Yup. Well for instance in X-ray usage, lead is used to block/reflect X-rays and this giving no image. Only much higher doses can penetrate the lead but that would also make it impossible to view the card
Crazy that 2003-2007 was the "ghost era". That's the most nostalgic er for me as thats when me and my kid brother collected the most. I loved the ex era its crazy how unpopular it was lol
I don't personally see CT scanning being an issue outside of the high end sealed vintage market. Its an incredibly expensive way to find out what is in your pack, Yes you get to keep it sealed to sell if it is nothing great. The issue is people will simply not buy sealed because of the associated risk. This reduction in demand will lower the price of sealed making the CT scanning less profitable ultimately reserving it to only the highest end or maybe even just dyeing off as a gimmick.
Id love to hear a video from you about where to spend your money. Like a breakdown of the best purchases for investing using $50, $100, $250, $500, or $1000. I'm always unsure of where to put my money when trying to plan for a comiccon event.
That’s a really good input I never thought of it that way. I saw a lot of suggestions coming from Pokémon world championship that the new TCG pocket is going to be focused on collecting rather actual TCG battles
Imagine using a ct scanner to confirm for example that a moonbreon is in a pack. You gift that pack to a friend for a birthday or special day and get to see the amazement in their eyes as they rip that pack and love you for that gift
It’ll be super interesting to see how they “cheaply” make the CT scanner obsolete. I really think that physical cards will eventually phase out, but pokemon pocket will tell us a lot like you said. Love the discussion! PS 10/10 thumbnail 🔥
Part of what makes Pokemon investing what it is is what is often mentioned is the nostalgia factor. The digital thing is more of a gimmicky thing that most kids who drive the whole hobby will not gravitate toward or understand. Nothing compares to opening packs and for adults grading certain cards.
With regards to physical having a digital counterpart, have you heard of Altered TCG? For what I understand about it, it sounded like you were describing that TCG.
Hey, been watching your videos now for alil over a month. Always good and pretty engaging content man. You'll be at 100k subs within a year or two easily.
6:30 This sounds like what the NFT project HRO has done with DC cards where you get the physical and digital version of the card from scanning a QR code on the back of the card
100% TCG devs will adapt and adopt blockchain, anything physical can be duplicated and impossible to verify, at least with digital there's a chance. (sweet akcb pfp right there mate)
This was always one of the legit use cases of NFTs but nobody wanted to hear it even a couple of years ago because of how man scam projects were running.
The only thing about nft is that when masses are in crypto then nft will be mass adopted. But i think it will come in the near future in maybe 5 yrs time.
More collectors, increased supply, ever changing landscape? That’s been the case since the beginning. Market is cyclical but patience is key. If you’re a patient and wise sealed collector. You will make money. It’s that simple
HRO did this a few years ago. Every physical card has a unique QR code for you to "own" the card digitally. First saw it at SDCC a few years back n now see the DC collection at Target and Gamestop. It's really cool cuz when you scan a card it shows who owns it and ya know it's real. Win win.
I don't think it is a good idea to link physical and digital copy. if someone linked the physical copy and sell the card, could the 2nd guy also get to scan the copy? if yes, it might overflow the digital market with a lot of copies of the card. if not then the 2nd guy will be out of luck for it. There is also an issue where people can just go to a card shop and scan the card for digital copies.
So now trading cards are going digital 😂 First it’s games, music, movies and all media. And now TRADING CARDS!? Dream business model for them. “You will own NOTHING and be HAPPY.”
Great vid! But just need to say Sony Ericsson did adapt, just not with smartphones. they are now just Ericsson and one of the leading manufacturers of technology for your phone reception
Yeah, the fakes are getting pretty dayum good. Got scammed and didnt even know til somone told me about the light trick and looking at the back of the card.... but once those 2 are solved..... yeah that is going to be crazy
I get how the resale value of sealed booster packs will be affected by the CT scanning but how will it actually affect TCG companies? You still need to buy the packs to scan them.
Price is going to go up on everything in order to combat CT scanning by adding materials to help stop it we will pay the difference thanks to a few dbags
Im guessing personally, I think theyre goingn to add an obfusiciation layer into the rare cards. Something that will make any card pack that is scan unable to be seen through. I know that aluminum makes it impossible to pass RFID waves. I will say as a collector, I dont like having to rip cards to look for the black layer when I'm unsure. I would like to see some kind of COA's in booster boxes, possibly with something that you need to redeem so that counterfitters wouldnt be able to reproduce the legit codes. I also want to see a fix for resealed packs, as someone who already owned a heat sealer I have resealed some packs for show and I can tell you someone who is good at it can open english packs near perfectly. The japanese blisters are much harder to not destroy. Small brain uneducated idea, Aluminum sleeves with plastic coating
6:50 We’re talking crypto level encryption for digital cards right? I think Pokémon pocket will be the next iteration of something like that on the way. I’ve enjoyed playing tcg online and tcg live, looking forward to pocket and im excited to see a digital trading world be created. I figured nft’s were gonna be it, but you can just mint the same piece to oblivion right?
Could be. I’m not sure I don’t think it’s anytime soon, however it certainly could be something that happens in the future given the need for innovation!
Why is everybody so scared about ct scanning? The Company can sell the boxes there own without a seller ik between and the boxes will not be scanned. The only people which have to Adept are people who hoards boxes as an investment. Maybe you switch singles and thats it. dont know why there is this amount of panic about this.
You mention baseball cards being as popular as ever... However i think one needs to consider what is going on with the value of baseball cards during the junk wax era. They are worth nothing basically due to over supply during that era (late 80s-90s). We should exercise caution with pokemon cards possibly falling into that era as well. With the printers going crazy and people buying up all supply it is possible those investments wont be worth as much as everyone is thinking they are going to be. Sorry, i hate being the bear in this situation. I wouldjust say to exercise caution. If the cards go to zero will you still be happy with most of your collection? If not then i would say look for a part of the hobby that would bake your collection mostly happy even if the values went to zero. For me that is mostly japanese cards. But for someone else that may be PC etbs, etc.
