There is also the fact that movies and shows get censored or deleted from streaming services. So the only way to ensure that you can view it is to own a physical copy

I always get physical media. When it goes all digital i'll stop buying games and movies.

I never stopped buying physical media. Come on. We all knew this was coming. It was all a matter of time.

What people don't realize is when you buy a digital movie you don't own that movie. So if a studio decides to take away a title and put it into a vault for 10 year's they can do so. That is why I love physical media when you buy it it's yours and they can't take it away from you. When you purchase a digital copy read carefully

Never stopped using dvds, protested the mass closing of dvd rental stores and boycotted streaming from day one. Today I still just have a tv without service with a DVD/Blu-ray player and a shitload of dvds and blu-rays.

Buying physical media is dirt cheap right now. I buy more dvds, Cds and blurays than ever before.

What I don’t love about streaming services is there’s usually not a movie I am in the mood to see - most of the time. And these services can’t afford that many quality movies so they fill it with so much fluff.

Everyone I know, including teenagers buys CDs, vinyl, DVDs, books, and physical video games. Humans want tangible.

I am a physical media collector. I am currently in the process of moving to another state and just finished boxing up my entire library. Speaking of libraries, I have been donating some of the titles that are duplicates to my own library down the street before moving. I feel that it was better than just throwing them out. They are getting some great titles too like my entire game of thrones collection in Blu-ray after I upgraded it to 4K.

I’m buying more and more on physical now of days. I hope more people do too so we can save it.

I haven't stopped physical media. My thing with streaming is... Physical media guarantees you access to that content, and properly cared for and functioning copies also guarantees you won't have the frustration of buffering, or it malfunctioning. I will never be convinced that it's not better

I don’t have any streaming services. I just canceled my Disney plus subscription because of the upcoming price hike. I will always prefer physical media

Fun Fact: When Netflix was in its early days, they pitched their business model to the executives at Blockbuster & were laughed out of the conference room.

Physical media isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon. Best Buy has been on its last legs for years. They’ll become another Circuit City and other stores that aren’t around anymore.

Awesome. Love physical media. I won't let go of my library. Also censorship is upon the streaming platforms. I want my children to see the original movies the way they were. Cheers.

Yesterday I was watching Metalocalypse from Adult Swim on HBO Max, a show almost entirely based around metal music, and in many episodes they REMOVED the music due to coyright reasons. I was so upset. Strong case for physical media.

I don't use streaming services. I only buy physical media, or watch TV. I have always believed in this. I love collecting DVD's & Blu-Ray. I also still buy CD's/Vinyl & Cassettes, (yes more so-second-hand now), but also new. I don't want to live in a world where we don't own anything. And that is what corporations are pushing for, so we can't earn from independent re-sale. Big companies and corporations are trying to make everything have less and less value. So i think it's important to support films and TV still coming out on physical media, so we can purchase it at home and watch it whenever we like. With no edits. No schedules. & all the extras like special features on the disc itself. A film to watch at the cinema here in the UK is more expensive than in America it seems: We pay about £14 a film to watch at the cinema here. And there is nothing like owning and displaying physical media versus streaming an image on the screen, as the whole experience is diminished that way. It doesn't mean anything, and thus becomes just a basic commodity. Music & Film is art, and it should be experienced as such. It gives of itself both ways-what the art gives you, and how you interpret it for yourself. The emotion and the feeling. A vacuum, or a microwave doesn't give you that. And to me that is what streaming represents.

There is an industry wide drive to end physical and move to a streaming only model because it gives them (the media rights holders) complete control over access to the content. Its effectively behind a paywall where each view is monetised unlike physical sales where they only profit on the initial sale. Once streaming becomes the only way to watch content they will hike the prices as there will be no alternative for viewers. My prediction is they will introduce some tier system too where you can only watch the best/most popular shows/films by having the most expensive package. I dont think physical will ever die completely but it will become a niche. However I do wonder if 2nd dvd market will boom when streaming prices get silly and people turn to that instead

Back in the day, my friend and i would go to Blockbuster and rent 80s horror VHS 📼 order pizza 🍕 and be up all night 🌙 causing trouble and having fun! I miss the early 90s

I remember Friday's being a real treat because it would feel like being rewarded after working hard in school. Going to Blockbuster and finding something fun to watch. Getting some food to enjoy while I watched the movies with my family was such a joy. These are memories that I will always cherish.

We’ve raised our kids like it’s the 90’s. We have a large vhs and dvd collection. We go to vintage stores and get stuff a lot. We have a 3 CRTs in our house including an awesome 80’s GE floor model with wood. We have one CRT with streaming hooked in, and occasionally will stream if we know something can’t be acquired on vhs or dvd, but limit it to rarely. Our kids love it. They are aware of newer, streaming stuff but they reject it and are grateful we’ve raised them this way.

I'm Gen Z and I love physical media. I have a lot of blu ray discs and CDs . People don't understand and it stresses me out

Physical formats aren't going anywhere. Plus there's billions of cds, dvds Blu rays out there..I buy mostly online now. Streaming is renting and without that internet service u have nothing. Keep collecting

I’ll always buy physical media. At least for my favorite shows and movies. It’s so tiring seeing them removed time and time again on the different streaming services.

Sick of paying $15. A month and only receiving 3 new releases a month. Streaming is bogus AF.

I am male 63 years old. Record shops, video shops, There was always life in and around the shops. I met a girl while looking through records. You could take your time. You could share it with others. Cool covers. And there were many jobs to be had. Today, streaming, which is mostly just servers running, employes a fraction of the good old days. Perhaps someone will smell money and start up again. And, you Own it, not like streaming. You have a product, you own it, can share it, sell it, give it away.

One thing that surprised me about you younger generations is how much you do love physical media. Thought my generation was the last that loved PM. Even vinyl, a lot of younger people love it....really great to see.

Honestly I feel like this will backfire because the whole appeal to streaming was the low price for high amounts of media in comparison to cable. If everything becomes streaming and then they jack the prices up, it'll just become cable again and open up a market for people that want to physically own their media.

Remember in 1996 being 15 and having 2-3 friends over playing Mariokart on the N64 and Better Than Ezra and Spin Doctors cassettes playing on the boombox.

Once you consider your DVD/Blu-ray player as a VHS simulator it's easy to pretend it's 1997 and streaming doesn't exist and thus go physical media only.

I grew up on VHS tapes and there was never any question about how to view certain movies. At any given time, there were at least 3 rental places where you could find what you needed. Also, basic cable, (mostly, the original USA Network), used to play a lot of older, harder to find movies you could record on a blank tape. It was during the format wars that all the Mom & Pop stores were put out to pasture and only the franchise stores like Blockbuster survived. Unless you bought out all those used tapes, a lot of those movies were virtually gone forever.

Will physical media make a comeback? It never went anywhere.

The 4k market through collectors is booming with so many films getting restorations in special collectors sets, Criterion jumped on board in late 2021 and now do 2 to 3 4k upgrades a month, Scream factory every release now Is virtually 4k. labels are now focusing on 4ks only on new releases now. There’s a market for physical media but it’s not with the casual viewer. Big studios have seen the market forces Even Disney has given in and are producing their streaming only shows on 4k and the extra attraction of steelbooks as well. I’m a massive physical media fan streaming is too compressed for me, physical tops it in both PQ and sound.

When I rented my first VHS movie (Goldfinger) I didn't own a VCR, and had never even used one. I had to rent the player as well and figure out how the tape went in. It came in a little suitcase-like carrier from the rental store. Now, roughly 40 years later, I'm in the process of upgrading my home theatre from 1080p to 4K as a result of a water leak that ruined my 1080p projector. I'm gambling that physical media will be around long enough to make the investment worthwhile.

I have over 6000 movies and over 500 games all physical, digital sucks

I will never forget the memories I have of walking to the video rental store with my friends and browsing the shelves together, making jokes and suggestions, and finally finding that perfect pick for our sleepover. Boy the intro really brought me back!

Physical media for me always. The only thing streaming services are good for are their original content. Because they regularly get rid of older TV shows and movies. With Physical media. You always have it.

As a staunch defender of physical media, I don’t think it will ever come back. We have too many followers in society who do what everyone else is doing. If physical media isn’t perceived as cool, then they won’t touch it. Also people are lazy and want the easiest possible way to experience something. The irony is streaming probably costs people more in the long run for something they don’t watch everyday. Premium channels like HBO were different because you could channel surf the multiple channels or go on demand. Now you have to find something on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, etc. How many shows and movies do we really watch from these streaming networks? It’s a big scam as I guarantee people go weeks without watching Hulu or Amazon unless they are watching a specific show they love. It doesn’t make sense why people were going crazy over Seinfeld being on Netflix when they are on syndication every night. None of it makes sense.

Streaming will just become more expensive until the market can only support a few services and we are all paying as much or more than cable. Towards the end cable was over 100 per month for me and that was 15 years ago when I last had it. I always felt that streaming felt too good to be true for the rates we were paying.

With streaming, if the distributors take it away from you, they can shrug and say, 'We only gave you a limited license to watch it.'. With physical media, if they try to take it away from you, you can report them for theft.

Streaming services are great if you want to choose from thousands of movies, but if you want to watch a particular movie, you’re screwed.

Enjoyed this. A lot of people think I’m weird that I kept most of my DVD and Blu Rays, but I take comfort in being able to watch the content whenever I want. I made the decision a number of years ago to buy some CD/ DVD storage cases and recycled the cases and paper inserts I wasn’t too concerned about. It enabled me to free up a lot of space. However, like vinyls from yesteryear, I really enjoy the artwork on some of the releases and kept the ones which appeal to me. I still use streaming services, but more often than not, if I want to watch a specific movie and one that I own, it is not on streaming services or I have to pay an inflated price. Everyone, keep your DVD/ Blu-ray players and stow them away in your loft/attic. You will be glad you did. (Oh and keep a small portable TV that has both a scart input and an HDMI in)

Hugeeeee emphasis on the library. Libraries have a great variety and typically get new releases too, and both hoopla and canopy are fantastic, thank you for mentioning that

I loved streaming when Netflix first came out on the 360 but I’m sick of it now. Always going up, everything is scattered everywhere, censorship, etc. I’d rather just own it and pay a 1 time fee for my favorite shows/movies

I've always bought physical media & iTunes purchases growing up, loved music, & it took 3 days to download a 30 min episode with dial up but it was so cool! I stopped purchasing for awhile but while traveling in college, I realized that out off all the things I ever bought in my life, all the things I bought digitally on iTunes was still with me on my iPhone & realized how invaluable having you're own digital collection was, its basically your own little streaming service. & in 2016 I started buying physical media again because I kept finding valid digital movie codes in cheap used blu-rays & realized you get a digital movie & a physical copy when you buy them & I just thought it was the coolest thing. Now I have almost 600 movies in my iTunes library & 600 blurays lol & its. really nice, no one cares about my bluray collection but they start to when they use my Apple TV 4K & realize how many not shitty movies I have in my digital library vs something like Netflix & the endless amount of terrible content on there.

eBay has so many used games and movies it’s crazy, one big garage sale. If we don’t have stores at least we’ll have decades of physical media sold online

The problem with digital media purchases is sometimes they get removed due to rights issues you'll never have that problem when purchasing physical media.

I gave up streaming because the vast quantity was overwhelming and bland. I’d be super stoked for a new release and it would land like a wet fart. It happened again and again until one day I asked myself why I was paying for this bland, generic garbage. Now I spend my streaming budget on purchasing old favorites ❤ I watch a lot more now too.

I still own my dvds. I cant throw them away. Some were $30, double discs,special edition. Some are colorized from its original black and white. Alot of my movies are not available on streaming. I also like playing them in the background. Also ive noticed that streamers sometimes edit important dialog from movies and remove scenes.

The only streaming I use is UKposts and Now, but when my physical collection is bigger I’ll probably cancel Now tbh

A good reason to stop streaming is cause HBO/MAX just deleted their catalogues of shows and movies from PlayStation. Even people who had bought the content had it deleted if they bought it via their PlayStation. That doesn't happen with DVDs/Blurays🤷🏻‍♀️

One of the hardest things I ever did was a cull of my DVD collection when I moved house. The DVDs I kept were my alltime favourite movies as well as older films from 1920s to 1970s since these are harder to find on streaming in my country. I worry though that many movies readily available to stream now will be harder to come by in the future. The church op-shop got the DVDs I parted with, so others could enjoy them.

I still buy Movies and Music on Physical Media. But Games not so often because there doesn't are complete on the Disc or Cardridge.

Great video! Very informative. I’m a huge physical media collector and I love to hear there are some like minded people still out there.

Take care of your media hardware too, so you always have a way to watch. Thx for this video.

Im a physical media collector. Any movie that doesnt get a physical release gets plundered on the high seas.

You can find some pretty good stuff in thrift stores. Blu-ray Discs are manufactured to be more scratch resistant. You can find used Blu-ray in good condition. DVDs on the other hand are more susceptible to scratches, but some thrift stores are very diligent about looking for damage like that. I already have tons of my favorite films and TV series on DVD and I have many on Blu-ray. My collection is mostly new, but I have a healthy selection stuff that I bought from thrift stores.

Great video! Nice to see some hope and I see some of these going up in value

I worked at Blockbuster from fall 2002 to summer 2005. Senior year of high school to my first two years of college. It was a lot of fun. A new movie rental cost $4.06 after taxes the whole time I was employed there.

As convenient as streaming is, I refuse to sell my dvd and blu ray collection. I own Street Sharks on dvd (Cookie Jar released it)

I deeply regret getting rid of my physical media. I've started haunting garage sales, thrift shops etc to buy DVDs, CDs and books.

#physicalmediaforlife

My problem w. streaming. The monthly fees we pay are financing all sorts of activism and censorship. Also , those monthly fees are being used to produce content i would never pay to see. So i am slowly building my own Physical Media Library. And once i am satisfied i will begin to cut the streaming services.

Been collecting for 2 years now and in that time I have manged to build a 5.1 surround sound system and the kids loved movie Fridays was put together cheap this all happened because of picking up a dvd shelf where the fella give me his whole collection for free so obviously that got me building on it now I buy blu rays/4k blu rays regularly the sound over streaming is unbelievable also that extra content on disk is always nice to have plus streaming sites price's are always rising just got rid of Disney plus and Netflix next to go is paramount plus sick of paying different services then never seem to something on a fancy watching or I spend to much time looking for something that I end up giving up so I will always go for physical now

*Audio quality is ACTUALLY Lossless, unlike the highly compressed Lossy AC3 (Dolby Digital) versions available on streaming services.

I still collect physical media because I can rest assured that I can access them at any time without the risk of it being removed from digital storefronts.

I miss the novelty of movie stores. Finding a new game or Goosebumps movies on VHS would make my whole weekend. DVD's, books, physical games.... we need 'em, man. Digital media is a sacrifice of true ownership for convenience.

1 - Videoshops gave me something and somewhere to go at night. 2 - Videoshops, like going to the cinema, were an experience. 3 - Like you I have recently done a cull of the streaming services. 4 - I love VHS.

Honestly, most of the stuff I would on streaming is older content and some of the international stuff. Rather go back to cable and keep buying DVDs.

Isn't renting digitally effectively the same as streaming? You're just given a license that they can revoke at any time and has the same downsides as streaming as far as I'm concerned.

Blockbuster will never die! I am working hard on building a Blockbuster collection now and maybe someday starting a little mom/pop rental store again for the town I am in.

I'm a big fan of physical media. My favourite film on 4k blu ray is Saving Private Ryan. Awsome sound and picture quality 👌

As a physical media purchaser, the last ten years have been a complete win. Many of the big chain stores had great offers on blu rays and c.ds before they either closed down, or removed those departments.

I'm tired of paying £16 a month on streaming services with the same shit over and over again. This is why I collect Blu-rays.

Just started this year due to many of the issues raised. 100+ and counting and I'm mainly focusing on bluray and 4k, with some dvd exceptions. Feels good.

I'm gen z and i'm sick of streaming servicies deleting stuff i LOVE. I collect vinyls, CDs, vhs, tapes, books, dvds and Video Games

The real reason they want physical media to go away is, you can only make money on it once. Streaming can be held back, manipulated and treated like a "Mic Rib" so companies can bleed as much money as possible out of it. Look at modern video games. There was a time when, if you bought a game, you got the whole game. Now? Just chunks, and you have to play it on line so they can sell you the rest, in chunks. Stream the movie, want the directors commentary? Pay up!

Streaming is over. It's all about VHS Tapes & vinyl records

I am cutting down on streaming services next year. I want to watch my physical media for a while.

Psychical media is extremely important some people don't understand the importance of truly owning something not the modern vision of it as you don't really own anything these days

I've been a collector for years! Streaming does not provide the bonus features (bloopers, behind the scenes etc) which were always important to me. Also streaming does not provide all the movies that I want to watch. If they stop entirely the production of dvds/blu rays then I'll be forced to watch them online? With ads, poor quality etc. I don't want to be forced to do that.

Just gone back to physical media, I watched a Blu-ray I found on an Xbox and felt stupid thinking 4K streaming was good 😭

What's gonna happen as streaming prices continue to increase? People are gonna start sailing the high seas a little more

I do digital rentals sometimes. I thought about buying a VHS and Blu-ray player. I moved away from physical media early on. Now I want it to come back.

Anything I like, I make sure to save it offline because I don't trust any digitally distributed media won't be taken away at some point. That might be on a hard drive, SD card, or even a DVD. So yeah, I kind of keep my own personal physical media library for this reason.

I learned way back the 1st time Netflix rotated their library: time to build my own library. Repurposed my gaming PC, been using it ever since. Roughly 8TB worth, then there's the music, ebooks, game installers & ROMs. A whole separate 4TB.

Never bought any streaming services and now watching my peers recollecting all the dvds and cds they once had, while I still have the original ones from twenty years ago. Imo it's a matter of being humble and showing appreciation. Humble in the sense, that you don't need to be able to see all the movies and serieses in the world, having the ones you can afford individually or can find at a library is more than enough. And showing appreciation for the makers by being their product with a fair price, instead of getting a cheap "bunch price" that will really not support them the same way.

Many places in the US and around the world do not have internet access or people can't afford internet service or unlimited cell phone service. So DVDs, Blu Rays, VHS, etc is the main media these places still use.

Got my dvd and blueray collection up over 80. Hope to have 200 or more next year.

“You will own nothing and be happy” no thanks WEF

Physical media is so much better than streaming. Seriously. Even if they're using the same master, a 4K disc or even blu-ray disc is better than what streaming has to offer. If it were only DVD vs streaming, it'd be easier to understand people turning to streaming. But it's not..

Also, since you asked, my favorite media (due to my childhood), is VHS. My fave that I own is my original Embassy clamshell release of “Escape From New York”. 🙂 I’m not nostalgic for Blockbuster Video, because it killed the real fun of having multiple mom-n-pop video rental stores and their varying selections and practices, environments, etc.

This is why copyright at most should only last 20 years.

Chris Nolan Compares Streaming to TV/Cable Broadcast! And The Problem with Streaming is that if you buy this type of content, you just DON’T own it, streaming just pulls these content out of existence and into cyberspace! It Happens to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max (Now Called just “Max”), Paramount Plus, and Even Disney Plus, they’re basically the new Cable/Satellite Providers! This is why I Prefer physical media over Streaming!

I never understood why it had to be one thing or the other. As long as I'm working I have a little bit of everything. Cable still works for sports and specials, dvds and blu rays and playstation in my library, and I have a handful of streaming services. I refuse to watch a movie if I can't buy a physical copy of it.

Started collecting 4k movies again for nostalgia purposes and curating my own collection not determined by services

Imagine not having access to your favourite songs, movies or games because they're not sold anymore in digital form because they're now considered not politically correct enough.

The problem is studios are releasing less and less on physical media because they want you to subscribe to their streaming services month after month instead of paying for a disc just once

Hi Brother I'm 29 and a collector of physical films and TV series myself, I think the is something so special about having everything on disc, I mean the special editions, the collectors editions are so cool as well. I was collecting blu ray for ages but have recently fell in love with 4k. We have HMV here in the UK that sells everything in physical format still when it comes to films, tv series and games anyway. I do love going in there and even just looking at things. Thanks for the video brother.

I went back to physical media, I was always collecting now I do buy more than streaming.