One example, Lord of the Ring DVD Edition, Compare it with Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Paramount etc. Die Picture Quality from the DVD is always superior to the Streaming company always, I have high speed Internet, so Speed was never the problem.Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Hitchcock Movies doesn't matter Picture Quality is always better. So Streaming Companies never provided us with the promised Quality How would 4k work when even HD is not working. And we are paying for the poor quality.
I truly love your video! I’m 23 and I’ve been collecting physical media for as long as I can remember. I have roughly over 726 4K and Blu-rays. Physical media will always be better than streaming.
Even though Blue ray dvd is the best HD way to watch movies I just got a VHS player with tapes from a lady for $15. Summer is coming and I can’t wait to hit up some garage sales
Solid answers bro! And for anyone who wonders why I asked such a random question about Caillou, there IS a legitimate reason behind it. Andrew and I lived together for almost a couple of years. In that time, we had PLENTY of opportunities to express our mutual hatred for the character. We made several of our own memes, inside jokes, and quite a few "what if" scenarios. Him joining the MCU just sounded so off the walls, I figured it would give Andrew a good laugh
On that May the 4th day, I was watching Episodes 1-6, something I couldn't do on TV like before because on TV they show the Disney Star Wars movies, soo nuts to that. But because of my Stars War Blu Ray Collectors edition, I was able to. Physical for life!!!
Very nice, Andrew. This makes me want to watch the movie for a new interpretation. My son has developed an appreciation for slower-paced films (the first Villeneuve Dune or Shawshank as examples), which I think is awesome. I have never heard the Stanley Kubrick quote about art, but I love it. Art is more meaningful when you are empowered to make your own interpretations, but the "shackled to a reality other than your own" goes a level deeper.
Have a question about 4K Blu-ray that I purchased at Target that has a glitches in the disc. I recently purchased Apocalypse now final cut. I played the Blu-ray. It was great. I just got a 4K player and my final cut 4K disc chapter 7 freezes glitches won’t actually play but all the rest of the film chapters play and look fine. What does one do? who do you contact? to, get a new replacement copy of this 4K Blu-ray Disc of A.N final cut is it Lionsgate? On RU-vid. There was another Apocalypse Now final cut 4K Owner that had a similar defect issue more or less in the same exact spot on the 4K disk were mine froze up and glitched out. I'm all for physical media, but if you buy it and it doesn’t work, what do you do?
I completely agree with everything you're saying. I still have a tonne of dvds that I don't plan to get rid of . . . . I have blu rays and 4k but i'm leaning mostly on blu ray for new purchases and getting 4k for only films i'll watch a gazillion times. however, i'm trying to shrink my collection and looking into ways of doing so. i'm not purging too much but getting rid of cases (eventually) but i have to find the right envelopes with ability of keeping the sleeves and the odd booklets with getting rid of the cases
Greetings from great Britain. ..in the last 5 years I've built up an impressive CD library....although prices are starting to rise....BUT in the UK DVDS are still cheap 5 for a pound at my local charity shop...ive been building up my collection of favourite films and TV shows. ...i love the extras...the booklets .. commentaries etc....i dont think theyre always going to be cheap...i only stream Netflix (with adverts as its cheaper and hey all you advertising executives you do know that no one even registers what your trying to sell...we use them to take a piss...go to the fridge...or check our phones)...for convenience and casual viewing with my wife...but if i really like a film i want a copy..itd be a sad day if DVDs were no longer made or BLURAY players were made...if that happened id use what i have and if it packs in ...hey more time for reading and play my guitars more...
I watched The warriors again the other day and you remind me of that guy with the beer bottles on his fingers clinking them together saying warriors come out and play
It's very important to keep hard copies of our classic movies and TV shows in case the Government decides to "curate" the past to normalize their dystopian future. I myself have over 4000+ movies and over 200 TV shows. And also because buying (not renting) digital DRMed movies & TV are a scam.
Facts Bro great video, it seems that the world is going more towards renting and leasing rather than ownership, that is also why I like physical media! Again great video and some very good points
Excellent! The depreciation of our basic property rights is a huge problem. Thank you for pointing it out in this important and relevant area of life, entertainment.
Great discourse. My only gripe is I’ve decided to sell legacy media types many times over; VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, 4K Blu-ray. Upgrading and maintaining compatible players is often a chore. Finally, digital helps with decluttering. Each to their own however! Enjoy your awesome collection!
Phantasm enjoyers unite! Such a great 4k release. My favorite thing about physical media is 3D Blu-ray, since stereo films are generally unavailable on streaming.
Very solid video recently ive been going around to walmarts, Goodwills, you name it just really building out my physical media collection its more important then ever before.
That 4K blu-ray disc is yours, but you still pay just for right to watch it, you don't actually own it, which doesn't really matter, but today blu-ray discs are pretty hard to play because of all those stupid DRMs, so you have no surance that you will play it in the future if you don't keep some player from these days. Like DVD is simple, you play it on everything, even on PC, to copy original disc to PC and convert it to some more convinient format is easy and you can do it in a lot of even freewares, but blu-rays? It's really a problem to play it or even open it on PC, so you own disc, but without proper physical player with all those stickers like HDR, 4K, dolby-something....you will not play it in the future. I recommend to properly backup all movies downloaded in the past in good quality, streaming services are just losing content or image quality is really bad (like 720p on Disney+, that's ridiculous), DVDs also have bad image quality and you will not play blu-ray in the future because there won't be any players and you can't open it on PC without expensive paid software. Ofcourse buy blu-rays, I am not saying go pirate everything, I am just saying that people should backup what they downloaded in the past, because it's possible that you will not find it again in the best possible quality, warez servers are disapearing, especially here in EU because of new laws and a lot of content is not available officially at all or it's regioblocked in your country, like StarGate on streaming services. When they do regioblocks, I will download it and my conscience is clean, they probably don't want my money. Another thing which is related to your point about censoreship - official releases are changing over time, it can get censored or they will somehow modify it and you have no other option than to pirate it when you want to see how it looked originally if you don't have some old VHS or something. Another thing are dubbings, which is something what Americans can't even realize how important it is, you maybe prefer some dubbing you are used to from TV and it's much better quality than new one on blu-ray or on streaming services, so again, you have to pirate it. And I know that a lot of people (maybe most of them) prefer to watch movies with original voices now, but there are movies or shows which you just watch with dubbing because you are used to or it even sounds better than with original voices, yes, it happens. I think future will be bad even for physical media if it survives in some form, they will definitely make some activations or clients like steam which will be mandatory to play it, I don't believe that today situation with offline blu-rays will last forever. I am not pessimist, I am realist and a lot of my predictions are reality now. Who would believe me in 2007 if I told you that like 99% of all games few years later will need online activation and client and you won't be able to sell it because it's connected to your account? Noone, but I was right, it happened just few years later. You have to realize that when you want things physically and offline, you are pretty much on the same level as pirate for these audio-video corporations, it's a miracle that some physical media still exist and they actually sell them, that can end pretty fast.
Yes I agree one should really consider backing up their physical media library onto a digital format such as an external hard drive, so they can reap the benefits from both worlds.
I do have a very large digital gaming library. Like 1k plus games on Steam, GOG, Origin, Xbox, Epic, Ubisoft, Rockstar etc (they never freaking end) and I feel confident with Steam and GOG that I'll always have access to those. But, I regularly buy old console games, for nostalgia and series playthroughs. I don't play new console games really, except occasional Sony ones, but I buy those physical too. I have about 100 console games physically. I much prefer that method. But 1k of physical PC games wouldn't be possible to store or display.
Your steam games will be useless in the future when steam as service will be no more, even when you have offline backup created by client, you need client to unpack it and install it. Only platform where you can backup 100% offline installer with no DRM and no activation is GOG and that's why I buy everything there if it's possible and backup installers. Sometimes you want to play older version of that game because later updates are breaking it or add content which you don't want, so you just install it from offline installer and run without client, problem solved. On steam, there is no way how to run not updated game, I hate it. And on Rockshitstar, Ubishit and EAss, I would not buy anything again, these clients are totaly broken and you can't play games you paid for.
@@PidalinYeah, but I don't foresee Valve and Steam going anywhere for decades. Hopefully when Gabe dies or they sell the company, that doesn't change though. I have all my GOG game installers on a separate USB just as backup.
Where did you get an autographed copy of "The Room"? And I agree that the library is a totally overlooked/undervalued resource. I can't find regular DVDs for Stranger Things Season 2 on sale for less than $120 for some reason. So I went to the library. Problem solved (except I hear you are supposed to return them at some point).
I haven't seen this film in so long, I only remember the shocking imagery, not the author's message. You laid this out very nicely, it makes total sense to me. It made me want to watch this film again, but in a different lens. Also your title reminded me of a paper I wrote in college with the same title as your video (minus the video essay part) about the character Shylock from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Complex villians are so interesting. Did you do this for school?
