Physical Media collectors won’t tell you these things 

There's a fine line between being a collector and being a hoarder. One must ask oneself... "Is this worth watching again?" Peace on earth.

I only have 2 rules I think any collect needs to follow to stay sane and to keep enjoying the hobby: 1) DON'T give into FOMO (indulging in FOMO here and there is fine. We're all human. But don't make it a habit) 2) don't be afraid to let your collection be fluid - as in, it's ok to get rid of some stuff here and there. Just because you bought it, doesn't mean you NEED To hold onto it forever. I cleared up a LOT of space and made a bit more collecting money getting rid of discs I realized I didn't have much investment in or attachment to. If you really take to the time to go through your collection and think about it, you'd be surprised at how many discs you can let go of. And that just makes it easier to get what you really love/want. Collecting physical media is like collecting anything else: You need to work out how it works best for you as an individual. That includes space, budget, curation, pruning as needed, having self discipline with splurging and blind buying, FOMO, etc. If you're gonna dedicate time and money to collecting physical media, figure out a plan of action first before you go hog wild. If you have a plan that works for you, it will make collecting FAR more enjoyable from the outset. That's not to say you have to always be 100% rigid and unmoving with the rules you set in place - but following them for the most part is the healthiest and easiest way to curate a collection you love and are proud of.

It's never ending, but the upside is: whatever you have collected, it's yours, even if you've missed something that you think should also be in your collection.

Yeah, I never let anyone borrow my physical media anymore. I used to a lot back in the day, but I rarely got it back, they'd say "oh yeah, sorry, I forgot, I'll bring it next week I promise." But they never would. Ornif they did, like you said, it would come back trashed. For some reason people who borrow stuff never take care of it.

People will mention cost to me when they see my collection but then I tell them, I don't buy coffee, cigarettes, sweets, or fast food a lot. Plus I get everything on clearance, discount store, or chairity store. All next to nothing

As a collector myself i love you collection dude

I prefer my physical collection because it cannot be altered based on the current outrage of the day

People used to have this problem with books back in the day. 😄

Your respect for people who have passed and the way you talk about it in your content is the best I've seen on any channel.

You and I are kindred spirits. We agree on many things, concerning physical media. Glad I found your channel. Enjoy it!

I absolutely prefer physical media, and much like you, I also started collecting in 2020 when the pandemic started. Not only does it look better than streaming, but the physical copies come with special features, which I love to watch. The packaging is also great, because I enjoy the effort put into it by the artists. Great video, man! 🤘🏻

I think collecting movies was a great way to find an escape from covid. Your collection as a backdrop for your video is more then sufficient :)

I’m in my 50’s now, I’ve been collecting since the VHS days, I love physical media but every time I upgrade I tend to sell the other version or at least only keep the disc itself itself if it is different(a DVD, edit version, features) then place in an disc envelope into the blue-ray or 4K case to add to the rest so not to have a separate case for every single different version, this way my shelf’s don’t become overloaded so quickly, another thing you need to think about before collecting so much is what will eventually happen to your collection once you’re gone, cause let’s be honest, most of our family and friends have no interest in our hobbies, most of our collection has no value to them even though we know that a lot of our collection is very valuable and can be sold for a lot, but most people don’t think of disc as valuable like baseball cards, comics, coins and stamps collecting, our stuff will be thrown away, donated or sold for pennies on the dollars, give this some thinking before trying to collect everything cause you can’t take it with you, me personally I am selling and downsizing my collection to the movies that are nostalgic to me so I can relive the best memories of my life

FULLY AGREE Binders are not a real answer! If you want the disc, gotta make the room for it. CD's are the same. If only I could tell my young self not to throw away those jewel cases.

All of these points are abosolutely valid. I've been collecting for decades, and sadly, i've had to restart my collection once before after my house was broken into and all my movies were destroyed in the process when i lived in Boronia way back in the day :( Now my collection has grown enough for me to feel like i'm back to where i was back then, with some cool physical copies of unreleased movies that nobody else in the world has. I'm proud of what i have, and looking at your collection, i'm happy for you and agree with you on every level.

Fantastic video! I've seen a few other people talk well on physical media. But I think the thing that's unique about your channel is the transparency and the commitment to the thing itself. Thanks again.

Great points and agreed about all of them! One thing I also find myself struggling with at times is the constant re-ordering of shelf space. I have a bit of a weird system for it (genre, then country or actor or label, it's a bit all over) but when I run out of space I basically have to take everything out and re-order again. Can take up to 2 days 😅 So try to plan ahead but it's always a bit of a struggle.

Once I got over two hundred 4k movies and Blu Ray's I slowed down.

Another thing that rarely gets mentioned from 4K collector RU-vidrs is that some 4K's have freeze and skipping issues. I just tried a playthrough of The Dark Knight for only the 2nd time and I've been hit hard by this issue out of nowhere. Cleaning disc hasn't helped. Had this issue happen with 2001 A Space Odyssey, Ready Player One and managed to move past this issue on Braveheart by cleaning. Some discs and or players are faulty.

Dave Gulpilil’s earliest appearance in a feature film was in Walkabout a Nicolas Roeg film from 1971.

Someone needed to tell me that collecting thousands of physical media takes up space??? SPACE??? And no RU-vidr told me it takes space and cost money!!!!! I NOW HATE THEM ALL!!! lol... this is so dumb

Best backdrop ever. Keep it like this please!

Very True !! Lend out my vinyl to a persistent friend, He scratched it so deeply the vinyl couldn't play. He just said sorry, & that's about it !!! Sickening !!!!!

New angle looks great. The depth from the corner makes it more interesting. Loving your videos and looking forward to more! All the best, - WW

You are correct it does take up space...but i love how it looks..I'm a display guy so i need my stuff shown, I love your lay out, We are organized hoarders lol.

Always spent my money on physical media. Awesome channel and stuff

You are so correct! I made the same mistake of the binders and am still recovering! 😂

I think one thing collectors don't touch enough on is the setup required to experience physical media at best. If you're going down the 4k UHD route, you'll need a good TV and decent sound system. Otherwise you might as well stream the content on a laptop

Those shelves look great. A wall of great movies. I have about 800 blurays and I thought I had a lot… 3000!…😅😂 Love it. Some people spend their money at casinos, drinking, smoking, concerts and car payments and nobody bats an eye. I like movies and games.

I think the intention at the start when film was invented, was to visit the cinema and watch. Then VHS was to rent what you wanted to watch at home and then return. Then we started buying home video, we bought what we wanted to watch again and again. Now the world has changed, where we feel we want everything whether to watch or just to display. Perhaps it's a modern addiction.

Ahhhh.... Rabbit Proof Fence! I need that for my collection... not to watch (tried that years ago...too harrowing), but in recognition of its story, message, performances and honesty👊

The worst part is that as a dumb kid I sold my DVDs and blu rays to pawn shops due to streaming, now as an adult with ADULT money I am rebuying the shows and movies I love on 4K and regular blu ray and dvd if only on dvd to watch my favourite tv shows and movies in their prime best available quality. I now only care about streaming for exclusive tv shows and movies

I started collecting a few months ago. I decided to avoid 4K entirely, because of the cost.

I agree it takes up alot of space especially vhs tapes. dvd/blu can have two in the same space as a vhs tape. Laser discs im sure take up alot to they gotta be like vinyl records. Just found your channel and loving it keep up the great work and insight! 100% Spot on on your horror vhs crt video.

Yeah i have so many horror stories about lending out media. Once I let an old friend borrow a nice stack of 360 games so they could catch up on some essentials. They moved and instead of trying to get my games back to me they left them in the place when another one of our friends moved in. That friend lost or sold them. They both push the responsibility to the other and when I try to confront about it I get hit with things like "you're putting material possessions before our friendship" 😡😡😡

Awesome channel and I’m always interested to listen to your take on things because I can see you really love and enjoy collecting physical media and take collecting seriously meanwhile other RU-vidrs just buy collections and sell them

Damage on the slip cover adds character what a steal at 60-70 dollars great score!

man seeing all those movies brings me back to the days of video ezy

Great collection and some really valid points. Hate lending out my films. Refuse to do it after too many bad experiences. Are your shelves double stacked? How do you get your movies to sit so flush on a Billy bookcase?

I think space isn´t that much of an issue if you don´t go completely nuts like we do. I´m well past a thousand movies now and if i had been able to stop myself somewhere is the ballpark of 300 that´d fit in one reasonably sized shelf.

Enjoy.❤ Great Collection.

My room is like Blockbuster I got movies and video games of different consoles

I feel exactly the same about "lending out " films. Bad experiences from the past about lending out books etc has left a sour taste 😔

This would be my 4th video of your content that I've enjoyed, time to subscribe lol. I like how while we are thousands of miles apart (Californian here lol) we have the similar issues with physical media, i'm always like being told to sail the seven seas for the movies , and I'm like "but muh bitrate tho" which flies over their heads. I fell out of love with streaming kind of recently with Castlevania on netflix, it was the final few episodes of season 2 and the bitrate made all that beautiful animation crisp up like a chicken nugget of ugliness, it was awful lol. My homies were like "why are you starting a collection with all these convient options?" and I was honestly replying that I wasn't going to collect everything, just the things I like, which is how it starts I imagine hoo-boy.

When a good catalog title comes out on a newer format, everyone has a choice to make: double dip and sell the old one, or just keep the old one because it's good enough. I'm a double (and sometimes triple) dipper. I have nothing earlier than blu-ray. I just don't want the hassle of keeping several different formats of different sizes around, not to mention all of the different machines hooked up to play them.

Physical media as far as video games but only if it's cartridge based games because they last longer. Like nes games and switch games.

I wasn't shocked by the cost at all.I'm not sure of the difference between a UK pound and an Australian Dollar but I'm guessing there in the same ball park.My standard DVD collection alone is easily over £10,000 and it takes up one bedroom wall.I think space is the biggest problem but yours look amazing.Finally yes never lend your discs out, it's unlikely we will get them back in the condition we lent them.Enjoyed video

From what i’v heard in the US I can find the last wave on criterion collection but it doesn’t have other releases compared to Australia for some reason

Living in an urban apartment, collecting physical media is indeed pretty difficult; You indeed have to ultra specialize (don't just collect roleplaying rulebooks, you have to limit yourself to 2nd ed, for example.) Also, don't know if "Jolly Roger" is an Australian term, but I've never heard it and it's pretty ingenious.

Vegemite 😂😂

Hi Jamie. May I ask what shelves you put your bluray/DVD's in?

I managed to pick up dirty dancing 4K from Amazon US via Amazon AU for the wife for $22.71 last march

Very interesting stuff good sir

Everything costs money. It’s all about what people choose to spend their money on.

Show us your VHS collection

It’s the story, the content. It can be in book or media. Downey California

I think there should be new digital physical media. Micro SD is sufficiently cheap enough now. Have a dedicated touchscreen for digital print material. Maybe even dedicated SD magazines for servers to use, best of both worlds?

I leant people games and they just stole it by blocking cutting contact

what shelfs do you buy mate

Have you seen Body Melt, Fair Game, Dead End Drive In, and Razorback?

If you decide to go binders, keep the paper in the slipcase. That way, if you decide to put them back in cases, you just have to buy the empty case. That is what I'm doing with some of my porn collection.

I do regret getting rid of my physical media. But I had over 5000 dvds and blu rays and it was just way too much clutter.

It's been my personal rule since I was a kid to never lend any kind of disc to anyone, ever. And I've always told anyone who tried to ask exactly that

I don’t own a lot of dvd/Blu-ray because I usually watch them online but taking space I’m not surprised my parents complain about this

I was able to pirate the movie for song of the south online

even still, i would absolutley back things up to a nas or media server purely incase of damage and eventually disc rot

Jamie, do you collect Criterion?

New subscriber here. I’m a big time physical media collector who rips all my physical media from VCR to 4K to my my PLEX Media Server for my personal ownership and use and no one else but my household family and friends (which are only 4 people). I still have all my physical media stored for easy access if I really want to pop in a movie. But more often than not I can stream full quality within my home network. Full quality of whatever it was I ripped. It’s basically my personal “Netflix” except in full disc quality. I get what you’re saying mate. But I personally like the combination of owning the physical media and streaming it through my PLEX interface at will in whatever format of SD all the way to full fledged 4K Dolby Vision/Atmos. It’s cool, you may want to try it out one day. But either way I love your channel and you put out good, honest, practical content. Thanks from the USA brother 🇺🇸 😎👍

I had ants trying to nest in cases 😂 who would have thought!

1 Question Jamie Are they alphabetically arranged?..you get yours back im in North Wales and I never got my borrowed copies back.

It's faster to double click a file then it is to insert a disc 😋

I always find your videos to be fairly quiet compared to others on RU-vid.

Money is what people value it so spending boat loads on this isnt bad its only when you start running out of space and making sure its in a set up where you can keep it room temp control and all that

@7:30 this happens with videogames as well, others don't respect the hobby and treat it like "its just a disc, oh well" ruined my copy of FF7 on ps1 and a few movies lol.

I have a rule, max 20 copies for each console. That way I keep my collecting greed in check.

Curse of the Collector!

Greetings from great Britain your dvds are amazing...you are spot on..only buy the ones you enjoy...and stuff those haters...over the last few years..and steaming made loads of men/women..even people who like films..ditch their stuff....i bought tons of DVDS and CDS....kinda my dream collection....now i haven't bought any VHS ..betamax or vinyl...or cassettes..as tbf once cds and DVDs came out...why bother with a inferior format?.. the great thing about your treasure is anyone could find something to watch...my granddaughter went into my man cave /guitar _music room last weekend and was impressed...she picked spider man 2&3 ...and Carrie...she wanted to watch Carrie and the human centipede...but as shes only 15 i wasn't comfortable...oh the irony...i watched cannibal holocaust...driller killer...i spit on your grave..when i was 13...but the main thing is she dug my collection....

Super collection

I don't like loaning out my DVD's, either Damage can sometimes be unavoidable, unfortunately. My issue is with them saying "not watched it yet..." and then takes 6 months to return. Things can get quite awkward by then Also, my collection is entirely my personal taste and wasn't intended to leave the house, tbh...watch it at mine, if invited to, or buy your own 👊

I found your channel through this video. It’s impressive you got to use your name for the channel. 😂

Being married to a wife that doesn't share my love for physical media in a relatively small house, ive had to make comprises. Basically i have around 450 blurays on display, and the rest are in sleeves with the slip cover. I have secured space for another 200 on display but the rest will simply have to be sleeved. Perhaps one day ill have a larger house and i can go all out. But until that day i gotta do what i gotta do.

I made that mistake with my huge PS3 collection, main thing is I still have them though and don’t have to rely on streaming platforms/downloads etc.

uh idk about there but both my blu-ray sony player and my xbox series x will NOT play even a dvd with out internet. I found that out after a hurricane one year. I had power but no net, lucky for me I had an older dvd player so I just hooked that back up.

Jamie have you considered going live and stuff on RU-vid and starting a patreon? I would really love to support you mate you've given me 3 hours of content already. Keep it up Jamie!

The main problem with collecting physical media? It's so damn ADDICTIVE.....

Collecting comics, albums, books, models, videos, manga, would be impossible if I didn’t own a home, and even with a two bedroom, I’m cramped. I don’t even have a large collection, and someone in an apartment couldn’t have the stuff I’ve accumulated. Honestly this is one of the reasons that I’ve shifted to buying much more digital media when it comes to stuff I’m just curious about; one the price is often significantly cheaper, and when I travel I have access to it. The other thing is that because of space consideration a lot of stuff isn’t immediately accessible because it’s boxed up in the attic somewhere, and I have no idea where it is, even though I know every thing I own, doesn’t mean I’m going to be able to necessarily find it. I’ve actually rebought stuff simply because I couldn’t find the copy that I owned when I wanted to watch it, or read it. lol. Also I’m been trying to get my hands on some Vegimite ever since that Men At Work song back in the 80’s.

The only thing that sucks is disc rotting been an issue..Bluray and DVD releases from 2006 till 2009 from Warner bros are rotten very bad.

I stopped collecting because i don't want to buy the same movie five times.It also takes up to much space it became a ball and chain.Last but not least: I saw the movies i love between 10 and 50 times ( i'm old),enough is enough

Whats the difference between collecting and hording i know it exist but what is it i feel you can slip into hording

I had a knot in my stomach most of the way through ‘Wake in fright’ such a great movie! I recently saw 1985’s ‘Fortress’ and that was a trip! There’s a lot of great movies to discover from down under.

I'm mexican, I tried vegimite years ago and I thought it was pretty decent!!!

8:00 Not just that but you're also lucky in my case if you ever get it back. I've lent a dozen or so games to actual relatives over the yrs and the number of times they either don't give it back, or think they've already given it back etc... is frustrating to say the least. Then a year or so goes by and they end up trading it in to get a newer game or cause they're upgrading console etc forgetting where it even originally came from. Bye bye my copy of Demon Souls... Yeah no more.

I thought you were cool until you attended a swift concert. #TeamYeezy Just kidding my man. Not actually. But kinda. Still good content bro, new sub here! Keep it up!

I only keep cases of they're collector's editions. All the rest go in binders in climate controlled rooms. Don't care for cover art, I focus on the information on the discs.

Good video

W veggiemite rant 😂

I mostly stopped collecting physical media because of eBay. So many dishonest people on there.

I'm no less a collector than anyone else here, and I keep my disks in wallets and rip them to my media server

Bro I’m looking to sell my wwe collection of dvds would you be interested?

You should just burn copies to rent out or transfer it to a usb drive for a usb compatible tv, if you aren't charging people for the copies and making a business out of it no one should care.