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I buy blu-rays because they offer better quality than streaming. Plus I get to keep what I buy. I don't care about having to get up and change discs often. I have over 3,000 titles in my collection, and I have been collecting Blu-rays for over 10 years. If physical media ever dies, I'll still have my discs that I've already bought. There's nothing like having the disc and holding it in your hand. It's yours. The content is there to stay and can not be altered or changed or taken away, and their's no license agreement that will expire and cause the film to get removed. You buy it. It's permanently yours.
I'm a strong supporter of physical media. I hate having to rely on streaming services to find my favourite films. There's just something so special about owning your favourite media physically, as you can revisit them anytime you want.
@@jefftakesdscakes30 I have well over 2,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I pay for no streaming services, and haven't in many years. If you're completely reliant on streaming, it seems you're the clown, not Jon. 🤡
@@Fluoride_JonesYep, there was a movie my wife and I wanted to watch and for some reason, it wasn't working on streaming. I got up and said dont worry, I've had it on DVD for years and popped it right in.
100% agree with you bro. I also like physical media. Streaming services are not good as physical becoz physical one has less compression and better quality
Well I just hope dvds and blu rays can still hold out at least for another decade. As much as streaming is convenient, it just doesn’t have the magic of owning a dvd copy yourself. It can hold memories forever and won’t be affected by short term licensing. I also like having special features like directors commentary, trailers and interviews since it explains the greater context. I’m just glad that they are here to stay for the time being in the uk at least but the news about Disney dropping physical media in Australia does worry me.
I agree with you. I think physical media is special. I prefer the tactile experience of handling my own copy of a film that I own forever and not needing internet connection to watch. It makes watching movies into more of an experience.
Not only that, but more and more frequently content on streaming sites is redacted. They'll cut out or alter scenes that are considered sensitive to modern audiences, sometimes even dropping an entire episode from a season. Toy Story 2 and Lilo and Stitch were both altered by Disney+ to remove scenes considered insensitive. Sometimes it'll be edited because directors can't leave well alone, sometimes for political reasons, sometimes because an actor is considered unpalatable these days (Danny Masterson, for instance). As AI is rapidly improving I can potentially see this trend increasing. Eventually the streaming version _may_ end up completely different to the original. So I like owning the physical copy as it cannot be altered.
I always buy Blu-ray when possible. I'm a big proponent for physical media. Own your movies, don't let the bastards turn everything into perpetual renting.
DVDs also took off for the simple reason that it was cheaper and faster for studios to make copies of movies on DVD than VHS (the actual materials and process of making a copy). Along with the better picture for the movie itself, studios were able to transfer all the bonus content usually reserved for laserdiscs and offer them up for a fraction of what laserdiscs cost. In 1999, a sale copy of a VHS tape was about 20 bucks. Suddenly, there was a CD sized laserdisc with a ton of extras that you could buy for 5 more dollars. Once DVD player prices dropped below 200 bucks around 2002, it was game over for VHS.
I still remember the first time I saw a DVD. I went over a friend's house in 2000 and when he showed me the movies they had, I was utterly confused they weren't VHS. I knew of CDs but movie "CDs"? It blew my mind. 2 years later, we had our own player, and by 2004 we had a sizable collection and I also got my own player with the movies Texas Chain Saw, Creepshow around that same time. Great memories.
I still buy DVDs and blu-rays. If I’m in the mood to watch a movie, I don’t want to worry about if it’s on streaming or if my internet connection is down for maintenance. Plus, a lot of movies never made the jump to streaming, so I like to have a physical copy of films that would otherwise be lost.
Any other movie collectors out there? I have about 2,000 Blu-rays, 1,500 DVDs and 400 4Ks. On top of that I have over 300 different tv shows on Blu-ray and DVD. A couple months ago a huge storm knocked out our city’s internet for a couple of days and I was the only one at work that was still able to watch tv and movies.
I have well over 2,000 DVDs and Blu-rays, but to be honest, I've never actually counted them. Physical media's special to me. I don't like streaming services holding power over what I can watch, when I want to watch it. At this point, I can see myself slowing down on physical media purchases, as I'm running out of stuff I think I truly need in my collection, and probably have stuff I'll never get around to watching. That being said, the year is young. 😆
I never got rid of my core DVD collection and I’m so glad. I also recently started a VHS collection. And ontop of that I’m back to collecting CDs and vinyl because man I miss the world of physical media so much
I think DVDs and physical media as a whole are things that should never die off. Sure streaming is a lot more convenient, but with all the bullshit that comes with it (multiple services you have to pay for, short-lived licenses to keep something up on the service, and especially the stupid tax write-offs among other things), it overall just doesn't hit the same as owning the piece of media on a physical disc, tape, or cartridge. Especially when they have the advantage of you actually owning the thing unlike streaming. Not to mention, the additional benefits they have for lost media and general media preservation (the latter most especially considering how greedy corporations are with content these days). Also it's more fun to press play on the Shrek 2 DVD menu than it is to stream the same movie on Peacock.
Thing is, if you care enough about a movie to want it preserved on a DVD so studios can't take the movie back or change it, you probably also care about it enough to value the increased picture and audio quality of Blu-Ray. For most movies, streaming is better because of the lower cost and increased convenience (watch it anywhere, not just places which have a DVD player). There's no market for DVDs anymore.
As someone who worked in retail at the time, you are underestimating how much the extra functionality affected DVD sales. The ability to skip instead of fast forward or rewind sold a lot of players. Same with Scene selection and DVD extras like deleted scenes. Blue-Ray, flat screen TV and digital TV all happened at the same time so they fed off each other to generate sales, but at the end of the day, better picture quality is what sold the three.
definitely sold all formats to me. Blu-ray and UHD not just for their better picture but also for their lossless Audio. Because i hated the bitrate limitation and compromises on DVD. If you wanted lossless Audio on DVD, there was only PCM and no other option. And the bitrate for lossless audio drastically cut the videobitrate short. So we only really had lossy compressed Dolby Digital or DTS (and even MPEG Audio) for most released. I still don't get why DVD-Audio's Meridian Lossless Package was not incorporated as lossless audio codec for DVD-Video....
@@KRAFTWERK2K6With DVD-Audio, the whole 5 gigabytes can be dedicated solely to audio. With DVD-Video, most of the space has to be used up on the video, so there's much less for audio.
@@me-myself-i787 Yeah every DVD audio was usually a DVD-Video / DVD-Audio hybrid, like SACDs also contained a redbook CD audio layer. It's just sad that DVD Audio didn't pull off... It even contained all sorts of samplerates so there was no need to upmix . Ans even 16 and 24bit were both supported.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Because adding Meridian Lossless would have broken the already established DVD-Video spec, and by the time DVD-Audio was released into the market, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD were already being prepared for commercial release.
DVD was so much better than VHS. It also came out at a time when streaming video was not widely adopted and the technology was affordable. Video quality, sound quality and ease of use was tremendously better than VHS. DVD also had the luxury of being included in the PlayStation 2 which was a relatively affordable DVD player that also played video games. That alone launched tens of millions of players in the USA alone. Although DVD players were expensive at first by the time 2000-2002 came around DVD players became super affordable and there were also combo DVD/VHS players which helped some people get both formats if they still had a ton of VHS rentals. It really was the perfect storm.
i am just newly getting into film and recently have been collecting blu ray and dvd mainly because i prefer to own a physical media rather than hope its still online somewhere, also feels nice to always know i have my favorite movies to my desposal
There are several reasons I still buy DVD or more likely these days, BluRay discs. The main one is so I can easily watch something without having to worry about which streaming service it is on or has it been removed or changed service, but the other reasons are so that I don't have to worry about whether or not it has it been censored (something that is becoming more and more of an issue with the Twitter mobs) and so that I can watch my favourite movies even on the rare occasions I have no internet connection. I buy a lot of music too on vinyl and CD, but I don't consider one to be better than the other just that the different formats suit different moods and different genres of music. 80s synth, modern synthwave and dance music usually benefits from the clarity of CD I find, while rock and metal tends to sound better to my ears on vinyl. Finally I do subscribe to a few streaming services too, but tend to then buy the physical media if it's available if I like what I'm watching.
DVD still popular because : 1- quality is good enough 2- dvd drives are everywhere, computers, cars and playstation 3- dvd is cheap, you can get new dvd for 5$ at some stores and on amazon 4- many titles are only available on dvd
I think the big thing with DVDs is that they are going to become more collectible and more sought after especially used DVDs as production draws down and studios stop wanting to produce them since it’s a lot easier to prevent people from making copies with streaming, who’s main draw is exclusivity. Therefore I don’t think vhs tape are coming back, but dvds will start seeing a revival over the next 2 decades.
I’ve noticed that more studios are releasing their films on collectors labels like Shout Factory, Arrow, and of course Criterion. I think modern physical formats like UHD Blu-ray have become more like the laserdisc days- more for a niche audience that will pay a bit more for the best versions of their favorite films.
Yep. I purchase stuff from all the boutique labels, but have yet to make the leap to 4K UHD. I already have a massive DVD and Blu-ray collection, and that's honestly good enough for me, even though I have several 4K UHD titles that came with Blu-rays I wanted.
Im 14 years old and I have VHS tapes from my grandparents, DVDs from my childhood and a collection of my parents old CDs. Whenever I go to thrift stores I always look at their DVDs and CDs to see what I can add on to my collection. Even though I have VHS tapes I don’t have a VCR so I don’t really have a use for them but there’s just something so nostalgic about them that makes me want to never get ride of them. Personally, I like physical copies of media. I was fairly young when the rise of streaming came but I still remember watching VHS tapes and DVDs. There’s just something about watching/listening to a physical copy of a movie/show/album that is somehow rewarding. I plan on continuing my “passion” for collecting DVDs and CDs.
I still buy dvds of my favorite movies from thrift stores! Some films jump around different streaming services and it’s worth it to have a physical copy :) plus, buying dvds and coming home to pop them into a machine brings me joy
Not at all. Bluray not only has a weird name, but scratches and the players are very expensive. HD VHS and Upscaling dvd players are the way to go.@@Supersammy22-1gv7ej2j
@13:13 It's funny hearing someone talking about DVD's as if they stopped producing them, they didn't go anywhere. Still to this day, when movies leave the theater they get manufactured on DVD's and put on sale like they always have. I like the 3 tier quality/price options of DVD, Bluray or 4K.
I think one of the big factors in the DVD format becoming so popular was the PC market. Computers were rapidly becoming a staple of people’s homes at the time, and it felt amazing to use one for all sorts of different media, including movies.
I will NEVER GIVE UP on physical media. I still buy DVDs and Blu-rays of tv shows and movies. I can’t stand streaming. Yes I like RU-vid, but that’s the closest I get to streaming. I’ve been trying to find the tv shows I grew up watching and even some classic shows from before I was born on DVDs. When I can, I’m going to cancel my dish subscription and dive into my own library of movies and tv shows. Screw the streaming services. If I hear about a new show I might like, I’ll get the physical version of it if possible. If not, so be it.
The masses are not very smart, so that’s why they think it’s more convenient to stream something they’ll never own, while I have my big collection of VHS, DVD, and Blu-Rays that never can be taken away or censored
There’s a pretty noticeable difference in quality when you go from streaming to watching a physical version of that same movie. For some movies it’s like night and day. Of course there’s the convenience factor of streaming and streaming will be improving, but right now popping in a blu ray for a film is 👌
not really if I really like I movie I still want to own it so I can watch it I may have to eventually buy a portable bluray player cause that's all that I have found in my region but its nice to have the movie and not have to deal with streaming
@@FilmStack I'm no fan of streaming services, but I don't want to go back to physical media and see no reason to do so. What you really want is where you can rip the original quality of something, whether that be a Blu-ray movie, a CD song and so on and basically where there is no loss in quality and you can do whatever you want with it. I find that is way better than physical media because it gives me many options in how I can view and listen to that media, I can put them on a network drive at home, any Wi-Fi device has access to it and if you have a decent internet connection, you can stream the contents over the internet, yes that includes Blu-ray level quality. Being able to access all my contents on any device in the home or out and about through the internet with no quality loss over the original contents is far better than what physical contents can offer. Streaming can get a bad rap because of the corporations, but if you do it yourself, it works great, and there's no way I would go back to physical media with how much better the setup I have now. The only downside to what I do, you still need physical access to CD's and Blu-rays so you can rip the contents, but that's only because the music and movie industry won't give us the option of being able to download the original contents with no loss in quality, at least with movies, that does seem to be changing with music.
The funny thing about most format wars, is that the winner - aside from user-friendliness and price point - it was mostly the porn industry that became the tipping-point. Both when it came to filming (cheap and easy to handle for a small crew), but also easy to pump out a large amount of cassettes/discs/whatever, so that the "content" itself could be sold for cheap. And then we have the bootleggers, who had the same reason, since you could sell knock-offs for even less without a big investment.
DVDs at this point are old news for movie collectors or movie buffs. The audience out there for bluray and high resolution over DVD should not be underestimated. Streaming is problematic due to the quality of your stream. Distortion, buffering, ads, bad video connections, bad weather, etc. None of that is a problem when it comes to physical media.
I still think blu rays look better than HD streamed content. I also think DVD's look good still compared to VHS and most digital 0:00 physical media these days is worth buying as it's so cheap most of the time. People are practically giving away all there dvds or blu rays to charity shops which sell them for less than £2 each and sometimes 50p each. Streaming is good but it's just not the same. Having something physical makes you feel like you actually own something rather than the almost endless amount of streamed films and TV that all of the time won't always be on these services
DVD is still popular and has outsold bluray and 4ks. Even it still does better than vhs 📼 which is still kinda active while other disc formats like laserdisc and ced were not popular in USA 🇺🇸 I think DVDs will still be around in an age of streaming
CED was indeed unpopular and died quickly. But Laserdisc still had new players and releases up to the year 2000. It was not a mass market product, but it wasn’t a failure
Love my physical media so when I heard the recent Best Buy news I was shocked but not surprised. Looks like Barnes & Noble is my new best physical media friend
I still regularly buy Blu-rays and DVDs, always like to browse the movie sections at Walmart and B&N. I love collecting, and the better quality than streaming
Beta wasn't any better than VHS in terms of quality, there really wasn't much difference at all and I doubt most people could tell them apart. The main benefit VHS had was a longer run time and price. However, there was a professional TV studio version of beta called Betacam, which used the same size cassettes (and was backwards compatible initially) and this was used professionally well into the 2000s. Later models were digital and in HD. But because the cassettes looked identical the myth of beta being better persisted.
@@TheBudgie29think you'll find MTV was using Betacam, not Betamax. Which are rather different things. Betacam was a professional broadcast quality fornat, used by many TV and video organisations.
The first incarnation of Betacam is referred to as "oxide Betacam" due to both formats using the same tape formulation. SP and onwards used metal-formuated tape :)
Twister was ONE OF the first wave of DVD titles released simultaneously by Warner and MGM on March 26, 1997. A Time to Kill, Blade Runner, Eraser, Goodfellas, Interview with the Vampire, The Road Warrior, Se7en, The Birdcage, The Bridges of Madison County, The Fugitive, The Mask, The Wizard of Oz, Twister, Unforgiven, and Woodstock was the complete list.
I have a Blu-ray collection as well as a DVD collection which I've downsized when I've upgraded to Blu-ray on those titles. My main reason for keeping some of my DVD's is the fact that I know most of those titles are never going to be released any time soon on Blu/4K so I can revisit them.
On the topic of bonuses, there's a small number of films that got a dedicated VHS for their commentary tracks while DVDs had it already included a commentary option
I have always thought there was something about the timing of when DVDs came out. It was right around when a generation of us kids who grew up on VHS had recently entered the workforce and had the disposable income to buy all the movies we wanted... up to and including movies we only had a passing interest in.
I have a bunch of dvds that I took from home when I moved out. Even though I don't have a dvd player, I intend to get one in the future, so I can rewatch them. To me, the biggest advantage of dvds is the extra content like you just said; I mean where else can we get scene selection, deleted scenes, special features, etc. Even though streaming services are way better and have dominated the earth, dvds will never disappear.
Great video. It's a tad ironic that you showed the Ultimate Middle-Earth box set as an example of being packed with bonuses because it actually wasn't, that was the biggest complaint about it. 😂 To see the great legacy docs you need the older DVD or BD editions.
DVD won't have a resurgence because it's just a worse 4k. But I hope physical media sticks around, I like collecting 4ks because I want to OWN my movies, I don't like just borrowing them at the whims of a studio.
When physically owning a DVD or Blu-Ray Movie you own a licence to view as much as you like. When Streaming you're relying on the Studio or Platform not taking the content down or heavily editing the Move/TV Show, due to current social politics. It's shame or Gain 'For people buying' that DVDs have gone the way of CDs in that they can be bought for next to nothing pre-owned!
When I'm 70 years old and long retired I want to have my physical media to take a stroll back to memory I don't care in 30 years if DVDs and blu-rays become irrelevant they will be my enjoyment when I'm old.
I’m 70 and have an extensive media collection in my ManCave 14 bookcases. 😳 I love watching movies 🎥 on my 100” screen from my Vankyo HD projector. My dad got me hooked when he brought home a reel to reel tape recorder when I was a kid. I followed suit in 1980 when I bought my 1st VHS player. A RCA portable 2 piece VHS 📼 player recorder with a VHS camera 🎥 for $2,500 😳. Beside a lot of non fiction books I have - reels of audio, cassettes, 8-tracks, vinyl, laser discs, VHS, DVD 📀 Blu-Ray, posters, and photos. I have bought some new but mostly pick up great content at yard sales and thrift stores. I really enjoy collecting and watching, listening and reading my content. It’s like I’m living in a museum 😂. Lucky for us the price of this has gone down over the years. 👍 Great video 👌
Streaming sucks.. I have over 2000 films Blu-ray DVD and 4K. The benefit of this being if my favorite title leaves Stream I can walk over to my shelf and put it on any time I like. Not to mention the collectibility there are quite a few collectors that are willing to pay crazy money for outer print titles.. I wouldn't have it any other way I love this hobby.
I still get DVDs of my favorite movies. Not super often anymore, as I don't really watch as many movies as I used to anyway, but every once in a while.
I was born in 2001, i still keep the VHS and DVD collection from my childhood (+a couple of 3d blue rays), (idk just in case society collapses and streaming services cease to exist). As a child I couldn't have imagined that 4K streaming on massive flat screen TVs would've been a common thing just 10 years later.
it was a perfect storm you see, DVD wasn't just the new VHS, to manufacturers they were also the next CD, the DivX thing was also about that. whether a CD could do the same job. the DivX technology lives on as AVCHD encoding. ultimately CDs were on their way out because of file sizes being better for the internet. consumers on the high end however already had CD burners and so for a brief time period the DVD format was locked and irreplicable while CDs were being used with computers like VCRs with DivX. the music industry was also changing because of Mp3 encoding that meant a hundred songs could fit on a CD.
There's also the fact that nobody wanted to buy a DivX disc that they could only watch for a short period of time (without having to pay a reactivation fee) when they could just buy a DVD once and be able to play it an unlimited number of times.
@@lovelydolltime8006 you obviously are a more casual user of this technology than me I authored my own on a computer all day using file sharing even before broadband because the cheapest DVD player at Walmart from China could play them
Sorry to say but your information on Laserdisc is all wrong. 1) it was cheaper initially than "home video" releases from Beta or Vhs. (Discs were $29) and tapes were as much as $90 - $100 in the late 70's and even early 80's 2) the audio quality was uncompressed analogue CX mono or even stereo in the late 70's and by the mid 80's uncompressed theatre transfers of dolby surround sound which tape could never do. As laserdiscis is what sony and Phillips used to create CDs therefore laserdisc had 16 but 44.1 lossless stereo audio. laserdisc had 60% more visible resolution than tape 4) when VHS did become cheaper @$6.99 tapes laserdisc added more "film buff" materials such as audio commentary, special features, books screen plays, isolated music tracks, interviews , music video and the introduction of Dolby 5.1 and Dolby surround EX 7.1 with DTS 5.1 and even Anamorphic enhanced wide-screen for 16:9 tvs Anything here sound familiar to a DVD? Bottom line was DVD was aiming at the Laserdisc market first and we invited our and family and friends over and help start the wild fire flames of DVD. WB should have cut me a cheque for how many copies of the matrix i help sell to my neighbourhood 😂😂 But it was the laserdisc market that were the early adopters
VHS movies were $100 a copy back then because they were sold primarily to video stores. They made the purchase price back on rentals. Home collecting and selling tapes “priced to own” didn’t really take off until 1986, when Paramount decided to release Top Gun for $25 a copy. Laserdiscs were always marketed to high end collectors, since you’d have to have a big, expensive TV to pick up on the picture and sound difference. $29 a disc in 1980 is more than a hundred bucks now, and most video stores didn’t rent laserdiscs, so it was destined to be a niche format.
I still collect physical media, Blu-Rays are becoming more affordable, even Ultra HD Blu-Rays at least in the UK you can find some for less than £10, don't forget that the vast majority of Ultra HD Blu-Rays come with the standard Blu-Ray versions of the films plus if you have a PlayStation 5, Xbox One S, Xbox One X or Xbox Series X you can watch them on those consoles, don't forget that the Japanese had a GameCube with a built-in DVD player manufactured by Panasonic and the Wii was going to support DVDs but Nintendo decided not to because they didn't want to pay royalties to Dolby and they thought that everyone else already owned another DVD player however you can play DVDs on earlier models (pre-2009 I believe) of the Wii if it's modded
8:57 Going from 480i to 480p essentially is a doubling of resolution, but the increased resolution really shows horizontally. Analog TV could carry about a 4-6 MHz signal. At a ~15kHz refresh rate, this is about 360 pixels wide. VHS cuts this down to 3 MHz, and really compresses the color info. Add to this the horrible signal to noise ratio of both VHS tape and antenna TV, when I first got DVD as a kid it looked like nothing i'd seen before, even over composite on a CRT. As for the audio, VHS Hi-Fi was near CD quality stereo, with some titles offering matrixed Dolby Surround, but DVD offered PCM audio, and discrete 5.1 Surround Sound. All that caterwalling about how much "warmer" analog sounds is just the socks and sandals brigade trying to justify why vinyl records are neat.
DVDs were revolutionary compared to VHS. Blu-ray was more expensive, and really all it offered was a sharper image. In fact, people still buy movies and shows on DVD. I own 318 movies on DVD, and I have several television shows on DVD.
You're mistaken on the difference in PQ. VHS only populated half the available SD scan lines, DVD populated all of them. SVHS and DVHS were much closer but these formats were hardly used and an absolutely tiny amount of content was actually released on them. Granted this was less perceptible on smaller screens but on 20"+ screens, even older ones with curved geometries, it was quite noticeable.
Porn was a huge factor in VHS winning the format war. Betamax said no to porn but VHS was fine with it. Before VHS, you had to go outside your home to get your rocks off but now people could do it in the privacy of their own home. The other things you name were big but porn was one of the biggest factors. Even if Betamax had solved the runtime issue, they still would have lost because of that sweet, sweet porn.
VHS won because the first standard Beta tape only recorded an hour of content. And VHS tapes held 2 hours on Standard Play and 4 hours on long play. When VCRs came out, their primary function was recording (specifically recording when the owner wasn’t going to be home), and VHS tapes allowed people to record the full movie or ballgame they had to miss. But nice “Tropic Thunder” paraphrase.
After seeing the news on a possibility that retail stores will not be selling DVDs/BluRay in the future is a very big mistake. This is one of the main reasons why streaming is bad, don’t get me wrong, streaming is good, but it has lots of flaws. Physical copies of DVDs/BluRay can be beneficial if you look at the quality, what happens if your internet goes out? Also, the internet around your area? You’re screwed! This also can translate to video games, you need online support to access games you bought digitally, without it you’re also screwed.
DVDs had amazing special features and even Easter eggs that VHS couldn't have and most Blu-rays not all but most don't include to save money. I say most because I know there is are excellent but niche boutique Blu-ray markets too.
Couple of points. 1. DivX was not a different format DVD format, it was just an additional media codec an individual player might support, just like VHS players used to support SP, LP and EP modes - but it was still VHS. A DVD player that claimed DivX support still played all standard DVDs: also DivX was never used by any movie release AFAIK, it was only for downloads. 2. You seemed to lightly discard the suggestion that VHS had half the resolution of DVD saying that most would not notice. This difference in quality was a fact, and the quality difference was immediately obvious in the AV store to anyone with eyes looking at a decent TV. This no doubt drove the sale of a lot of flat screen TVs when those started appearing soon after DVD itself. Why was VHS lower resolution? Because they only stored one of the fields of an interlaced analog video signal. For example PAL is 576 lines of interlaced video with a field refresh rate of 50 Hz. VHS discarded one of the fields, resulting in 288 lines of analog video at 25Hz - hence halving both the vertical resolution and the refresh rate, allowing for longer record times on inferior media. Also it was analog on magnetic tape with all of the built in recording defects that implies (colour bleed, snow). DVD video was still typically interlaced, but it was full resolution and refresh rate - and digital, with perfect reproduction every time.
I still buy physical media even though I use streaming because you never know if the platform will remove a movie permanently or possibly edit it. Plus I tend to love weird or obscure movies that a lot of streaming sites don't offer
I wanted higher quality on a disc that didn't have to be flipped. And being the size of a cd, that looked like an incredible breakthrough for me. Was it a great example of Moore's Law? Or can it even be compared to the Analog LD format? They both have pits read by lasers. Anyway, dvd tool time to catch on. The PS2 really helped alot. Many common people initially thought, I don't see a difference. And then they went back to vhs and back to dvd and back to dvd and stared saying, I think I see a difference! Okay, that bs but that was my impression. Dvd was very affordable also. 20 dollars to own a movie was very good, especially compared to LD. Not having to rewind the discs was another plus. Suddenly, friends had cd cases full of movies. The 5.1 surround sound soundtrack definitely had a lot of people buying surround sound setups. People who were never even into hifi systems. Dvd was just better, and people caught on. Some bs like that is my opinion at least
I remember watching a long TV ad for DVD back when it was new. They were saying on one side would be the full screen version of the movie and on the other side the widescreen version of the movie. Believe I only have one DVD movie like that. But have a few of those cheap multi pack movies on DVD, where there are 4 movies on 2 DVD discs. Still have lots of VHS.
The DVD was a huge leap in quality. Anyone who supplied their TV and DVD player with RGB, components or S-VHS signals was able to get a new picture quality from their tube. Even on high-resolution TVs, DVDs do a surprisingly good job. TV in standard resolution doesn't come close.
I've bought more CDs this year than any other year since the early 2000s. Vinyl is way too expensive. CDs were literally invented by Phillips in the 70s/80s to be superior to vinyl on every measure - clarity, range, convenience, durability, track selection, storage, portability etc. And while I support all physical media, the current mania over vinyl, while CDs are being dumped, is beyond ridiculous. Purely driven by hype and delusion that vinyl "sound better". All those people dumping their CDs right now will regret it in the next 5-10 years! I also continue to collect Blu-rays and DVDs, and barely watch anything on streaming besides RU-vid. My goal is forever own all the music, films and shows I like - without being beholden to streaming platforms where music artists get paid nothing, or visual content is constantly being swapped or removed or edited down.
With streaming you don’t own the movies physical you do . And picture quality is better on Blu Ray then streaming. I still buy DVD , Blu Ray and 4K Blu Rays have over 6100 movies in my movie collection Netflix Prime and Disney plus don’t have as much then I have and I own them . No monthly bill . Nothing is better then physical.
There was some cynicism in the hi-fi and home video press when DVD launched, citing that video disc formats had 'never really caught on' in Europe. It was wrongly believed that this was due to the playback-only nature of video disc formats (Laserdisc, VCD etc), however nobody saw the elephant in the room... Laserdisc had a playing time of 1 hour (for a CLV disc) or 35 minutes (for a CAV disc). VCD played for an hour. The average Hollywood blockbuster is just over 2 hours. So 2-3 discs on VCD or 2-3 sides of a disc on laserdisc? Yes, there were some advanced LD players that could play both sides, but you'd still have to change the disc 2/3 of the way through the movie. With DVD you could finally put the disc in and watch the entire film, uninterrupted. Although some of the studios still didn't get it, and insisted on releasing 'flippy' discs where you had to turn the disc over halfway through the film. (Starship Troopers for example.) Eventually they caught on and re-issued most of the 'flippies' as proper dual-layer discs. Physical media is still a thing, especially for enthusiasts such as myself. I stream all my content, but I stream it locally - buy a movie on blu-ray (or DVD if the blu-ray isn't available), rip it on the PC then copy the resulting file to a media server. I can then view it on-demand anywhere in the house at the original quality. Best of both worlds.
Don't know why people still buy DVD when better quality blu-ray is available and looks much better for watching on large 4K HD TVs. Many DVDs. Especially older titles that look terrible when viewed on these kind of TVs. The only reason to still buy DVD is for titles that were never released on blu-ray.
I would love to discuss/ show you my CED RCA SELECTAVISION video disc collection. With working player of course I have an extensive VHS collection as well but thats not as rare these days lol
How did you miss the fact that DVD was also rolled out in a very limited market? There were only a few US cities where the format could be purchased. That was a big deal because I remember purchasing discs when I would travel to Atlanta on business because they weren’t available for purchase anywhere closer to me.
