Streaming killed the sense of wonder and magic. I remember walking through the video store, looking at the painted VHS or DVD copies. The majority of them I never heard off. You saw a cool cover, read the synopsis on the back, rented the movie and it turned out crap or amazing. Sometimes you really wanted a specific movie but it wouldn't be available for the longest time. I remember when SE7EN came on VHS, we struggled for almost 3 months to get it. When we finally got it and watched it, it was spectacular. The wait was so worth it. Now , everyone can see movies and shows immediately. No wonder they come out, and then is quickly forgotten. Bring back DVD and Blu-ray shops. They are magical places. Streaming is turning everyone into the fat useless slobs from Wall-E

@edselgreaves6503

6 ай бұрын

They are dumb to get rid of DVD and Blu Ray. The people who really want to support it will do both, buy the disc and stream it so that the art can be rewarded and monetized both ways. There's no reason why they can't make at least 1 million DVDs for a hit show or movie and let it sell slowly.

@iamtheduckman112

6 ай бұрын

Yes I want to see so many DVD and VHS stores come back please if there is a time to bring back the wonder and all the whimsical and colorful nature of Physical Media and the 2000s decade (Expect for 9/11) and Early 10s as a whole *THE TIME IS NOW!!!*

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

Cars killed the wonder & magic of the horse carriage but I don’t see you complaining about that😊

@jacotromp59581

6 ай бұрын

@@fivehundrediq5212 ooooh, look at the big brain on you.

@slof69

6 ай бұрын

it's more efficient to be a mindless consumer this way so they will never go back

It's so strange that as time and technology progressed, having TOO many options seems to be one of the bigger pitfalls

@FrancisNull

6 ай бұрын

Yes, it's the illusion of choice.

@daviddedios8273

6 ай бұрын

Illusion of choice?

@FrancisNull

6 ай бұрын

Google it.@@daviddedios8273

@omnitone

6 ай бұрын

not really. searching every corner of the internet for music has done nothing but good for me. internet outages and low quality apply but nonetheless, without the internet, i could never find entire genres that only exist of the internet. my favorite composer makes music for fun without any official release, so there is no way i could ever find his stuff even if i had every officially released song in my possession. i might dare say the wide selection is the best feature of streaming. not even convenience.

@312chicago

6 ай бұрын

The “Paradox of choice” theory has been around long before the internet (choice overload).

I kid you not, last night we were watching a movie, paused it around halfway for bathroom break and when we came back, it gave an error, turns out the movie we were watching had been removed while we were away, absolute insanity

@GeneralDante108

3 ай бұрын

if you dont mind me asking , which movie or platform was that on ?

@carlos412

3 ай бұрын

@@GeneralDante108 it was star plus😅

@therealtrabo

3 ай бұрын

That is wild.

@kurtrussell5228

Ай бұрын

That happened to me also!!!!!

@carlos412

Ай бұрын

@@GeneralDante108 omg I thought I had answered this?? It was Star Plus😭

The censorship is also completely hidden. I used to watch a sitcom from the seventies. I recorded almost every episode onto VHS back in the early 2000's. I noticed it's now streaming on Netflix or Amazon or whatever. There was a scene that was burned into my brain in one episode so I watched it one night. The scene wasn't there. I thought maybe I just had the wrong episode. After some digging I found out I did have the correct episode. Turns out they just deleted entire chunks of the episode. With no disclaimer anywhere to be found that what they were showing was edited. This is so freaking wrong on so many levels. As far as I'm concerned this is rewriting history. Points of view and values were different in the past. Erasing these things eliminates learning what was right and wrong from the past. At the very least, the bare minimum, make it clear something has been modified, even though it shouldn't be done in the first place.

@balthus9105

3 ай бұрын

The Prime version of Betty Blue has nearly an hour of the film cut out, if you want the uncensored version you have to pay up it's ridiculous.

@watchforever1724

3 ай бұрын

@@balthus9105yeah I know

"You will own nothing, and you will be happy." I hate how most people don't seem to understand the importance of physical media these days. It's just not the same anymore.

@samuelgregr8451

2 ай бұрын

Same here

As convenient as streaming services like Spotify and such are, they will never compare to actually owning a CD, VHS tape, DVD, game or even a book. Physical media will always be better than digital.

@freeman10000

6 ай бұрын

100% agree

@fumangus69

6 ай бұрын

you cant take all your cd everywhere

@NerdicWarrior8920

6 ай бұрын

@@fumangus69 And what do you think walkans are for?

@privacyhelp

6 ай бұрын

but cd and dvd are digital

@majimasmajimemes1156

6 ай бұрын

​@@fumangus69 why would you even want to? Touch grass ffs

This is so true💯 As a 2000's baby, I always felt the same way because music and television used to be so authentic and entertaining.

@adultmoshifan87

8 ай бұрын

I’m an 80s baby and because I favor physical over digital, I NEVER owned an iPod! Also, being a Windows person, I never owned a single Apple product period until I got my first iPhone in late 2008!

@crazywarp36

7 ай бұрын

Being a windows user and having physical media are 2 very smart things XD@@adultmoshifan87

@K1ll3r84

7 ай бұрын

@@adultmoshifan87 As an 80's baby myself, my first album was vinyl, and I'm going back to just that.

@omina.fornoz

7 ай бұрын

Early zoomers are so underrated. Really appreciate you.

@imperfectxennial3008

6 ай бұрын

80’s kid myself. I’m also going back to physical media. This video hit the nail on the head.

I've recently come to the same conclusions and I've started collecting CDs and 4K Blu-rays again. I'm much happier for it.

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

Stop lying

@Anonymous-wb3nz

6 ай бұрын

​@@fivehundrediq5212grow the hell up, dumb$hit.

@watchforever1724

5 ай бұрын

Yeah me too

@watchforever1724

5 ай бұрын

Yeah me too

I still buy cd’s and physical copies of dvds/video games. It’s says a lot about a person when you see the kinda movies someone has in their home. Besides, what if we lose the internet sometime in our lifetime..

@AdrianFahrenheitTepes

7 ай бұрын

The frequency depends on where you are. In the middle of the city internet connection outages are less frequent than in the sticks, generally speaking.

@SamDavies94

7 ай бұрын

Not me with 1,300 blu rays 😂😅

@alexanderscott9001

7 ай бұрын

Exactly...no ads. And it just feels different owning a physical copy. Plus u get all the extras and bonus scenes. And once u pay for it no monthly fees. Its just yours. Streaming only works if its a movie or show u only watch every blue moon or dont want

@DerivitivFilms

7 ай бұрын

I just screen cap what I stream (and if I like it, keep that shit forever on a giant HDD)....and before someone screams piracy, it's no different than using a vcr to record shows like we all did back in the day.

@jsnotlout3312

6 ай бұрын

Soon the companies will just block any devices that can do that. This world sucks

I recently built a home theatre and am now collecting 4K Blu-rays for the first time. It feels great knowing you own what you’re watching and experiencing it in the best format possible. Also, those movie menus took me wayy back. I am now collecting vinyl and playing them on the same home theatre I watch movies on. It’s amazing.

Physical media is the FUTURE!!!

@johnbailey9408

6 ай бұрын

I agree 👍 💯 percent 🎉❤. The people deserve to own what they like 👍 not just have access to it by controlling media streaming services! Long live physical media. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!🎉

@shawnhutchings5931

6 ай бұрын

You mean the past. Once corporations can figure out how to digitize a cheese burger and fries then sell a monthly subscription for it they will. The sad part is, the masses will immediately start renting their food. Once you open Pandora’s box, it can’t be closed again. The battle for the future is being fought in the youth, who have never know what it is to spend money on owning a CD or DVD, and as long as parents purchase family plans to all these streaming services, they never will.

@charlesdoesmore5488

6 ай бұрын

And indie will soon be in the grave.

@watchforever1724

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I know

That's the problem with mainstream music. It's also boring, uninspiring and hollow. I'm so glad I never fell into the mainstream trap.

@watchforever1724

4 ай бұрын

Me too

In an ideal world it'd go: - Media releases for open-ended rental download (or "buy" as they currently call it). - Media goes onto subscription services in 3 months. - Physical media release 6 months to a year later (caveat: medium used must not require an internet connection to use). - Accept that pirates are gonna pirate and really don't account for a large potential audience anyway. Not gonna lie, I kinda envy the old guys who are happy with a hobby like fishing or bowling that are never gonna have to stress over stuff like this.

I had an uncle who died before I ever even met him but he left behind a couple mixtapes of music he enjoyed and I love listening to those. It makes me feel connected to him, and he had a banger taste in music. You're so right that's not something a Spotify playlist can really replicate unless there's a lot of intentionality put into it

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

That’s a personal thing at the end of the day it’s more a burden than anything else to keep all of that physical junk

@watchforever1724

3 ай бұрын

Yeah

I think a lot of it is buying physical media is a way people feel able to fight against this tsunami of trivial, cheap, thoughtless, basic digital shite. Also a way to take a stand against this digital poison that has seeped into every aspect of life. Well it's definitely feels that way for me. I love browsing for new music in person, CDs rule

The amount of music being released is impossible to manage

I would not say phisical is necessariely better, but rather that owning is better than streaming. And I mean true owning, like having the actual file on your Device

@brendanspiegel

6 ай бұрын

True I just think physical is the ultimate ownership I guess

Another thing is if you pay for a movie on youtube and later it becomes available on youtube momentarily for free then when it goes back to not being free you no longer own it. This happened to me.

Even if physical media made a comeback, I wouldn’t trust the record companies and studios to not do something shady like require all new CD and blue ray players to have a Wi-Fi connection so they could block the playing of used discs or to block or edit content on physical media as well. They would absolutely try to pull something like that.

@brendanspiegel

6 ай бұрын

Even more of a reason to get into physical media before it's too late

@travelllller

5 ай бұрын

Let me see how they will block my record player. Its literally a piece of wood and a small belt.

@kingoffire9373

5 ай бұрын

Exactly, and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for led zeppelin's physical graffiti for the 12th time in some new format. I've paid for it, i own the things i've paid for several times over in several formats and I'm done doing that. I can play it on my walkman, or my record player, or my dvd player or my cassette tape etc

@hunterlander

5 ай бұрын

Research the first sale doctrine, this would be illegal.

@kingoffire9373

5 ай бұрын

@@hunterlander But you assume they care about legality

I'm only 21. Why do I feel so old.

@brendanspiegel

6 ай бұрын

Bc so much has changed in our short lives. I'm 22 and the instability is killing our generation.

@watchforever1724

3 ай бұрын

I’m age 25 and perfer physical media

Streaming is just cable TV with extra steps. I'm 40 now and I called the digital age out at the beginning. I'm not angry at where this has all gone but I recognise it. My physical collection of music, films and games are still with me even though I will stream stuff too. It will never fully return to where it was. Things will move on and become even more fast paced. You just have to know where you want to stop or slow down when it comes to consumption.

@Dave102693

9 ай бұрын

Ikr? Streaming is a scam.

@crazywarp36

7 ай бұрын

Cable rocks

@watchforever1724

5 ай бұрын

@@crazywarp36cable has problems honestly

Streaming is convenient to watch movies. Now if you have favorite movies, that's different. Buying them on physical media (DVD, Blu-ray, etc) would probably be best. Physical media can have cool artwork and you can display it on your shelf. You don't need Internet to watch physical media. What if your Internet went down and you couldn't stream your favorite movies. It's actually important to have your favorite movies on physical media. It's the most certain way to always have them with you.

@watchforever1724

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I know

The great irony of this so-called progress is that I am once again running into a familiar problem: hundreds of options and nothing to watch. I gave up looking for anything specific on streaming platforms long ago. At least nine times out of ten, they won't have what I'm looking for, so I just scroll through whatever the algorithm presents me with. And I scroll, and I scroll, and I scroll... It seems like everything I get access to either doesn't interest me, or I've already seen. It's just like channel surfing in days of yore, but at least we had video stores as an alternative. Honestly, if you're ever in the mood for something specific, you're better off consulting your collection of physical media. At least there you know that it contains stuff you like, and it will be there when you go looking for it.

Yeah sometimes physical media is better, but for 99% of the people just being able to listen their fav music everywhere its just so much worth than need to be in your room to listen a vinyl. i just prefer the idea of focus on enjoying something than having things for the sake of having something physical to touch. I dont think that having superstars that everyone knows its something that good. I prefer to listen some random artirst with unique style which music appeals more to me and i can have a genuine relationship with its music.

@TSS-nq2ul

6 ай бұрын

Yup. I listen around 10 to 14 hours of music a day. Proactively, music that I like and know (Not background music or whatever). That's around 4500 hours of music a year. I fucking love it, before that, I listened to the radio and all of the shit pop music from the "universal superstars" (like the video op says) it came with it. Yeah I had a few albums but I always wanted more, but not possible since many albums didn't make it to my country or I had to pay a very steep extra to import them. Spotify has been a blessing to me since I started using it like 8 years ago. I have paid the equivalent to 100 albums to Spotify but heard around a 1000. This guy whole argument is "streaming bad" because you don't have time to listen to all... Sure?. Also who gives a shit if there are "superstars" on the TV making you cream your pants, because, ANYWAYS, they still exist. Edit:Typod

@edgaryzen4925

6 ай бұрын

I agree. Spotify algorithms for example has helped me track down music that I struggled to identify or track down a song that listened once 20 years ago and just now I felt joyous to hear again for the first time!! Twista Overnight Celebrity for example! KZread cannot even do that and there is not even a record store available to help me identify in spare time. Time are both invaluable and luxury for adults lol

@charlesdoesmore5488

6 ай бұрын

Yes, I agree! In fact, we wouldn't have many indie artists burst into our ears if streaming does not exist.

@captainkyperplayz1162

5 ай бұрын

Yeah theres a time and place for everything. If I'm at work its very convenient to stick an earbud in and stream some music while I work. But if I'm settled down for the night in bed physical media is a lot nicer

@jordanking7711

5 ай бұрын

The problem with streaming services though, is that most of these services don’t pay these artists royalties for their music which causes them to either pull their music from these services, or go under altogether. Whereas if people bought their albums physically still, there wouldn’t be that problem.

I've started to go back and buy physical media, I have quite the collection now. The reason I've started collecting is for a few things. 1. You actually own the thing you purchase 2. The physical release is typically free from censorship, and has tons of bonus features 3. Physical media looks and sounds better than Streaming. Seriously, it does. CDs are a lossless audio format. DVDs and Blurays have much better compression than a streaming service. One thing I miss though in this modern day... Is going to a video store. That was so fun. You could go and pick out the thing you wanted cheaper than at other places, or find hidden gems you wouldn't have found otherwise. Not to mention, you own the thing as soon as you buy it. No need to wait for it to ship out. I miss going in these places and finding something to check out, just because it looked interesting. Well... Thats all I got. Peace. Don't let physical media die. That's what they want. Don't let them. They want us to own nothing and be happy about it. I say No.

@watchforever1724

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I know

@watchforever1724

4 ай бұрын

Unless it’s Star Wars original films but thankfully the theatrical releases is on them

This video has inspired me to start buying CDs and a CD player for once in my life. Spotify has showed me what music I like to listen to and now I can stop using it to just buy the albums outright. Thank you so much for your take on this Brendan, it has helped me greatly.

This is so true, I remember when a new artist album would come out it was an event. Now everything is lost in streaming platforms.

People Still Listen to the music that came out 1984 and they Should do so on CD s and Vinyl and NOT Spotify.

My wife discovered my old collection of sitcom and comedy dvds from high school. She expressed surprise as she didn’t know I was into that sort of media. It’s strange what you can learn about a person about their possessions. In a way, its also sad that there’s so much of our inner lives and our past that are not communicated by the ‘privacy’ of digital media.

I personally cut out streaming music and reverted back to only listening to music I have a physical copy of and it did help me appreciate the stuff I liked alot better.

@watchforever1724

4 ай бұрын

Yeah

I'm not a fan of subscriptions/renting no matter whether its music, games or movies. They edit the content or take it out altogether as it might cause offence or due to expired licenses etc etc. I've never understood why people would opt to buy(or should i say rent) movies from their tv box provider. As if you want to change your provider you've then lost all that content, this is how they tie you down. I buy physical, that way i'm in control of it. If i don't own it, i don't care to. I've lost nothing should i wish to move or cancel a service. All these companies just want a regular income from you, they try every trick/scam to get it and to keep a hold on you.

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

Ok but you’re ok paying monthly insurance?

I recently got a record player and some classic vinyls. It feels awesome to let the whole album playthrough without the urge to skip a song. Play it the way the artist intended. I used to love buying a CD and opening up the insert to read the lyrics & the artwork. Having these at your disposel is better than relying on your phone to connect to the web. Sometimes with options, less is more

Stop physical media, illegally download your stuff. :)

@shiven513

8 күн бұрын

Napster was how this happened in the first place.

This dropping right as I've been splurging on my movie and music collection again. Couldn't agree more. What's really crazy is stuff that is only 10 or 20 years old can be so difficult to find on physical media, to say nothing of the classics. They just stopped making discs once streaming got too big. Great art just disappears, and no one notices.

@ambiarock590

6 ай бұрын

Same here. I've bought 53 albums so far and I'm continuing to grow my collection

What's worse is that big corporations (except for Walmart) want to get rid of physical media.

I'd like to own a lot of my media, but one practical reason for why I choose not to anymore is that I don't want to have a bunch of stuff to schlepp and I think a lot of people tacitly have this problem. Given that being able to afford rent is really difficult day, the last thing you want is to own a lot of things that are not essential and then being forced to move out of your apartment, or basement or dwelling cause you can't afford it anymore and having to carry boxes of CDs and DVDs and things that are not as essential to your survival and, for which, if you have to pay for storage they only add to the cost. Essentially, I want to be as light as possible not owning a ton of unnecessary things in case I have to move in an emergency situation.

@brendanspiegel

6 ай бұрын

Fair enough

@borntobetogether

6 ай бұрын

same here.

@edgaryzen4925

6 ай бұрын

You mean embracing the concept/lifestyle of being minimalists right? Because that exactly what I did. SMALL library of timeless relevant physcial media to have while accepting digital media being useful when needed. It actually frugal and efficient this way.

@rtothec1234

6 ай бұрын

@@edgaryzen4925 well no. I’d love to own more stuff. I just need a home of my own and enough space to feel confident about having more stuff.

@ambiarock590

6 ай бұрын

I've been leaning into the idea of being more conscience of what I buy, but CDs and content are an exception in my opinion. I like buying CDs because that means no company can take my music or movies away. Outside of those I am trying to be more conscience of what I buy. Recently a family member showed me a picture of something they found in a store that I might like, and I did like it but didn't buy it as it would just clutter my space.

Netflix has begun with highering the prices for their bad streaming offers. Then going one step forward and disallowed sharing your account outside of your home. Now Disney followed and next is prime video Spotify will also be more expensive. How I knew it already 10 years ago? It's my secret

@AdrianFahrenheitTepes

7 ай бұрын

It’s not hard if you can really look at costs

@crazyprayingmantis5596

6 ай бұрын

Renting music forever and paying for the music you don't listen to or even like isn't something I'm interested in doing. In the end you'll own nothing and would have spent more time scrolling through millions of albums rather than actually listening

@watchforever1724

4 ай бұрын

Yeah

Trends used to last for 1 to 2 and a half years almost 3 years. Gen Z trends lasts for 2-6 months and zoomers already kill it off and consider it dated by the later half of the year. To me that's a problem.

@gt8200-0

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I hate that too

@fernthaisetthawatkul5569

6 ай бұрын

u r being very generous most last for only 1 month 😂 not even that, on the internet maybe a week

@mrbajablamps8663

6 ай бұрын

@@fernthaisetthawatkul5569 yeah deadass and if you use it longer than a month for example you're called cringe and you're living in the past 😂

@watchforever1724

4 ай бұрын

Yeah

@lovelydolltime8006

2 ай бұрын

This is why I don't follow stupid trends and do whatever I want regardless of whether it's considered "in" at that moment or not.

That point about there not being music "everyone" knows is pretty solid and a point I didn't think before. I remember when I was a kid, because the only way to consume music without spending money was to either listen to the radio, or watch MtV or VH1, there was a selection of Top 100 songs that everyone knew regardless of what kind of music fan you were. I think there are benefits to streaming, namely that I don't think it's a bad thing that people can end up finding niche genre's and artist due to how accessible music is nowadays. But, I think you're right that we no longer have this connection with each other because nowadays because can just stick to their playlists. I don't know if the answer is to entirely revert back to physical media, but I can agree that we should try and strike some type of balance.

@righthandwolf306

6 ай бұрын

There was the same sense of "community" in terms of TV shows, once upon a time. Look up the Nielsen rating numbers for things like the "Who Shot J.R.?” episode of _Dallas_ or the final episodes of _Cheers, Newhart_ or _MASH;_ those audience share numbers from back in the days before there were 700 cable channels are a thing of the past, simply because there is such a flood of content. As Bruce Springsteen observed in the early 90s: _”. . .there's 57 channels and nothing on."_

@fernthaisetthawatkul5569

6 ай бұрын

BTS is one group that EVERYONE knows

@Grandmaster-Kush

6 ай бұрын

That "community" was mostly delegated to breakroom and idle bullshit let's be real, how many deep discussions have been had about Britney Spears Toxic, I love not having to go to a music or media store or the rare time I go to town a scene place or music themed café and either ask around or sift through hundreds of albums just to find a compromise, this is only a real loss to the record labels and artists.

@evacody1249

6 ай бұрын

We can't take the music industry back to where radio, MTV, VH1, stores, and the big three have all the power. That will limit the music you can listen to.

@edgaryzen4925

6 ай бұрын

Answer: hybrid media :)

You are exactly right - it’s *not* just about the song or the story. It’s about the memories and experience. Physical media gives you that. Streaming does not. Streamed content has no context. It never really becomes part of your life. Not in the same way, anyway. People click off things if they aren’t grabbed within 30 seconds. When choice was more limited, people made an effort to like the films or music or books they had access too, and sometimes fell in love with them, but after a while, not right away. Some things need space to grow on you, time to breathe. This is usually true for anything that takes any risk. And yeah, how many of those millions of shows or movies, or albums, or playlists, or books, does anyone ever *actually* consume? Not many I’m cancelling all my streaming services, all of them, and going back to physical That’s me, but nice to know I’m not alone

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

Romanization is not a good reason to keep something around, you need to make practical sense

@joshbarnes9267

6 ай бұрын

Romanticization is an excellent reason to keep things around, it makes practical sense.

I grew up in the 80s and we all had like 2 channels. As a result, all of the kids watched the same handful of ultra popular cartoons. It was a way to relate to one another. I don’t see that anymore and when my kids grew up, I don’t think my kids will look back at their weekend tv viewing as fondly as I do mine.

@watchforever1724

5 ай бұрын

Well they probably don’t use tv anymore

@Peeps7468

5 ай бұрын

@@watchforever1724 My children still watch tv for downtime (they're elementary school aged). So do most of their peers that they're friends with. From what I've seen, slightly older children had a lot of hands-on tablet and phone exposure at a really young age, but children still in grade school now seem to have slightly less access to portable devices (maybe parents feel more comfortable with televisions). This is just my personal experience - maybe its not common in this day and age?

Streaming is destroying our modern entertainment there are too many of them now it's getting beyond ridiculous get physical Media you get artwork keep it forever in it's purest form

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

No it’s not, that’s a you problem

@JonathanHeydh-vy4yw

6 ай бұрын

It’s capitalism and consumerism and lobbying and Nepotism

@JonathanHeydh-vy4yw

6 ай бұрын

Try socialism

Alot of people seem to want a return to good stuff like physical media being more prominent again but they also immediately throw in the towel saying whats gonna happen is gonna happen with everything going digital and degrading in value. If its something you care about then fight for it and do what you can to keep it some things are timeless and worth holding on to. If you don't like the way things are change them yeah one person can't do it alone but one person can inspire another then that person inspires another and before you know it your side outnumbers the other. Even if it is hopeless fight anyways better to try and fail then to never try at all there no shame in failure only in giving up. This can apply to literally anything you love and care about in life the power is in your hands never give up.

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

Walmart & BestBuy says otherwise

I ditched streaming services and created my own home media server. It has shows I like and I have control over, and best of all I still have the physical disc copy so say if the media server craps out I can still use my ps5 as a movie player.

talking about music now: the point of not really owning the music we listen to, is one of the main reasons why i don’t use Spotify and why i choose to download the songs i like instead.

I also miss the fact that my friends and I used to exchange games to try out or play before getting a copy ourselves. Now that half of them are on steam, but we still be collecting physical cartridges when we buy something for the switch. As for movies, we used to rent them from our local libraries, but due to streaming services they do not renew or expand their collections anymore

The primary reason why songs don't last these days isn't because of how people listen; it's because the songs themselves are crap. Same for movies and TV shows.

To me, buying Albums and having a CD collection were a big part of why I enjoyed music in the first place. I remember as a kid I would spend the ride home from the electronics store in the backseat of my mom's car going through the booklet of a CD I just bought, appreciating the artist's and designer's collaborative effort to make the music "touchable". In 2024 all of that is gone. My music is nieche and therefore doesn't even see physical releases most of the time. Meanwhile whatever CDs I had are crumbling away due to their age, some of them being barely playable anymore because as it turns out the "CD" isn't exactly a durable medium. Now does this mean streaming at least prevents me from losing my favorite music due to it's age? No. When I go through my barely 6 years old Spotify Playlists a good chunk of music I collected is already missing due to artists removing their work, licenses expiring and well... Whatever else reason this might have(?). It's not happening often enough to be a complete dealbreaker (yet) but it is defenitely often enough to be a huge inconvenience since there is almost no way to recover it, leaving me with tracks and songs I've built emotional connections to being inaccessable. That's why last year I started downloading music again and I'm currently trying to collect the best music out of 6 years of streaming, to be independent from whatever tricks spotify and co. will pull on us in the near future. Think of it this way: The longer you wait to own your music, the more of a pain in the ass it will be to do it when spotify's disadvantages will outweigh the advantages. (Which will happen at one point, their business model is unsustainable in it's current form) ...and I haven't even touched on any of the other problems spotify is causing like artists changing their production style in an attempt to "hack the algorithm", making the first 30 secs of a song the most exciting ones so they can earn money when you don't skip away/ mass producing slop to shit something out every other month in order to stay "relevant", instead of taking their time and making music from the heart.

I always try to go the theater to see a movie I really want to see, and then decide if I buy it on Blu-ray. Never do I buy digital.

It may be convenient going on your phone and browsing on there; but there's something exciting and thrilling physically walking around a store, scanning all the dvds on the shelves for one that interests you. Same with books. I find it boring browsing on my phone. Physically being there, holding the dvd case, looking at the back, the sound of opening the case.

@watchforever1724

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I know

Still hate streaming

You’re absolutely right, but sad truth is, everyones too lazy and just don’t care. It really baffled me when Sony pulled hundreds of digital shows from your account. Just goes to show that what when you purchase something digital, it actually isn’t yours when at any time, all of your content can just go fuck itself.

It took me years to stream music because I said streaming was paying to borrow. I do stream now sometimes but I still buy the music I love in physical form because I want to own it. When streaming first came about my brother gave all his music away saying he didn’t need them anymore and they were just taking up space, I never understood it. Fast forward a decade and now he’s trying to get his music back, realising that ownership is the only direction we should be going in because big media can’t be trusted.

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

That’s your only reason? Is owning it? Pre Automobile you actually owned a horse, You technically never own a car but the car is better than a horse

@MetalRocksMe.

6 ай бұрын

@@fivehundrediq5212 I don’t have a car. Horses are better for the environment.

@evacody1249

6 ай бұрын

​@fivehundrediq5212 the reason I stream music is A) radio does not play the music I like. B) I would never be able to listen to the music I like based on what Sony, Universal, and Warner music sell.

"Take artists like Morgan Wallen and Bad Bunny, for example" WHOOOO???? 🤔 This is the first time i even heard these names. And i already forgot them.

@watchforever1724

4 ай бұрын

Never heard of them

I own my own house, I don't rent it. I own my own physical media, I don't rent it. Owning something you are passionate and excited about is a much more fulfilling experience than renting or borrowing it.

@crazyprayingmantis5596

6 ай бұрын

And streaming music means you'll be renting it forever, some company will be sucking $ out of your account periodically until you die. You'll also be paying for the stuff that you don't listen to or even like. You'll own nothing in the end. At least with physical media it's somewhat of an investment that appreciates in value that you can pass on to your kids and grandkids. I have my grandparents records and the connection I maintain with them can't be had by streaming or a usb stick.

@Vibrantly_Monochromatic

6 ай бұрын

If you pay taxes on your house, you don't own it

@312chicago

6 ай бұрын

So you bought your house and everything you own without using any form of credit? (mortgage, car payment, credit cards, etc). You’re missing out on some sweet cash-back $$ yo! 😂

@64bitmodels66

6 ай бұрын

Evwryone pays taxes, its a fact of life you have to deal with. And its still cheaper and superior to renting where you cant even do anything with the house.​@@Vibrantly_Monochromatic

@edgaryzen4925

6 ай бұрын

Comparing house to said music player is a bad one. One and done transaction vs continuous transaction

I have an iPod loaded with a bunch of songs. There’s a comfort in knowing that I’ll always have access to the songs on the iPod, as long as the iPod itself survives

This is really good. And it's also why I have started ripping my DVDs and Bluerays to a media server and canceled most streaming services. I own it, it won't change and when I flip through the library I will have a memory attached to all the content and build more as I purchase.

@CatholicTraditional

6 ай бұрын

As long you have your music and videos on discs or hard drives that you can access without the internet, you’re safe. The streamer can pull the content anytime.

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

They will fix that problem, just like they did with Napster users

@user-gw3yb3ki6w

5 ай бұрын

I also rip my DVD's to my NAS and use Infuse in my AppleTV to stream from my local NAS. Already there is 303 DVD's but that is only a small amount of my DVDs. Blurays and UHD BluRays I leave on the disc only, those files are too huge to store since I have around 200 UHD movies and lots of BluRays as well, but DVDs are so small that it is easy to store to NAS.

I couldn't agree more. I was born in 84 and still buy all my cds and movies for all the reasons you described. I remember when album releases were a huge anticipation, same with movies. Now that thrill is gone. I love when people complain that what they want to watch isn't streaming, I just laugh and say, "I don't have that problem." Great video! 👍🏻

I just found this video today but WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!! I have been saying "Reject Modernity" since 2019 and even made a shirt that with the phrase on it. You stole my catch phrase 😂

@Mak0154

6 ай бұрын

Great video btw

and when buying something physical, you either have to finish it or return/sell it, where as streaming gives a wide variety of choice yet lacks quality in the shows they produce

The streaming era also destroyed the art of backstage commentary, back then DVD's were incredible pieces of art because most of them were not only the "product" movie or series, but also the making off, extras, audio commentary, deleted scenes and special menus. Back then people collected DVD's and even rated them (a Simpsons DVD was excellent for the extra content). None of that exists now and we don't know or even have access to the making of media now.

I was in the middle of Mad Men and Ray Donovan on Prime both disappeared from their service before i could finish them. And they only ever had the first 3 seasons of Animals. So i resorted to a mixture of buying physical media and other sources for my content

70mm IMAX can save the cinema. Digital cinema is garbage and offers nothing for the streaming user with a good home setup. 70mm IMAX film is truly unique and offers something tangibly different than watching at home!

I agree, everything fades out so much quicker and especially with albums people always move on from them after a week or two, and it doesnt have as much meaning as it used to for people no matter how good the album may be, which is just really sad especially

@MichaelSalmons64

10 ай бұрын

That is one of the reasons I'm set up to play records. You go out of our way to do it. It takes a certain amount of time and effort. And since you're nurturing a finite collection, you return to those titles over time, get to know them, develop associations with when you listened and with whom. All that is still possible today.

@JonathanHeydh-vy4yw

5 ай бұрын

That’s capitalism for you

And that's why i'm buying and collecting DVD's.

I always want to have options to choose either physical or digital. Sometimes you want to have something physical in your hands to own. Sometimes the physical copy is so rare you will have to know where to find it, thus is why Digital does have positives. But to throw out the baby with the bath water just for this all digital future, this is going to end badly for everyone.

I do disagree with your music opinion. I do think physical options need to always be available for everything. It really sucks to see stores like Best Buy phasing this stuff out

I cancel all of my subscriptions. The golden era of streaming is over. The studios slowly but surely make their apps to be the new cable channels now. It is so fragmented, full of shits, and full of ads. I'm back to own my own contents.

I wholeheartedly agree that streaming essentially ruined people’s attention spans and the way certain artists promote their music. However, there has been a plethora of really amazing music I would’ve never discovered had it not been for streaming. I also just like to treat streaming as like a big CD collection that, while I don’t own, it’s nice to relax in bed and scroll through all my saved albums. So, It is possible to treat streaming like a CD collection and re-live that magic of enjoying an album with no distractions. Now, when streaming services get used as background noise, that’s a big no-no for me.

Hell yeah man. I’ve been buying a lot of Blue-Rays lately. Especially Disney movies because one day Disney will make animated replacements for older movies and they will remove the “original” versions from Disney+ and they will make it illegal to resell or to buy their Blue-Rays from other people.

I will have a full plastic box of ripped CDs for my Walkman. My proud PBS DVD collection numbers around 500.

Just bought a bunch of CDs and DVDs to add to my collection.

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

Shut up

This video is legit. As a musician I can say that streaming ruined things. When people were willing to buy CDs I had a bigger audience. I actually made a little bit of money. Then things went to people buying MP3s instead. And that was still basically OK even though I personally prefer a CD. But then Spotify happened and the bottom fell out. It's near impossible to get an audience now and even when you do Spotify only pays like a thousandth of a penny for a stream, so those CDs sales are definitely gone. People are willing to buy a record now so that's nice and I love records myself but producing records is a very large upfront cost to do it correctly and you'll never sell them all unless you're already very well known. CDs on the other hand are reasonably cost effective to make professionally but no one wants them now. Streaming has taken over. There really is something to be said though about buying a CD or a record and holding it, looking at it, reading it, listening to it and enjoying it that streaming will neve replicate. I think we lost something here. Both as listeners and as musicians.

recently Jet Set Radio Soundtrack was removed from streaming services and people complained about it on twitter. I mean this is one of the reason why I don't rely on streaming services. I use it but it's like a Internet radio station. to me, Music is not one time thing. I always come back to music I loved. also there were music what didn't impress me at first time, but impressed me at 2nd or 3rd times.

I am actually pretty glad I don't have to even know who Rhianna, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry or Bad Bunny are, let alone listen to their music. I like to choose what I want to hear.

@themadmattster9647

6 ай бұрын

I’ve never heard a Taylor swift song in full

@fivehundrediq5212

6 ай бұрын

That doesn’t make you a better person

5:05 Disney Plus is a prime example of this problem. Sure Disney owns allot of shows, but they AREN'T all on Disney Plus. Aladdin series, Jungle Cubs, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Raw Toonage and many others are never on Disney Plus, yet some of these are diamonds in the rough compared to what is already on Disney Plus. Yet for some reason Disney corporation want you to watch some shows but NOT these ones.

I’m GenX and I went back to physical media a couple of years ago. I enjoy it much more.

i love this video! i’m guilty of not appreciating physical media enough but have pledged to start and am even trying to get those around me interested and excited about it

You approached this video in the worst possible way. We weren't better when record labels, music stations and tv channels controlled who was popular.

I have a pile of CDs in my room and honestly, using CDs to listen to music just feels so much easier

Man at times I sit and wonder and listen to how you construct things and how they play a part in our day to day lives, you made another step in your platform, well done.

I miss the era of album releases being big events so much. No one is connected to artists anymore and they don't see value in music as an art form. I also couldn't agree more with what you said about how it's all too targeted now too. The whole current system is just plain broken.

I still keep listening to my cassetes, my vinyls, cds… and SOMETIMES I get my iPod nano for a walk.

Mannnnnnn this video just hit me bro!!!! I am 34 (born in 89, grew up in the 90s) and I remember buying an album or watching a tv show were moments. Now there is so much media and music constantly at our finger tips that albums are out of rotation in 2-3 weeks MAX. And the sad part is I don’t even know how to revert to make myself wanna focus on 1 album longer than a month. I KNEW I would hate where music was going when my homie purchased B.o.Bs first album “the adventures of Bobby Ray” in 2010 of iTunes…..they gave my boy a pdf file with the album artwork, like someone literally unfolded and xeroxed the front and back side in and put the 2 parts onto a sheet in the pdf……. I knew I hated where digital music was going at that very moment….

Its 2024 and I still walk around with my Ipod classic 😇

I miss watching Tv, it always felt like I was “apart” of what everyone else in the world was watching, like we were all watching together.

@DanyTheMe

7 ай бұрын

It's "a part" when u put it together it means the opposite

@robbyrdog

7 ай бұрын

@@DanyTheMe Thank you Professor. Pretty sure you knew what I meant lol

@DanyTheMe

7 ай бұрын

@@robbyrdog I had to read your comment twice to figure out what you meant. No shame in making mistakes, just letting you know since in this case the mistake literally flips the thing you're trying to communicate.

@robbyrdog

7 ай бұрын

@@DanyTheMe appreciate the help, you should become a grammar teacher.

@watchforever1724

4 ай бұрын

I mean most people don’t use tv as much as they used to because iPhones and iPads have been the new form of the past

In german we say "Die Qual der Wahl" which means "The Torment of choice". That sentence describes the whole on demand thing quite well for me. It's true for video games as well. There are too many great games to choose from, I can't even get in to one and end up playing something I already know and have nostalgia for.

Instant access to unlimited anything you can think of is bad for the human psyche.

Attention spans are out. Instant gratification is in.

absolutely on point! Physical media gets more important by the day as people aren't realizing the consequences with streaming & preferring convenience, no matter the price increases, over ownership & art. Love the point about the sentimentality of a physical product as an extension of someone & bringing you closer to that person.

You touched on a huge part of this. The biggest issue in my opinion in the age of streaming is that you don't really own the media anymore. Since its not a physical copy, you are perpetually dependent on, say, Amazon being up and running to access and consume the media you bought on those platforms. Sometime in the future when say Amazon has gone defunct, or the Xbox live servers go down, you won't be able to access the movies, games, music, etc that you bought. With physical media, it could be 70 years from now, I'm in my 90s, and still be able to pop in that record, or DVD, or Halo 3 for the 360 and still use it, assuming I keep the hardware in working order. A nuclear war could end modern civilization, but with physical media you can preserve the art and access it with nothing more than a generator and outlet. Right now I'm gonna go and play one of my grandpas old records I just discovered today

Streamings biggest problem is that so much created contend will seize to exist if the streamingservice drops it and you cant buy it on dvd ..

@watchforever1724

4 ай бұрын

Yeah

Good video! I'm still buying cd's like it's 1993, and I only watch movies on physical media. About once a year I might briefly listen to something on Spotify - usually because someone sent me a link - but otherwise I don't go there, and I have NEVER streamed a movie or tv show. It may sound pretentious af, but choosing to buy physical media instead of having limitless access to everything through streaming helps me remember the value of music and movies. It may not help the creators in any meaningful way, since the old consumer/creator relationship is practically dead, but it helps me to appreciate these things more instead of taking them for granted and demand that I have immediate access to them on my phone/tablet/laptop every second of every day. I'm just not in any way interested in that.

I’ve had Spotify for like seven years and there’s no way I would’ve bought $1000 for the CDs in that same time

@brendanspiegel

6 ай бұрын

Good for you

@Pidalin

6 ай бұрын

You don't pay for CDs, you pay for lazyness when you pay spotify. Becuase to put CD into computer, rip it and copy it to your phone or MP3 player or whaterver you use IS a WORK and people don't like work. When I pay Spotify, I pay it because I am lazy to do all these things, but I still buy some CDs of bands I like and I want to support them and I will always keep some collection of older CDs because you never know, it can disapear because of some copyright problems, it can be censored or completely banned in the future.....

@branscombe_

6 ай бұрын

@@Pidalin Yeah i agree, it’s why i have no streaming video services (except for KZread) and buy all our movies in 4k so we watch all the special features etc because we’re invested at that point. i also CDs like new Blink 182 release recently.

@Pidalin

6 ай бұрын

@@branscombe_ But I would say it's not everything lost yet, when I visited premiere of new Metallica album in cinema (they streamed it live in selected cinemas) it was very crowded even when ticket was pretty expensive, there are still people who have no problem with paying for these experiences, also when I visited Oppenheimer played from 70 mm analog film, it was problem to buy tickets, where were people from whole Europe here in Prague because we had only cinema (except UK) in Europe where it was in this format, so I would say there is still a lot of people who want these experiences, ofcourse they also use spotify, netflix and these thing, but they even go to cinema. I have projector and big speakers at home and I still go to cinema becuase that cinema experience is just something you don't have at home when you watch it alone.

@edgaryzen4925

6 ай бұрын

@@Pidalinit not laziness. It convenience. You know. Online shopping vs driving/walking to the store to buy XYZ with time to spare

The fact that this video gets nostalgic for the early 2010s makes me feel incredibly, INCREDIBLY old! Nonetheless, excellent analysis. I grew up in the 90s where there was absolutely a lot of garbage, but there was also a lot of awesome stuff to be discovered. There were record / vhs / dvd stores that were great places to talk to people, browse the selection and learn about new albums, films etc. In an age where everything is curated to keep giving us comfort food, there’s a real loss of that sense of discovery and the wonder that comes with it.

Being 4 years old watching the samurai jack intro in a dark room Simply Magical ... or a seizure good times good times

I don't think I would've become such a music lover if I didn't have access to Spotify. The music I listen to is linked to much to my emotional state; I can't keep 20 CDs on me just in case I start to feel down or ecstatic during the day.

@brendanspiegel

6 ай бұрын

Fair enough

@unknwntx

6 ай бұрын

You only say that because you grew up on the streaming era. 20-30 years ago you would have a binder full of CD's you cherished and the music would mean infinitely more to you as you acquired it yourself and had a case with album art and liner notes and lyrics. Sacrificing all that for spoon fed convenience. Stop enabling mega corporations to ruin all art via convenience. Even pirating is more personal than goddamn streaming

@laurensnieuwland4657

6 ай бұрын

@@unknwntx I'm not so sure.You see, music is all about the actual emotion and sound for me. I don't really have any album on which I enjoy every song. I'm not really a fan of any artist, just some of their songs. But I suppose that's also because of the current way we listen. Still though, I'm very fond of the discover function on Spotify (how broken it might be). I certainly wouldn't have grown to like some of the styles I like right now without it.

@unknwntx

6 ай бұрын

@laurensnieuwland4657 I see your point perhaps this era has enabled for more casual listeners like yourself because at the end of the day they just want your subscription payment every month

@laurensnieuwland4657

6 ай бұрын

@@unknwntx That's the thing isn't it? Since most people are casual listeners the services are aimed at them. Had they been aimed at hard core music fanatics they wouldn't have worked the way they currently do. Or they'd have gone bankrupt years ago. Mass market things have always been "watered down" as opposed to enthusiast stuff. The argument which one is "better" has been a complex one, and has existed ever since mass market became a thing.

Definitely agree that TV was more than just consuming media. Adult Swim was a good example. I also remember as a child looking forward to ABC Family’s Countdown to Christmas movie lineup and making sure to tune in when my favorite movie was on. Things like that don’t happen anymore.

As a 90s kid who is also a minimalist I have mixed feelings about digital vs physical copies of music. There was a similar dislike for radio vs live music long ago, but at any rate, in my tiny studio it's definitely a space saver to have a cell phone with Spotify and a Bluetooth speaker to blast music

@brendanspiegel

6 ай бұрын

Fair enough

@ShadowAngel-lt8nw

5 ай бұрын

So you pretend to like music, but then you listen to the horrible destructive compression and Spotify, which is also known to use a bad volume normalizer that makes the music way too loud and kills all the dynamic range. And on top you use a crappy, cheap Blutooth speaker, which degrades the audio quality even further. Hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@johnm.castillo3163

5 ай бұрын

some of us don't have the financial means to afford live music or space to fit subwoofers and the works to listen to it. I would if I could, Shadow.@@ShadowAngel-lt8nw

@jonathangonzalez7746

5 ай бұрын

​@@ShadowAngel-lt8nwHe never said he was an audiophile, he js said he's a normal music listener like 99% of the population. Audio equipment gets expensive

@ShadowAngel-lt8nw

5 ай бұрын

@@jonathangonzalez7746 Must suck to be poor, lol

Streaming services should have linear feeds built in, if cable’s going the way of the dodo