They're Telling Me I Should Feel Bad For Collecting Physical Media... 

Basically.

I enjoy my coffee AND my physical media!

I'll say people buy digital 50 dollars I buy 5 dollars batman

*coffees. Punctuation is hard.

*coffees

Yes I have the coffee equipment and love also. Between that and physical media of film, it's expensive

"YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND LIKE IT!" Enjoy that collection of yours!

@@HunterBoldingVideo Thanks, brother-I intend to!🍻

Part of the crew... part of the ship.

Same here.

Welcome back to the club!

I subscribed!

​@@thiscorrosion3843so did I!

@@thiscorrosion3843 thank you!

Exactly the same reason I’m going back to retro consoles. I’m starting an original Xbox collection, a 360 collection, an N64 collection, a Gamecube selection, and a huge movie collection including a wide variety of horrors, sci-fi series, anime etc. I’m also stockpiling enormous supplies of tinned red-meat & powdered eggs so they can’t force me to eat crickets!😉

Hell Yeah Man

Ease of use is one big thing for digital/streaming, but nothing compares to a disc still.

And license also.i prefer physical media

Totally agree. My main hobbies are video games, movies, & listening to music. I wished I collect without having to be mindful of small living space.

​@@b4rs629get more wall shelves. They're not expensive, and they look great.

Nothing better than that, just the cost of streaming at this point is getting up there with how cable was.

@@HunterBoldingVideo right? Streaming is getting crazy expensive.

Steaming sucks 3 years looked at Netflix.

When I had my own apartment. Internet went from $50, 80, & then a 100, & between netflix & hbo max that was another $40. I ended up just canceling my subscriptions and internet. I've been living without home internet since october of 2022. I never bought into blu-rays when they first came out & now people are trying to ditch them to declutter their homes.

@b4rs629 best thing to do.i canceled mying 6 years ago

Some people spend money on harmful stuff, that's what I tell anyone who says that collecting movies is dumb!

Most of my 4k collection are franchise films. I started collecting blu-rays for movies like Fight Club that don't 4k release. I also started collecting blu-rays for tv shows if it's available.

Awesome! Love that collection!

And you shouldn't!

Me either. I love having a *home* with comforts.

woow thats an insane collaction, how many rooms do unhabe to store that ? are those still working after a couple of decades?

​@@xavomansome of my CDs, vinyl, videogames, and DVDs are over 25 years old, and work just fine. It's called "being responsible".

people who dont have an interest in physical media are so frigging idiotic they have no taste. They have nothing.

Welcome to the club!

Here's a tip look up something called your DVD region. Its easy to find out just type in [ what is my DVD region then add the country you live in] . To find out this is important to know if you order physical media. Because there is different regions like A/1 ,B/2 an so on. The reason it's important to know is that if you live in say region A/1 that is the United States an Canadia only. So any physical media an physical media players are for that region only. 4k movies I will cover later. But DVDs an Blu-rays made in that region are basically locked for that region only. Meaning a region A/1 disk will not play in a region B/2 player. It's like putting a Xbox game disk in a Playstation game system. There is something called region 0 or region free disk an players. The region free disk will play on any player from any region. A region free player can play a disk made in any region. This information will help make sure you can actually play the physical media you get. By making sure it's for your region or if it's region 0 it will work any where. A good RU-vid channel is Richard Diaz. Because he goes over all the new physical media releases with details. Like what region its for. Now 4k disk are sometimes region free an sometimes not. Here's the thing if you see it in a store in your country it's for your region. So no worries there but you need to know it when ordering physical media. Basically look at a physical media case look for a image of the earth. There will be a letter or number in it that's the DVD region. It will be on the back or it will have a symbol with a letter or number in it. I now its called the DVD region but it goes for DVDs and Blu-rays an 4k disk.

*CDs. Punctuation matters.

*CDs

An awesome two movies to start the journey on!

Now you can just buy online and not worry about being profiled

And you shouldn't! Be proud of that collection!

add also you are paying for something you''ll never own

honestly, as a owner of more than 4k blurays, i cannot see the difference on quality between physical and streaming, id say that mostly the benefit is owning the movies

@@xavoman might want to get your eyes checked then because streaming is crap compared to 4k 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡

​@@xavomanyeah, OK troll.

That's awesome that you and your husband can share the hobby!

@@HunterBoldingVideo I wish. He is more of a gamer, which is fine. He has a collection of retro and newer games but he doesn't collect like I do. He fully supports my hobby/addiction though.

Thanks for the kind words!

Of course! Keep on defending that physical media faith!

I've been very fortunate with sales and having a job that sends me physical media a lot. The Fog is amazing, it's so great, that I actually bought two copies of it on accident right when I started collecting!

You'd be surprised how many people are saying that its stupid to collect physical movies.

You get it, my friend. The monetary value of my collection means jack shit to me, because it's my memories.

Love it!

Hell yeah to that!

Damn straight.

@HunterBoldingVideo For me, I don't like to invest in physical media (typically a film on DVD) unless it's a film that I know I'll re-watch. So, if I catch a movie on TCM or on a free streaming service (like Tubi) and it's a movie I like enough to re-watch, then it will "earn a spot" in my video library. And then, I'll add it to my "purchase list." My go-to site for purchases is eBay because I like the auction/best offer options. Sometimes, they work out; other times, they don't. I will only purchase brand new, sealed DVD's/Blu-rays. Currently, my official individual film library contains 145 movies, plus 2 Marx Bros. collections. Another 40 or so Christmas movies. And a series of TV content (TV movies, complete series, etc.). My biggest concern is that content may be edited, restricted or perhaps even banned when it resides on a streaming service. But when you own it, you've got the whole thing, unedited! Keep physical media alive!

SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME.

I can dig sorting it like that.

@@HunterBoldingVideo Yeah I mean who wants Terminator 3 next to Terminator 2 😜

Love it, Letterboxd is great!

I got the 4K SteelBook from work through Scream Factory.

@@HunterBoldingVideo Okay thanks, makes much more sense lol

That's the best way to do it honestly. As someone who lacks space. I restarted to collect on 4k in 2019 after selling off my small dvd collection of 300 movies. I figure for the price of $100 just for internet, & $50 for netflix, hbo max, & disney+. I could put that $150 a month into movie / tv show collection. I'm taking my time and being more selective though so I don't accumulate too much until I get a permanent residence.

Question. What about when you die?

​@@b4rs629grow up.

*CDs. Punctuation matters.

@@thiscorrosion3843 Not written like that in my language, so yeah.... I would like to see how you do in my language. 🤣🤣🤣

@@b4rs629 Then I wish my son the best of luck with it. 😄 He will keep some stuff and sell the rest. 👍

If they're not your thing, they're not your thing. I support them because of their efforts for film preservation, and they make releases that I really enjoy.

Thanks for the sub!

Define intershit for me. 😂

Exactly

When I hear killing spree.. I expect John Wick to appear out of the shadows.

Prepac Triple Width Wall Storage on Amazon.

But THEY are so persuasive sometimes.

@@HunterBoldingVideo What happens when you die? Who will inherit your collection if anyone wants it at that point.

It's called a library.

As you shouldn't, love that collection.

I was showing my parents the latest Dungeons & Dragons movie and the stream kept having to stop to buffer, it was maddening.

What about it?

@HunterBoldingVideo in big bold yellow letters it says "SHOLULD". Unless that's how the kids spell "should" these days.

@@MrMice... Thank you for telling me, I missed that.

@@HunterBoldingVideo yeah, I hate being "that guy"/ the spelling police but figured when folks scroll through the video library, you wouldn't want that to be the first thing they see 👍

@@MrMice... I appreciate it a whole lot, was just one of those things when I was editing the picture, my brain just blocked out the extra letter. 🤣

Yer till your hdd corrupts lol

@@pep5158 like DVDs and Blueray discs last forever. LOL I have 2 backups for my main hard drives. I put the drive in my bag and take an entire library with me. How many DVDs can you pack when you go on a trip?

​@@pep5158😆

You're boring, and you don't appreciate art? Cooool.

I emulate, I use flash carts, but nothing beats actually owning the game. Don't get me wrong, emulation is incredibly important for ease of use, and also preservation, especially these digital only games, but there's a place for physical too.