In Defense of BluRay (RedEye Responds) 

Physical media is much much better than streaming i like to have a shelf full of dvd

Personally I don't like how he's acting like absolutely NO blu ray or DVDs let you skip the ads/trailers,when for most of the DVDs and blu rays I've had,it either let's me skip the trailers,has no trailers at all,or has an option to let you go straight to the menu (IE Disney Fast Play and the early paramount dvds). Yeah sure some of them won't let you skip,but not ALL of them,I just wanted to point that out (also side note there are streaming services that play ads,and also ones that WON'T let you skip them,IE Hulu)

I’ll never get out of physical media. Scream factory made sure of that. I seriously don’t get how bimmy can think any of this is true

James acts like a total boomer in this video. I completely forgot about that

Now a days most anime shows have bluray + DVD’s releases that usually come out

It is true that studios got lazy with Blu-ray. The menus are crappier, the disc art is often nonexistent and too many sleeve packaging with box sets. Compared to streaming though, physical media wins. I cancelled Netflix some time ago and won't be subscribing to any other streaming service. I want to be able to watch the content I want when I want without the need of the internet. The only thing needed is electricity.

I don’t understand the trailer complaint, on most Blu Rays that I own, a little menu will pop up at the beginning which allows me to skip the trailers.

I think James was already an adult when blu ray came out so I get that he doesnt really understand it. My dad was poor so I had to grow up using his old vcr, box tv, and 90s style computer so I can relate to not knowing how to use modern technology

5:04 For a second, I thought my sever crashed until I realized that freeze frame is in the actual video.

In defense of 10. Menus: It was not blu ray, but because of new streaming services.

Personally i think streaming is less convenient than dvd and blu ray because with streaming you have to put in credit card details make a account put your email address with dvd and blu ray all you have to do is just put the disc in and watch it you dont have to make a account or put in your credit card details and plus better picture quality than streaming and you actually own the movie it cant get taken away from you

I love james. But i totally agree. Great vid man.

Another reason Blu Ray is superior to streaming is because you’re getting uncompressed video. I noticed while watching Zootopia on Netflix a few years ago that the image is slightly compressed because it has to stream all this information via the internet. Meanwhile when I watch the film on Blu Ray the picture quality is very crisp. This is a big draw back to streaming that I really hate and is a big reason why I prefer physical media.

The reason James would buy a movie like that is fine. He has 1000s of movies.

PS3 is definitely not meant to be a modern Blu-ray player. that's like complaining that the commodore tape deck... Meant to load programs onto your commodore 64 ... Doesn't play music cassettes very well!! Well no duh! It's the same technology but it's meant to read DATA you dolt

A valid point he made is the lack of place memory on many Blu-ray disks. With DVD (most decent players) the player would remember where you left off watching last time - sometimes applying to several disks. With many Blu-ray the thing starts at the beginning (regardless of hardware) which is extra annoying if they have loads of trailers. I usually watch films in one sitting, so not a big issue there, but TV box sets usually do 4-6 episodes per disc. I recently watched GAME OF THRONES Blu-ray and had to resort to scribbling my progress on a post it note - welcome the the Blu-ray era!

4K UHD discs are almost only useful if you have a Dolby Atmos system and the Blu-Ray doesn’t have an Atmos track but the 4k does

I wish your voice was louder, because the audio contrast is noticable.

Streaming doesn't win for convenience if u already own the film. Grabbing the disk and popping it in is as convenient as it can come

Physical (DVD/Blu-ray) media is also very useful as back up whenever your internet is down or if you live in a part of the country where the internet is too slow for streaming

He makes a video on why Blu-Ray sucks but has made Blu-Rays on Avgn but I think Blu-ray 3d is even worse cause if those 3d glasses don't work your screwed.

You owned this guy. He sounds like a premature boomer complaining for no reason. And at this point sticking to a PS3 to watch movies is antiquated. Some blu ray players bump the res of BD discs to 4k.

This is kind of unrelated,but after watching some of your anime related videos,it actually encouraged me to get the complete series of Elfen Lied on blu ray,the set also includes the ova

I was thinking of doing a video response myself, but you summed it up. Not one of Rolfe's greatest.

Agree with most of your response here. But, do note that at least one streaming service, Disney+, DOES have bonus content for a lot of the movies: commetaries, features, featurettes, outtakes etc.

Love that you pointed out his luxury solution :D If the money ever stops pouring in, might have wished you didn't subscribe to 10 steaming services for years. Well it might never be an issue also. BRDs still suck and I also wish HD-DVD had won, it would inevitably have dwindled in popularity as well because of streaming, but would still be a better product for the consumer and also for companies so they don't have to pay royalties to Sony.

i've only had a few experiences of the DVD being the better option, like for example i'd recommend the DVD for phone booth over the blu ray because, at least in my experience, the blu ray just loops the movie over and over, whereas the DVD actually has a menu and special features, or maybe the fast and the furious movies as well, just because all universal blu rays seem to be exactly the same with their menus, whereas the 2 fast 2 furious DVD let's you choose a certain car and dictates the look and theme of the background, giving it some more personality

Streaming wins for convenience. You can find a movie on Netflix easily. But if you want anything specific you should use a Blu Ray for quality. When James complained about the confusing menus it wasn't about the style.

Great video I dint realize the flaws with his Video till I saw yours.

Besides Conker's Bad Fur Day and Conker Live And Reloaded, What are the games being played in the background?

I agreed with James about the menus and I always get that message on my ps3 about my bluray needing an update and more problems like that and even tho thats more a ps3 problem, its a problem none the less

James is old school he’s use to popping in his VHS tapes and just hitting play. Probably why he said he likes streaming. I’m a little confused why he would not be onboard with Blu Ray to have all his old school movies in the best quality.

Streaming services don't have any menus? Every streaming service IS a menu -- a giant menu from which the movies can be accessed. Also, 4K is the GREATEST FORMAT in the history of video. If you can afford to upgrade, UPGRADE.

Yet he sells all his videos on blu-ray 🤔

I personally dislike how he's acting like there's absolutely no way to display big collector's edition box sets (I.E. Criterion's Godzilla set and the Planet of the Apes collection). How does James not realize that people print fully custom-made artwork? Just take out the discs, grab a whole bunch of replacement Blu-Ray cases, find some covers online, and print them. Problem solved. Hell, I sometimes print covers for smaller box sets or multiple film packs. So, his issue of oversized packaging can be easily fixed.

I agree with what you're saying, but I'd like to argue in favor of DVDs and tell you the reason why I prefer them to Blu-rays. They're dirt cheap, for example, I just bought a lot of 200 DVDs for 50€, the majority of them special editions in pristine condition, they take less then 5gb per disc, so I can rip them all to my hard drive and watch the movie without even touching them with the advantage that I can skip all the bullshit without being force to see it once they're ripped, I can watch them on old hardware, like Windows 98 computers or old Xbox\PS2 with no problems, and they look gorgeous on my 32" CRT. And that's it! ;) But as I said before that's why I prefer them to Blu-rays, since I really don't care that much about the resolution, just a personal point of view, it depends on what you give priority to depending on the media format.

What season of the Simpson’s you showed it on the video

I dont think i want to make a family lol. Some dads become this lol. He doesn't have time. When it comes to physical vs digital.

Good points. And in the future, physical media might die.

The whole packaging thing is because he bought that specific one. If he wanted a normal one be should have got the standard blu ray and DVD. He got the collector's one.

Well said 👏👏👏

Good video

this is a matter of opinion, I rather DVD instead of Blu ray but I don't hate it, and James Rolfe never said he hates Blu ray he just rather DVD.

I dont agree with anything said in this video but I guess its all personal preference

What's with playing the stupid game?

Also physical media it breaks you could lose it but you can sell it

Yeah... For me, DVD is better for many reasons. The first reason is this... When I put a disc in the player, I want to see the movie. You won't have any problem with DVD, but with Blu-ray... Too much problems.

HD dvd was better. Try to change my mind.

Blu-ray sucks right now because the munsters isn't on blu-ray. Maybe one day...