Proof That Physical Media is NOT Dying 

Not only that but their internet coming over caused them to come to a neighbor.... Creating community that wouldn't be there if it wasn't for internet going down

​@@Matanumiso true

The question is, if the players aren't worth producing because not too many want to lay down $150-200 to play a film a person can stream, Sony and others won't be eager to keep manufacturing them. I think we forget, if the players aren't easily attainable, you have expensive drink coasters. This isn't like Lps where they have been around for a hundred years and there are tons of used turntables and you can manufacture and sell inexpensive ones. Another factor is that the average film collector is not comprised of younger people. The vast majority of younger people could care less and care even less about throwing a couple hundred to watch a film they can watch on their phones. Many aren't even going to the theaters. So, doubtful they are eager to throw $30 on some fanboy 80s cult film they can watch for free. In the next 3-5 years, many Boomer collectors will be gone. My daughters are in their 30s and were raised on film. Their film teachers used to tell me how impressed they were with their film knowledge. Guess what? They are satisfied with DVD. They care more about the film than the format. They even pick up VHS.All this, in spite of the fact I buy them Blurays every year for Christmas! They haven't watched most of those because they have the DVD! I bought my grandsons dozens of DVD collections of various anime series and famous animated shows (the Transformers and Thundercats and many others) and they have not finished one of them over the past two years of owning all of them. They stream a ton of stuff. To change the perception, it's going to take more than wishful thinking and hoping they become enamoured with slip sleeves, steelbook and other onboard gimmicks and extras. It's long to take cheaper prices and promotion and nobody wants to work ot volume sales. Well, Mill Creek is an exception but everyone else? Not so much. It reminds me of the classical music hard media issue. Nobody can figure out why kids aren't eager to pay $20 for a performance that has been printed a dozen times and is being released in a new remastered/remastered edition with lots of bells and whistles. Of course, the fact kids can listen to the older restored editions for free on RU-vid or stream it on Spotify can't be the issue. Nah. I'm certain the kids will go out an buy CD players and pay collectors premiums at some point. Yeah, that's the ticket!

@@nicholasthill7151 I see your anecdotal example and raise you with my own: My 18yo daughter, who loves K-pop and listens to it constantly on youtube, YT music, spotify, etc... and PAYS for YT music... still buys the elaborate and expensive physical media those bands release. If you've never seen a K-pop CD release, prepare to be amazed. They typically come in a 2-CD height box or hardcover media-book style package. They come with art book, poster(s), art cards, stickers, etc. and usually cost from $30 USD to $50. They are on shelves even in places like Target, though book stores an other stores sell them as well. She has me rip them to my plex server, but still adores the physical shelf she has dedicated to the bands she likes. Even better: outside of her (older) car, she does not own another CD player! I am not stating the fallacy that this proves physical media is not dead any more than you should with your example for the reverse... I'm just saying that your one experience is not the rule, and the numbers quoted in the video do not lie. If boutique labels are producing that number of titles in a year and are seemingly doubling it this year, then they are doing so because it's making money. There is no other reason to make that media as a company. THAT proves that someone other than you and your daughters are buying physical media movies and that physical media is not, in fact, dead. Just sayin' ;-)

Thank you! I'm posting these shorter clips to get the information out there for people who won't watch an hour-long conversation. Hopefully these get good engagement and circulation.

If I buy it, I use it. That’s my motto

What even more funnier even Netflix planning to opening a store of physical copy after best buy planning to remove Physical 💿 Streaming itself know Physical are important

@@PlaystationGamerZXWait? Netflix acting like Blockbuster? LMFAO!

Same here!

Same with Laserdisc.

Laser disc was the grandfather of dvd, it was old from the start (switching sides in the middle of a movie lmao)

@@funkytown01224 That's true, switching the sides was obsolete but the selling point was that LD looked/sounded better than VHS and it didn't wear out like a tape would from multiple viewings. Also, most of the movies were in widescreen by the 90's and a lot of them had special editions with features.

Yeah it is location dependant. For much of the world, it is dead, but those tend to be places where piracy is more rampant.

That's a glass-half-empty way of looking at it. Like winning the lottery and complaining about the taxes.