Physical media is clearly superior. You own it forever no matter what.

@gamingrealmhd1444

4 ай бұрын

Thats true. Iam also a collector of physical media. But there is one disturbing problem. There are some labels which disc Arent working after years anymore. Iam from germany and habe About 600 blurays. 2 discs in the collections Arent readable anymore.

@DanteS-119

4 ай бұрын

You should be ripping your physical collection onto hard drives and have sophisticated backup solutions. You will also have to replace hard drives every so often as they fail. If you are new to that, perhaps buying a networks storage solution out of box may help you, like Synology

@DanteS-119

4 ай бұрын

You should be ripping your physical collection onto hard drives and have sophisticated backup solutions. You will also have to replace hard drives every so often as they fail. If you are new to that, perhaps buying a networks storage solution out of box may help you, like Synology

@johnseller7641

4 ай бұрын

Well for as long as you have the means to use it. After that it might as well be toilet paper.

@youtuber7799

4 ай бұрын

@@gamingrealmhd1444 That is true. Same thing goes for CDs and DVDs. It is very rare though, but it did happen to me as well.

Very surprised that this video even came out. Physical media should never disappear.

@chrisbanos1112

4 ай бұрын

Si

@jacksong8131

4 ай бұрын

Indeed! 💯% agree!

@MrComradebuttons

4 ай бұрын

*WILL NEVER

@packedentertainment2866

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, it was random. But appreciated

@OneSockOff_95

4 ай бұрын

Amen to that

For years, people scoffed at me buying everything physically, saying it's silly when everything is on Netflix. Now they all get pissed when their favorite show or movie gets removed and ends up in the ether or on a different streamer.

@josendrado

4 ай бұрын

🤓☝🏻

@theredhead42

3 ай бұрын

Same!

@sidvicious332

3 ай бұрын

Irony

@axelfiedel3793

3 ай бұрын

It's funny you got the last laugh, as long as you have a working Blu-ray player you're fine.

You should also mention the higher quality of physical media. A 4k HDR Bluray delivers more picture and audio information than a 4k HDR stream. You can see the difference.

@user-ds8rj2vc4v

4 ай бұрын

My favourite is when you get a random internet drop and you have like 6 pixels on screen until the video starts to buffer again.

@flavaj13

4 ай бұрын

A 4k HDR Blu-ray is still digital, and if you ever hook up your player to the internet, the movies can still be altered.

@adamsultana8380

4 ай бұрын

No....I'm not sure what you mean. Hooking your Blu-ray player up to the internet doesn't affect the disc itself, nor can the company alter the movie.​@@flavaj13

@flavaj13

4 ай бұрын

@halfbakedmovies , believe what you want, reality begs to differ. As long as you connect to the internet with their licensed property, you are at their whims, period. Now if you want to be safe, go back to VHS, betamax, basically anything made last century.

@EazyMiguel

4 ай бұрын

@@flavaj13 you.. have no clue what you're talking about. shush

Never gave up on physical media…Never will!

@Anonymous-wb3nz

4 ай бұрын

Same here.

@jacksong8131

4 ай бұрын

Yeah. Me too.

@packedentertainment2866

4 ай бұрын

Same

@AceHuman

4 ай бұрын

Yuuup

@Harvdigity

4 ай бұрын

Yes sir!

Sometimes, the internet goes down. It happens. Things just happen sometimes. Physical media should never go away.

@Swisshost

4 ай бұрын

Physical media has a life span, the data is then broken.

@sidvicious332

3 ай бұрын

It is. A lot of people clearly don't know about CD buffing machines for those of us who have hundreds of dvds and thousands of music cd's. The un-informed will aways hold us back as a society.

@jacksong8131

3 ай бұрын

@@Swisshost They can make DVD'S and Blu Ray movies again. They used to do it often every 10 or 20 years and call it "collectors edition."

@xXRealXx

2 ай бұрын

@@Swisshostblurays last 30-100 years. And they can be just archived to other storage devices. And there are also M-Discs, which theoretically last 1000 years

@alexkx8599

2 ай бұрын

@@xXRealXx Wow. What are, "M-Discs"? This the first I've ever heard of them before.

What's insane is just how quick digital-only owners are to slam physical media. Not only are they happy to surrender their ownership, but they're all too happy to ridicule those who think it's important.

@DavidMartinez-ce3lp

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's ridiculous!

@reh3884

4 ай бұрын

Digital doesn't mean Download. Blu-rays and DVD are digital.

@jer1776

4 ай бұрын

As long as digital means you have an .mp4 on your computer of your movie or show, it IS superior. Unfortunately thats rarely the case.

@DONWASABIJUAN

4 ай бұрын

@@jer1776how does that make it superior? lol

@jer1776

4 ай бұрын

@@DONWASABIJUAN Not everyone wants a giant shelf full of DVDs, nor can you take all those with you on a trip somewhere with limited cell service

Also, physical media prevents any altering or censoring that these corporations now do.

If you want movie studios to release more films/shows on physical media then start buying physical media! The more sales increase the more content will be released on disc.

@redfoe77

2 ай бұрын

Maybe when economic inflation goes down.

@meganhartmann180

Ай бұрын

This!!

Media remaining physical will bar any chance for the studios to edit films for sensitivity or censorship reasons. Don’t let them rewrite history or undermine artistic vision.

@ztk1138

4 ай бұрын

Like Star wars special edition?

@user-ds8rj2vc4v

4 ай бұрын

@@ztk1138 And Little Britain.

@LoliconSamalik

4 ай бұрын

@@ztk1138 to be fair that was an artistic reason but whatever

@conservativegamer9047

4 ай бұрын

@@ztk1138 And Criterion Collection's release of the The French Connection?

@tbc9096

4 ай бұрын

@@LoliconSamalikHe’s talking about existing physical media, you smartass

Started my 4k uhd/Blu-ray collection last year, no looking back! It’s actually so fun to build up your own personal catalogue of films and tv.

@poopedcheetah2

4 ай бұрын

so is going outside and not wasting ur money and life

@Cawd217

4 ай бұрын

@@poopedcheetah2How long has it been since your wife left you?

@match30xgaming

4 ай бұрын

​@@poopedcheetah2 why even bother posting that comment just cause someone else is enjoying their life more than you are yours

@user-pe3tt7iu7g

4 ай бұрын

that higher bitrate :)

@user-ds8rj2vc4v

4 ай бұрын

@@poopedcheetah2 You can do both my dude.

Physical copies are always better because it means you actually own it.

@Anonymous-wb3nz

4 ай бұрын

Exactly.

@Anonymous-wb3nz

4 ай бұрын

​@halfbakedmoviesdo you have an IQ below 70, or are you just a troll with no life? You know exactly what he means, so grow up.

@Bugplanet8840

4 ай бұрын

@halfbakedmovieslol you can still install the data on 5he disc and edit yourself into the film via green screen, thus making you a member of the production crew

@freeman10000

4 ай бұрын

​@halfbakedmoviesDon't be pedantic, you know what he means.

@DerSystematiker

4 ай бұрын

​@@freeman10000 No, you don't understand. Have you seen what they did to games? Some games need a permanent server connection - even if they are single player games. The fact that the games come on a physical disc doesn't mean anything anymore. The same nightmare could become true for movies.

The bonus features (I.e. deleted scenes and commentary) are one of the advantages of owning physical media

@adrianelias2365

4 ай бұрын

You can watch deleted scenes and other bonus content straight from KZread.

@Whooshta

4 ай бұрын

@@adrianelias2365 until KZread deletes it for violating copyright or the company chooses to delete it.

@packedentertainment2866

4 ай бұрын

@@adrianelias2365it depends. These companies are usually pretty strict with their copyright ©️ policies.

@dwall365

4 ай бұрын

100% youtube is great but one day it will become another myspace lost to time

@carl2k6

4 ай бұрын

And the warning screen, that any copies are illegal 😂

I've just dropped most my subscriptions, reduced my viewing by 90%, and took up about 6 different hobbies and started hiking to stay entertained. Happier and healtheir!

Physical media will always be relevant. This past holidays we were visited by friends and family every weekend and we played DVDs everytime.

@SENATORPAIN1

4 ай бұрын

DVDs? What a nightmare

@Anonymous-wb3nz

4 ай бұрын

​@@SENATORPAIN1grow up.

@SENATORPAIN1

4 ай бұрын

@@Anonymous-wb3nz cram it mam

@stanfordite1

4 ай бұрын

@@SENATORPAIN1 A normal human watches movies only on physical media at home or waits for them to air on TV. Physical media will be the law thanks to an act of Congress.

@DerSystematiker

4 ай бұрын

"Physical media will always be relevant. " ...unless the content owner decides not to release physical media anymore. Which already started to happen.

Never stopped collecting, Physical Forever!

@s.patterson5698

4 ай бұрын

Same here

@thiscorrosion3843

3 ай бұрын

Same

Never give up your right to full ownership in exchange for convenience...

@CouchCit

4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately that's precisely what the majority of people do

@mgiebus1869

4 ай бұрын

It's just a fact of life now. We own nothing

@Anonymous-wb3nz

4 ай бұрын

​@@mgiebus1869speak for yourself.

@anubisg8621

4 ай бұрын

That is exactly what PC gamers have done and what console gamers are doing now.

@ts7844

4 ай бұрын

@@mgiebus1869when you’re dead you leave with NOTHING. Stop surrounding yourself with worthless clutter that your family have to get rid of.

One issue not touched on in this video is that physical media can be the original TV show/movie. So many shows are being edited for PC reasons - if one wants to watch the original version, best to look for older versions of the DVD/VHS tape.

People need to do something like protest against digital taking away physical copies. It’s not just movies and shows it’s also games the people need to do something.

@benjaminbaer5485

4 ай бұрын

Buy gamepass and never own anything again, problem solved.

@jase276

4 ай бұрын

Don't forget Netflix and Amazon subscriptions. @@benjaminbaer5485

@Mr.StevenKerr

4 ай бұрын

​@benjaminbaer5485 you've missed the point entirely

@penguinguy2167

4 ай бұрын

@@benjaminbaer5485game pass doesn’t have everything and they remove the games after a year

@watchforever1724

4 ай бұрын

Yeah

Physical media for the win once again!

Max’s purge of shows like Close Enough, Infinity Train, and Summer Camp Island shows why physical media should still be around and protected. They can get rid of whatever they want on their service. But if you have a disc, you can still watch it

If you don’t want physical home video formats to not go away, simple, people have to buy them.

The inner hoarder in me smiled to my belly's fill after hearing this affirmation that my desire to buy a SeriesX and buy physical media boxsets doesn't make me MAD.

@ishkapiska4516

2 ай бұрын

The ps5 is a better media player then the seriesX fyi

It doesn't help that retailers are dropping DVDs etc

@FreeManFreeThought

3 ай бұрын

Then. Buy. Them.

We are always going to want to have physical media as an option. Neither Hollywood or the games industry is ever going to get audiences to stop people from buying or seeking out physical discs/media of content. It’s just ingrained in us as fans, we love to own something tangible.

@yacobell7108

4 ай бұрын

Sure about that? Major retailers like Best Buy have already pulled all forms of physical media

@QueenoftheBlackCoast

4 ай бұрын

​@@yacobell7108 Exactly! Everyone seems to forget the companies that actually make the physical media can stop at any time. Sure,there are boutique labels,for now.

@Hilbrandi

3 ай бұрын

​@@yacobell7108 you still have Walmart, Target, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, eBay and others.

Only buy phiscal. Don't let someone else own your stuff.

@NostraSamus

4 ай бұрын

@@halfbakedmoviesOwning a home is a better investment as you have equity in it.

@beadelf8158

4 ай бұрын

own your own movies and home its the best.@@halfbakedmovies

@Swisshost

4 ай бұрын

You only bought the licence to watch the movie. You don't even own the physical disc.

@beadelf8158

4 ай бұрын

@@Swisshost 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

@flavaj13

4 ай бұрын

@@Swisshost , people don't realize that ignoring the fine print doesn't change the terms of service you agree to without reading.

There is still Redbox where I'm at, and buying dvds are $5 a piece. The only drawback about collecting physical copies of media is storing it. Not everyone wants or has the ability to set up shelving space.

We knew they would take it away from us, but we still walked into their slaughterhouse.

@DanKeatis

4 ай бұрын

Sounds like a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Lyric 😅

@SSJ4Vegiito

Ай бұрын

@@DanKeatisby order of the Peaky f**kin Blinders!

With physical media, data and quality will come from a direct source. Enthusiasts wouldn't have to worry about bandwidth, internet speeds, and pixelated pictures.

If your collection is more non-english like mine, you been already done knowed that physical media is the only way to go as there you are guaranteed to get yhe original language version and you get all the neat extras

Huge number of films from 60s and 70s were on vhs but never made it to DVD format. Finding some of them in digital is impossible as well. For same reason more than 3/4 of films from 1930-60 period are gone.

You're preaching to the choir, at least in my case. I've been shouting from the rooftops this exact perspective for over a decade and a half, going back to the early Amazon ebook days. The public has made their own bed here, trading actual ownership for smoke and mirror promises of convenience and "forever" subscriptions. Now, suddenly, with content getting removed at the whim of providers and people hopefully are starting to see the problem - that they've been renting content. Go watch Louis Rossman and get educated. And get MAD....

@andrzejkopalnia

4 ай бұрын

My man ✊

Forever physical 🙏🏼

This is why piracy will continue to flourish

@bestbry1

4 ай бұрын

If not physical piracy, I’d say digital piracy has the same or even more problems. Collectors don’t buy original because the love giving money to corporations. Look it up a bit

@quitefranklyjosh

4 ай бұрын

you know there's digital piracy too right? Ever hear of limewire, frostwire, piratebay.....? Older examples yes but physical media doesn't drive that market. The digital files do.... How do you think they get on to disc in the first place?

Physical media: dies Digital media: rises Piracy: rises a ton

A reminder. You can get A LOT of blurays and DVDs from your local library.

Right! That's why they are pushing all the fancy computers WITHOUT OPTICAL DRIVES!!!

@msptv6247

2 ай бұрын

Sad to say...

Prime example not owning what you watch will come back and bite you. The same can be said for renting your software...lol. Nothing is forever when companies are involved.

Higher quality and you actually own it... Yeah, my favourite movies, and albums on physical media ALWAYS

Now you know what it was like for cinephiles before VCR's (and the movies themselves) became affordable!

Finding tv shows let alone movies on dvd is getting harder by the day. It has to be concerning, let alone companies throwing money away. Don’t get me started on ads being introduced

@quitefranklyjosh

4 ай бұрын

For newer stuff yes... But older movies and shows are abundant! Not like the newer stuff is better anyway...

PHYSICAL DISC RULES!

You don't mention the edits and outright deletions of scenes of material, Disney being a major one where they show an original show and a few weeks later it gets edited, meaning the original release is simply gone forever!

@andrzejkopalnia

4 ай бұрын

This!

@shinycheeto5779

4 ай бұрын

Ehhhh physical media not immune to this either. Wong Kar Wai changed color grade for the blu rays of his films. So if you want the original release you have to resort to lower quality DVDs. Also like with Star Wars the unedited physical releases carry an inflated price on sites like eBay.

@andrzejkopalnia

4 ай бұрын

@@shinycheeto5779 That's not exactly the point. When you already own the discs there's nothing that can be done against them

@loganmedia1142

3 ай бұрын

@@andrzejkopalnia It's exactly the point. Physical discs will already contain altered versions.

@pieterboelen2862

3 ай бұрын

Do you have any examples of Disney doing this?

I've been preaching this on the plantation for YEARS. Bless you for this.

Censorship also plays a part ether removing the whole thing or cutting/ altering portions of media.

@cs8712

4 ай бұрын

not to mention you're at the whim of the version they give you. You want the original color grading, audio, cut, ending, etc.? Well too bad

All of my favorite movies ARE in one place. On my shelf 😌👌🏾

Every time they do something anti consumer a new pirate is born. Arrrrrrrr

Physical media WINS in my book. 💯 This is especially true given the seemingly endless subscription service price hikes 🤦🏽 I have returned to collecting my movies on DVD and bluray 🎥

This goes to Disney, which ended physical media in Australia

@dwall365

4 ай бұрын

for those not aware *disney empire (ie fox, pixar, marvel) so many movies you wouldn't even think should be related.

@stanfordite1

4 ай бұрын

Disney will be required by law to have all its movies on physical media.

@krasky

4 ай бұрын

Just boycott them. Nothing of value anyway.

That $5 WAlmart bin is so clutch. Sometimes up to 5 movies in a single disc.

It’s the pirates life for me 📀🔥😉🏴‍☠️

I'm here for this kind of content! the irony of big businesses is they are resistant to change, then make wild swings to adapt to it, then have to make drastic changes to correct their bad choices made after denying change in the first place...

one of the best videos i've seen from this channel. couldn't have said it better myself 👏

The end of this video says it all. You should definitely seek out the expensive physical media if you are a lover of the art and a collector. What percentage of the population are those things? Very small. Most people don't care. Is that sad? Maybe, but unless that changes.....

This is the best video you guys have made this year. Hopefully this blows up. Nice Job.

my sister found a twitter/X post saying that 28 days later is out of print and in licensing hell. so the Dvd that my older brother got years ago is a neat collectors item :)

This vidoe needs to go viral 100%

*me looking at my $15,000 4K / Blu ray collection smiling from ear to ear*

@Djboyrimo

4 ай бұрын

Disc rot still exists so be mindful of that Keep those movies on a hard drive to fully future proof them

@user-ds8rj2vc4v

4 ай бұрын

@@Djboyrimo Disc degradation tends to take multiple decades though...but you're right, it will happen eventually.

@Talon97

4 ай бұрын

@@Djboyrimo Disc rot is (for the most part) a myth. It applied to a VERY small line of CDs back in the 90s. Since then. disc rot has been completely eliminated and no longer exists.

@WildVoltorb

4 ай бұрын

Woah that's a lot of money to brag about

@Anonymous-wb3nz

4 ай бұрын

Yo, same here.

I’m kinda shocked any media outlet is allowed to say this. Your corporate masters must be pissed.

@krasky

4 ай бұрын

inb4 announcement "We have discontinued our collaboration with Seth due to differences of opinion."

Love physical media as it actual proof you own it, also if there is a global internet outage at least i’ve got it on DVD 😂

@user-ds8rj2vc4v

4 ай бұрын

Also, things like Netflix etc will only ever continue increasing their prices every month. And then do other things like adding adverts, surveys etc to increase their revenue.

"Physical media" is also a file you download and keep forever.

Another issue is cancel culture - if an actor or movie or subject becomes controversial, it can disappear overnight. Like he pointed out - it can even happen to your purchases. A purchase is not purchasing a movie, but purchasing unlimited views of something in their catalog *as long as it stays in their catalog*

@James_Austin

4 ай бұрын

Lol the only DVD left at my local goodwill is a Bill Cosby stand up disc. Nobody dares touch it.

Got the Office on DVD box set when it moved to Paramount. Never got Paramount, and - after similar smaller purchases - just ‘cut the cord’ on Netflix.

Still own all my physical media and totally refuse to get rid of any of them

This is an important video. Thanks for making it

Don’t forget about libraries! Most libraries allow you to borrow movies for free with a library card. So important that we continue to use physical media and public institutions

Was watching a digital version of Name of the Rose the other day and noticed that one important scene was removed that my old DVD had. Not only is availability of some movies threatened, but sometimes they alter content for the political correctness of the day or some legal/rights technicality.

@GameArmorGameplay

3 ай бұрын

This also happens for movies shown on broadcast TV. They will edit certain scenes to make room for commercials.

@norwegianblue2017

3 ай бұрын

@@GameArmorGameplay Yeah they did that a lot back in the day, but this was a commercial free stream, and they really don't care if it runs long these days because it doesn't need to fit in a time slot.

It's a sad time when the only way to watch certain shows /movies is through pirating

@midnightblue3285

3 ай бұрын

we are lucky we have pirating links

The best are the rare blu rays that you hunt down 😁

My hope is even if physical media drops from the mainstream, there’s enough people that keep buying it that they keep making it. Similar to how with music, most people don’t collect vinyls but enough people do that they’re still available.

Of course physical media forever. I've been telling people for years but kept being called all the names in the book for it.

Another argument for physical copies. Studios are constantly making changes to older movies and shows to fit modern audiences.

Arguably, Paramount would earn more from leasing the properties to Max than they would gain in subscribers for the old movies. Like, a lot more.

@simonfrost7094

4 ай бұрын

But greed got the best of them, so here we are. Disney did the same with their back catalogue - leased it to Netflix until it created Disney+. Disney+ is now a huge financial drag on the whole company, with Disney themselves predicting that it won't be profitable until 2025! That's a long time to subsidise a failing part of your business. Especially when they could have just continued raking in easy money for lesaing their content at no effort to themselves!

@Kanwarmahanvir

3 ай бұрын

@@simonfrost7094 Go

Time to sail the seven seas

There is NO substitute for having a physical backup. You never know when some conglomerate will buy some parent company or something and then your favorite classic disappears.

got all 11 films on dvd star trek and 2700 films in all blu and DVDs and tv shows

If you really care about it you should definitely own it

Physical forever!

Its crazy how much of a great deal physical movies are when its compared to video games they give you multiple versions and a digital code

Replace "Piracy" whenever you hear the phrase "physical media" in this video, and you have the answer to the problem that studio greed created for themselves. This. Is. The. Way.

Never ever sell your vinyl records.

Another aspect of physical media is that it paradoxically does a better job of sorting for quality at the front end, as a specific investment is required to get the art, but also does a better job of preserving lesser and less popular material at the back end, because physical copies, once produced, don't require ongoing profitability to simply exist. All this implies a general acceptance of mass reproduced culture, which honestly is not a universal opinion, and deserves interrogation. Adorno and others have given us tools to unpack what mercantile replication does to culture.

Thank You!

Spread the news guys!

agree slowly growing my collection but keeping it manigible this time

@lee_rock_films

4 ай бұрын

Hope it works out for you

Well this is a great time for the secondary markets for DVD and other physical media.

The thing is, buying the DVD's of a series can be cheaper in the long run. If you watch a show a few times, and only watch that show for weeks\months on end, a couple watch throughs later (like 2) you are making profit.

Lets just remember digital books never replaced physical.

It's all great until you have to move. Though right now I've shed a lot of DVD's and Blu-Rays and just keep 50 or so that are beloved or classic films.

@Anonymous-wb3nz

4 ай бұрын

Not all of us are lazy.....

Funny you use the clip from The Dark Knight Rises, consider the imax shots are altered in the digital versions. Making the only way to watch the movie as intended is with the physical version.

We have to protect physical media at all cost. Physical and Digital can coexist together.

Easy having a wfi outage or waiting for wifi ? Just pop the disc in you still get 4kUHD

For physical media to comeback, we require devices to playback on…as we’re all aware, this phase out has also occurred. Best we can do is scour e-bay & Amazon for used devices

@ganymedehedgehog371

4 ай бұрын

Honestly game consoles are probably the reason blu rays have stuck around as long as they have. They’re a dvd/blu ray player with a secondary purpose.

@Swisshost

4 ай бұрын

Yes but consoles go slowly the digital way now too.

@loganmedia1142

3 ай бұрын

@@Swisshost And they cost a fortune.

Bond on Prime in the UK pops up “free” every now and again but not in 4K in the last session, even though they were previously available in UHD. They have been sat on a hard drive for 20 years in 4K after Lowry Digital restored them, and they were even rereleased at the cinema, one a week, in 2022. However, apart from the Craig films, they are not available in 4K Blu-ray, which seems an odd thing not to squeeze another release in another format.

Great video, fully agree!

My physical media are movies (.mkv) files on my 22tb hard drive with a second drive as a backup. 👍 I stream my moves lossless with plex server.

@ishkapiska4516

2 ай бұрын

Do you still need an internet connection when you use Plex to watch your movies?

Now is the time to go out and buy your favorite films and TV shows in physical media. If you love Star Trek why don’t you have all the films physically? What kind of a fan are you anyways?

It’s not about the media, it’s whether you can control the use of the contents. For instance, downloads would be perfectly acceptable.

I've never left the box set.

Pirate and build your own media server

@ionlygotocostcoforfreefood7713

4 ай бұрын

Till the internet is out or forget your password

@dingo702

4 ай бұрын

Ffs 🤦‍♂️

@EazyMiguel

4 ай бұрын

​@@dingo702congrats, you're anti piracy. you want a fortune cookie?

@gnomishviking3013

4 ай бұрын

@@ionlygotocostcoforfreefood7713a media server runs on your local area network. As long as your have electricity you’re fine.