The point at the end is really the big thing. Intentionality. People lose so much money because they aren't aware of their money. It's on a subscription that's tied to a credit card that you just make a payment on at the end of every month. This is gaming and not movie related, but I subscribe to Xbox Game Pass in one month intervals only when there's a game coming out I want to play on it. So I played Starfield for 10 dollars instead of 70. If I had kept that subscription, it wouldn't work out in my favor, but I don't, so it does. That's the real trick. Paying attention to what you're doing and being intentional in what you're doing.
It's almost as if people don't have an understanding of keeping a balanced budget. Ie: tracking where all your money goes to ensure you're not being wasteful.
I would also argue that you get your time back by using physical media. You’re not just watching things for the sake of filling your time because you’re bored. You’re more interested in what you’re watching and intentional about when you are watching it.
I have been finding that true since dusting off my old iPod and being intentional in picking the music out I listen to instead of just going with whatever The Algorithm provides. I have been enjoying music more now that I am more intentional about it
Another benefit of physical media is that some films on streaming services are edited or censored, and not the full version that was originally released.
I turned on Peter Pan (the original) on Disney Plus and it gave me a MANDATORY 10 second trigger warning before it would play. My kids can't even watch this movie without having to read about what the people working at Disney Plus are forcing on them as supposedly triggering.
True. Netflix censored The Other Guys because the line Derek Jeter says at the end, "The whole damn system is clogged up with dirty money. And the news doesn't say a word about it. 'Cause who owns them? The same corporations that own the government. Courts and the law is all we have left. So here's you guys' next case. Guy by the name of Carl Bachand, CEO of Killister Bank. He took three billions in TARP funds. He's crooked. He's real crooked. Take him down, but be careful. He's got Blackwater mercenaries 24/7." They removed it because that is legit whag is happening right now. And said billion dollar companies don't want people to find out about it and want to change the subject
Supernatural on streaming didn't have music rights to AC/DC and switched it with generic stock rock music. Physical media is the way to see the pure intended original
same with the Netflix re-dub of Evangelion. They couldn't get the rights to Fly Me to the Moon, so they just played other music from the show. Super lame!
The Supernatural box set is so tempting when it’s on sale, but there are so many discs to check for defects within such a short return period I always back down 😂.
Makes me wonder. I started up again a physical collection 1 1/2 yrs ago. With so many people coming back to physical media will it create a shortage? Will blue rays and dvds increase in value in the future? Idk but right now it’s great for collectors. I go to the flea market and get some Blu rays for $.25.
@@jessed1586 I wouldn't worry about a shortage. Remember these were often printed in the millions. The most people who would buy something is when the material is new. What you can get is what we saw with records where some music became very popular for collectors and went up in value, but not everything did. You may also find that as the interest in physical media increases the prices also increase but there's no way to know how much or what will go up.
same or check out local thrift stores I got a lot of DVDS for $1-2. There’s one in my area where u can buy four DVDS for $1!!! So definitely check out your local areas. I think it’s fun to hunt for my fav movies and makes it almost like rewarding when I find one of my fav movies and know I can have it and watch it whenever
Its def the buffet fallacy. People are sold on the idea they're renting millions of albums but really they only listen to like a few dozen throughout the year. Whatever they paid for that they could've bought the CDs for
Completely agree! Though in my case, I was making good use of my Spotify subscription. I started out by buying songs but realized it would be cheaper to just get Spotify. I had my Spotify subscription for about 6 years, and just recently canceled it. Even if it is cheaper, I don't think it's worth it. You don't own the songs and the price just keeps rising. Now that I have a CD collection, I'm more excited about listening to music. I don't have much to listen to now, but just thinking of how much my collection will have grown in a few years makes me really happy. And I know at some point I'll go a few months without buying a new album. If I kept going with Spotify, I'd have had to keep paying for the rest of my life.
3 more reasons to get physical: 1) extra features 2) content can’t be retroactively re-edited (/as was recently done with The French Connection) 3) with TV show, you get all the episodes, unlike streaming that suppresses “controversial” content such as Community DnD episodes
Def by design. The corporations purposely phased out the physical media/DVD era, to convince consumers to subscribe monthly to streaming. With almost everything being a subscription service is so dystopian.
It’s a million times more profitable. You even see it in the B2B space now. I believe Adobe was one of the innovators of this whole thing, taking what was a several hundred dollar product that lasted 5 years, to making it several hundred dollars per year with constant “updates” - definitely I’m going to try and make more videos around this kind of topic.
@@NomadOverNormal Apple engineers ALL of its projects to become obsolete, or function poorly, over time. They bake in the need to buy upgraded products on the regular.
I'm not the target audience for this video as I don't use any paid streaming services, but I wholeheartedly agree with the message. Another thing you didn't touch is a lot of those services suggest that infinite tv show's and movies are a positive thing, but anyone who's used them will also tell you that having more choices does not actually make decisions come easier. Some people have named this The Paradox of Choice.
I feel streaming is a nice way to discover new things you have never seen or never heard of. It introduced me to a lot of things I now love and own on physical media. Alice in Borderlands, Queen's Gambit, Cobra Kai, Squid Game, Black Mirror, Beef, Merlin, Doctor who, Torchwood, Snabba Cash, Continuum, Being Human, Orange is the new black, breaking bad, 2 broke girls, super store, Chuck, Gotham, The 100, Shannara Chronicles, Z-Nation, & so much more.
its actually sickening that i pay for just netflix and its completely unpredictable when a show i like will move to another service, or be completely gone from all legal streaming!
That's very relatable. My membership for both Netflix and hulu expired this year and I didn't care about renewing them because I moved on to DVDs and Blu-rays.
It's also important to note that physical media sort of stopped in it's development. For example there're 100Gb Blu-ray disks now, so those all seasons collections could fit on quarter of disks, but that's not going to happen because most money is made in streaming.
I started collecting physical media (primarily 4Ks) early this year and I absolutely love it. The quality is way better, especially the sound and even not watching them feels good because I know I can watch them whenever I want, without streaming companies taking them away from me without a warning. Always look for people selling their collections or part of them. Buying in bulk is way cheaper and you can just sell the movies you don't like
There's something to be said about the positive & reassuring feeling of stability. Also, a rack or shelf full of disk cases are a great conversation starter when someone comes to visit you or you go visit someone else's place. "Hey, I see you have ___ movie/show. What did you think of it?" and the like.
My issue is I don't rewatch shows or movies. I watch once and I'm done. Only a few like Xmas movies get rewatched. The selection in streaming became smaller and the cost went up. So I canceled them. Now I'm watching more youtube (have premium), I'm going to movies in theatre, and using the library to borrow, but I don't want to own these shows or movies. I may actually get cable again because for $5 more a month over my internet they'll add a basic cable package. I'm surprised to hear football can't be watched in TV anymore. I can't believe that may people are paying $73/mnth to watch. You'd be better to go to the local bar and meet with friends and buy a drink.
Remembering that libraries exist has been a huge game changer for me. Mine has almost the entire Criterion Collection and an interesting selection of CDs, like compilations and soundtracks that aren’t on streaming services. I have a branch on my way home from work and I’m overflowing with interesting things to watch, listen to, and read.
I had about 7 or 8 streaming subscriptions and also a nice selection of blu rays and dvd’s of my favourite movies and series. I browsed through every streaming service not finding anything I wanted to watch. I still would stream a movie, watch for 20 minutes, get bored and play a game on my iPad. I haven’t bought any physical media or watched any dvd or blu ray for years until a few months ago. I actually bought some second hand blu rays. When they arrived I wanted to see if they would play so I put it in the player and I was speechless 😮. Everything was so bright and colourful. Sharp images and the sound was magical. I never knew, I never noticed. I feel ashamed that I was too lazy to pick a blu ray. Instead I just streamed like being in an automatic circle and now I’ve noticed that streaming made me tired and it took so much energy out of me. It also has to do with my circumstances. That’s another story. I have cancelled all my streaming subscriptions. I’m having fun buying movies on blu ray and dvd, second hand for a nice price. They will be mine forever and I enjoy watching movies again. I will never go back!!! 😊
why is there this notion that you have to subscribe to multiple services? you can literally pick any one, subscribe for a month and move on to the next. this is one of the main benefits we’ve gained from streaming services, we can cancel with a couple of clicks instead of being on the phone for hours as they persuade you not to cancel.
Absolutely, you get to a point where there’s nothing you want to watch so you drop that service and get a different one or get it for free with some other service you purchased then switch to another.
This doesn't really work in a household with multiple people that watch different types of things. I might only really watch things on Paramount but my wife only watches the things on Netflix etc
For me it's mostly about not supporting greedy companies, while also enjoying art of cinema. I just can't stand the idea of them making garbage with money I paid for the subscription. Physical is great and dirt cheap, while also providing the necessary inconvenience.
Subscriptions cost more because the payment is unconscious. When you buy physical media, you weigh whether you really want it or not, and end up spending less because you choose your entertainment expenses deliberately and waste less of your precious time watching things you don't really like.
That is true-- many of my favorites are from long past (50s-80s), which streaming services rarely have; physical media makes it easy for me to determine if I indeed will enjoy something I try out (also, when Netflix was sending discs, I could test-drive certain shows to see if they had any merit; nowadays, in order to make that judgment, you have to get the whole season or the all-in-one [complete series], but as you say, that's still far better than streaming).
My physical media collection is growing and I love it. I have plenty of shows, films, and music that are all mine with no ads, Internet, or drm. Life is good!
They had that service up until recently I think! Those days were fun. It was so different and unique. I remember getting Adam Sandler's version of the longest yard haha
I absolutely agree with the underlying point here, but a big factor being overlooked is the exclusivity of a lot of movies and shows on streaming. Unfortunately, most of the original content on these streaming services isn't even available on physical media. There are notable exceptions (many bigger HBO releases still get physical releases, as well as a handful of Netflix shows, Apple's Ted Lasso, and Hulu's Prey). But these exceptions are becoming rarer as time goes on. I find what works best for me is to purchase the movies and shows that I absolutely love. These are few and far between, maybe only a few per year, but movies and shows that I will revisit. Then I'll subscribe to services just one service and one month at a time. I'm not always subscribed to a service, but when I am it's only one at a time and I'll try to catch up with whatever I want to watch on that platform. The end result is I'm only paying for 9 or 10 months of subscriptions for the entire year, but I rotate services and watch everything I want. Seems like the best option to watch everything you want without sailing the seven seas.
@zkiller195 It's been almost a year and I still can't get Killers of the Flower Moon on Blu-Ray. One of my favorites from 2023. Apple simply won't release it. Same with Napoleon. The shitty thing is the directors who made those movies are all for physical media. It really sucks.
@@thejman3489 Killers of the Flower Moon did get an Italian physical release. While the Blu Ray is region locked, supposedly the Italian 4k release is region free. It's not ideal, because it comes in a combo pack with a region locked Blu Ray, but on the 4k disc the menus, audio, and subtitles have english options. Price will also probably be higher than you'd pay for a US release on sale. It's not ideal and definitely feels like jumping through hoops, but it's an option. I could also see Killers of the Flower Moon getting a Criterion release at some point (though that's purely speculation).
The fatal flaw in this video is assuming that you have seen everything and that nothing that comes out on streaming is new. The cost of taking a chance on a new streaming show or movie is always less than taking a chance on buying something you haven’t seen before. This video makes less and less sense the more I compare costs and actually think about it. Just don’t be an idiot with your purchases streaming or physical and you’ll be fine. I have 5 streaming services and occasional buy physical media and it’s still miles less than cable.
There’s no one size fits all solution but it is nice to be reminded frequently to make sure that you’re actually using this stuff. The other day I was just thinking “do I even use Amazon prime?” Because often it’s still free shipping depending on order size, Prime shipping has been so hot or miss that it’s not guaranteed two day anymore, and while I thought I shopped online a lot I really have not missed it one bit. I didn’t use their streaming service and genuinely haven’t noticed a difference and that was like two hundred dollars a year.
As a physical media collector since the 90s, the resurgeance of collecting makes me so happy. It's so much better in every way! And as a bonus the more people buy physical media, the more physical media will be released! Win win.
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I cancelled everything and just rented movies on Amazon for a while. The streaming services have a lot of good shows on their own. The ultimate hack is the only subscribe to one at a time, white what you want, cancel it, then check out another service for another month.
I read an article recently that said Netflix was going to start charging more for someone to reinstate their account if they do something like this. That might have been a click bait, but I wouldn't put it past them.
@@busbybinne I feel like that could hurt their business. It would be one thing if they locked you in at a cheap price, but they don’t. If I was still locked in at like nine dollars, I never would’ve canceled.
I agree with this. I pay for two subscriptions, Crunchyroll and Spotify. It comes out to roughly $20 per month for me. If there was a cheaper alternative that wasn't sketchy or inconvenient then I would take it. But while that isn't the case, I'm happy with my two very well used subscriptions
For consumers who primarily want to watch completed shows I would say they're better off with buying physical media on sale or finding a sale for digital copies (if you want to minimize physical discs). The problem is keeping up with current shows that are exclusive to streaming services. If you care about that, your best options are sharing accounts (while you can) or only paying for one or two at a time.
Unfortunately, Netflix caught on the whole sharing thing and implemented strict measures to prevent this... ironically they endorsed this moto when they first released their service
2:40 The average person rented. We went every week to Family Video and got a the cheaper movies for like $0.50 per movie for 3 days. If you just go to your local library you'll probably find tons still for rent. I even saw that you rented The Office from your library in this video.
I kinda disagree. I spent years buying weekly releases spending about $50 to $100 a week on movies. I haven't even seen all the movies I own. Now I buy maybe 3 to 4 Blu-rays a month but I buy digital movies constantly. I split the streaming services with the people I live in. I spend a lot less now. VUDU has great sales often. Right now Logan is $30 on Blu-ray and the same for Bones and All. That's more than I'm willing to spend. I want those physical but I'm waiting for a sale. Also, it's insane to throw away the movie cases. I would die. DVD looks like sh.t too. I don't know how you don't see how bad DVD looks specially on a 4K tv. This video is nuts.
@@jacobroberts2764 where? I just checked again on Amazon and the price is $30 on Blu-ray. Are you not in the United States? Here in U.S.A. Amazon and Walmart at the time of writing the movie is $30 on Blu-ray. (Edit: I just checked Walmart and it's currently $20. It wasn't $20 last week. Hopefully it's still $20 when I get paid at the end of the week. I'm leaving the whole comment up because it's still true but good looking out! )
That projector he is shilling is probably shit too tbh. “4k supported” is such a scam. It’s native 1080p. It just downscales like any other 1080p display would. Dvds probably look fine on it because of the softness of projection compared to a tv. Dvds look like shit on my 4k oled.
Agree with absolutely everything you said. I’m very much the same with physical video games and music CDs. Just recently some of my favorite movie soundtracks were pulled from RU-vid for some reason and have become largely lost media except for their cd releases. It’s the same thing with gaming. I have PlayStation Plus which would let me play older games if I want, but I always opt to just buy the physical copies instead. You never know when these things will go away and owning the physical copies can be a lot of fun.
I never realized how good the sound is on DVDs (& blu rays) compared to streaming until you brought it up but you’re so right! My DVD movies sound soooooo good compared to those same movies on streaming
I kinda miss when Netflix was a service that sent you a max of 3 DVDs at a time. It was a decent catalouge, and because you couldn't get another DVD until one was sent back we were motivated to watch the ones we had. Now I have all the options at my fingertips (sort of, their streaming catalouge has always been subpar) but I can never actually decide on a movie to watch.
Agreed, and i don't want to pay for permission to watch what i wanna watch. I'll stick to my physical media collection. Where i can watch whatever i wanna watch, whenever i wanna watch it.
I am already experience the issues of not being able to own some of the media I enjoy. Like Arcane or The Sea Beast. If Netflix stop showing it and no one else picks it up, then bye bye to something that was never physical released, unless I decided to go an illegal route, which I think most of us don't want to do.
Same here. I’m a big physical collector and I’d love to own Netflix’s Klaus, a good animated Christmas movie. But they haven’t released it physically at all :(
i hope you don't throw away those dvd cases. i love the artwork on them. also, if you throw them in storage boxes, then when you have more space, you could display them on shelves, or sell them.
Totally agree with buying physical media if you rewatch content, especially often. I didn't realize that I was in the minority where I only watch new shows/ movies. But love the point of being intentional with your subscriptions. If you make use of your subscriptions by intentionally watching new content, I think you're still in the spirit of the video by being intentional
Taking back control is the key. Owning what you buy and watching when you want and not relying too much on the Internet and not worrying when the platform will remove it from their servers is a relief. Secondly, it's a rip off now that paid streaming services like Netflix are putting advertisements during your watch. I personally am streaming on Pluto, Tubi and even regular RU-vid -- they may put advertisements between watches but they are free.
Just bought the complete series of Star Trek Discovery for the cost of about four months of Paramount+. Considering Trek is the only thing I watch it's an investment. 🖖😄
That’s why I as an music lover prefer to use CDs and even cassettes, because 1. The quality is ironically still higher, and 2. No one can take my CD away through not paying a service.
Having a physical media collection allows me to have only one streaming platform at a time and alternate every few weeks or months before i change platform.
When I moved back into my parents house a few years ago I set up their old VCR and with all the VHS movies they had from the 90's I didn't need streaming.
I purchased the special edition DVDs of Fight Club and SE7EN in 2000. I watched both films a few months ago. So for a one time purchase price 24 years ago I still own the movies and can still enjoy them anytime I want. That is what I enjoy about physical media. I pay once and can enjoy my purchase for decades. I still own a few CDs from the 1980s and many from the 1990s and I am still enjoy those CDs 30 years later for a one time purchase price. For me that is better then a recurring monthly fee for something you never own.
my local thrift store has a sale and I just bought 15 dvd's for €1,50.. also the feeling of watching a dvd and letting the end credits roll without a new show immediately popping up on the screen is so nice.
Gotta disagree on this, lots of people share accounts, the only subscription I pay for is RU-vid premium, get other services from friends and family. I know netflix has cracked down on a bit (can't watch on multiple houses tvs, but still works on my laptop) but everywhere else is still fine.
Nearly everything you've said is exactly what's been on my mind for the past few months. It's almost like there's been this general awakening in people that subscription services don't always mean owning, rather it's more akin to renting. You don't truly own, and in an instant, it could all be taken away. Physically owning your own personal copy seems to be the way to go. Great video!
My most recent living situation had very limited internet capabilities. So my collection of physical media became very useful during that time period! Having all my favorite movies and shows without having to worry about internet usage is pretty great. And you get to enjoy the lost art of DVD menu designs!
Throwing out cases is sacrilegious! I switched to streaming around 2013, because it was genuinely cheaper than tv, and Netflix had EVERYTHING. I switched back to physical media 5 years later when everyone started creating their own streaming service. It became the same price as cable. I only buy the top quality release, so 4K if available, so i probably spend more than you, but it still probably works out cheaper. I buy 12 movies or less a year, which is cheaper than Netlfix’s top package. I borrow from friends, and go to the theatre more. There are a lot of cheap or free ways to get movies, and nothing stopping you from ripping them to a server or your computer and selling the discs after. I have a 4k bluray player and it has unmatched visual quality. This all started because I have a home theatre, and streaming does not offer uncompressed surround sound. I think it is only a matter of time before there is another “cord cutting” like with cable 10 years ago.
We? I only have one streaming service at a time, don't start a service unless there is a new season of something I want to watch and I stop or pause the service when there isn't enough fresh content to justify spending money on it. I never pay for more than a month at a time. Sometimes I rent a movie on Amazon if the price is $5 or less. If streaming isn't cheap you are doing it wrong. Paying for 4 streaming services at one time can be fixed in less than 5 minutes by going to each service and setting monthly renewal to off. If there is something you want to watch it takes one minute of your time to turn the service on and if you are forgetful and lazy you could turn renewal off at the same time because they always give you the option to switch renewal to on before it expires and there is zero penalty for letting it expire and restarting it.
Paying for access and not owning what you watch is not an issue by itself. I have DVDs and Blu-rays that I haven't touched in over 10 years - good quality ones, like special edition box sets. They became items of decoration (I will probably stream the same movies I own in physical format). I've also become very annoyed by clutter recently and physical media definitely adds to clutter. The smart thing to do is to just rotate your streaming services every 3 months or so (not that easy when you have kids though)
The average American household subscribes to four streaming services and pays north of $60/monthly to do so. I cite my sources, and it’s Nielsen. The premiere ratings researchers in the US market.
If you mostly just rewatch films or if you watch maybe 10-15 new movies a year buying is the better option. However, if you watch over a hundred or more it's not as feasible. Especially if what you want to watch is new releases which cost 20 a pop
In music you can buy a CD album for 50p or £1. With 10 tracks (to make the maths easy), that's 5p a track and you can sell the physical item once ripped to your personal library. For £10 a month you'd need to play 200 tracks to be an equal price. For TV etc, I've not sen anything new worth watching in the last 20 years. For anything older, I have the DVDs for barely pence in charity shops. Even those I rarely feel the need to watch because I know them so well. I don't get modern culture for the new shows to appeal to me.
seems like a lot depends on what and how much you actually watch,, if one's take is that they don't use a streaming service for months then yeah that makes sense, but most people i know watch stuff on daily,, either movies or series, sometimes both....
I still regularly purchase Blu-rays and the occasional DVD. (Though it is becoming problematic storing them all.) The only streaming service that I have is Amazon Prime, but that is mostly for the free shipping; Prime being included is just a bonus.
I agree with a lot of the sentiment but you get to a point where you start comparing apples to oranges a bit, and I think it weakens your argument. For example, comparing the price of 4K streaming services to buying used DVD's (not 4k) on eBay. There are definitely huge deals on 4K bluray movies that go overlooked, no doubt, but if I wanted to watch a TV show like game of thrones in 4K it would cost $150 for the box set. Another thing you don't bring up is convenience. Physical media collections, if large enough, have space requirements that streaming does not, and that is its own cost depending on the space you have available. Again, this isn't to disagree or in support of streaming companies, I'm a big proponent of owning your own media because you're building something piece by piece that can't be taken away from you (aside from a house fire). I just want to be realistic about value. Personally, I use alternative methods of watching movies and TV, and only collect physical media for anything of a quality that I will want to own. I'm a big proponent of doing what you mentioned digitally instead of with physical disks, but there's a cost with that too for hard drive space. I don't find it worth it to own much media that isn't 4K unless a 4K option is unavailable, because I would rather spend more today to save money tomorrow. If someone I trust tells me how incredible this show is and there's a box set available, I'll purchase it. If I watch a movie and the movie is great, I'll purchase it so it's always available to me. Even if you do all of this, it's still probably worth having one streaming service at a time and cycling between them depending on what you want to watch, for new and high-storage-cost media such as TV where you're unsure if it's worth the investment.
I wanted to watch Power Rangers In Space, so I bought the DVD collection. I wanted to watch Friends, so i bought the DVD collection. I wanted to watch True Blood, so i bought the DVD collection. Ok, you get the normal shows, but what about censorship on streaming services? If you wana watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer, you gotta buy the originally unchanged DVD collection before streaming services ruined the series in HD. It's only a singular example, but it's the perfect one - streaming services only need to supply you with enough entertainment to keep you busy for the next rollover.
EDIT: It isn’t feasible and isn’t possible to own all of my shows on DVD. Many are Originals and don’t exist on DVD and many again are not Originals but are still new and that doesn’t exist. I don’t believe the average person just watches one show forever like Gilmore Girls or The Office because you do. In my country it is incredibly difficult to just buy, even find a DVD for the show you want. It gets even worse when so many of the shows I love are X Y OR Z Originals. So I’ll just have to…find an…MP4 to have for shows and buy movie DVDs.
Piracy then if the service get rid of them. PS I mean free watching not downloading downloading can be a big legal problem I do not know if the downloader would get in trouble.
I'm really fortunate where I live in the UK - charity shops, which are a bit like thrift stores, sell DVDs for 5 for £1 or Blu Rays for 50p each - CEX is pretty good too. I never subbed to more than one streamer at once, but I do occasionally sign up for one month a year to catch up on some things I missed. I couldn't believe how much Netflix had gone up in price.
After watching this, I gotta buy a Blu-ray player. So far I've been buying only DVDs. And I'm sick and tired of Netflix and such removing movies/TV-shows after some time.
We are big streamers but are VERY careful to only sub to ones we're actively watching. For instance, if there's a show we wanna watch on Netflix, we'll wait till the season is over for the show and sub to Netflix, Binge, then unsub. The other problem is that we watch a lot of content such as movies but the majority of them we only watch once so owning all those movies wouldn't make sense for us. There's maybe 10 total movies that I ever come back to honestly. Edit: I would say owning MUSIC would be beneficial to me though. THAT'S a medium I tend to consume repeatedly. Then again, there are free versions of spotify that allow me to listen to those same albums without ANY fee.
I've been seeing a LOT of really cheap movies at Wal-Mart for just $5. And these movies were well known movies like The Batman or Bumblebee. I've never watched any of them, so I might make a run to Wal-Mart one day and buy a bunch. They also have a lot of complete series box sets of tv shows.
Also, if you live in a decently sized area, you can buy yourself a TV antenna and get Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, and other over-the-air channels for free. So you can at least still watch the biggest games of the year. You can also rip your DVD library to your computer and run a program like Emby or Jellyfin and turn your library into your own personal Netflix. That way you can minimize the wear and tear on your physical discs and have them as a backup years down the road.
Part of what draws people into streaming is: 1. Variety. You can find all sorts of stuff to watch when you're bored. Even stuff that you wouldn't normally love enough to be worth getting the disc. 2. Convenience. With search functions and favorites lists you can pull up the movie/show you want easily without having to get out of your seat. However you're right in that if you don't stream surf trying to find new things to watch and only re-watch a small selection of your favorites again and again, then you're better off getting the discs.
It's worth mentioning if you don't want to keep the dvds or do menus can rip them to a hard drive and plug that in or make a server with the drive and raspberry pi or pc
This made me realize, instead of having trouble with a VPN every time I want to watch House MD, I also can just buy the DVD's oor Blu-ray's. Like, yea, I live with my mom and don't have a DVD player in my room, but we have one in the living room and my mom also likes House. Plus she is often at work All problems solved
DVDs are in 480p. Most DVD and Blu-Ray players will upscale that to 1080p. While it does look good it's not as detailed as getting the 1080p Blu-Ray disc. Also the sound on Blu-Ray is the highest quality you can get. You can actually hear the quality difference between streaming, DVD, and Blu-Ray.
I recently got a CD player from a thrift store and canceled my Spotify subscription. I love listening to music and Spotify is an amazing streaming service, but I hate how the price keeps rising. At first I said I would put 12 dollars a month in my budget to buy CDs, but I completely overspent in the beginning to get a collection going. I love it. My way of listening to music has changed, and I have listened to and appreciated songs that I would never have given a chance on Spotify. Plus you can still rip the CDs and have the songs digitally. Another plus is that one of my friends also got into CDs. She's burning a mixtape for me and I'm thinking of making one for her. It just has a different and more real feel to exchange CDs rather than just send links with recommendations. Plus there is a lot more thought going into CDs. Which songs do you choose? What order do they go in?
@@NomadOverNormal Honestly the methods are pretty similar to when I had Spotify. The main ways I find new songs are looking at different songs of artists I like, playing rhythm games (or just video games in general), and RU-vid recommendations. If someone was asking for advice, I would also suggest listening to the radio or going to a store, seeing what CDs are on sale, and listening to a few songs from it on RU-vid/Spotify (the free versions) to see if they might be interested.
I've been collecting and using physical media since I was a kid. CDs, DVDs, VHS, ect. It's honestly very comforting to know if I want to listen to an album or watch a movie, I always have it on hand and not paying for something every month I don't use most of the time. Also books, physical books are a blessing and a great way to fill your time. I never stopped collecting and owning and probably won't ever. It's a lifetime investment.
My wife started (re)watching House on Hulu - we were going to cancel Hulu a while back but decided to see what was on the platform and kept it around mostly for just that. I decided to see how much all seasons on Bluray or DVD went for on Amazon. $60 for all seasons.
You made me think, and I think you're damn right. Plus the overall cost of streaming shows why they are fighting so eagerly to make an account sharing way much harder. If every person from 5-profile acc had to pay for all the subs they are sharing... Damn. Plus subscription has another issue (well, at least in my country). Especially if you mention Eastern stuff like Anime. There is a very high probability that certain titles won't be available anywhere in any service (or at least they aren't in 4-5 you (and probably your homies along) subscribe) and you end up looking on P rated services... Paying for damn subscriptions - well, at least you have higher moral ground, but... You can't steal something that can't be owned anyway.
I started a Jim Carrey collection recently, and the most I've spent on one of his DVDs is $8, and last month, I got 2 movies for $0.5 each. And whenever there's a new movie out for my Disney or Marvel collection, I simply wish for it for Christmas.
