EpicTyphlosionTV Ah the Good Ol' Day's, where the computers were slower but just seemed to hold far more promise then the current tech your most likely to find in physical stores. Easier to understand and repair too.
You know what's worse than that? Using on-device AI content scanning (the kind Apple introduced to supposedly detect CSAM, and which will be used to bypass end-to-end ecryption) on your local media and refusing to play it because it's "unlicensed material". I would except it to be incorporated into all new smart TVs, monitors, speakers and AR helmets so you can't bypass it even if you have old hardware, and/or an alternative OS on it.
My family and friends jokingly call me “Blockbuster” when I tell them how many DVDs and Blu Rays I have. They all have streaming services. Films and shows they can no longer watch when all I have to do is put a disc into my player. I love it! Still adding to my collection!
I learned this lesson the hard way and started collecting physical books when in University I got in trouble for using history books from the 40s and 50s, the lecturers didn't like ''the old truth'' and only wanted me to use approved, peer reviewed and nicely sanitised history books that didn't have any awkward things in them. Now a decade later I see this re-writing in real time with subscription media and it's pretty dystopian how fast it is accelerating.
In my lifetime it went from America was the savior of WW2, to America didn't act fast enough in WW2, to Ken Burns new documentary I'm not making this up or strawmanning him is basically as far as I was able to judge by watching it WW2 is now America's fault. The holocaust is America's fault for not pre-emptively invading Germany I guess I dunno I was so mad I don't think I finished it. If Ken Burns can lie that much about WW2 only 70 years ago how am I supposed to trust him about le Civil War? I'm not a southerner but the whole idea north good south bad? I dunno the Yankees sure seem to be trying to invade the entire world today.
Wow, crazy. I always respond to statue denigrators that refusing to acknowledge history doesn't change it. I didn't realize they were changing the history books, too.
I once purchased a live performance DVD of an artist. I also purchased it in a streaming format when it became available. There was a song removed from the stream because it had a mistake in it. It was the most beautiful version of that song I have ever heard EVEN WITH THE MISTAKE! Now, it is not available. Luckily, I have the DVD. It was so good that at least one orchestra member was crying during the song.
The mistake happens at 1 min, 29 seconds when she says “with an anxious heart “. That’s the wrong lyric. She keeps going, and creates one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. It’s still very touching.
It goes beyond media. Apps used to be one-time purchases, and cost fixed amounts like $5 or $10. In their greed, Apple introduced the "subscription" into the app ecosystem, and the rest is history - nowadays, you "rent" apps - not only do you give them your privacy and data, you also have to continuously pay for them to keep feeding off you.
It's the same with Microsoft Office. I used to be able to buy it for $10 through a work benefit, while today it's only available via subscription and my work benefit is 20% off the subscription - no thanks.
My archive is my personal project, one I've worked on almost my entire life. From DVDs of classic cartoons and movies, to four generations of console games, to the books that shaped my love of fantasy and sci-fi. And all of it is meant to be handed onto my children; a gift that I pray will be expanded and kept safe throughout the generations.
I am looking for a movie or series where a boy used a key in a chairconsole resembleing a dentist chair that spins around its own axis to go back in time it was on BBC from England Time machine meets back to the future and Dr Who
This message cannot be said any louder. It's outrageous and disturbing the emerging technology for tyrannies of the future. I always strive to collect physical copies whenever I can.
What Dave talks about happened to me once - ironically, the book in question was a Kindle edition of “1984”. There was a dispute between Amazon and the erstwhile publisher, and Amazon ended up yanking the book off of my devices. They did give me a full refund, and I was able to repurchase the book, but it was scary to think that they could control what I can read on their platform. Buy books. Buy movies on disc. Buy vinyl records and CDs. OWN the things you enjoy. Don’t rent them.
I remember that and the talk about how coincidental it was that it was 1984. I have a lot of books on kindle. I often wonder if or when some of these books will be edited without my knowledge and will have that feeling upon rereading it something feels different.
@@lanky-x782 Exactly. What everyone needs to realize is that digital copies of anything connected to the cloud are subject to deletion or modification and you have NO say in the matter. A digital download on your PC is *probably* safe, but even that’s not guaranteed (see also: Stuxnet). Physical copies can’t be revoked, retracted, deleted, or modified.
You nailed it. Couldnt agree more. Ive always prefered owning the physical media. I rarely purchase digital products. I feel you dont actually own it if its digital. The digital media and or the servers which it is stored on will eventually disappear. Nothing lasts forever. Ive recently started purchased the box sets of my favourite movies because of this.
Nothing lasts forever, including your physical media collection. It'll last your lifetime, though. Which is a lot better than a streaming service (gone in the next 5 days). Physical media is so important.
Maybe a little off topic but recently my daughters reading assignments were discussed and one of the books is The Crucible. I said good, this book is relevant because of how people today that speak out against an authoritarianism state are labeled “far right” and “conspiracy theorists”. The look on the teachers face was priceless.
I mean... I doubt Miller would be too happy with that interpretation, considering he was as Commie as you could get and he wrote The Crucible based around the fallacious "McCarthy Witch Hunt" narrative, so he could push his own narrative instead...
Yes. Totally agree with you. We are destroying our past. Rewriting the past will haunt us today and the future. We will not learn from our past mistakes. I prefer physical media and original books. We need to keep it to know the who made it and keep the past alive.
Over my 40 year lifetime I’ve accrued a substantial collection of books and DVDs. But music is what’s most important to me, and I’ve got thousands of CDs and a small collection vinyl. No one is ever going to disappear the things I love down the memory hole.
It's not just entertainment, but any element of culture and history needs to be preserved. Putting together a personal archive or library not only preserves the past, but also is good for your own mental health. Things to preserve include: 1: Books. Textbooks (1980's on back), (Auto)biographies, Philosophy, Cookbooks, Manuals and Guidebooks, Artbooks, Comics/ Manga, etc. 2: Video: Movies, TV series, Animation, Documentaries, Interviews, Concerts 3: Music: Original albums, Soundtracks, Live recordings, All genres from Classical to Popular. 4: Artwork: Prints, Paintings, Posters, Artbooks, etc. With more and more things from the past being edited and erased, we need to preserve what we can.
And newspapers as well, for the headlines, and how well the papers were laid out and put together (like an old Chicago Sun-Times I have from 1980 [got it from EBay], which had far more in its 164 pages than my hometown Greenville News has under Gannett/UTN today).
And it sucks when these streaming services are at war with each other. Disney Plus came on the scene and snatched everything from Netflix, and so did Amazon Prime. Never had to worry about licensing and intellectual property buying DVD's.
Streaming services just plain sux anyways. They lack bonus materials, commentaries and audio dubs like all DVDs and BluRays have. They keep on price jacking and taking series and movies away and that resorted me to get unofficial DVDs and BluRays because the companies like Paramount are such asses to ditch physical media which is the stupidest business decision and a wrong move. Which is why we must #BoycottStreamingServices and #SupportPhysicalMedia
Unfortunatly, we are living much closer to Brave New World where FAR too many people are too dumb and too busy enjoying their comforts too care about any of this. I.E. How can something be bastardized when nobody cares about that thing in the first place.
I wouldn't call them dumb, so much as they are ignorant. A lot of people are unaware of these issues because they choose to be. It's more inconvenient to wage a crusade against digital media and spend 1000s of dollars on physical copies, than it is to pay a monthly subscription fee to gain access to an entire library of content. Companies know this and do everything they can to not only make their services convenient, but also to make sure the masses have no idea said entertainment is even being altered. That's why they say "knowledge is power", because once you have that information, it's near impossible to ignore. In my opinion, you're only dumb if you weigh all of the evidence and negative consequences and still choose the worst outcome. Most people aren't even aware there's an ongoing trial, so to speak
What is dangerous about censorship and alterations of books, movies, TV, etc. is how silently it’s done. Physical media is more important than ever. The masses are stupid AF in general. They think they own something when they stream it, when they also complain about how it’s taken off the service without warning.
There's already been something similar to the AI scenario you lay out, I've heard of some older films having certain scenes cut out because they were deemed problematic by woke standards. 1984 was meant to be a cautionary tale, the woke left - and mainstream politicians - decided to use it as a handbook for society.
George Lucas did it with his own IP when the remastered Star Wars OT was released. The poorly edited cantina scene had Greedo shooting at Han first, so Han wouldn’t look like a “bad guy” when he shot Greedo. Han wasn’t a hero at that point in his character arc. He was a bad guy, he was a smuggler who worked for gangsters.
I still own the “Star Wars” “Definitive Collection” on LaserDisc - all three original movies with NO alterations of any kind. And I have a working LaserDisc player. :-)
I miss the Yubnubs song at the end of ROTJ that plays after they defeated the Emperor. I can still hear it in my head after all these years, but for some reason they changed it to something else for the Special Edition in '97. I get that the new montage footage of the Empire falling across the galaxy adds a higher runtime but they could have found a way to lengthen the song without scrapping a piece of the original film.
@@DarthRagnarok343 I was so ticked when my VCR ate my copy of ESB that I had for years. I ended up getting the trilogy on DVD but I preferred to watch it in VCR.
This is the one of the reasons why I don't have streaming services. You own the titles you want to watch for the same prices as all those services without paying for the thousands of titles you don't want.
I love physical media, I was mocked and ridiculed by everyone at work when Netflix became popular for streaming everything when they were the biggest and mainly only one. They all told me I was small minded, paranoid or unable to get with the times for continuing to collect physical. I asked one simple question to them and they all laughed at me "How long do you think they're the only one? Do you think someone else wouldn't want a slice of the streaming pie?"
Its why I bought Roald Dahl's works dated 2016 for my kid, she's only 3 but still says 'oh no' when hearing the stories or YES! I'm not sure the revised versions would have the same effect.
I've been seeing this happening to movies for a long time. Films that come to mind are Back to the Future pt.2, when Marty realizes that the Sports Almanac he thought he had was actually an adult magazine called “Ooh La La.” In the original version, Marty flips through the pages of the magazine in disbelief while repeating the name to himself a few times. The "new version" cut much of this scene out. The 20th Anniversary release of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. They digitally took all the guns out and replaced them with walkie-talkies and you no longer hear Eliot's mother yell, "No guns! They're just children!" Now Steven Spielberg says that he regrets the decision and believes that no movie should be edited to fit modern sensibilities. It was a “product of its era” and should never have been revised just because we now “peer through” different lenses. One of the most recent edits was made to the classic 1971 film The French Connection. A small portion of the film has been newly "censored." This version has the character “Popeye” Doyle’s use of a racial slur cut out. In total, six seconds of the movie were removed from this scene, which now features a pretty clumsy cut mid-conversation. I've been warning people about this too. Get a physical copy of the original version!
@alexwright4930 Yup. I bought the 20th anniversary dvd for a friend and his kids a long time ago. When we were all watching it together, my friend and I noticed it and were like, WTF OVER??? Why did they do that?
I would never sell my dvds. The older, more obscure tv and films I own on blu ray or dvd is not even available on streaming services. Netflix is absolutely rubbish. For this reason alone, physical media will never die. I will add tho that I think everything should be owned physically including music, photos etc. That means not even on a hard drive, because hard drives aren’t future proof. Any physical media such as discs, records etc cannot be deleted or corrupted in any way.
I literally had to move out of my home (due to mold) and move to a place with no internet and no satellite access. I have to rely on my bluray/dvd collection to watch anything. So glad I bought physical media.
Thank you for this. This makes me flaming mad. Censor the great Agatha Christie, but it's okay for them to publish and distribute sex books to children. You are so correct about Physical Media. I just hopped on EBAY right now and impulse ordered a lot of 58 used AC paperbacks from the 70s & 80s. I will spit nails if they ever go after my other favorites like Ray Bradbury or Richard Matheson.
Amen to that. Got a huge collection of books from Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Clive Barker, and Harlan Ellison in my personal library. These treasures need to be preserved
Books are edited anyway over the decades because of changes in language. Read a 1969 copy of Day of the Triffids. Read a 1981 copy and read a current copy. You would be amazed at the changes.
@@rogershore3128 Day of the Triffids is one of my favorite stories. You are right. These edits have happened for a long time. It feels like it’s done today to be censorious to appease one side and for “hurt feelings” rather than merely updating archaic words.
@@brooklyngal6334 I think there is a major scene that has been removed from the book and I have no idea why and sometimes an author will re-edit their book. I know James Herbert removed a reference to Margaret Thatcher in I think Liar?. And his reason was sound. Nothing to do with cancel culture.
It is already happening. You can already find edited and revised releases of classic Saturday morning TV. "Jonny Quest", "Speed Racer", "Bugs Bunny", etc. I have been achieving these originals for a while now.
I still have all my old VHS tapes, lots of *_Star Trek TNG_* and *_DS9_* and movies that I bought from *_HMV._* Lots of stuff I taped off TV in the early 90's, still watch them but very rarely watch actual TV anymore; it's trash.
I keep physical media of my most treasured media. That said I do digitize and make convenient the rewatching and perusing of my expansive library. There isn’t much new stuff I’m interested in anyways. Thanks for the content.
Disney is arguably at the forefront of deleting or rewriting its back catalogue, but the other streamers aren’t far behind. I do not have a cable contract, or a streaming contract, or even a tv licence, so pretty much everything I watch needs to be on physical media.
I still buy books, DVDs, and Blu-Rays and have kept all of mine even though I have them all digitized onto a LAN that we use for day-to-day watching. I agree, much harder to change them once you own them physically.
I couldn't agree more. PHYSICAL MEDIA ONLY, FOLKS!! Since the early days of CDs and DVDs I've seen small edits here and there when compared to their VHS/tape counterparts-- some, seemingly innocuous changes, but enough for me to notice and check against store-bought or taped off TV ORIGINALS. Disney is one of the greatest offenders, but I've seen it all over, sadly. Keep your originals, folks, we may end up being the only cultural librarians/archivists left to keep the original alive in its true form.
I upgraded many on my DVDs and sent my daughters the older ones. Over 150 titles. She is very happy. As i told her, what the cloud giveth, the cloud can take away. The multiple streaming has become a nightmare, a very expensive nightmare. On that note, i think many people who are barely scraping buy are finding used DVDs the ticket. At a $1 a piece at Goodwill, you can build a nice library of great movies at $5 a month. And they never go away. I was paying over $100 a month for streaming! I bought my Blu-ray player on sale for $29. I still buy media at thrift stores as well. Not all physical media is still available for older or more niche shows and movies.
"They" have already done this to me on Amazon. Things disappear (they won't refund you) or are edited. This happens on my Kindle account too. I hate the idea that these things can be done without my input. I treasure my books and DVD's, but I am starting to find DVD rot on some of the old discs. I really regret my choice to go to streaming.
We have been collecting physical media for years just for the reason that you never know when something will be deemed “politically incorrect “ or “problematic “. A tablet is still pretty awesome, the ability to carry an entire library with you anywhere, but I keep nothing on there that I can’t afford to lose, such as manga or books I already have physical copies of.
The powers that be want you to put anything and everything you own on the internet your books your movies your music your photos. This way I believe it would be very convenient to charge you a fee to store these things and they control the access you have to your own stuff. Let's also not forget that there really is no privacy on the internet
I agree whole heartedly. I have an extensive DVD/Blu Ray collection, one of the reasons is for this very reason. Once I learned that online dictionaries change their definitions literally overnight, I try to make it a point to collect items specifically because they are actively trying to memory hole it. I try to keep my eye open for literary works at antique stores where the author/artist/filmmaker or their estate have announced their intentions or designs to change these works ever since they announced changing the name of a character in Huckleberry Finn for sensitivity reasons. I'm reminded of the ST:TNG episode, "Half a Life," where Timicin, played expertly by the late David Ogden Stiers, applies for amnesty when he has a change of heart over his culture's tradition of going through ritual suicide at age 60, so as not to burden family members or society with the challenges that come with advanced age. His family, friends, and fellow scientific colleagues are all perplexed and angered at Timicin's change of heart and give him an ultimatum...either come back and go through with the traditional suicide ceremony, or else all of his research and life work will simply be destroyed, all traces of his life erased as if he had never existed. I've seen instances where this has happened since that episode aired, and I guess because I always found this treatment of Timicin for rebelling against his culture's tradition simply petty and barbaric. I guess that's why when instances of cancel culture started to rear its ugly head in the wake of 9/11, it started nauseating me when they cancelled Bill Maher's show, Politically Incorrect for one of the guests praising the hijacker's "bravery" for facing certain death in the furtherance of their cause, or the Dixie Chicks having their albums taken off the airwaves for disagreeing with George W Bush's response to the attack. While I didn't agree with Maher's guest or the Dixie Chicks at the time, they did not deserve to have their show cancelled and songs taken off the air for expressing their views publicly. Every instance I see where either the left or the right try to erase and change history, I always come back to this TNG episode and I still marvel at how petty and arrogant we can be to want to so utterly destroy someone and erase them from existence because of a difference of opinion.
I remember buying a documentary on Amazon (digital). I thought I'd always have access to it. Many months later, I tried to play it only to find it "linked" to something else. Apparently my documentary was no longer available and its "link " was reassigned to a different video.
Dave, spot on as usual. I bought a Tom and Jerry cartoon box-set for my grandkids, a cartoon that I remember very fondly from childhood. The Itchy & Scratchy of my generation I guess. I only wish I'd bought it years ago, as this version has been "doctored" to be inoffensive. In particular Tom's owner is African-American and talked (past tense) with a Southern accent. This has been changed, presumably to obviate any implication that she's not the property owner but the housemaid. This retro-active alteration is destructive and also ridiculous. Why can't "They" leave things alone. Is a cartoon from 1947 that threatening? Your thoughts please. Keep up the excellent work. 😊👍
I get asked why I still buy movies, shows, books, games, vinyl etc. it’s because I then always have it, I enjoy collecting. It’s a nice feeling to pull a movie off my shelf and watch it, not edited and not spending time searching to find what streaming service it’s on. With the amount of games being delisted, same reason as above, pull it off the shelf and play it. Books and comics, it’s nice holding the original work and not reading it off an iPad.
About a year or so ago, i went back to ordering Netflix DVDs. Now that Netflix DVD is no more, i am switching to Redbox. I am also purchasing physical copies of movies and TV shows in the form of VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, and even Laserdisc.
There is a reference to this practice in the 1978 'Rollerball' movie as well when Jonathan E goes to find 'how decisions are made'. He is send to the computer named Zero in Geneva and of course gets an evasive answer. The clerk at the library specifically says the requested books have been 'qualified and quantified.' (or something similar) Whatever that means. Love the video Dave. You could not be on more on point. Preach, Brother!
The problem is with both sides of political isle. The left tries to 'update' old works for contemporary snowlakes, and the right fights with publications of the left. The right makes fahrenheit 451, and the left runs orwel l.
They recently did what you said for The French Connection. Also in Canada they had all the Saw movies except 3 and 6, now they put them on there and removed 2 4 5 and 7. Streaming can blow sometimes
Brilliant. This is why I buy books, especially from flea markets so I can get older editions. One piece of advice, if you own digital media, don't skimp on a cheap hard drive, and perhaps get two, so if one hard drive fails for what ever reason, you have the second. Always keep a second. I used to have a ton of VHS (Because I'm old. 😆 ) and now I can't get a new quality VHS player. So those are useless. Best to get a second player (VHS, Laser Disk, DVD, Blue Ray etc..) and test it, then store it safely.
You can get expensive models of bluray players at thrift stores, they usually don't realize what they are and mark em $5 or $10......even if they're missing the remote or power cord those pieces are easily replaced......
My 4k UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD collection contines to grow each year. I've always preferred physical media over digital. I still have my old VHS tapes. I laugh when people freakout about not being able to stream anything bc the internet is out. For me i have a vast physical media collection that I can watch when the internet goes out. I also prefer hardcover/paperback books over digital ones.
I have been a huge proponent of owning physical media for decades. Decades ago, they did this with "Our Gang" short films from the 1930's. When they were released on VHS in High Quality SP format (and restored) I bought the set (and still have them). The series COMMUNITY (which was on from 2009 to 2015) has already had episodes removed from streaming for "problematical" content. I own the DVD sets. Records, CDs, Cassettes - I have lots of all of these. Certainly not a complete catalog of everything, but should a composer like Frank Zappa get cancelled by our "moral society," I'm prepared. BUY PHYSICAL MEDIA! BUY THE MEANS TO PLAY THEM (Turntable, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray deck, Cassette deck, amplifier, speakers)! Thanks for bringing this up, Mr. Cullen.
The only drawback can be the advance of technology. During the heyday of VHS tapes there was a superior physical media format called Laser Disc. I collected well over 200 LD copies of movies, but with the advent of the DVD format, LD died almost overnight. I bought a second LD player on clearance just to make sure I'd be able to watch my movies in the future but now that 25 year old player is on its last legs and used players that still work are getting harder and harder to find. 😢
@@michaeljdauben I've got about 25 LaserDiscs as well, but my player crapped out (needs new belts, I think). Right now, that repair is on the back burner, but I follow your train of thought. DVD and Blu-Ray are going to be around for a while. The Blu-Ray players are backwards compatible, so unless you get a very early Blu-Ray deck, you can play CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays all on the same machine.
I recently re-watched the Disney movie Holes made in 2003 and noticed the voice over at the start now refers to climate change as to why it's so hot and dry on the lakebed. I don't remember this in the original release and in 2003 I'm sure it was still being referred to as global warming. Besides the reason why the lake dried up is part of the story line and nothing to do with global warming and or climate change!
100% agreed. Also, if a time like that comes, I hope that the people who were wise enough to use physical media will share the original material with others so we will be able to access what was intended when the original work was created, even if the streaming services etc have desecreted the original
This is already happening to classic movies on streaming services, the classic Western movie with John Wayne, Robert mitchum and James caan, El Dorado has a scene where James caan imitates a Chinese person cut out on all the streaming services I've found it on. I have it and all of my other favorite movies on DVD because of this.
I refuse to buy digital books or media. If I'm going to buy it, it will be physical. One of my favorite things to go is go to thrift shops and buy books and the oldest book I can find
I have thousands of books and audio books on a hard drive. Didn't pay a cent for them and it takes up less space on a shelf than a single paper book. Enjoy your collection but some of us are out to collect them all.
I completely agree. What you described on the Agatha Christie novels is also happening to the James Bond novels. I walked into Barnes and Noble, picked a newer edition of Casino Royale, and the disclaimers already say this! I’ve been collecting them and making sure I buy older unaltered editions. And I still love my physical media
Dave, I agree with you 100% on this. I have some original dvd's and my son bought a new one that has been "altered and edited". I haven't compared them yet as we live in different places. Stay safe. Take care. Have fun. 😎
Great commentary as always. 1984 is happening as we speak. On a different topic: would it be possible for you to do a review of "Unbreakable"? I found it to be a grossly underrated masterpiece and would love to hear your opinion on this classic.
Wait isn't this breaking copyright? Wasn't the point of copyright to make sure or at least when it was originally introduced, wasn't the claim, that copywriting with prevent books or movies from being released in there unintended or unoriginal or changed form?
One other thing to watch for is the eventual break-down of DVD and Blu-Way players. Of course, such break-downs are to be expected, just with as other electronic devices. But ten, twenty, or thirty years from now, would a consumer be able to find a new DVD or Blu-ray player to replace one that has malfunctioned?
Excellent and timely topic for these times. I continue to add to my DVD and Blu-ray collection. I do not trust the streaming services who can edit or delete.
I would even go as far as to make sure any device capable of playing the physical media stays disconnected from the Internet. When it comes to physical media of a digital format, i.e. Blu-Ray, DVD, CD, all it would take is one software update on the player to identify and censor content. Much in the way that a video game can be patched even when playing from a physical disc, I could totally see movies or TV shows being similarly “patched” to alter the content.
I remember watching the movie the Breakfast Club not long ago on TV on a major network. During commercial breaks, they had two diverse commentators to help the viewing audience with warnings of triggering scenes of "mainstream culture" included in the film. I remember thinking that it wouldn't be long before this lighthearted flick was either banned or altered for "modern audiences".
I completely agree. Unfortunately for music, CD are extremely expensive nowadays and that's if a band even releases their music on CD and when they do it's around 30 US dollars for a Standard CD and usually are limited pressed
This is why I have no interest in ebooks and streaming services. I have actually copies of the original books and films I enjoy. Nobody can edit them to suit their politics and feelings.
Even before political correctness was an issue, I've preferred physical media. The whole idea of paying for ACCESS to something that could be here today & gone tomorrow with streaming services AND needing to have internet access at all times is ridiculous.
There is no guarantee even with physical media when it comes to things such as games or even film. DRM and stealth updates still happen. Some digital media isn't ever released physically.
never stopped never will. countless times i have been watching a well known movie only to see a line or scene cut out.
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO AGREES
@@SergioLeonardoCornejoIt is if you buy the "unofficial" copy from Scalpers. That's how I finally got to watch "The Orville" season 3 without a subscription to Hulu.
Or "The Mandalorian" with no subscription whatsoever to Disney+
@whitmanmaleman Yes. But remember to back the thing up. There's nothing worse than a hard drive containing all your music and photos dying, and hard drives can suddenly just fail - happened to me once, giving a lesson I've never forgotten.
Personally, I store all my music on my PC. Then use FreeFileSync to copy everything onto two external drives, one of which is portable and which I take when I visit my parent's house, where I use it on a different system, backing it up there (an off-site backup). Paranoid maybe, but I don't worry about data loss
"The moral standards of today are not fit to shine the shoes of the moral standards of decades past." Your best quote to date, Dave. Keep it up!
+1
Can we change it back restore our past fix our future?
exactly. who gave them the right to take works of dead authors and changing them?
100%
Ironically, I've believed this for decades. We've been in steady moral decline in the west for nearly a century.
Physical media is also the only way to genuinely own a product. When they say, "you'll own nothing and like it", digital media is a big part of it.
+1
Exactly. Streaming is paying over and over to watch things you'll never actually own. Paying for nothing.
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The physical media acts as an archive to prevent the knowledge of the past from being erased.
No way?! 🙄
The only problem is it requires a device to play it. One day there will be no DVD or CD players. Like if you buy an 8 track tape at a thrift store, very few people can use it now.
Books are best because they require nothing to work.
@@davidm4566 True.
This is why I own a couple of dictionaries over a century old.
@@mustang607 Oh that's a whole rabbithole in and of itself. I bet you your dictionaries are worth over $100 each and don't you sell them. I worked in books and places you'd think would have no need for more dictionaries sure loved buying them up. Very very spooky stuff. What would the Senate Library in the UK need with a 40 pound dictionary shipped at exorbitant price from America? It wasn't hundreds of years old or anything historic like that. @davidm4566 A true thing to worry about but so far all optical players are backwards compatible your bluray should be able to play a cd just fine.
I've long preached about the importance of physical media over digital media. Today's equivalent of "Fahrenheit 451" is the ever-increasing censorship and removal of unpopular ideas or whatever makes the most sensitive people uncomfortable.
And the revolution is unending.
Who can anticipate what will be forbidden content in the near future?
And one of the first digital revocations was 1984 from Amazon Kindles. People bought bootleg copies, then Amazon erased the copies from users Kindles and refunded the money. Imagine if a book retailer did that with your physical library.
Yes, but the overriding message of Fahrenheit 451 is that it was _voluntary._ Books weren't outlawed by the Government, forcibly taken from people, wrestled out of their crying hands and tossed onto a bonfire. People were convinced to surrender their books _willingly_ as a virtue supposedly because reading made them unhappy and unsettled their minds, so they turned instead to television and mood altering chemicals. I witnessed this disturbing phenomenon myself during the whole 'comics cause juvenile delinquency' panic in America in the 50's when I saw old black and white newsreel footage of a whole mob of hysterically giggling and hooting children mugging for the camera and cheerfully hucking comicbooks that would probably be wrorth a small fortune today into a dumpster. This is how we ignore the warnings of history.
“Sensitive” or just crazy.
@@The_Mighty_Fiction today it is voluntary, gouvernments dont force anything they listen and impose the will of others, somewhat aa contrediction but if the gouvernment didn't listen we wouldn't have this problem.
Physical media is incredibly important in the world of video games. Not only does it make it easier for those games to be played without internet, but it makes it much harder for the developers behind them to take away your rights to play it. With digital copies, if you say some no-no words through voice chat, or the game gets too old and it's servers shut down, you can basically kiss it goodbye.
A wile back I bought a game and it only worked with internet. You had to pay extra for the online play. And everything else was a micro transaction. Whats worse the store employee told me this was not the case. I will not buy a game at full price then pay a monthly subscription fee and then pay for many micro transactions.
There is a reason I have given up on games for the most part.
Sadly even physical copies require an internet connection to be updated or to allow playing. Games come half-baked and require Internet now even when single player.
This is why I like the site Good Old Games, while the site sales games as digital downloads they can be played offline.
@12Mantis Agreed. I buy some of my games there too, even burned some of the offline installers to a DVD like the good ol days lol
@@EpicTyphlosionTV Ah the Good Ol' Day's, where the computers were slower but just seemed to hold far more promise then the current tech your most likely to find in physical stores.
Easier to understand and repair too.
Calling it now, Dave was absolutely right about the AI thing he discussed here
You know what's worse than that?
Using on-device AI content scanning (the kind Apple introduced to supposedly detect CSAM, and which will be used to bypass end-to-end ecryption) on your local media and refusing to play it because it's "unlicensed material". I would except it to be incorporated into all new smart TVs, monitors, speakers and AR helmets so you can't bypass it even if you have old hardware, and/or an alternative OS on it.
My family and friends jokingly call me “Blockbuster” when I tell them how many DVDs and Blu Rays I have. They all have streaming services. Films and shows they can no longer watch when all I have to do is put a disc into my player.
I love it! Still adding to my collection!
I'm actively building a DVD/Blu-ray and Book library of rare and important works there in. Its been beyond rewarding and very much worth it.
I learned this lesson the hard way and started collecting physical books when in University I got in trouble for using history books from the 40s and 50s, the lecturers didn't like ''the old truth'' and only wanted me to use approved, peer reviewed and nicely sanitised history books that didn't have any awkward things in them. Now a decade later I see this re-writing in real time with subscription media and it's pretty dystopian how fast it is accelerating.
In my lifetime it went from America was the savior of WW2, to America didn't act fast enough in WW2, to Ken Burns new documentary I'm not making this up or strawmanning him is basically as far as I was able to judge by watching it WW2 is now America's fault. The holocaust is America's fault for not pre-emptively invading Germany I guess I dunno I was so mad I don't think I finished it. If Ken Burns can lie that much about WW2 only 70 years ago how am I supposed to trust him about le Civil War? I'm not a southerner but the whole idea north good south bad? I dunno the Yankees sure seem to be trying to invade the entire world today.
Wow, crazy. I always respond to statue denigrators that refusing to acknowledge history doesn't change it. I didn't realize they were changing the history books, too.
I once purchased a live performance DVD of an artist. I also purchased it in a streaming format when it became available. There was a song removed from the stream because it had a mistake in it. It was the most beautiful version of that song I have ever heard EVEN WITH THE MISTAKE! Now, it is not available. Luckily, I have the DVD.
It was so good that at least one orchestra member was crying during the song.
Name that DVD!
@@hookooekoo2 Diana Krall - Live in Paris. Song: Maybe You’ll Be There
@@thines01acan you upload the copy with the mistake and link it here?
@@cosmictreason2242
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The mistake happens at 1 min, 29 seconds when she says “with an anxious heart “. That’s the wrong lyric.
She keeps going, and creates one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. It’s still very touching.
It goes beyond media. Apps used to be one-time purchases, and cost fixed amounts like $5 or $10. In their greed, Apple introduced the "subscription" into the app ecosystem, and the rest is history - nowadays, you "rent" apps - not only do you give them your privacy and data, you also have to continuously pay for them to keep feeding off you.
It's the same with Microsoft Office. I used to be able to buy it for $10 through a work benefit, while today it's only available via subscription and my work benefit is 20% off the subscription - no thanks.
Same with adobe programs!!! Years ago you could buy it and own phothsop, illustrator, etc, then they introduced the annoying suscription mode
My archive is my personal project, one I've worked on almost my entire life. From DVDs of classic cartoons and movies, to four generations of console games, to the books that shaped my love of fantasy and sci-fi. And all of it is meant to be handed onto my children; a gift that I pray will be expanded and kept safe throughout the generations.
Ehrenmann!
I am looking for a movie or series where a boy used a key in a chairconsole resembleing a dentist chair that spins around its own axis to go back in time it was on BBC from England Time machine meets back to the future and Dr Who
@Kimvanloocke I believe the movie your talking about is James Caan's, " Lathe of Heaven "
@@Kimvanloockeit's called an augment chair but it looks very much like a dentists chair.
@@Kimvanloockeand it's now $37.00 on Amazon. Where as a cpl years ago would have been about 4bucks
This message cannot be said any louder. It's outrageous and disturbing the emerging technology for tyrannies of the future. I always strive to collect physical copies whenever I can.
What Dave talks about happened to me once - ironically, the book in question was a Kindle edition of “1984”. There was a dispute between Amazon and the erstwhile publisher, and Amazon ended up yanking the book off of my devices. They did give me a full refund, and I was able to repurchase the book, but it was scary to think that they could control what I can read on their platform.
Buy books. Buy movies on disc. Buy vinyl records and CDs. OWN the things you enjoy. Don’t rent them.
The fact that it was with 1984 is incredible
I remember that and the talk about how coincidental it was that it was 1984. I have a lot of books on kindle. I often wonder if or when some of these books will be edited without my knowledge and will have that feeling upon rereading it something feels different.
@@lanky-x782 Exactly. What everyone needs to realize is that digital copies of anything connected to the cloud are subject to deletion or modification and you have NO say in the matter. A digital download on your PC is *probably* safe, but even that’s not guaranteed (see also: Stuxnet).
Physical copies can’t be revoked, retracted, deleted, or modified.
Excellent advice. Own, don't rent.
This is why I still support the small amount of mom and pop shops no matter what. Physical media is more important than people think.
I do regret offloading many of my books and DVDs a decade or so back to free up space. Smh.
You nailed it. Couldnt agree more. Ive always prefered owning the physical media. I rarely purchase digital products. I feel you dont actually own it if its digital. The digital media and or the servers which it is stored on will eventually disappear. Nothing lasts forever. Ive recently started purchased the box sets of my favourite movies because of this.
I heard that the printed screenplays are more durable than the movies themselves. If SHTF they would be what posterity would find.
Nothing lasts forever, including your physical media collection. It'll last your lifetime, though. Which is a lot better than a streaming service (gone in the next 5 days). Physical media is so important.
Maybe a little off topic but recently my daughters reading assignments were discussed and one of the books is The Crucible. I said good, this book is relevant because of how people today that speak out against an authoritarianism state are labeled “far right” and “conspiracy theorists”. The look on the teachers face was priceless.
Well you're not wrong. It is the modern equivalent of "witch!"
I mean... I doubt Miller would be too happy with that interpretation, considering he was as Commie as you could get and he wrote The Crucible based around the fallacious "McCarthy Witch Hunt" narrative, so he could push his own narrative instead...
Yes. Totally agree with you.
We are destroying our past.
Rewriting the past will haunt us today and the future.
We will not learn from our past mistakes.
I prefer physical media and original books.
We need to keep it to know the who made it and keep the past alive.
Dante's Peak is one of my favourite disaster movies. It was removed from Netflix without warning, so I managed to find a copy on Blu-ray.
I have my CAV laserdisc which I still enjoy. Avoid streaming like the plague...
Always said this. One reason why I have walls full of DVDs, CDs and Games.
Over my 40 year lifetime I’ve accrued a substantial collection of books and DVDs. But music is what’s most important to me, and I’ve got thousands of CDs and a small collection vinyl. No one is ever going to disappear the things I love down the memory hole.
It's not just entertainment, but any element of culture and history needs to be preserved. Putting together a personal archive or library not only preserves the past, but also is good for your own mental health. Things to preserve include:
1: Books. Textbooks (1980's on back), (Auto)biographies, Philosophy, Cookbooks, Manuals and Guidebooks, Artbooks, Comics/ Manga, etc.
2: Video: Movies, TV series, Animation, Documentaries, Interviews, Concerts
3: Music: Original albums, Soundtracks, Live recordings, All genres from Classical to Popular.
4: Artwork: Prints, Paintings, Posters, Artbooks, etc.
With more and more things from the past being edited and erased, we need to preserve what we can.
Agreed
And newspapers as well, for the headlines, and how well the papers were laid out and put together (like an old Chicago Sun-Times I have from 1980 [got it from EBay], which had far more in its 164 pages than my hometown Greenville News has under Gannett/UTN today).
This is why I prefer having DVDs or Bluerays in my house rather than relying on a streaming service like Netflix!
And it sucks when these streaming services are at war with each other. Disney Plus came on the scene and snatched everything from Netflix, and so did Amazon Prime. Never had to worry about licensing and intellectual property buying DVD's.
Streaming services just plain sux anyways. They lack bonus materials, commentaries and audio dubs like all DVDs and BluRays have. They keep on price jacking and taking series and movies away and that resorted me to get unofficial DVDs and BluRays because the companies like Paramount are such asses to ditch physical media which is the stupidest business decision and a wrong move.
Which is why we must #BoycottStreamingServices and #SupportPhysicalMedia
Unfortunatly, we are living much closer to Brave New World where FAR too many people are too dumb and too busy enjoying their comforts too care about any of this. I.E. How can something be bastardized when nobody cares about that thing in the first place.
It will be non of like 1984 or Brave New World. It will be like feudalism all over again but supported with technology.
1984 is more accurate, the people are kept dumb and ignorant by changing the history and memory holing the truth.
I wouldn't call them dumb, so much as they are ignorant. A lot of people are unaware of these issues because they choose to be. It's more inconvenient to wage a crusade against digital media and spend 1000s of dollars on physical copies, than it is to pay a monthly subscription fee to gain access to an entire library of content. Companies know this and do everything they can to not only make their services convenient, but also to make sure the masses have no idea said entertainment is even being altered. That's why they say "knowledge is power", because once you have that information, it's near impossible to ignore. In my opinion, you're only dumb if you weigh all of the evidence and negative consequences and still choose the worst outcome. Most people aren't even aware there's an ongoing trial, so to speak
What is dangerous about censorship and alterations of books, movies, TV, etc. is how silently it’s done. Physical media is more important than ever. The masses are stupid AF in general. They think they own something when they stream it, when they also complain about how it’s taken off the service without warning.
There's already been something similar to the AI scenario you lay out, I've heard of some older films having certain scenes cut out because they were deemed problematic by woke standards. 1984 was meant to be a cautionary tale, the woke left - and mainstream politicians - decided to use it as a handbook for society.
George Lucas did it with his own IP when the remastered Star Wars OT was released. The poorly edited cantina scene had Greedo shooting at Han first, so Han wouldn’t look like a “bad guy” when he shot Greedo. Han wasn’t a hero at that point in his character arc. He was a bad guy, he was a smuggler who worked for gangsters.
My parents gave me the star wars OT original release on VHS, they are one of my treasures.
The difference there is that it was done by the original creator. Still not a great move though.
I still own the “Star Wars” “Definitive Collection” on LaserDisc - all three original movies with NO alterations of any kind. And I have a working LaserDisc player. :-)
I miss the Yubnubs song at the end of ROTJ that plays after they defeated the Emperor.
I can still hear it in my head after all these years, but for some reason they changed it to something else for the Special Edition in '97.
I get that the new montage footage of the Empire falling across the galaxy adds a higher runtime but they could have found a way to lengthen the song without scrapping a piece of the original film.
@@DarthRagnarok343 I was so ticked when my VCR ate my copy of ESB that I had for years.
I ended up getting the trilogy on DVD but I preferred to watch it in VCR.
Never got streaming, always stuck with VHS/DVD, records/CDs, and books. Have no plans to change that
Completely agree, and they've already modified Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Beatrix Potter and Georgette Heyer... I'm sure there are others
Excellent points.
This is the one of the reasons why I don't have streaming services. You own the titles you want to watch for the same prices as all those services without paying for the thousands of titles you don't want.
You nailed it. Altering books and films is vandalism. Streaming servives like Disney have already been removing films and select episodes of shows.
I love physical media, I was mocked and ridiculed by everyone at work when Netflix became popular for streaming everything when they were the biggest and mainly only one. They all told me I was small minded, paranoid or unable to get with the times for continuing to collect physical. I asked one simple question to them and they all laughed at me "How long do you think they're the only one? Do you think someone else wouldn't want a slice of the streaming pie?"
Its why I bought Roald Dahl's works dated 2016 for my kid, she's only 3 but still says 'oh no' when hearing the stories or YES! I'm not sure the revised versions would have the same effect.
I've been seeing this happening to movies for a long time. Films that come to mind are Back to the Future pt.2, when Marty realizes that the Sports Almanac he thought he had was actually an adult magazine called “Ooh La La.” In the original version, Marty flips through the pages of the magazine in disbelief while repeating the name to himself a few times. The "new version" cut much of this scene out.
The 20th Anniversary release of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. They digitally took all the guns out and replaced them with walkie-talkies and you no longer hear Eliot's mother yell, "No guns! They're just children!" Now Steven Spielberg says that he regrets the decision and believes that no movie should be edited to fit modern sensibilities. It was a “product of its era” and should never have been revised just because we now “peer through” different lenses.
One of the most recent edits was made to the classic 1971 film The French Connection. A small portion of the film has been newly "censored." This version has the character “Popeye” Doyle’s use of a racial slur cut out. In total, six seconds of the movie were removed from this scene, which now features a pretty clumsy cut mid-conversation.
I've been warning people about this too. Get a physical copy of the original version!
Wait, those were guns in the original version of ET?
@alexwright4930 Yup. I bought the 20th anniversary dvd for a friend and his kids a long time ago. When we were all watching it together, my friend and I noticed it and were like, WTF OVER??? Why did they do that?
I would never sell my dvds. The older, more obscure tv and films I own on blu ray or dvd is not even available on streaming services. Netflix is absolutely rubbish. For this reason alone, physical media will never die.
I will add tho that I think everything should be owned physically including music, photos etc. That means not even on a hard drive, because hard drives aren’t future proof. Any physical media such as discs, records etc cannot be deleted or corrupted in any way.
It has already happened. The scene in the first Star Wars movie where Han Solo shoots the guy in the bar was changed.
i've had power outages the past few years & listening to cds on my portable player was a huge life saver
I literally had to move out of my home (due to mold) and move to a place with no internet and no satellite access. I have to rely on my bluray/dvd collection to watch anything. So glad I bought physical media.
Just imagine in the near future having an original dvd, cd etc...... It will be difficult to think but a future we are going to see.
I can see people selling unedited books/movies/series like stereotypical drug dealers "Hey, kid, you want an unedited copy of Goodfellas?"
Well, Disney is now putting all their money into physical media so....maybe not.
@@Lonovavir I got that hot coffee enabled disc...
The media will tell people to "watch out for far right nazi dvd & cd lovers". Report them immediately to big brother.
True
Thank you for this. This makes me flaming mad. Censor the great Agatha Christie, but it's okay for them to publish and distribute sex books to children. You are so correct about Physical Media. I just hopped on EBAY right now and impulse ordered a lot of 58 used AC paperbacks from the 70s & 80s. I will spit nails if they ever go after my other favorites like Ray Bradbury or Richard Matheson.
Amen to that. Got a huge collection of books from Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Clive Barker, and Harlan Ellison in my personal library. These treasures need to be preserved
Books are edited anyway over the decades because of changes in language. Read a 1969 copy of Day of the Triffids. Read a 1981 copy and read a current copy. You would be amazed at the changes.
@@rogershore3128 Day of the Triffids is one of my favorite stories. You are right. These edits have happened for a long time. It feels like it’s done today to be censorious to appease one side and for “hurt feelings” rather than merely updating archaic words.
@@brooklyngal6334 I think there is a major scene that has been removed from the book and I have no idea why and sometimes an author will re-edit their book. I know James Herbert removed a reference to Margaret Thatcher in I think Liar?. And his reason was sound. Nothing to do with cancel culture.
Try finding a copy of Ten Little Indians with its original title.
It is already happening. You can already find edited and revised releases of classic Saturday morning TV. "Jonny Quest", "Speed Racer", "Bugs Bunny", etc. I have been achieving these originals for a while now.
I still have all my old VHS tapes, lots of *_Star Trek TNG_* and *_DS9_* and movies that I bought from *_HMV._* Lots of stuff I taped off TV in the early 90's, still watch them but very rarely watch actual TV anymore; it's trash.
Cool 🖖🏻
"Ownership matters". exactly. Physical all the way for me. now and always.
I keep physical media of my most treasured media. That said I do digitize and make convenient the rewatching and perusing of my expansive library. There isn’t much new stuff I’m interested in anyways. Thanks for the content.
Best Buy is stopping dvd sales telling
Disney is arguably at the forefront of deleting or rewriting its back catalogue, but the other streamers aren’t far behind. I do not have a cable contract, or a streaming contract, or even a tv licence, so pretty much everything I watch needs to be on physical media.
I thought, "why not?" I'll click on this video. What i got was a very thought provocative presentation. Well done sir!
I still buy books, DVDs, and Blu-Rays and have kept all of mine even though I have them all digitized onto a LAN that we use for day-to-day watching. I agree, much harder to change them once you own them physically.
AMEN BROTHER!
This past week I've bought 3 CDs, 2 Blu rays and 2 Star Wars novels.
Couldn't agree more. I still buy CDs, blu rays, DVDs and real books.
"Permanent renter of media." Well said!
I couldn't agree more. PHYSICAL MEDIA ONLY, FOLKS!!
Since the early days of CDs and DVDs I've seen small edits here and there when compared to their VHS/tape counterparts-- some, seemingly innocuous changes, but enough for me to notice and check against store-bought or taped off TV ORIGINALS.
Disney is one of the greatest offenders, but I've seen it all over, sadly.
Keep your originals, folks, we may end up being the only cultural librarians/archivists left to keep the original alive in its true form.
I upgraded many on my DVDs and sent my daughters the older ones. Over 150 titles. She is very happy. As i told her, what the cloud giveth, the cloud can take away. The multiple streaming has become a nightmare, a very expensive nightmare. On that note, i think many people who are barely scraping buy are finding used DVDs the ticket. At a $1 a piece at Goodwill, you can build a nice library of great movies at $5 a month. And they never go away. I was paying over $100 a month for streaming! I bought my Blu-ray player on sale for $29. I still buy media at thrift stores as well. Not all physical media is still available for older or more niche shows and movies.
Meanwhile in the metal music world, physical media is still thriving.
physical media rocks 🤟
"They" have already done this to me on Amazon. Things disappear (they won't refund you) or are edited. This happens on my Kindle account too. I hate the idea that these things can be done without my input.
I treasure my books and DVD's, but I am starting to find DVD rot on some of the old discs.
I really regret my choice to go to streaming.
We have been collecting physical media for years just for the reason that you never know when something will be deemed “politically incorrect “ or “problematic “. A tablet is still pretty awesome, the ability to carry an entire library with you anywhere, but I keep nothing on there that I can’t afford to lose, such as manga or books I already have physical copies of.
The powers that be want you to put anything and everything you own on the internet your books your movies your music your photos. This way I believe it would be very convenient to charge you a fee to store these things and they control the access you have to your own stuff. Let's also not forget that there really is no privacy on the internet
I agree whole heartedly. I have an extensive DVD/Blu Ray collection, one of the reasons is for this very reason. Once I learned that online dictionaries change their definitions literally overnight, I try to make it a point to collect items specifically because they are actively trying to memory hole it. I try to keep my eye open for literary works at antique stores where the author/artist/filmmaker or their estate have announced their intentions or designs to change these works ever since they announced changing the name of a character in Huckleberry Finn for sensitivity reasons. I'm reminded of the ST:TNG episode, "Half a Life," where Timicin, played expertly by the late David Ogden Stiers, applies for amnesty when he has a change of heart over his culture's tradition of going through ritual suicide at age 60, so as not to burden family members or society with the challenges that come with advanced age. His family, friends, and fellow scientific colleagues are all perplexed and angered at Timicin's change of heart and give him an ultimatum...either come back and go through with the traditional suicide ceremony, or else all of his research and life work will simply be destroyed, all traces of his life erased as if he had never existed. I've seen instances where this has happened since that episode aired, and I guess because I always found this treatment of Timicin for rebelling against his culture's tradition simply petty and barbaric. I guess that's why when instances of cancel culture started to rear its ugly head in the wake of 9/11, it started nauseating me when they cancelled Bill Maher's show, Politically Incorrect for one of the guests praising the hijacker's "bravery" for facing certain death in the furtherance of their cause, or the Dixie Chicks having their albums taken off the airwaves for disagreeing with George W Bush's response to the attack. While I didn't agree with Maher's guest or the Dixie Chicks at the time, they did not deserve to have their show cancelled and songs taken off the air for expressing their views publicly. Every instance I see where either the left or the right try to erase and change history, I always come back to this TNG episode and I still marvel at how petty and arrogant we can be to want to so utterly destroy someone and erase them from existence because of a difference of opinion.
Agreed, Red Dwarf, fawlty towers and many more have had episodes vanished already. Just the tip ...
"ownership matters, I am not interested in being a permanent renter of media"
Great quote mr. Cullen
One problem with physical media; like BDs and DVDs and videotape is keeping a working device to play them on.
I remember buying a documentary on Amazon (digital). I thought I'd always have access to it. Many months later, I tried to play it only to find it "linked" to something else. Apparently my documentary was no longer available and its "link " was reassigned to a different video.
Knowledge Is Power!!
cd's tapes and records are also worth buying when possible.
Dave, spot on as usual.
I bought a Tom and Jerry cartoon box-set for my grandkids, a cartoon that I remember very fondly from childhood.
The Itchy & Scratchy of my generation I guess.
I only wish I'd bought it years ago, as this version has been "doctored" to be inoffensive. In particular Tom's owner is African-American and talked (past tense) with a Southern accent. This has been changed, presumably to obviate any implication that she's not the property owner but the housemaid. This retro-active alteration is destructive and also ridiculous.
Why can't "They" leave things alone. Is a cartoon from 1947 that threatening?
Your thoughts please.
Keep up the excellent work. 😊👍
I get asked why I still buy movies, shows, books, games, vinyl etc. it’s because I then always have it, I enjoy collecting. It’s a nice feeling to pull a movie off my shelf and watch it, not edited and not spending time searching to find what streaming service it’s on.
With the amount of games being delisted, same reason as above, pull it off the shelf and play it.
Books and comics, it’s nice holding the original work and not reading it off an iPad.
About a year or so ago, i went back to ordering Netflix DVDs. Now that Netflix DVD is no more, i am switching to Redbox.
I am also purchasing physical copies of movies and TV shows in the form of VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, and even Laserdisc.
There is a reference to this practice in the 1978 'Rollerball' movie as well when Jonathan E goes to find 'how decisions are made'. He is send to the computer named Zero in Geneva and of course gets an evasive answer. The clerk at the library specifically says the requested books have been 'qualified and quantified.' (or something similar) Whatever that means. Love the video Dave. You could not be on more on point. Preach, Brother!
The problem is with both sides of political isle. The left tries to 'update' old works for contemporary snowlakes, and the right fights with publications of the left. The right makes fahrenheit 451, and the left runs orwel l.
They recently did what you said for The French Connection. Also in Canada they had all the Saw movies except 3 and 6, now they put them on there and removed 2 4 5 and 7. Streaming can blow sometimes
Brilliant. This is why I buy books, especially from flea markets so I can get older editions. One piece of advice, if you own digital media, don't skimp on a cheap hard drive, and perhaps get two, so if one hard drive fails for what ever reason, you have the second. Always keep a second. I used to have a ton of VHS (Because I'm old. 😆 ) and now I can't get a new quality VHS player. So those are useless. Best to get a second player (VHS, Laser Disk, DVD, Blue Ray etc..) and test it, then store it safely.
You can get expensive models of bluray players at thrift stores, they usually don't realize what they are and mark em $5 or $10......even if they're missing the remote or power cord those pieces are easily replaced......
I am immensely relieved that I own the original theatrical versions of the Star Wars trilogy on physical media.
My 4k UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD collection contines to grow each year. I've always preferred physical media over digital. I still have my old VHS tapes. I laugh when people freakout about not being able to stream anything bc the internet is out. For me i have a vast physical media collection that I can watch when the internet goes out. I also prefer hardcover/paperback books over digital ones.
Never throw away any dictionary published before 2000.
I have been a huge proponent of owning physical media for decades. Decades ago, they did this with "Our Gang" short films from the 1930's. When they were released on VHS in High Quality SP format (and restored) I bought the set (and still have them). The series COMMUNITY (which was on from 2009 to 2015) has already had episodes removed from streaming for "problematical" content. I own the DVD sets.
Records, CDs, Cassettes - I have lots of all of these. Certainly not a complete catalog of everything, but should a composer like Frank Zappa get cancelled by our "moral society," I'm prepared.
BUY PHYSICAL MEDIA! BUY THE MEANS TO PLAY THEM (Turntable, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray deck, Cassette deck, amplifier, speakers)!
Thanks for bringing this up, Mr. Cullen.
The only drawback can be the advance of technology. During the heyday of VHS tapes there was a superior physical media format called Laser Disc. I collected well over 200 LD copies of movies, but with the advent of the DVD format, LD died almost overnight. I bought a second LD player on clearance just to make sure I'd be able to watch my movies in the future but now that 25 year old player is on its last legs and used players that still work are getting harder and harder to find. 😢
@@michaeljdauben I've got about 25 LaserDiscs as well, but my player crapped out (needs new belts, I think). Right now, that repair is on the back burner, but I follow your train of thought.
DVD and Blu-Ray are going to be around for a while. The Blu-Ray players are backwards compatible, so unless you get a very early Blu-Ray deck, you can play CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays all on the same machine.
I completely agree. That's why I still keep physical copies of all my favorite albums, movies, and books.
On day, some century from now, H G Wells's War Of The Worlds will have to be rewritten so as not to offend the people living on Mars.
I recently re-watched the Disney movie Holes made in 2003 and noticed the voice over at the start now refers to climate change as to why it's so hot and dry on the lakebed. I don't remember this in the original release and in 2003 I'm sure it was still being referred to as global warming. Besides the reason why the lake dried up is part of the story line and nothing to do with global warming and or climate change!
100% agreed. Also, if a time like that comes, I hope that the people who were wise enough to use physical media will share the original material with others so we will be able to access what was intended when the original work was created, even if the streaming services etc have desecreted the original
This is already happening to classic movies on streaming services, the classic Western movie with John Wayne, Robert mitchum and James caan, El Dorado has a scene where James caan imitates a Chinese person cut out on all the streaming services I've found it on. I have it and all of my other favorite movies on DVD because of this.
Wonderful show as always. Dave absolutely wonderful. Thanks for being a voice for those who don’t have one or who are afraid to share.
Spot, the fuck, on!
I refuse to buy digital books or media. If I'm going to buy it, it will be physical. One of my favorite things to go is go to thrift shops and buy books and the oldest book I can find
I have thousands of books and audio books on a hard drive. Didn't pay a cent for them and it takes up less space on a shelf than a single paper book. Enjoy your collection but some of us are out to collect them all.
Such a good point I will keep getting the blu rays
I completely agree. What you described on the Agatha Christie novels is also happening to the James Bond novels. I walked into Barnes and Noble, picked a newer edition of Casino Royale, and the disclaimers already say this! I’ve been collecting them and making sure I buy older unaltered editions. And I still love my physical media
Bravo
Dave, I agree with you 100% on this. I have some original dvd's and my son bought a new one that has been "altered and edited". I haven't compared them yet as we live in different places.
Stay safe. Take care. Have fun. 😎
Great commentary as always. 1984 is happening as we speak. On a different topic: would it be possible for you to do a review of "Unbreakable"? I found it to be a grossly underrated masterpiece and would love to hear your opinion on this classic.
Wait isn't this breaking copyright? Wasn't the point of copyright to make sure or at least when it was originally introduced, wasn't the claim, that copywriting with prevent books or movies from being released in there unintended or unoriginal or changed form?
Of course copyright law has been taken over by Disney but I think it originally had some points
One other thing to watch for is the eventual break-down of DVD and Blu-Way players. Of course, such break-downs are to be expected, just with as other electronic devices. But ten, twenty, or thirty years from now, would a consumer be able to find a new DVD or Blu-ray player to replace one that has malfunctioned?
An absolutely necessity..especially if you’ve got favorites that speaks to you .
Orwell would be flabbergasted at what we can do today .
Excellent and timely topic for these times. I continue to add to my DVD and Blu-ray collection. I do not trust the streaming services who can edit or delete.
I would even go as far as to make sure any device capable of playing the physical media stays disconnected from the Internet. When it comes to physical media of a digital format, i.e. Blu-Ray, DVD, CD, all it would take is one software update on the player to identify and censor content. Much in the way that a video game can be patched even when playing from a physical disc, I could totally see movies or TV shows being similarly “patched” to alter the content.
I remember watching the movie the Breakfast Club not long ago on TV on a major network. During commercial breaks, they had two diverse commentators to help the viewing audience with warnings of triggering scenes of "mainstream culture" included in the film. I remember thinking that it wouldn't be long before this lighthearted flick was either banned or altered for "modern audiences".
I completely agree. Unfortunately for music, CD are extremely expensive nowadays and that's if a band even releases their music on CD and when they do it's around 30 US dollars for a Standard CD and usually are limited pressed
This is why I have no interest in ebooks and streaming services. I have actually copies of the original books and films I enjoy. Nobody can edit them to suit their politics and feelings.
I need to get a hard copy of 1984 immediately.