@@Yt-Viewer0 Well yeah. It would take huge amounts of data for uncompressed video. Basically, all consumer video (outside of studios), is compressed unless analog.
It's because they're cheap, education buys em cause they can be played in all DVD drives. Sony encrypting Blu-Ray hard is what stopped it from overtaking DVD
DVDs are on their way back mostly cuz streaming services keep removing content on a whim without any notice, whereas on dvd they can’t take it away from you, also dvds are dirt cheap rn
Absolutely correct. What we need is a viewer's bill of rights including abandonware automatically made public domain. Tired of not having the 2014 Believe show starring Johnny Sequoyah or 2016 CW Containment on physical media because both shows filmmakers are acting like bigots towards their customers
@@gothicboulderthats why you only get the stuff you like and not 5k dvds and have them in a big case or something so u can take it out of your house if theres an emergency, but who cares i doubt anyone will think to grab the dvd bag instead of the baby, but then again house burning down isnt that common
Ironically enough the DVD format is the only successful physical media since the small domination of streaming. Not only has it outperformed Blu-Ray's and the new 4K's, but it has actually gotten cheaper while the HD and UHD formats have become more expensive. God bless DVD's all the way!
Erm, cheaper unless you are trying to find out of print kung-fu films. 15 years ago it was great. ...If you do see "The Blade Spares None" anywhere for a tenner, give me a shout.... asking for a friend.
I don't agree with you when you say dvd's are getting cheaper. It seems to me due to lower production and the lower sales of dvd's, the production costs are much higher than before. A new release cost most of the time above the $20. Dvd's used to be cheaper in the past. Same thing with the Vinyl. Sure it got revived, but there are not that many manufacturers in the world, which makes the cost of production higher. How much is a Vinyl nowadays? I'm not buying that. But I do keep on buying dvd's. Don't need Bluray or 4K.
I was born in the early '90s, so for almost my entire childhood I grew up with VHS, but I think in 2004 or 2005 my parents bought me a Hyundai DVD player and the first DVD movie I watched was The SpongeBob Movie and the jump in picture quality was mind blowing at the time. I have fond memories of renting DVDs, I really liked those which included 2 discs, the second one featuring extras like interviews, behind the scenes and "games"
It’s honestly sad to see how few times I see people not buying DVDs at my local Goodwill. It’s so bad, they had to lower the price from $3 to $1 and now even as low as $0.50!
Same with CDs... As little as 20p in some UK Charity/junk shops... Worst case scenario is a new case and a bit of Brasso. At 20p it's a risk I've taken multiple times and got some real bargains. I still use LaserDisc as well so I'm a bit of a geek lol
DVD is not declining and have increased in the last year or so with many people. I have bought 30 in the last 3 months. I was paying £2-£3 for DVD's whereas a 4K might be £20. Also, there are many films still only on DVD. I have no interest in 4K and don't need the latest picture quality or sound quality. In the past I had over 2000 DVD's .
Been collecting over the last year, feels satisfying owning an actual collection of shows and movies I like. I feel like physical media might become a novelty thing eventually like vinyl records are now.
It already is. No one I know personally except myself has invested in a player + physical media. Anyone who does own physical media that I know of are vinyls and I truly believe they are lying to themselves saying it sounds better, but only do it to be quirky. Vinyls, like VHS, actually degrade in quality over time the more you use it. And a LOT of them release toxic, forever chemicals.
VHS and DVDs were a part of my childhood along with many others in millennial and Gen Z generations. I believe streaming could be the culprit for the collapse of DVD sales. But, physical media is nostalgic and better than streaming.
Okay, this may be a technical "nitpick" but true nonetheless . . . DVDs (more accurately discs under the DVD-Video specification) are 480i (not 480p). The underlying MPEG stream is interlaced, though all modern DVD players will deinterlace and provide a progressive signal (though this is only through HDMI and *maybe* component, composite/s-video connections are obviously limited to interlaced output).
The resolution of DVDs is higher in Europe, it is 576p compared to the US NTSC resolution of 480p. It might not sound like much, but it makes a big difference. One of the cool things about consoles like the PS3, PS4 and Xbox One S is that they automatically upscale DVDs to 1080p or even 4K, depending on the type of TV you have. Its funny how many people don't realise that simple and useful feature, yet still decided to upgrade their movies to Blu Ray.
@Zer0effort the Xbox One S has a 4K Blu Ray drive built in, that's why I mentioned it. I don't know about other Blu Ray players, as I have never owned a standalone player.
4:47 "pretty much every movie that was on VHS had been rereleased on DVD at this point". Um, no. Somewhere around 50,000 titles never made it from VHS to DVD.
I recently got out one of my old dvds that had been packed away for 15 years and played it in my Panasonic UB820 on a 60” tv and was amazed at how good the quality is. For some reason I expected it to look bad.
Correction: the amount of movies that were released on VHS was far more than has ever been released on DVD. There are loads of movies that have only ever had a VHS release.
Having a physical media library and ripping it to a plex/jellyfin server gives you the best of both worlds. Don't have to hunt down a disk just to watch something but also you have all that data stored locally so nothing gets removed unless you purposefully delete it.
DVDs with 8.5GB capacity usually had 6-8GB movies on them. A lot of them were single-sided and on a burnable disc, the largest that can fit is 4.37GB It's also not a very good compression used for DVD. You can convert a DVD file to a MKV file and the space used, lowers from 4GB to about 650MB to 1.5GB, without any loss in quality. The high capacity DVDs would compress to about a 2.5GB MKV file or less. Blurays movies are usually 22GB to 40GB on a 25GB-50GB disc.
@@frommatorav1 I think you're missing the point here. The video is misleading. First, it mentions that Blu-ray can hold 25-50GB of data, and HD-DVD about 15-30GB, but then incorrectly states that DVDs can only hold 4.7GB of data. In reality, DVDs can hold between 4.7 and 8.5GB. It's inconsistent to provide a range for one format and not for the others. Second, you can't definitively claim that most DVDs were single-sided. I own a collection of 6,000 DVDs, and I know that many of the more popular titles, especially from major Hollywood studios, are dual-sided discs. Single-sided discs were more common for lower-budget or straight-to-video releases. Third, the same logic applies to Blu-ray and 4K discs. While 4K discs can theoretically hold up to 100GB, no single movie disc actually contains 100GB of movie data. The same goes for DVDs, especially since we're dealing with lower resolution formats here.
@@moviemaster00000 I would agree that most Hollywood movies were on dual-layer discs, which hold more. I would disagree that most were 2 sided. For me, that was quite rare and usually only for a movie that was widescreen 16:9 on one side and 4:3 full frame on the other.
@@frommatorav1 still it's misleading to put a range of GBs on one type of physical media and ignore it on the other type of physical media. That was the main reason for my main comment here.
Most tvs don't have aspect ratio adjustment settings, where on a blu ray, the content is locked to a 4:3 format on older content. On a dvd, a blu ray player can stretch the video to screen 16:9 even if it is 4:3.
I have been buying up every single movie released on 3D Blu-ray since the format is now in hospice mode lol. I've had a total blast watching movies I never would have otherwise, and have been making bit-perfect backups for digital preservation. Hopefully others like me keep supporting releases!
DVDs certainly didn't 'instantly' replace VHS, from the mid 90s when it launched until 2003, DVDs continued to lag behind VHS as the main media format. Stuff like the PS2 launch and the terrible quality of the third Harry Potter movie on VHS are usually cited as reasons why people (and studios) began to migrate hard in the mid 00s.
Super 8 film was never mainstream. He also didn't bring up laser disc. It's superior to VHS quality in every way and close to DVD quality on most releases and better than DVD on a couple of Special Edition laser disc movies . LD was also not mainstream because of the price, so I understand it being skipped, too.
@frommatorav1 the technology of LaserDisc was fundamental in the eventual breakthrough of DVDs, the technology that superseded DVD was the VideoCD, which I have noticed never seems to be mentioned when talking about the history of how DVDs came into existence. The compression codec used to make VideoCDs was MPEG 1 (made by the Motion Picture Experts Group), which is a lower quality version of MPEG 2 codec eventually created for DVDs. The only problem with MPEG 1, apart from the low quality, is that you couldn't fit a whole movie on one CD due to the limitations of CDs being 650-700MB at the time. So most commercial VideoCDs came on 2 or more discs, they were also easy to copy, which lead to a lot of VideoCD pi-ra-cy in the early 90's. The main aim and challenge was to somehow fit a whole movie onto a single disc, the only technology at the time that could do this was LaserDisc which originally used CD technology to store analogue video & audio information on a large disc, which was expensive to produce and cumbersome for most consumers to use. The answer was to create a new format of disc that could store the large amount of data required to show a movie at a relatively higher quality than MPEG 1, which had the same quality as VHS. It took almost 9 years to develop a CD like disc that would be able to fit an entire movie on and yet be cheap enough to produce in large numbers. Two corporations helped the MPEG Consortium to research and eventually create what would become the DVD, Philips who originally created the CD and Sony. Other corporation's would eventually join them to help create the DVD Consortium, which still exists to this day.
@@frommatorav1 don't forget VideoCDs as well, which superceded DVDs and has similar MPEG 1 (VHS quality) encoding technology. LaserDisc was seen as a standard to aim for by the Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG for short, they wanted to find a way to put the amount of audio & video data of a large LaserDisc (several gigabytes of analogue data) onto a CD sized disc. VideoCD was limited to half a movie per disc due to the limitations of CD being 650-700MB per disc and the inefficient MPEG 1 codec compression. So they teamed up with Philips, who had invented the Compact Disc and Sony to find a solution. After almost 5 years of research they came up with not only a new video codec in the shape of MPEG 2, but a new type of disc that could hold an entire compressed movie in relatively high quality. Although the first version of DVD could only contain 4.5 GB of data per side, which meant that movies with a long run time could not fit on just one side and had to flipped over, so early DVDs were known as "flipper discs." It would be several years later that this newly founded DVD Consortium (made up of the MPEG team, Philips & Sony initially) would come up with dual layer technology and the tech to make DVD-R discs for recording purposes, although it was initially for use in PCs only.
@frommatorav1 don't forget VideoCDs as well, which superceded DVDs and has similar MPEG 1 (VHS quality) encoding technology. LaserDisc was seen as a standard to aim for by the Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG for short, they wanted to find a way to put the amount of audio & video data of a large LaserDisc (several gigabytes of analogue data) onto a CD sized disc. VideoCD was limited to half a movie per disc due to the limitations of CD being 650-700MB per disc and the inefficient MPEG 1 codec compression. So they teamed up with Philips, who had invented the Compact Disc and Sony to find a solution. After almost 5 years of research they came up with not only a new video codec in the shape of MPEG 2, but a new type of disc that could hold an entire compressed movie in relatively high quality. Although the first version of DVD could only contain 4.5 GB of data per side, which meant that movies with a long run time could not fit on just one side and had to flipped over, so early DVDs were known as "flipper discs." It would be several years later that this newly founded DVD Consortium (made up of the MPEG team, Philips & Sony initially) would come up with dual layer technology and the tech to make DVD-R discs for recording purposes, although it was initially for use in PCs only.
If we're talking obscure tech, He didn't talk about D-VHS, Quality so good it can look on par with Blu-ray in some cases, Some early Blu-ray transfers were based on D-VHS copies since they lost original film prints
Even though I stream everything on my Nvidia Shield I hate that I threw away my DVD collection 2 years ago when I moved. I can't imagine myself actually watching DVDs but I wish I still had my collection just for nostalgic reasons. I had a collection of almost 300 horror movies and old school gangster mob movies, but I never watched them because I stream everything. They were just in the top of my closet on a shelf taking up a lot of space so I got rid of them. I'm actually thinking about buying me a new collection of DVDs and a cheap DVD player just in case something ever happened where my internet was unavailable for an extended period of time I could still watch movies. I really wouldn't have to buy a DVD player because I can watch DVDs on my Xbox Series X or my PlayStation 5, but I would want a little DVD player just for nostalgia.
Dvd's are not capped at 4.7GB, at least dvd-5 is. Dvd-9 is capped at 8.5GB which is very doable. Most of my dvd's are dvd-9, probably because i bought all the premium dvd's or something. And that 480p thing, my country (The Netherlands) uses pal, which is 576p. The difference is pretty noticable for me.
Why is DVD still popular? Have you ever tried using a Blu-Ray player? Have you ever tried playing a Blu-Ray on your computer? The amount of garbage you have to do to actually get it playing is not worth the massive price tag and quality when DVDs just play when put into a DVD player.
I like getting dvds and blurays for cheap and then trying to use h265 to get the entire movie and all of its extras to fit onto little 8cm miniDVDs It's such a fun process. I even make icons, M3U playlists, and even the little ini files that add a description to the CD drive in explorer 😄 The funnest challenge I've ever done is get an entire(13 episode) TV show season onto one, in 720p HD. With its extras and everything. I can't imagine how good AV1 would be for this since miniDVDs are only about 1.4GB but well.. I can't do AV1 yet. 🥀
0:27 Actually, Kind of Nit Picking here, But DVDs can have a Maximum storage capacity of 8.5GB of Data for a Dual layer Disc which is what Most Companies use for their DVDs. It's Very rare for a Company to use a Single Layer disc which has the max capacity of 4.7GB
I started buying DVDs in 2004. The only movies in my collection that are Blu-rays are a few movies that were left on DVD in 4:3 and those discs I just put in their DVD clamshells.
The industry's abandonment of physical media has always baffled me. When streaming options led to the inevitable decrease in DVD/Blu-Ray sales, they declared the medium dead. Just...throw away all those potential sales instead of making the logical choice, which is cutting physical media prices. Blu-Rays cost less than $5 to produce, DVDs less than that, yet the few that are still on the shelf, studios are still haplessly trying to sell them at the old overinflated prices when demand is too low to support that price point. Even making a new DVD top out at $10, that's still a decent profit. New Blu-Rays at this point shouldn't be over $15 unless its some packed collector's edition, yet here we are.
They're still selling DVDs. I think a lot of people understand the non-permanence of digital and want a disc, but probably never upgraded from DVD to Blu-ray or 4K and so it's familiarity that's keeping the format alive. There are also quite a few DVDs that have special edition or extended cuts, or different audio tracks and extras that make them worth getting over the Blu-ray or 4K.
You see, if the streaming services bothered to put on the bonus features under the “extras” section of the selected movie- maybe I wouldn’t be so surprised when I turn on a movie I want to watch and scroll through the extras only to be greeted by “View a promo of this release” on my screen.
I ditched streaming and got back into physical this year zero regrets audio and video is worlds better and its easier for me to find great films on physical too instead of being force fed whatever new garbage each streaming service is pushing at the moment.
So, I have a 1080p HDTV. My internet service is so bad that anything I stream (which essentially is everything) looks like Lara Croft circa 1997. People's faces look like sand paintings. Also, Disney+ would be fine if I could watch ANYTHING Disney, anytime. But that's not how it works. Content is constantly being discontinued or switched out--leaving me watching something I didn't want in the first place. Pre-recorded VHS tapes were cheap and you could watch it anytime you wanted. Then suddenly you couldn't buy VHS machines anymore. Long story short(er) I own a library of almost 3000 DVDs. I can watch any movie I want anytime I want with no degradation of quality until such time as they don't make the machines anymore and I'll be stuck paying for streaming watching shows I don't really want to watch. Sounds like Cable TV of the 70s doesn't it? Backward and Downward we go. And for ever increasing cost.
Yes blu ray does seem worse (I don't count the crap £1 DVD's of films no one ahs heard off). I was collecting DVD's back in 1998 and the covers and collections were much high standard. Now, you get re-releases where they have saved money on selling crap packaging and rubbish cover art. Even the new Nightmare on Elm Street 4K has Freddy images from the 3rd Nightmare film on the cover and the menu.
@@notyourboi01 I got the the US Prey today and yet again it is one of the blu rays with the crap recycling cutout in the case which make the case very weak.
I can imagine that you buy and then download movies or shows you want. Because storage gets cheaper and cheaper and if anyone has there own cloud and you could have a private library with all shows and movies you bought. Would also be nice because you could choose what resolution and quality on every single movie. Buying your favorites in 4k quality and because you download it there isnt any compression on the video. Because with 5g and better wifi downloading a 50gb video will take less than a minute. I know its sounds a bit like a backstep. It takes away the convenience a bit which probably is the most important aspect of a new system. But maybe will accept that for knowing they own the movie in any quality they like for ever. I mean there can still be companies were you pay monthly and can download a certain amount of movies or shows. Maybe even buy it beforehand and when it publishes it will automatically download into your library.
And here I am paying no more than $10-$15 for a VHS/DVD lol. I’m into monster trucks and there was a ton of home media for those back in the day. I do the same with movies, then I don’t have to buy a streaming service, I also get bonus features! Also, what DVD is 2:50 from?
I believe U R somewhat right except i think they will have 3 or 4 main services that can be bundled together eventually the companies will merge as separate groups in order 2 get maximum profit with minimum negative public perception.
Great Video 🎉.. I'm guessing 'Mean Girls' is a 'Favourite Flick' ❤ -however 'watching' Mean Girls on Disc 'for the first time' is not exactly the same 'Experience' as the 100th.. If you know what I mean..?? 😊❤
Ah, but my dad, who knows I love physical media, and I have a stack of DVDs I refuse to shelf until I watch them, got me a digital-only PS5 because it's "better." Now I can't watch any of my movies and shows because of scalpers (getting all of the PS5 disk drives to so kindly "give" to the people who bought a PS5 Pro and want to play games physically), and I gave my PS4 Pro to my sister so she could leave me alone about it.
I have loads of dvds now that I've been buying since i was 13. i never was a fan of streaming services as you have to pay monthly like having to pay rent of your entertainment but thats what i think anyway
Oscar, I BEG OF YOU, to make a video on Pokemon talk, a youtube plush series by MANDJTV, it was a great fucking series I used to binge when I was younger
Even with this digital revolution we are in my family still ask why I still collect movies on dvd blu ray and in 4K even though I have bad internet connections and bad broadband width but I still love collecting movies
VPNs let you LIE about your location. That's evil. Blocked from my recommendations
Lol
@@Its-Fryday Only with your mouth
@@jeffreyseay7707 dude this is the craziest comment like bro????
Physical media is GOATed.
Internet? Not required
Quality? 480p - 4K UHD
Sound? Stereo - Atmos
Ads? None during the movie
Cost? 5 - 30$ per disc
Compression? None
Hotel? Trivago
@@LemonSoundLogosPhysical still has compression, just much less than streaming.
@@Yt-Viewer0 i heard thether tapes have like 1tb or something per movie, so 4k is the best way for you to get the highest quality thing.
@@Yt-Viewer0 Well yeah. It would take huge amounts of data for uncompressed video. Basically, all consumer video (outside of studios), is compressed unless analog.
@@LemonSoundLogosPAL DVDs are 576p.
As of 2024, DVD is still the most sold physical media format on the market. It overtook blu ray in 2021 and has held the title ever since.
Weird how it overtook blu ray.
@bluejaysfan965 DVD is cheaper and smart TVs can do some techno magic to make them look almost as good as blu ray.
@@theotherjared9824also they are better than the ones from 20 years ago
It's because they're cheap, education buys em cause they can be played in all DVD drives. Sony encrypting Blu-Ray hard is what stopped it from overtaking DVD
HELL YEA BROTHER
Afraid of it becoming a "realizing it's too late to now care about DVDs" kinda thing 😢
Physical media should be preserved
It’s not too late! Start collecting now
wdym too late. Theyve been the cheapest its ever been, even if none are produced any more
@@eightcoins4401 none produced anymore? Do you think new releases aren't coming out on physical media?
DVDs are on their way back mostly cuz streaming services keep removing content on a whim without any notice, whereas on dvd they can’t take it away from you, also dvds are dirt cheap rn
But why DVD and not blu ray? Who wants standard definition in 2024.
@@goldenhourkodak upscaling exists on modern cheap dvd players.
@@Georgie_R my guess is that you need more proccessing power to upscale 1080p blu ray. 480p is easier so it looks better.
@@goldenhourkodak eh. only reason i use bluray is just for newer films and also for bluray 3d.
Discs go out of print. No one wants to pay $50+ on eBay for a used movie that you're only gonna watch once in your lifetime.
PHYSICAL MEDIA BETTER THAN STREAMING 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
Absolutely correct. What we need is a viewer's bill of rights including abandonware automatically made public domain. Tired of not having the 2014 Believe show starring Johnny Sequoyah or 2016 CW Containment on physical media because both shows filmmakers are acting like bigots towards their customers
@@jeffreyseay7707 100%
NAS/Media Server FTW
Remux
*YESSSSSSSSSS*
I never gave up collecting physical media, never trusted streaming and don’t use it. Today I consider my choices to have been very wise
Why all the good shows on streaming now
Waste of space and time
Its all fun and games till your house burns down
@@gothicboulderwhat if the content ur watching suddenly is now on another platform
@@gothicboulderthats why you only get the stuff you like and not 5k dvds and have them in a big case or something so u can take it out of your house if theres an emergency, but who cares i doubt anyone will think to grab the dvd bag instead of the baby, but then again house burning down isnt that common
Ironically enough the DVD format is the only successful physical media since the small domination of streaming. Not only has it outperformed Blu-Ray's and the new 4K's, but it has actually gotten cheaper while the HD and UHD formats have become more expensive.
God bless DVD's all the way!
Erm, cheaper unless you are trying to find out of print kung-fu films. 15 years ago it was great. ...If you do see "The Blade Spares None" anywhere for a tenner, give me a shout.... asking for a friend.
I don't agree with you when you say dvd's are getting cheaper. It seems to me due to lower production and the lower sales of dvd's, the production costs are much higher than before. A new release cost most of the time above the $20. Dvd's used to be cheaper in the past. Same thing with the Vinyl. Sure it got revived, but there are not that many manufacturers in the world, which makes the cost of production higher. How much is a Vinyl nowadays? I'm not buying that. But I do keep on buying dvd's. Don't need Bluray or 4K.
@@solecreator4844 Well $20 is a Godsend compared to $40.00 to $50.00 4K's or Blu-rays.
I was born in the early '90s, so for almost my entire childhood I grew up with VHS, but I think in 2004 or 2005 my parents bought me a Hyundai DVD player and the first DVD movie I watched was The SpongeBob Movie and the jump in picture quality was mind blowing at the time. I have fond memories of renting DVDs, I really liked those which included 2 discs, the second one featuring extras like interviews, behind the scenes and "games"
It’s honestly sad to see how few times I see people not buying DVDs at my local Goodwill. It’s so bad, they had to lower the price from $3 to $1 and now even as low as $0.50!
Wished they lowered the price here.
Alot of those are usually movies people already own on physical media when the movie isnt straight up crap
Same with CDs... As little as 20p in some UK Charity/junk shops... Worst case scenario is a new case and a bit of Brasso. At 20p it's a risk I've taken multiple times and got some real bargains.
I still use LaserDisc as well so I'm a bit of a geek lol
@@domfjbrown75I use laser disc too. Some films only released on that format.
I have exactly one movie on laser disc though.
Why complain about you getting a good price on DVDs?
Streaming is temporary, but DVD is forever ( well unless you damage it )
Fear the disc rot.
DVD is not declining and have increased in the last year or so with many people. I have bought 30 in the last 3 months. I was paying £2-£3 for DVD's whereas a 4K might be £20. Also, there are many films still only on DVD. I have no interest in 4K and don't need the latest picture quality or sound quality. In the past I had over 2000 DVD's .
I’ve always been an advocate for physical media I have nothing against streaming services but they don’t give you everything
i love DVDs, i still use them pretty actively with my ps2
so do i & my blu ray player
keep in mind, if you got a slim, they can scratch both game and movie dvds
#PhysicalMediaLivesMatter
@@therandommariofan this comment should get a heart
Common therandommariofan W (I'm a Physical Media fanatic)
@@HaveanOreshnik And it did! Physical media all the way!
I still buy and watch DVDs
Been collecting over the last year, feels satisfying owning an actual collection of shows and movies I like. I feel like physical media might become a novelty thing eventually like vinyl records are now.
It already is. No one I know personally except myself has invested in a player + physical media. Anyone who does own physical media that I know of are vinyls and I truly believe they are lying to themselves saying it sounds better, but only do it to be quirky. Vinyls, like VHS, actually degrade in quality over time the more you use it. And a LOT of them release toxic, forever chemicals.
Novelty? They've been in constant use in my house since 1991, along with CDs. Only issue? Total pain in the butt when you have to move...
Physical media will never die. I still buy CDs, DVDs, cassettes,VHS. Most of my films, are DVDs, with some Blu rays, 4K.
Forgot about my records.
VHS and DVDs were a part of my childhood along with many others in millennial and Gen Z generations. I believe streaming could be the culprit for the collapse of DVD sales. But, physical media is nostalgic and better than streaming.
there are thousands upon thousands titles not on streaming at all. Many get removed all the time.
it all started going down hill at the release of Click on DVD
A high quality external video upscaler makes DVD videos look gorgeous and sharp. Just saying.
I still have over 1000 of them. I see the stack every time I step in my living room 😊
Okay, this may be a technical "nitpick" but true nonetheless . . . DVDs (more accurately discs under the DVD-Video specification) are 480i (not 480p). The underlying MPEG stream is interlaced, though all modern DVD players will deinterlace and provide a progressive signal (though this is only through HDMI and *maybe* component, composite/s-video connections are obviously limited to interlaced output).
Nothing I miss more from my childhood than my dvd and vhs collection. Haven't seen FernGully since Avatar released.
to be fair the ted show is really good imo, the show gives more time to develope charaters rather than squishing everything into 1 film
In the uk its actually 576p not 480p thats a us thing and dvds can be 8.5gb if its dual layered
Because in uk they use PAL
Most DVD movies are dual layer.
@@richardlara5466In most of Europe.
Not all UK DVDs are PAL, some are NTSC, but yeah, PAL’s more common.
The resolution of DVDs is higher in Europe, it is 576p compared to the US NTSC resolution of 480p. It might not sound like much, but it makes a big difference.
One of the cool things about consoles like the PS3, PS4 and Xbox One S is that they automatically upscale DVDs to 1080p or even 4K, depending on the type of TV you have. Its funny how many people don't realise that simple and useful feature, yet still decided to upgrade their movies to Blu Ray.
don't blu ray players also do that?
@Zer0effort the Xbox One S has a 4K Blu Ray drive built in, that's why I mentioned it. I don't know about other Blu Ray players, as I have never owned a standalone player.
Can you make video about DVD ,blu ray, and 4K Blu-ray packaging since there a lot that are bad and good packaging. Also good video. 👍
4:47 "pretty much every movie that was on VHS had been rereleased on DVD at this point". Um, no. Somewhere around 50,000 titles never made it from VHS to DVD.
I still have a lot of DVDs and Blu rays. The first DVD I got was the Wizard of Oz.
One time when I was at Target, all the DVDs were pulled from the shelves which means the future of DVDs is now very uncertain.
*DVDs never "declined".* It's probably the most dominant format EVER. If it declined, it happened NATURALLY, and due to the age of the format.
I recently got out one of my old dvds that had been packed away for 15 years and played it in my Panasonic UB820 on a 60” tv and was amazed at how good the quality is. For some reason I expected it to look bad.
Correction: the amount of movies that were released on VHS was far more than has ever been released on DVD. There are loads of movies that have only ever had a VHS release.
And same can be said for DVD and Blu-ray, Still a lot of titles not on Blu-ray
The thought of gen Alpha kids not knowing what a dvd is devastating
Weirdly enough 480 p isn't that bad for me I feel how its naturally intended to watch
just no
It isn't that bad bro, it's ok@@colinthornborrow
Netflix and Disney will also remove shows/movies . Some shows are stuck on dvd
DVDs were the life of my era. And also VHS! I wish they would still do them :(
I think dvds look better on a full hd smart TV than a 4k TV.
For me it's always exiting putting in a new dvd or another one that I've already owned
Having a physical media library and ripping it to a plex/jellyfin server gives you the best of both worlds. Don't have to hunt down a disk just to watch something but also you have all that data stored locally so nothing gets removed unless you purposefully delete it.
I still get DVD movies if the blu ray is sold out
Actually usually the DVD is dual-sided, which means that we get about 8.5GB of data there. Not 4.7
DVDs with 8.5GB capacity usually had 6-8GB movies on them. A lot of them were single-sided and on a burnable disc, the largest that can fit is 4.37GB
It's also not a very good compression used for DVD. You can convert a DVD file to a MKV file and the space used, lowers from 4GB to about 650MB to 1.5GB, without any loss in quality.
The high capacity DVDs would compress to about a 2.5GB MKV file or less.
Blurays movies are usually 22GB to 40GB on a 25GB-50GB disc.
@@frommatorav1 I think you're missing the point here. The video is misleading. First, it mentions that Blu-ray can hold 25-50GB of data, and HD-DVD about 15-30GB, but then incorrectly states that DVDs can only hold 4.7GB of data. In reality, DVDs can hold between 4.7 and 8.5GB. It's inconsistent to provide a range for one format and not for the others.
Second, you can't definitively claim that most DVDs were single-sided. I own a collection of 6,000 DVDs, and I know that many of the more popular titles, especially from major Hollywood studios, are dual-sided discs. Single-sided discs were more common for lower-budget or straight-to-video releases.
Third, the same logic applies to Blu-ray and 4K discs. While 4K discs can theoretically hold up to 100GB, no single movie disc actually contains 100GB of movie data. The same goes for DVDs, especially since we're dealing with lower resolution formats here.
@@moviemaster00000 I would agree that most Hollywood movies were on dual-layer discs, which hold more. I would disagree that most were 2 sided. For me, that was quite rare and usually only for a movie that was widescreen 16:9 on one side and 4:3 full frame on the other.
@@frommatorav1 still it's misleading to put a range of GBs on one type of physical media and ignore it on the other type of physical media. That was the main reason for my main comment here.
Even then the main film will only be 480p
Most tvs don't have aspect ratio adjustment settings, where on a blu ray, the content is locked to a 4:3 format on older content. On a dvd, a blu ray player can stretch the video to screen 16:9 even if it is 4:3.
You can either put a MPEG-2 stream that's 480i or add black bars to the video and upscale to 720p or 1080p atleast for normal bluray
Haven’t watched this full video but as someone who can appreciate anything above 240p, a dvd being played on a blu ray player looks great.
You are wrong. Commercial DVD's are usually pressed using dual-layer discs which usually can hold around 8gb of data.
Nice video, I didn't know that Netflix used to rent a dvds
With streaming getting more expensive, perhaps buying cheap used discs from thrift stores is a good idea.
I have been buying up every single movie released on 3D Blu-ray since the format is now in hospice mode lol. I've had a total blast watching movies I never would have otherwise, and have been making bit-perfect backups for digital preservation. Hopefully others like me keep supporting releases!
this is the first video i've seen by you and, you made our stupid school? dude i love those! they make me laugh so much!
DVDs certainly didn't 'instantly' replace VHS, from the mid 90s when it launched until 2003, DVDs continued to lag behind VHS as the main media format. Stuff like the PS2 launch and the terrible quality of the third Harry Potter movie on VHS are usually cited as reasons why people (and studios) began to migrate hard in the mid 00s.
You overlooked 8mm and super 8 film. They were a home media before VHS/Beta.
Super 8 film was never mainstream. He also didn't bring up laser disc. It's superior to VHS quality in every way and close to DVD quality on most releases and better than DVD on a couple of Special Edition laser disc movies . LD was also not mainstream because of the price, so I understand it being skipped, too.
@frommatorav1 the technology of LaserDisc was fundamental in the eventual breakthrough of DVDs, the technology that superseded DVD was the VideoCD, which I have noticed never seems to be mentioned when talking about the history of how DVDs came into existence.
The compression codec used to make VideoCDs was MPEG 1 (made by the Motion Picture Experts Group), which is a lower quality version of MPEG 2 codec eventually created for DVDs. The only problem with MPEG 1, apart from the low quality, is that you couldn't fit a whole movie on one CD due to the limitations of CDs being 650-700MB at the time. So most commercial VideoCDs came on 2 or more discs, they were also easy to copy, which lead to a lot of VideoCD pi-ra-cy in the early 90's.
The main aim and challenge was to somehow fit a whole movie onto a single disc, the only technology at the time that could do this was LaserDisc which originally used CD technology to store analogue video & audio information on a large disc, which was expensive to produce and cumbersome for most consumers to use.
The answer was to create a new format of disc that could store the large amount of data required to show a movie at a relatively higher quality than MPEG 1, which had the same quality as VHS. It took almost 9 years to develop a CD like disc that would be able to fit an entire movie on and yet be cheap enough to produce in large numbers. Two corporations helped the MPEG Consortium to research and eventually create what would become the DVD, Philips who originally created the CD and Sony. Other corporation's would eventually join them to help create the DVD Consortium, which still exists to this day.
@@frommatorav1 don't forget VideoCDs as well, which superceded DVDs and has similar MPEG 1 (VHS quality) encoding technology. LaserDisc was seen as a standard to aim for by the Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG for short, they wanted to find a way to put the amount of audio & video data of a large LaserDisc (several gigabytes of analogue data) onto a CD sized disc. VideoCD was limited to half a movie per disc due to the limitations of CD being 650-700MB per disc and the inefficient MPEG 1 codec compression.
So they teamed up with Philips, who had invented the Compact Disc and Sony to find a solution. After almost 5 years of research they came up with not only a new video codec in the shape of MPEG 2, but a new type of disc that could hold an entire compressed movie in relatively high quality. Although the first version of DVD could only contain 4.5 GB of data per side, which meant that movies with a long run time could not fit on just one side and had to flipped over, so early DVDs were known as "flipper discs."
It would be several years later that this newly founded DVD Consortium (made up of the MPEG team, Philips & Sony initially) would come up with dual layer technology and the tech to make DVD-R discs for recording purposes, although it was initially for use in PCs only.
@frommatorav1 don't forget VideoCDs as well, which superceded DVDs and has similar MPEG 1 (VHS quality) encoding technology. LaserDisc was seen as a standard to aim for by the Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG for short, they wanted to find a way to put the amount of audio & video data of a large LaserDisc (several gigabytes of analogue data) onto a CD sized disc. VideoCD was limited to half a movie per disc due to the limitations of CD being 650-700MB per disc and the inefficient MPEG 1 codec compression.
So they teamed up with Philips, who had invented the Compact Disc and Sony to find a solution. After almost 5 years of research they came up with not only a new video codec in the shape of MPEG 2, but a new type of disc that could hold an entire compressed movie in relatively high quality. Although the first version of DVD could only contain 4.5 GB of data per side, which meant that movies with a long run time could not fit on just one side and had to flipped over, so early DVDs were known as "flipper discs."
It would be several years later that this newly founded DVD Consortium (made up of the MPEG team, Philips & Sony initially) would come up with dual layer technology and the tech to make DVD-R discs for recording purposes, although it was initially for use in PCs only.
If we're talking obscure tech, He didn't talk about D-VHS, Quality so good it can look on par with Blu-ray in some cases, Some early Blu-ray transfers were based on D-VHS copies since they lost original film prints
Even though I stream everything on my Nvidia Shield I hate that I threw away my DVD collection 2 years ago when I moved. I can't imagine myself actually watching DVDs but I wish I still had my collection just for nostalgic reasons. I had a collection of almost 300 horror movies and old school gangster mob movies, but I never watched them because I stream everything. They were just in the top of my closet on a shelf taking up a lot of space so I got rid of them. I'm actually thinking about buying me a new collection of DVDs and a cheap DVD player just in case something ever happened where my internet was unavailable for an extended period of time I could still watch movies. I really wouldn't have to buy a DVD player because I can watch DVDs on my Xbox Series X or my PlayStation 5, but I would want a little DVD player just for nostalgia.
DVD may be capped at 480p but it still looks better than streaming!!!
Not my streaming. Bluray looks as good as streaming much of the time, but not DVD.
@ I appreciate the satire you’re very funny
i highly doubt that, I believe thats called placebo.
Dvd's are not capped at 4.7GB, at least dvd-5 is. Dvd-9 is capped at 8.5GB which is very doable. Most of my dvd's are dvd-9, probably because i bought all the premium dvd's or something. And that 480p thing, my country (The Netherlands) uses pal, which is 576p. The difference is pretty noticable for me.
DVDs were NOT only 4.7GB or 480p. Dual layer was 8.5GB and European PAL were 576p. They were restricted to these so DVDs could work in TVs.
i miss constantly looking at the cover art and just going through the extras menus trying to find content
Why is DVD still popular? Have you ever tried using a Blu-Ray player? Have you ever tried playing a Blu-Ray on your computer? The amount of garbage you have to do to actually get it playing is not worth the massive price tag and quality when DVDs just play when put into a DVD player.
right after watching this I placed an order for a tv show on Bluray.
I like getting dvds and blurays for cheap and then trying to use h265 to get the entire movie and all of its extras to fit onto little 8cm miniDVDs
It's such a fun process. I even make icons, M3U playlists, and even the little ini files that add a description to the CD drive in explorer 😄
The funnest challenge I've ever done is get an entire(13 episode) TV show season onto one, in 720p HD. With its extras and everything. I can't imagine how good AV1 would be for this since miniDVDs are only about 1.4GB but well.. I can't do AV1 yet. 🥀
Sounds fun. I love projects like that
Great video , massive inspiration to us smaller creators 👍👍
0:27 Actually, Kind of Nit Picking here, But DVDs can have a Maximum storage capacity of 8.5GB of Data for a Dual layer Disc which is what Most Companies use for their DVDs. It's Very rare for a Company to use a Single Layer disc which has the max capacity of 4.7GB
What are you talking about, I still ADORE DVD, BD-DVD AND 4kDVD
I started buying DVDs in 2004. The only movies in my collection that are Blu-rays are a few movies that were left on DVD in 4:3 and those discs I just put in their DVD clamshells.
The industry's abandonment of physical media has always baffled me. When streaming options led to the inevitable decrease in DVD/Blu-Ray sales, they declared the medium dead. Just...throw away all those potential sales instead of making the logical choice, which is cutting physical media prices. Blu-Rays cost less than $5 to produce, DVDs less than that, yet the few that are still on the shelf, studios are still haplessly trying to sell them at the old overinflated prices when demand is too low to support that price point. Even making a new DVD top out at $10, that's still a decent profit. New Blu-Rays at this point shouldn't be over $15 unless its some packed collector's edition, yet here we are.
They're still selling DVDs. I think a lot of people understand the non-permanence of digital and want a disc, but probably never upgraded from DVD to Blu-ray or 4K and so it's familiarity that's keeping the format alive. There are also quite a few DVDs that have special edition or extended cuts, or different audio tracks and extras that make them worth getting over the Blu-ray or 4K.
Idk why the little background music jingle is stuck in my head. I watched this three times just to hear it😂😂
Dvds haven't declined at all still outsell blu ray and 4k blu ray I still buy them for latest releases
People buying DVDs is actually the same reason why people stream content online. People don't care about having the highest quality.
DVDs look amazing on crt
You see, if the streaming services bothered to put on the bonus features under the “extras” section of the selected movie- maybe I wouldn’t be so surprised when I turn on a movie I want to watch and scroll through the extras only to be greeted by “View a promo of this release” on my screen.
The background music is giving me flashbacks 🫣
6:18 I thought they didn’t release this on Blu-ray in the UK?
Love my DVD collocation and some movie having be update Blu-ray
I ditched streaming and got back into physical this year zero regrets audio and video is worlds better and its easier for me to find great films on physical too instead of being force fed whatever new garbage each streaming service is pushing at the moment.
I did so too and so agree with you.
Still waiting for the American release of the Damn Haikyuu Blu-ray
Technically with dual layer it can go to about 8.5 GB, but yes it maxes out at 720x576 full SD resolution hence vive le Blu-Ray!
So, I have a 1080p HDTV. My internet service is so bad that anything I stream (which essentially is everything) looks like Lara Croft circa 1997. People's faces look like sand paintings. Also, Disney+ would be fine if I could watch ANYTHING Disney, anytime. But that's not how it works. Content is constantly being discontinued or switched out--leaving me watching something I didn't want in the first place. Pre-recorded VHS tapes were cheap and you could watch it anytime you wanted. Then suddenly you couldn't buy VHS machines anymore. Long story short(er) I own a library of almost 3000 DVDs. I can watch any movie I want anytime I want with no degradation of quality until such time as they don't make the machines anymore and I'll be stuck paying for streaming watching shows I don't really want to watch. Sounds like Cable TV of the 70s doesn't it? Backward and Downward we go. And for ever increasing cost.
1:40 the talk tuah podcast 😂😂😂 great easter egg
Is it just me or is Blu ray cover art worse than the DVD ones?
I think it’s just the fact that dvd art covers the whole of the case while stupidly blu ray shows bottom and top of the case which I hate
theres alot of dvds with terrible covers too. Its just solely coincidence.
Yes blu ray does seem worse (I don't count the crap £1 DVD's of films no one ahs heard off). I was collecting DVD's back in 1998 and the covers and collections were much high standard. Now, you get re-releases where they have saved money on selling crap packaging and rubbish cover art. Even the new Nightmare on Elm Street 4K has Freddy images from the 3rd Nightmare film on the cover and the menu.
DVD cases feels so good to hold while blu ray feels cheap. But ofc steelbooks are better.
@@notyourboi01 I got the the US Prey today and yet again it is one of the blu rays with the crap recycling cutout in the case which make the case very weak.
I still use dvds
I can imagine that you buy and then download movies or shows you want.
Because storage gets cheaper and cheaper and if anyone has there own cloud and you could have a private library with all shows and movies you bought.
Would also be nice because you could choose what resolution and quality on every single movie. Buying your favorites in 4k quality and because you download it there isnt any compression on the video. Because with 5g and better wifi downloading a 50gb video will take less than a minute.
I know its sounds a bit like a backstep. It takes away the convenience a bit which probably is the most important aspect of a new system. But maybe will accept that for knowing they own the movie in any quality they like for ever.
I mean there can still be companies were you pay monthly and can download a certain amount of movies or shows. Maybe even buy it beforehand and when it publishes it will automatically download into your library.
Easy sub right here, very good video.
The end of a age
No it's not.
I use the public library for all my physical media, best subscription service that my tax dollars pay ❤
So basically just buy the dvd of your favorites and skip all the different subscriptions
And here I am paying no more than $10-$15 for a VHS/DVD lol. I’m into monster trucks and there was a ton of home media for those back in the day. I do the same with movies, then I don’t have to buy a streaming service, I also get bonus features! Also, what DVD is 2:50 from?
The 4K Mean Girls is considered not good. Because of the weird color grading and noise reduction. Many prefer the blu-ray version
But even though at least half the stuff on Netflix isn’t on 4K…I only the originals are in 4K?!!
I believe U R somewhat right except i think they will have 3 or 4 main services that can be bundled together eventually the companies will merge as separate groups in order 2 get maximum profit with minimum negative public perception.
Dude forgot about Laserdisc...
Great Video 🎉.. I'm guessing 'Mean Girls' is a 'Favourite Flick' ❤
-however 'watching' Mean Girls on Disc 'for the first time' is not exactly the same 'Experience' as the 100th.. If you know what I mean..?? 😊❤
Ah, but my dad, who knows I love physical media, and I have a stack of DVDs I refuse to shelf until I watch them, got me a digital-only PS5 because it's "better." Now I can't watch any of my movies and shows because of scalpers (getting all of the PS5 disk drives to so kindly "give" to the people who bought a PS5 Pro and want to play games physically), and I gave my PS4 Pro to my sister so she could leave me alone about it.
Digital media can take your favorite movies and shows off . At least with physical media you don't have to worry about that 😅
9:18 You got me dude lol
I have loads of dvds now that I've been buying since i was 13. i never was a fan of streaming services as you have to pay monthly like having to pay rent of your entertainment but thats what i think anyway
Oscar, I BEG OF YOU, to make a video on Pokemon talk, a youtube plush series by MANDJTV, it was a great fucking series I used to binge when I was younger
Keep your OOP DVDS.
Even with this digital revolution we are in my family still ask why I still collect movies on dvd blu ray and in 4K even though I have bad internet connections and bad broadband width but I still love collecting movies
Streaming service is bad you basically own nothing. When a license of a movie expired they just remove the movie from their library
I was born in 2003 and I'm a fan of LaserDisc.
Dual layer dvd hold up to 9 gb of data.
Most commerical dvd use 7 to 8 gb of data.
Dvd caps out at 720p btw.