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I have a Panasonic 4k player. I will still collect sci-fi and horror movies on Blu Ray and 4K. I want to physically own my movies and watch without commercial interruptions.
I am not into pic quality as much as having access to the TV series or movie. Sure, I want the best quality, but remember most of the old stuff was not even in 480i. We watched that for decades and never complained. I still have my old Vizio 1080' 43" set and it does well with SD as well as 720p & 1080i. I have friends that have a 4K set and 480' looks horrible on it.
If that's your goal, you can buy a usb storage drive and archive 100s of shows and movies on each drive. You can plug almost any USB drive directly into most TVs and play the video.
I agree in the uk 4K discs are enjoying significant growth DVDs are not going anywhere as streaming companies delete content from customers libraries and raise there prices. Amazon are interrupting movies with adverts ! The dvd and 4k discs are here to stay , streaming just offers licenses to watch , if you buy something you never own the Movie just the license !
@stsxt05 buying a DVD doesn't mean you own it. It's a physical media license. That you cannot show publicly, copy, distribute, amongst other restrictions. Not reading the label or warnings on DVDs doesn't make you exempt.
Personally, physical media is far superior to streaming. You don't have to worry if the service has Atmos or if they chopped and edited it to hell. Also, the picture quality is far better than having artifacts in the stream based on your connection quality. On top of that, most streaming services, live or movies, haven't really advanced in technology like physical media has. They have promised that with the debut of ATSC 3, but that isn't until 2027. Until then, I'll keep and still buy physical media including CDs and Vinyl.
I have thousands of DVD's and also 1000+ Beta and nearly 1000 VHS. I have been recording since 1976. I still do today, plus I purchase a lot of used DVDs from Amazon, Ebay, Goodwill, etc. I like having the physical media, rather than trying to find it streaming. Many older TV shows that were available on physical media there are no licensing available for those on streaming. To me physical media is the only way to go. I have several DVD recorders and players. I am good to go for the rest of my life. I can still buy recordable Verbatim DVD blanks also on Amazon and Ebay. Streaming is still not where it needs to be either. Too many licensing rules that streaming is not included. I love the old Classic TV shows and most of the rare ones were only available on DVDs if at all.. I even recently even found The Rich Little Show from the 70s in a box set season. Never seen that streaming. Classic Disney material was released on VHS/DVDs in the past but are not on Disney+. I could go on and on. But it is physical media for me.
I think one reason for poor sales of Blu Rays and DVD`s is due to the lack of quality content being put out anymore(aka garbage). There will always be a demand for physical media anyway. Not everyone wants to be beholden to streaming services.
100%, a prime example of this is I'm a huge Peanuts fan, and over Christmas I was gifted both the DVD, and 1080p Blu-Ray versions of the Holiday specials, and the transfers on both versions was utter slapped together GARBAGE with grainy footage worse then when it was being broadcast on CBS, and ABC 480p OTA!! seriously WTF?!?!
Yes I have a friend that sells movies and games online on eBay he buys tens of thousands of games and movies and breaks them down and sells them and he says the order ones sell and the new ones just sit there. So he only focuses on older stuff now the new stuff is garbage and the consumer doesn't want it. He also had a store but he just moved he's going to open a new one in spring and it is only focused on older stuff. Unfortunately the people making movies don't know what they're doing. They're making movies for their agenda not for what the customer wants.
Yes, years ago the companies were releasing tons of old TV shows. Each month or two there was several new releases. That really dropped on in recent years. I bought a lot from 2005-2015.
How can anyone not see the improvements from physical media over unreliable streaming? Better sound, better picture quality, dependable availability, etc, etc, etc.
@@thedude5040It's more than just that. Even young people love streaming and don't care about the quality. I'm 65, buy discs, and love my home theater system with Dolby Atmos 🙂
@@thedude5040 While I can certainly tell the difference between a 4k and 480 analog vhs, I honestly can't tell the difference between 2k and 4k. I don't think most people can unless they were right next to the screen
Because of the fickle way streamers treat content, a viewer can never be assured that what they want to watch will actually be offered. The only way to defeat this is to purchase physical media. Once it’s on your shelf, streamers and studios cannot take it away from you. I will continue to buy physical media, and if it goes more boutique, or even underground, I will add as much to my collection as possible.
I've purchased over 1,000 Blu-rays and 4K Blu-rays over the last 2.5 years. It's nice not relying on streaming for the ever-shuffling collection. Plus, with cancel culture and with studios like Disney going back and editing movies, such as Friedkin's The French Connection, it's foolish not to keep a collection of at least your favorite movies and movies you revisit often, such as Christmas movies. Picture and Audio quality are both noticeably a lot better on disc compared to streaming. I mainly use streaming to preview movies and if I like them, I buy them. The studios really screwed themselves by messing with the most profitable, by far, model, for releasing movies which was theater first, then home video and rentals, then cable, then network and streaming. The proof is in the financial results. Shrinking/eliminating those different stages, fairly often coming out with theatrical movies right away on home media, was always obviously a dumb move that isn't sustainable. At some point, I think we'll see studios realize this and try to pull back a little. I could see Sony, a company known for doing their own thing, increase the window between theatrical and streaming everywhere for super cheap as the years go by. I can also see at least a slight uptick in physical media buying as people get tired of the content shuffle. I hear people complaining all the time how they don't have certain movies on their services. It was fun last month constantly getting to tell people "I have that on my shelf." Oh, they need to bring Bad Santa with all three cuts and special features to 4K Blu-ray. I think it'll get one this year or next. Day one purchase for me.
Less physical media available, more money in their pockets. I have had to restart my digital collection twice, the first time was when the original digital cloud service went away. (Ultra-violet). Same with cd's. I will never get rid of my physicl media.
You could have had all my movies for free. Several years ago I loaded up all my VHS and DVD's in boxes and dropped them off in various second hand stores in my area. I was happy to do so. It just becomes a storage issue after awhile, and most of the stuff just sits on a shelf collecting dust anyway. I did digitize some of the stuff and put it on a hard drive, but even after doing that for awhile I got tired of it, and just said if I need or want to see this again I will just find it online to stream some place
You're trying to hold back the future. If you had a great Maytag washer from 1980 ... how would you repair it? Where would you get the parts? What will you do in 2030 - when the DVD players you have now (or have "stock-piled" ...) are not adaptable to newer computers, T.V. monitors, Microsoft-Apple, etc.? You'll find all those DVDs of yours will be great for coffee mug coasters, conversation pieces - but, maybe not much else. The future of digital demands that streaming resolution will continue to improve rapidly (as it has). And, so it goes.
@@grateful. Like buying a "John Deere" tractor and not paying for a certain "function" and "they" turn it off. Sorry for your luck. Physical media for me.
If tomorrow "Movie X" or "TV Show Y" the company that owns it decided for any reason that show would never see seen again in streaming, that is it, unless you could make a physical copy. If you have the DVD, you can watch that movie or TV show forever. A good example is the Disney movie "Song of the South" from 1946. That was banned by Disney. They briefly released it on VHS back in the late 70s to video stores then called them all back. A few people kept theirs. Now, Song of the South has gone into public domain in Japan. A media company picked it up for a song and is back releasing it in English, on Blu-ray for $20. I bought one. Great quality and totally legal. Disney does not like it, but there is nothing they can do. Japanese laws are different. But finally, after decades, Song of the South is available. It is in regular region #1 too, so it can be played on regular US made Blu Ray players. That is only one example. there are hundreds of others. A movie I liked with Chad Everett from 1966 called Johnny Tiger. Try and find that in any form today. It was released briefly on VHS. Never been released on DVD as far as I know. Still looking for that. So having media is the best way to go.
I’m fourteen in 2024 and I still buy DVDs and I understand the threat of only digital copies.streaming services censoring or editing movies should be ilegal.
Good for you! I have collected and recorded media for decades. I had my first Beta VCR in about 1975/76. If all TV disappeared tomorrow, I still have thousands of hours of movies & TV shows to watch. Having access to physical media is the only way to go. DVDs & Blu Rays will be around for a long time and they are still making them. Just because a couple of outfits decide not to carry them doesn't mean they are going away.
Luke physical media is awesome, but the movies 🎬 studios don't want the public to own it. If you own the DVD 📀 why would I need disney, hulu, Or amazon ,or hbo or cable TV 📺 . Every time we get great tech toy the industry finds away to kill it , like netflix getting rid of DVD rentals. It feels like we the viewer are in a third world 🌎 country.
I don't think Best Buy is 100 percent responsible for them not selling physical. I believe part of it has to do with like you said, the movie studios don't want you to own the movies. Same with music. They are pushing analog vinyl, because you can never get a perfect copy like with CDs. DRM on CDs never took off, so they took the CDs out of physical stores and pushed vinyl down our throats.
As more people realize some of their favorite films are disappearing from streaming services, they'll re-think buying DVD's. We depend WAY TOO MUCH on the internet. When Amazon stops selling them I'll believe they're dead. I won't base it on whether Best Buy carries them or not. People don't care about quality today. Cell phone call quality vs. landline call quality is the best example.
I just want to watch the movie, and most of the movies I like are old, so having a fancy 4k TV isn't going to make those old movies look any better than what they already are
You sound like me. If I purchase movies on the streaming platforms, I always get the standard version and not the HQ version. Saves bandwidth and is better for viewing on a PC or other personal device if you're traveling.@@greyeagle4388
Without physical media, we are forced to use a streaming service, cable or broadcast TV if available. I lose power a few times a year, so buying discs gives me an option that doesn't require the internet. Since broadcast, cell and cable are unavailable in my area, it's a backup option.
@@davidframe1613 It's not the company's fault for interrupted service usually. I lose power, DSL internet and my land line phone because of weather related tree damage to those services. You could have bad lines in your area which is always a possibility, especially in rural areas like mine but it's less likely for most people. Comcast and other cable providers will cut back your signal to provoke customers to buy into a higher speed service, so there's always that possibility.
Netflix has a big financial problem their debt is way too high plus every time I get Netflix I can't find material that I would like as a white straight male it just is not on there. Every time someone's nude it's some males butt in the camera that I don't want to see but that's fine but where's the hot females they don't exist in movies anymore. I hate to say it but I think Hollywood is done. I think AI will make movies from here on out at some point. But if you're a white straight male you got to start speaking up you don't have to be mean but you have to start speaking up and calling this crap out and telling people what you will pay for and what you won't.
Ya even Prime,don’t care for the content myself,it’s sad that I watch it because no ads!guess what even that perk is over soon,streaming situation is going downhill quickly in my opinion.Asking why I even cancelled dish network a while back, too late I had the dish removed from my roof.
@@billjones4986 cable TV has completely collapsed not too many people watching anything with ads and the corporations need a place to advertise and they went to streaming services and offer them a bunch of money to place their ads on their content. Probably destroying the whole industry we will see but I don't think streaming companies were making money anyhow so streaming companies may look at it as a plus as the customer fleas from paying and watching commercials just sounds like an old dinosaur way of doing things. I would never pay and watch commercials again that's ridiculous. I don't even look at it as an option that price point doesn't exist in my view.
DVDs and Blu-ray's aren't dying. Books didn't die after the big chains closed down. Records didn't die after the big chains closed. Videogames didn't die after the big chains stopped selling them.Independent bookstores, record stores, and game stores opened up to satisfy the demand. Independent video stores will open to satisfy the demand. There were more new titles released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K last year than the last five years.
I'm old school, I still buy physical media 10 to one over digital media. Blu rays don't compress, so it's a better picture. Besides, I hate major changes in things.
And I've just been thinking, I personally would prefer to purchase movies that I love on Blu-ray/4k and cancel some steaming services... streaming just sometimes doesn't necessarily look as good as physical media
I always purchase physical media whenever possible. I dislike the idea that a product purchased via streaming is really only a rental until such time as the selling company decides to remove it. When I buy a disc (game or Blu), I know that I own it.
Over the past 25 years I have collected over 2000 dvds and blurays. I saw the handwriting on the wall and I have a supply of players. So glad I did this. Streaming is too expensive and many movies and TV shows are not available streaming. Internet goes down and I still have plenty to watch.
@@thedude5040 I think Netflix is expensive for what you get also Disney plus but I don't like the content. I mostly watch Tubi but you're right streaming it doesn't have to be expensive. It can be free if you want it to be with a few ads.
@@thedude5040 You are so right I can stream pretty much all year for what it would cost me to buy just 4-5 new release movies in that same amount of time.
I still purchase physical media. Mainly because I want the ability to watch what I want, when and where I want. If I rely only on streaming then I'm subject to the availability and quality of the internet, not to mention data caps unless I pay the extra fee for the unlimited data that use to be included with my plan. Also content can be removed from a streaming service. Some content isn't available at all.
Comic books use to be sold in corner stores. When the corner stores stopped selling them, specialty comic shops appears to sell them. While major stores may stop selling DVDs and BRs, specialty shops are likely to keep selling them.
There were a few of those specialty shops selling DVDs/CDs/Blue-ray discs in my area a while back, but they all went out of business; even the stores selling used ones disappeared a while back. The only source I know of now is buying them online or at flea markets/garage sales. The strange thing is there are quite a few vinyl record shops around here that seem to be thriving; some sell CDs but no DVDs/Blue-ray.
I do buy physical media. There are certain shows that get watched a lot and I cannot count on streaming services always having them available. Even Disney+ has pulled certain titles in the past due to deals with other companies and the like. There is also the fact you cannot count on a movie remaining untouched if you just stream it. Look at Lucas with Star Wars for an easy example. It isn't many but there are a handful I feel better actually owning rather than renting :)
All the weird stuff Disney does now we find out employees are suing Disney over covering up sexual harassment cases that's the end of Bob iger even if he wasn't CEO at the time when it happened he was still covering it up that's what they're saying.
I still buy movies on VCD, DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Blu-ray, and the rare VHS, as I've seen many movies, TV shows, and Anime just go poof from streaming, or it's edited/censored/ incomplete versions. The Anime series(not the very much cutdown movie)Galaxy Express 999 is a good example as what's on streaming is slightly edited from the original, and for a long time was not streaming at all after it left the original version of Crackle when Sony owned it, and showed the original unedited subtitled version. Lupin the 3rd is another classic Anime that gets butchered if you watch the dubbed version on streaming, and not the subbed version that's being shown out of order on PLUTO TV so as a very long time Anime fan physical media is very important if you want the original versions as so much of it gets butchered when translated for western markets.
I love my physical media.❤ Streaming services are fickle, canceling or "disappearing" your favorite show/movie without warning. 😢 And a lot of blue rays still come with some very nice extras.😊
I for sure buy physical media. As a classic movie enthusiast, there are times when the only way to see one of those movies is to own them. And I did bite the bullet and dropped Netflix. I figure if there's a show I need to see, I'll get it for a month and drop it again. That last price hike was too much for me.
Yes to physical media. Not every show is available on streaming. Some studios don't have a streaming service so the only way the could be streamed is if they licence that content and licences expire. There's also foreign content such as shows from the BBC and others that just becomes too costly to keep a smaller service in the long run when you only like a show or two that could be found there.
Owning the Christmas story physically and watching it each year not having to hunt for it on streaming services and not paying a fee is something special. And I was watching a older movie and they cut a whole joke line out and people were laughing and I was like why is the audience laughing and went back and watched it on DVD and they cut out a whole joke because they didn't like it. I think if I remember it was the movie 16 candles. It was a joke making fun of Asian people. But it's only a joke. These sensitive fascist corporations.😁😂🤣
With streaming, the viewer is under the control of what the supplier wants to offer. Licensing is an issue for many movies & TV shows. Some less popular movies & TV show may not make to streaming as the licensing fees no one wants to pay for them.
Yes! I still buy physical media, as companies decide to withdrawal rights to digital media you buy ( as happened recently with play station). I also want a hard copy so when one service quits streaming on their service and it rotates to a competing service (possibly one I do not pay for) I have the hard copy to view.
I like to have copies of certain movies. Like, for instance, the new Godzilla Minus One when it comes out and other things. Streaming does not always work with issues like buffering. I understand why these companies are doing this but they will lose some business to Amazon Marketplace, Ebay, and others. I am currently looking for a new Blu-ray player.
I believe the real reason for dvds is that streaming and cable companies have got together to stop selling them, look if you want to see the same show again you pay again they love it this way. Comcast is the the worst crook when it comes to this
I argue Netflix lost viewership because of their cutting down on their pw sharing. My dad and I can no longer share our membership,, so we dropped it completely.
I still collect physical media. Streaming can be good, but the costs keep increasing. Too many times I've started TV series but have been unable to finish them. "Included with Prime" means only one or two seasons are included but to watch the entire series means paying for still another service. Several times, content was dropped suddenly without explanation before I could finish it. If I own what I like on physical media, I don't have to rely on the decisions of desk jockeys to see what I like. I've dropped a couple of services, & am considering tossing at least two more. However, even paying for seven services was cheaper than my cable bill was.
got almost 8 year old blu ray player and a few year olds multi regional player got black adman on DVD last year i think people will regret ditching the physical media in decades to come got around 2700 films and tv shows not on streaming in my personal collection both blu rays and mostly DVDs been a collector since the 2000s
It won't kill Blu rays etc as this is a collectors market now who of which mostly by direct from boutique labels or Amazon etc. it's not dead it's just changing.
Yeah, and 98% of their content is garbage with a good chunk of it trying to push "the message" many of us don't want to watch, or our kids to watch. So I stopped paying for it years ago!!
@jimroscovius I think the problem is people don't know how to handle money. I'd argue most people who complain about prices are just either ignorant of production costs/maintenance or are so worried about dollars and pennies because they have to make it to next week's paycheck and the end of month credit card bill. It's my belief if you have any amount of credit card debt then you should cancel all forms of streaming and notallow yourself the boredom pleasure of sitting down to watch TV.
@thedude5040 I agree with you on that. We have no debt and a paid-off house. We pay cash for cars and have savings and an emergency fund. We both worked and we had kids. I'm now semi-retired, but my wife works fulltime yet. Why? Because she wants to. The point is we planned, and that's what a lot of people don't do. We subscribe to Hulu + Live TV, but we'd cut it if we were broke. As it is, we've cut back on some things to plan for future full retirement. You've got to plan.
I restarted buying HD & UHD Blu-Rays recently thanks to David Zaslav and other streaming services that started deep sixing movies and series in order to make more money. The only way to guarantee availability is to own the physical media.
I will keep buying physical media tell I can't. I don't like the idea of having a streaming service controlling when I can watch something or change it. Like WWE will edit matches or music so they don't have to pay more to stream it again.
Regarding the idea that you don't need physical media because streaming services offer the content: You don't own the content you stream. And if the streaming service you use drops the content or decides it needs to be edited to "update" it for a "modern audience," you're stuck with their edits of choice. They can't change your DVDs or Blu-Rays. Choose what content you stream carefully. Personally, I think a diverse home library trumps any streaming service out there.
I " cut the cord " a couple of years ago and stream and still have a VCR and a blue ray player . Don't use them much but they are here. Cable priced them selves out of my budget and so did the satellite companies I've had both. Now the streaming companies are doing it also! As long as the tv networks keep the translators working ill be satisfied,I live in a vary fringe area so I'm at the mercy of the tv networks.
You cant always find movies or tv shows on streaming that you want to watch. Also faster to grap a DVD and watch then trying to find them on streaming. Also you dont get everything for free. Have to rent or buy them and hopefully, when you buy, they will still be there. I think there are certain things that still need to be in physical form and movies and tv shows are one of those things
I have almost no movies DVDs, movies I watch once or twice then that's it. But I still buy a lot of music CDs. Its nice to have those around, you can drop one into the player and let it go while doing things around you. CD/DVD/Blue-ray players are still a thing and you can buy them from online vendors, sometimes all three formats in one player. My public library has a great DVD/Blue-ray collection for check-out, they have the recent 'Oppenheimer' movie on DVD and Blue-ray so you know studios are still manufacturing both those formats.
I have to give apple credit that you can truly purchase digital music now without any DRM. Songs you download today can be played in any player including your car's radio though a flash drive. Unfortunately movies purchased from Apple have DRM
We used to (buy Blu-Ray) before we went streaming for most of what we watch movie wise. We'll still likely buy _some_ movies rather than rent or wait for stream them - most of what we'll buy will be via physical media and where we already have earlier ones in the series (e.g. Fast & The Furious 20 where we already have 1-19 on DVD / Blu-Ray ;-) )
I rather have physical media, I hate streaming! Buffering, lost programing, censored content, and high cost of streaming and now ota, turned me off TV at all.
Here where I live I had Dish and they had the local channels, but Lilly Broadcasting owns most of the local channels and Lilly Broadcasting blocked their channels from Dis because they wanted MORE money, from Dish to rebroadcast their channels, so local news and programs were cut by Lilly Broadcasting. If Dish is forced to carry all the local channels the they will also be forced to pay what ever Lilly Broadcasting says, with out any negotiations at all.
Like Doeboy breweries live so slowly converting from DVDs and I refuse to pay the big movie companies for streaming for things I wanna watch whenever I wanna watch them for free, so Blu-ray may be dead to them. They’re not dead to me eBay and Amazon still sell them and I can get almost anything I wanna watch and there’s a lot of older stuff that never showed up in DBD that people live take me from the 50s And television movies that were never released so there’s a lot of stuff out there still to watch. It’s only corporate arrogance and greed that people to go and pay for streaming and not have media they can watch whenever they want and there’s also Rasputin record here and in San Francisco and Berkeley there’s amoeba And they sell used DVDs and Blu-ray and records and CDs of music.
Yes, DVD's will be around for a long time. I don't think they are going anywhere. Many not as many titles will be available, but enough to keep the viewer happy.
I have a slight complaint about your titles of the videos, Luke. You don’t need to title them as though you are doing “clickbait” , using “ The Death of ____!” Neither Cable TV nor DVD’s are completely dead. It’s just getting harder to access those media.
Digital for video games is a bit of a different monster. Games these days have a life cycle of anywhere from a year (think Madden NFL Football or WWE 2K) to many years (think Destiny 2). During that life cycle, changes and additions are made to the game where the version running on the PC or console no longer resembles the copy of the game on the physical media. So what this situation ultimately distills to is your physical copy acts as a "CD key" to running the game you installed from a disc & would need to be in the disc drive for the game to run in spite of the bulk of the game engine residing on your console's HDD/SSD. And that is why digital purchases and downloads make more sense on video games. Additionally, depending on your device's DRM for game titles, you may be able to purchase once and install on more than one device. Let's take Sony Playstation as our example - you can set one console as your primary console on which any other user can play your digital content and you can set a second console of the same generation as your secondary console where only you can play your digital content. The net effect is you can enjoy a multiplayer experience with other family members off of one digital purchase across two of the same generation console. There is a catch though - live service games such as Destiny 2 require each individual account holder to purchase a season pass to unlock the content for each user, but that's the developer/publisher controlling that rather than the platform. Now movies - that's different from video games. Aside from remastered re-releases with extras, movies and TV shows do not change. Having a physical copy of a movie or TV show you really enjoy doubles up as insurance against the licensing on that same content via some cloud streamer expiring...whether that means discontinuing on whatever streaming service you are watching it on or like the situation late last year between WBD & Sony where people who had outright purchased content for their personal cloud library on the Playstation platform were informed their WBD digital purchases would be removed from their library due to the end of WBD's relationship with Sony. That eventually got resolved, but it was a HUGE red flag to digital consumers that their digital purchases could vanish under their noses at any time. Hence the advice I've long given folks - if there is movie or TV show you really like, buy in on physical media so you always have access to it.
I havent been in a Best Buy for a few years and itll probably continue that way. Its now just a cell phone store while also dabbling with TVs and computers. This company is clueless. I get all my blu ray from online stores and TV, blu ray equipment and speskers from speciality shops. I used to shop at Best Buy every week when it was a fun place, including their giant shelves of discs. Its now a depressing shell of its former glory, sadly
T-Mobile "Carrier Aggregation" refers to combining multiple signal carriers T-Mobile owns, not other companies. All cell phone companies have done this for years. This new effort is just increasing the number of signals that can be combined.
With all the reports of Blu-Rays dying many seem to have missed that various news media reported a few weeks ago that the film Oppenheimer's Blu-ray release broke sales records for a Blu-Ray release. I think a lot of reports are confusing regular DVDs with Blu-ray. The manufacturers of Blu-ray players should be trying to work out deals with streaming services to incorporate their apps into their devices much more efficiently than they have in the past. I would love to own a Blu-Ray player with a Roku app.
Roku probably won't adjust based on the capability of the tv. They will actually base on the download speed meaning that even though a download speed is low Roku will automatically drop the resolution even though it may not be necessary. Rural areas would be limited to 480i in most cases even though 40-50 mbps can actually handle 4k. Most streaming is actually 720P....not 1080 or 4k
I stopped buying Blu rays 11 years ago. Recently, I realized how dumb it is to ‘hope’ the show I want to rewatch is on a platform. I now buy the blue rays I want to rewatch( only a few meet that criteria )on my Amazon gift list. Friends & family can see my shared lists file, & now can shop wherever & buy me a gift I love.
I have started building my digital library through Apple TV and I love it. Here are some of the reasons: 1) cost effective..new releases cost less in digital than the physical copy. I purchased the movie The Killers of the Flower Moon through Apple TV for 19.99. Amazon wanted 27.00 2) takes up zero space. 3) Don't have to worry about scratches or fingerprints on the disc 4) don't have to get up to put the disc in or take it out 5) All of your movies are in 1 place an in alphabetical order 6) You get first release quicker(especially if you have Apple) 7) You can take your collection with you on the go. That's just a start. So YES....digital movies is going to be the future. It's going to do to Blu Ray and DVD's what streaming music has done to CD's
🤔QUESTION: I’m worried about the status of the Roku streaming devices, I’ve noticed that Roku hasn’t released a new streaming model since September 2021… I was curious to hear your thoughts on this? Are they discontinuing the devices & maybe focusing more on their TV line? I enjoy the Roku devices, my favorite model right now is the Roku Ultra “2019” (4670) Love The Roku 3 “2015” (4230)
I have over 650 movies on DVD and Blu-ray I can just grab a disk and watch anytime I want without paying a service each time I feel like watching a movie, and quite a few in 3D. Was really disappointed when our last video store closed, that was the only way I could get the newer movies. Can't go to the theater because all of those around here also closed up.
you're missing what is happenning....the "download" trend isn't actually a download. You actually "lease" the video. It stays on their server. You can't actually have a file that you can put on your media server. At any point they can remove your access to the movie. This is going to be a lot worse than nyou are describing. Movies will disappear.
I used to think that streaming was the answer to everything, but not every service has every show/movie ever made. Things get added, things get taken away. The ONLY way to make sure you can have what you want forever is to buy it on DVD/Blu-ray. I wonder if this means there is another format coming down the pike that will be better.
QUESTION FOR LUKE on T-Mobile's network speed and volume upgrades - Any information on how that's going to impact broadcast TV? Over the last decade+ the FCC has been taking the top-end UHF bands away from TV broadcasting and selling it for cellphone & 5G use, thus compacting TV broadcasting into a narrower range of the radiowave spectrum. Any impact for us OTA, antenna-using TV viewers?
There will be no more changes. The impact to OTA TV has already happened during the last reshuffle. A few people may benefit from a 600mhz low pass filter if they live within eye site of a cell phone tower.
I do buy physical media. Mainly DVDs. My small digital library is like 80% free digital copies. I have not been a Netflix subscriber for a while now. We will pick it up again for Stranger Things 5. My only current service is Peacock. We got the BF deal for FNAF.
This has been a long time coming. Right now there are only two companies making disc players (Sony & Panasonic) and it's not like their options are cheap. I think when one of them decides to stop making new players, that's really what will finish discs off for good. Yes you might have some boutique company jump in and start making them. That's what happened with turntables. The end of discs doesn't mean you have to stream everything. There are still options like Vudu and Apple which are actually fairly decent quality. I've also never lost access to anything I have bought directly through Apple, whether it is music, movies or TV shows.
Best Buy is just a horrible barometer to measure DVD life/sales. Or any other brick and mortar business for that matter. Amazon is retail sales king now. Doing a quick search on Amazon will show units sold for the past month for that title. Best Buy will never hit these numbers. People shop differently now. For me Best Buy is "dying" rather than DVD's/Bluerays.
Still purchasing physical media. It’s still better than any streaming version. Plus, if you don’t buy the physical media you don’t own it. That needs to be addressed or everyone should still purchase physical media.
Haven’t had a CD player in any of my vehicles in about five years now, and haven’t had a DVD player hooked up even longer. I say that and I don’t have a Netflix account. I basically use Amazon and I still use iTunes to download music.
I have found that physical media is superior to streaming media in picture and sound quality, plus you own it and that is why I still buy it. On the other hand, streaming is more convenient. I cancelled cable a couple of years ago but did not rush into streaming. I tried out several different streaming services for a month and then ended up cancelling them for one of the same reasons I cancelled cable. That reason being there are too many channels that I'm paying for that I don't watch. Also, the price of streaming keeps going up and one of the main reasons I hear is the cost of creating content is going up. I'm sure that's true, but if I'm not watching the content on most of those channels anyway, I don't want to have to pay for it. This is where streaming and cable are pretty much the same. Streaming should allow anyone to be able to select and pay for just the channels they watch. The technology is already available, but the streaming companies won't make as much money if they did this so that is the problem. Thanks for reading my reply.
One problem I have it streaming is Amazon prime. I have been trying to watch the James Bond thing where they go out and try to find items and they get paid so many hundreds of thousands of pounds every time I watch it or on Amazon prime the video stops working, and they say we cannot present this content right now this has been since I moved in here And became a prime member years ago whether it Star Trek or Mission impossible or Perry Mason it will stop and you cannot watch it again. This is why I hate streaming why I like physical media I have about 200 blue and about 500 DVDs and 600 CDs of music spoken word, soundtracks, and even a few records of movies I really like that I kept for one reason or another.
Sound Depth in Bluray Movies is far superior then Netflix and Amazon. You this difference if you use Denon or Maratz Receivers with 7.1 sound Atmos. Blu-rays will prevail may be in less selling like 3D Avatar -2 is having very good effects. Streaming till now not able to stream 3D content. 8K Blurays are on the way. As 8K TV manufacturer Sony LG are completing formats for 8K 3D with 100" to 300" TVs OLED and LED pure view series.
Some people are satisfied with the inferior quality of streaming. I'm not one of them, so still buy physical media. It's there whenever I want to watch/listen to it. I'm not at the mercy of somebody else who can determine whether I can access it and what I will have to pay.
Physical media - we buy it somes still but mostly Disney or something special we like. Netflix- Its 4 of us so we watch something several times a month and it's mostly paid for by T-Mobile and we pay the difference. We have the highest plan.
I buy new movies exclusively on 4k bluray. The bitrate is much higher and compression is much less. If you want the best fidelity visually and audibly, streaming is just not there yet.
Physical media gives you what streaminy doesnt: *control* When you have a dvd/bluray, its yours. A streaming service can just remove a movie or series whenever. I stream some but i ultimately stick to my dvd library and always will.
I still watch dvd’s. I don’t want downloaded content as I used to buy games online, they took them down after awhile and after put them back up months later wanting people to repurchase! No thanks!
I still buy physical media because there's only so much I'm willing to pay for and there are classic movies that you just can't find on streaming services.
BB's 86ing of physical media is certainly a blow, but not existential. Serious collectors will have all kinds of sources online. The studios may pare back their releases, but many titles will be licensed to smaller releasing companies that take physical media seriously & have solid relationships with their customers. What's lost is the fun of a store visit and a browse; not to mention the giddy madness of Black Friday. DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4Ks will be coming our way for many more years; and a billion used disks will be out there for the picking. As for the machines, someone will always be making them. And there a copious quantities of them in all the used markets, from Craigslist and Goodwill to tens of thousands of yard sales. I have 4 Blu Ray players, 2 region free DVD players and 2 DVD recorders; and when something good pops up cheap, I grab it.
Does viewership hours matter that much if you didn't lose subs? I mean less hours mean less cost for bandwidth etc, Netflix saving money. Of course that may turn off advertisers.
Films a d show before 1990 will rarely be available from streaming. My physical media collection grows weekly. I have not bought anything from Best Buy for 5 years. Price and selection is better on line.
Still buy DVDs. I can watch my favs at anytime I want, no spinning circle, no seeing half a ad or the same same three times in a row. Also having to remember have to pause on different systemss.
Physical is NOT dying! Sales are rising every year.
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Questions for Luke Please: I cut the cord with cable TV 4+ years ago. My Spectrum bill was cut from $289 to $65 dropping cable TV and returning 5 cable boxes leaving me with internet and home phone service. I chose Sling TV for my streaming service which included our local TV channels. This left me with a total internet, phone and streaming bill of about $115 a month which to me was an extreme savings. With that kind of savings allowed me to buy Apple TVs for my streaming devices which enabled me to update my home network to a mesh network system. Spectrum has been updating their service and I currently am getting 300+ Meg downy but only 9 to 12 Meg up. The upload speed to me is critical and am looking to change internet provider to someone who offers a guaranteed upload speed of 20+ Meg. When you talk about internet speeds from the carriers you very seldom give any upload speed information. I think this information would be very helpful to many of us, out here, to make an educated decision on changing internet providers! Thank you for your time and Thank you for what you are doing towards educating the masses on cord cutting! Purcyp in Alabama
If Noone answers you, it depends what else you do. If you don't host a plex server or depend on your home internet for work, then 3mbps upload should be plenty. Yes it does mean you will have to wait a few extra seconds per picture uploaded to Facebook.
For the record I spend $310/mo with taxes for internet (att fiber and verizion LTE prepaid backup), streaming (slingtv (orange+blue +2 packs), netflix (1080p no ads), disney bundle (hulu w/adds, disney no ads, and espn+), sirrus xm (2 cars), and cell phones (verizion 15gb prepaid and tmobile 10gb prepaid). Edit this price also includes the digital version to a local newspaper. I also have an antenna for OTA TV
When it comes to local channels in your area, can you pick any of them up with an antenna, either an outdoor or indoor model? I have an indoor antenna with an inexpensive Walmart amplifier, and I can get the big four networks in my area. But as I'm about 40 or so miles from the towers, I can't get the smaller independent local channels. And for the antenna to work, I had to run a long cable from my TV, along the baseboard and under a door to the top shelf of my bedroom closet. It's a bit much, but it's the only way I can reliably pick up the major channels for free.
@EncoreEnterprisesLLC theres alot of information you dont know and most of the information pitched to consumers is wrong. So forget everything you know about antennas. indoor antennas suck. Here's the problem: all antennas that advertise over 80 miles is a fake antenna, which is about 95% of antennas sold between amazon and Walmart online. There is no electronic device or booster that can increase the range of an antenna, it's just snake oil. However there are situations where you do need an amplifier and it has more to do with splitters and bad coax cables. All antennas including the antenna at the bottom of the ocean from the titanic made in thr 1900s are analog, digital, 480p, 720p, 1080p, 2k, 4k, 8k, 10000000k, atsc 1.0, atsc 3.0, and all future resolutions not yet invented. If you care about getting reliable antenna TV and don't want to spend a lifetime studying radio frequencies then look up Tyler the antenna man and just pay for his antenna selection service. I don't have time to teach you nor care to start a competing business.
@EncoreEnterprisesLLC because of the intensity of lightning and living in a rural area, I have an outdoor antenna mounted at a high point in my giant garage. I've been hit with lighting too many times, so I do take a small hit to reception reliability by having the outdoor antenna inside, but its not worth the lightning risk to me. So far I've been hit by lightning directly or indirectly every year since I built this house in 2021. Surprisingly I've only had about $1300 in total damage and haven't lost a major appliance... yet.
I will always buy physical media, as long as someone makes it. A 4K disc is a thousand times superior to streaming. Your disc is your's, unaltered and always available.
I still buy Blu-Rays and CDs. The video and sound quality are far better than streaming. I have an extensive CD collection of opera recordings. Nothing better than to sit back and watch a movie or play a CD on my Blu-Ray player. For us opera lovers there is no streaming service that streams operas.
People like myself are buying VCR players cleaning tapes vhs movies everything else off eBay and Amazon now days everything proven people don't know what is happening behind their back
I will NEVER stop buying DVD's & VHS! I have 4 large cabinets full of DVD's! I watch physical every single day! They are superior (my opinion) to fickle streaming services. I do stream a lot of things but I will always keep my 2 VCR's and 2 DVD Recorders (Not A DVR>) I also sell DVD's and Movies on EBAY and Amazon in my own shops. I have some rare movies that streaming just don't show! So, I will never let go of my Physical Media!!
Just watched the 4K disc of Loki season 1 and it really made it hard to watch the second season on Disney plus I really hope for a resurgence in physical media. So many movies I watch now have to purchase this way. It's an odd time to watch movies 🤣
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The (Removing DVDs from stores) problem is from the new worst woke junk movies that Hollywood makes.
The greatest weapon is the control of information to control what people think. Buy physical video media. Do not trust streaming.
t mobile is trash
To be fair to Netflix, between the shutdowns and the strikes, how much decent entertainment has been produced in the last few years?
Still use dvds for some movies that are out of print, for other people and seniors that can’t afford streaming or understand the new tech
I have a Panasonic 4k player. I will still collect sci-fi and horror movies on Blu Ray and 4K. I want to physically own my movies and watch without commercial interruptions.
You're not going to watch a movie on the internet that looks like Blu-ray. 👍😁
I am not into pic quality as much as having access to the TV series or movie. Sure, I want the best quality, but remember most of the old stuff was not even in 480i. We watched that for decades and never complained. I still have my old Vizio 1080' 43" set and it does well with SD as well as 720p & 1080i. I have friends that have a 4K set and 480' looks horrible on it.
If that's your goal, you can buy a usb storage drive and archive 100s of shows and movies on each drive.
You can plug almost any USB drive directly into most TVs and play the video.
I agree in the uk 4K discs are enjoying significant growth DVDs are not going anywhere as streaming companies delete content from customers libraries and raise there prices. Amazon are interrupting movies with adverts ! The dvd and 4k discs are here to stay , streaming just offers licenses to watch , if you buy something you never own the
Movie just the license !
@stsxt05 buying a DVD doesn't mean you own it. It's a physical media license. That you cannot show publicly, copy, distribute, amongst other restrictions.
Not reading the label or warnings on DVDs doesn't make you exempt.
Personally, physical media is far superior to streaming. You don't have to worry if the service has Atmos or if they chopped and edited it to hell. Also, the picture quality is far better than having artifacts in the stream based on your connection quality. On top of that, most streaming services, live or movies, haven't really advanced in technology like physical media has. They have promised that with the debut of ATSC 3, but that isn't until 2027. Until then, I'll keep and still buy physical media including CDs and Vinyl.
I was watching cocaine bear on prime It looked like they took out some parts
I have thousands of DVD's and also 1000+ Beta and nearly 1000 VHS. I have been recording since 1976. I still do today, plus I purchase a lot of used DVDs from Amazon, Ebay, Goodwill, etc. I like having the physical media, rather than trying to find it streaming. Many older TV shows that were available on physical media there are no licensing available for those on streaming. To me physical media is the only way to go. I have several DVD recorders and players. I am good to go for the rest of my life. I can still buy recordable Verbatim DVD blanks also on Amazon and Ebay. Streaming is still not where it needs to be either. Too many licensing rules that streaming is not included. I love the old Classic TV shows and most of the rare ones were only available on DVDs if at all.. I even recently even found The Rich Little Show from the 70s in a box set season. Never seen that streaming. Classic Disney material was released on VHS/DVDs in the past but are not on Disney+. I could go on and on. But it is physical media for me.
When you buy physical media, YOU have control; when you have to stream or watch on cable/apps, THEY have control.
I think one reason for poor sales of Blu Rays and DVD`s is due to the lack of quality content being put out anymore(aka garbage). There will always be a demand for physical media anyway. Not everyone wants to be beholden to streaming services.
100%, a prime example of this is I'm a huge Peanuts fan, and over Christmas I was gifted both the DVD, and 1080p Blu-Ray versions of the Holiday specials, and the transfers on both versions was utter slapped together GARBAGE with grainy footage worse then when it was being broadcast on CBS, and ABC 480p OTA!! seriously WTF?!?!
Yes I have a friend that sells movies and games online on eBay he buys tens of thousands of games and movies and breaks them down and sells them and he says the order ones sell and the new ones just sit there. So he only focuses on older stuff now the new stuff is garbage and the consumer doesn't want it. He also had a store but he just moved he's going to open a new one in spring and it is only focused on older stuff. Unfortunately the people making movies don't know what they're doing. They're making movies for their agenda not for what the customer wants.
Yes, years ago the companies were releasing tons of old TV shows. Each month or two there was several new releases. That really dropped on in recent years. I bought a lot from 2005-2015.
How can anyone not see the improvements from physical media over unreliable streaming? Better sound, better picture quality, dependable availability, etc, etc, etc.
Old people. I know of such people who claim they can't tell the difference between a 480i analog VHS to a 4k HDR bluray
Hm, well I am 65 myself, no problem for me!@@thedude5040
@@thedude5040It's more than just that. Even young people love streaming and don't care about the quality. I'm 65, buy discs, and love my home theater system with Dolby Atmos 🙂
Blu-ray is something special
@@thedude5040 While I can certainly tell the difference between a 4k and 480 analog vhs, I honestly can't tell the difference between 2k and 4k. I don't think most people can unless they were right next to the screen
Because of the fickle way streamers treat content, a viewer can never be assured that what they want to watch will actually be offered. The only way to defeat this is to purchase physical media. Once it’s on your shelf, streamers and studios cannot take it away from you. I will continue to buy physical media, and if it goes more boutique, or even underground, I will add as much to my collection as possible.
I've purchased over 1,000 Blu-rays and 4K Blu-rays over the last 2.5 years. It's nice not relying on streaming for the ever-shuffling collection. Plus, with cancel culture and with studios like Disney going back and editing movies, such as Friedkin's The French Connection, it's foolish not to keep a collection of at least your favorite movies and movies you revisit often, such as Christmas movies. Picture and Audio quality are both noticeably a lot better on disc compared to streaming. I mainly use streaming to preview movies and if I like them, I buy them. The studios really screwed themselves by messing with the most profitable, by far, model, for releasing movies which was theater first, then home video and rentals, then cable, then network and streaming. The proof is in the financial results. Shrinking/eliminating those different stages, fairly often coming out with theatrical movies right away on home media, was always obviously a dumb move that isn't sustainable. At some point, I think we'll see studios realize this and try to pull back a little. I could see Sony, a company known for doing their own thing, increase the window between theatrical and streaming everywhere for super cheap as the years go by. I can also see at least a slight uptick in physical media buying as people get tired of the content shuffle. I hear people complaining all the time how they don't have certain movies on their services. It was fun last month constantly getting to tell people "I have that on my shelf." Oh, they need to bring Bad Santa with all three cuts and special features to 4K Blu-ray. I think it'll get one this year or next. Day one purchase for me.
WOW! A lot of discs 👍
Less physical media available, more money in their pockets.
I have had to restart my digital collection twice, the first time was when the original digital cloud service went away. (Ultra-violet). Same with cd's.
I will never get rid of my physicl media.
You could have had all my movies for free. Several years ago I loaded up all my VHS and DVD's in boxes and dropped them off in various second hand stores in my area. I was happy to do so. It just becomes a storage issue after awhile, and most of the stuff just sits on a shelf collecting dust anyway. I did digitize some of the stuff and put it on a hard drive, but even after doing that for awhile I got tired of it, and just said if I need or want to see this again I will just find it online to stream some place
Yep, my brothers Plex account 😀 He's got everything!.
You're trying to hold back the future. If you had a great Maytag washer from 1980 ... how would you repair it? Where would you get the parts? What will you do in 2030 - when the DVD players you have now (or have "stock-piled" ...) are not adaptable to newer computers, T.V. monitors, Microsoft-Apple, etc.? You'll find all those DVDs of yours will be great for coffee mug coasters, conversation pieces - but, maybe not much else. The future of digital demands that streaming resolution will continue to improve rapidly (as it has). And, so it goes.
I wish the general public understood the threat of only having digital copies of media.
Oh sorry the license agreement we had with Sony expired you will lose your content that u bought 😡
@@grateful. Like buying a "John Deere" tractor and not paying for a certain "function" and "they" turn it off. Sorry for your luck. Physical media for me.
If tomorrow "Movie X" or "TV Show Y" the company that owns it decided for any reason that show would never see seen again in streaming, that is it, unless you could make a physical copy. If you have the DVD, you can watch that movie or TV show forever. A good example is the Disney movie "Song of the South" from 1946. That was banned by Disney. They briefly released it on VHS back in the late 70s to video stores then called them all back. A few people kept theirs. Now, Song of the South has gone into public domain in Japan. A media company picked it up for a song and is back releasing it in English, on Blu-ray for $20. I bought one. Great quality and totally legal. Disney does not like it, but there is nothing they can do. Japanese laws are different. But finally, after decades, Song of the South is available. It is in regular region #1 too, so it can be played on regular US made Blu Ray players. That is only one example. there are hundreds of others. A movie I liked with Chad Everett from 1966 called Johnny Tiger. Try and find that in any form today. It was released briefly on VHS. Never been released on DVD as far as I know. Still looking for that. So having media is the best way to go.
I’m fourteen in 2024 and I still buy DVDs and I understand the threat of only digital copies.streaming services censoring or editing movies should be ilegal.
Good for you! I have collected and recorded media for decades. I had my first Beta VCR in about 1975/76. If all TV disappeared tomorrow, I still have thousands of hours of movies & TV shows to watch. Having access to physical media is the only way to go. DVDs & Blu Rays will be around for a long time and they are still making them. Just because a couple of outfits decide not to carry them doesn't mean they are going away.
Luke physical media is awesome, but the movies 🎬 studios don't want the public to own it. If you own the DVD 📀 why would I need disney, hulu,
Or amazon ,or hbo or cable TV 📺 . Every time we get great tech toy the industry finds away to kill it , like netflix getting rid of DVD rentals.
It feels like we the viewer are in a third world 🌎 country.
I don't think Best Buy is 100 percent responsible for them not selling physical. I believe part of it has to do with like you said, the movie studios don't want you to own the movies. Same with music. They are pushing analog vinyl, because you can never get a perfect copy like with CDs. DRM on CDs never took off, so they took the CDs out of physical stores and pushed vinyl down our throats.
As more people realize some of their favorite films are disappearing from streaming services, they'll re-think buying DVD's. We depend WAY TOO MUCH on the internet. When Amazon stops selling them I'll believe they're dead. I won't base it on whether Best Buy carries them or not. People don't care about quality today. Cell phone call quality vs. landline call quality is the best example.
I just want to watch the movie, and most of the movies I like are old, so having a fancy 4k TV isn't going to make those old movies look any better than what they already are
You sound like me. If I purchase movies on the streaming platforms, I always get the standard version and not the HQ version. Saves bandwidth and is better for viewing on a PC or other personal device if you're traveling.@@greyeagle4388
Amazon & Ebay will be selling DVDs & CD's for years and years. I can even find VHS movies at Goodwill.
Without physical media, we are forced to use a streaming service, cable or broadcast TV if available. I lose power a few times a year, so buying discs gives me an option that doesn't require the internet. Since broadcast, cell and cable are unavailable in my area, it's a backup option.
Especially if you have Comcast I lose my internet all the time I call and get a discount like every month it's ridiculous.
@@davidframe1613 It's not the company's fault for interrupted service usually. I lose power, DSL internet and my land line phone because of weather related tree damage to those services. You could have bad lines in your area which is always a possibility, especially in rural areas like mine but it's less likely for most people. Comcast and other cable providers will cut back your signal to provoke customers to buy into a higher speed service, so there's always that possibility.
@@MakeitZUPER you're right I'm just saying people shouldn't base their whole entertainment experience around the internet.
@@davidframe1613 I agree. Discs are the only way to guarantee that the things you want to watch may not be available in the future.
@@MakeitZUPER plus you can share with friends or families without permission.
Netflix is strangling itself with it's prices. It's just not worth the cost anymore
Netflix has a big financial problem their debt is way too high plus every time I get Netflix I can't find material that I would like as a white straight male it just is not on there. Every time someone's nude it's some males butt in the camera that I don't want to see but that's fine but where's the hot females they don't exist in movies anymore. I hate to say it but I think Hollywood is done. I think AI will make movies from here on out at some point. But if you're a white straight male you got to start speaking up you don't have to be mean but you have to start speaking up and calling this crap out and telling people what you will pay for and what you won't.
Days of cheap streaming (and cheap Uber) seem to be over.
@@okrajoe yep or you can just get tubi and it's free with ads. Can beat free
Ya even Prime,don’t care for the content myself,it’s sad that I watch it because no ads!guess what even that perk is over soon,streaming situation is going downhill quickly in my opinion.Asking why I even cancelled dish network a while back, too late I had the dish removed from my roof.
@@billjones4986 cable TV has completely collapsed not too many people watching anything with ads and the corporations need a place to advertise and they went to streaming services and offer them a bunch of money to place their ads on their content. Probably destroying the whole industry we will see but I don't think streaming companies were making money anyhow so streaming companies may look at it as a plus as the customer fleas from paying and watching commercials just sounds like an old dinosaur way of doing things. I would never pay and watch commercials again that's ridiculous. I don't even look at it as an option that price point doesn't exist in my view.
DVDs and Blu-ray's aren't dying. Books didn't die after the big chains closed down. Records didn't die after the big chains closed. Videogames didn't die after the big chains stopped selling them.Independent bookstores, record stores, and game stores opened up to satisfy the demand. Independent video stores will open to satisfy the demand. There were more new titles released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K last year than the last five years.
Correct, 99% of dvd sales have been online for years now, this is a dumb headline.
Sorry, but they are no longer being made and what is out there is being gobbled up and resold for huge profit.
I'm old school, I still buy physical media 10 to one over digital media. Blu rays don't compress, so it's a better picture. Besides, I hate major changes in things.
You are correct about video compression issues. Very good point.
And I've just been thinking, I personally would prefer to purchase movies that I love on Blu-ray/4k and cancel some steaming services... streaming just sometimes doesn't necessarily look as good as physical media
It never looks as good as physical media.
When our internet is out we pop in an old movie!
You get pixelated pixels on blacks, on most streaming
I always purchase physical media whenever possible. I dislike the idea that a product purchased via streaming is really only a rental until such time as the selling company decides to remove it. When I buy a disc (game or Blu), I know that I own it.
Over the past 25 years I have collected over 2000 dvds and blurays. I saw the handwriting on the wall and I have a supply of players. So glad I did this. Streaming is too expensive and many movies and TV shows are not available streaming. Internet goes down and I still have plenty to watch.
A great thing is no one can edit your movies because they don't like it anymore.
People need to get over the narrative that streaming is expensive because it's not.
@@thedude5040 I think Netflix is expensive for what you get also Disney plus but I don't like the content. I mostly watch Tubi but you're right streaming it doesn't have to be expensive. It can be free if you want it to be with a few ads.
@@thedude5040 You are so right I can stream pretty much all year for what it would cost me to buy just 4-5 new release movies in that same amount of time.
I have a vhs dvd blue ray player own a collection of all these!
I still purchase physical media. Mainly because I want the ability to watch what I want, when and where I want. If I rely only on streaming then I'm subject to the availability and quality of the internet, not to mention data caps unless I pay the extra fee for the unlimited data that use to be included with my plan. Also content can be removed from a streaming service. Some content isn't available at all.
Comic books use to be sold in corner stores. When the corner stores stopped selling them, specialty comic shops appears to sell them. While major stores may stop selling DVDs and BRs, specialty shops are likely to keep selling them.
There were a few of those specialty shops selling DVDs/CDs/Blue-ray discs in my area a while back, but they all went out of business; even the stores selling used ones disappeared a while back. The only source I know of now is buying them online or at flea markets/garage sales. The strange thing is there are quite a few vinyl record shops around here that seem to be thriving; some sell CDs but no DVDs/Blue-ray.
I do buy physical media. There are certain shows that get watched a lot and I cannot count on streaming services always having them available. Even Disney+ has pulled certain titles in the past due to deals with other companies and the like. There is also the fact you cannot count on a movie remaining untouched if you just stream it. Look at Lucas with Star Wars for an easy example. It isn't many but there are a handful I feel better actually owning rather than renting :)
Disney has also censored movies, like The French Connection.
All the weird stuff Disney does now we find out employees are suing Disney over covering up sexual harassment cases that's the end of Bob iger even if he wasn't CEO at the time when it happened he was still covering it up that's what they're saying.
@@jimroscovius They don't even run some movies on Disney+. The only way to see Song of the South is on a European DVD.
@@writerpatrick Just another reason to buy physical media.
If the movie or TV show is available this month, will it be there next month?
I still buy movies on VCD, DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Blu-ray, and the rare VHS, as I've seen many movies, TV shows, and Anime just go poof from streaming, or it's edited/censored/ incomplete versions.
The Anime series(not the very much cutdown movie)Galaxy Express 999 is a good example as what's on streaming is slightly edited from the original, and for a long time was not streaming at all after it left the original version of Crackle when Sony owned it, and showed the original unedited subtitled version. Lupin the 3rd is another classic Anime that gets butchered if you watch the dubbed version on streaming, and not the subbed version that's being shown out of order on PLUTO TV so as a very long time Anime fan physical media is very important if you want the original versions as so much of it gets butchered when translated for western markets.
I love my physical media.❤ Streaming services are fickle, canceling or "disappearing" your favorite show/movie without warning. 😢 And a lot of blue rays still come with some very nice extras.😊
I for sure buy physical media. As a classic movie enthusiast, there are times when the only way to see one of those movies is to own them. And I did bite the bullet and dropped Netflix. I figure if there's a show I need to see, I'll get it for a month and drop it again. That last price hike was too much for me.
Yes to physical media. Not every show is available on streaming. Some studios don't have a streaming service so the only way the could be streamed is if they licence that content and licences expire. There's also foreign content such as shows from the BBC and others that just becomes too costly to keep a smaller service in the long run when you only like a show or two that could be found there.
Owning the Christmas story physically and watching it each year not having to hunt for it on streaming services and not paying a fee is something special. And I was watching a older movie and they cut a whole joke line out and people were laughing and I was like why is the audience laughing and went back and watched it on DVD and they cut out a whole joke because they didn't like it. I think if I remember it was the movie 16 candles. It was a joke making fun of Asian people. But it's only a joke. These sensitive fascist corporations.😁😂🤣
With streaming, the viewer is under the control of what the supplier wants to offer. Licensing is an issue for many movies & TV shows. Some less popular movies & TV show may not make to streaming as the licensing fees no one wants to pay for them.
Yes! I still buy physical media, as companies decide to withdrawal rights to digital media you buy ( as happened recently with play station). I also want a hard copy so when one service quits streaming on their service and it rotates to a competing service (possibly one I do not pay for) I have the hard copy to view.
I read that with Play Station. I don't trust most the companies. there. Most the bottom line is $$$.
I like to have copies of certain movies. Like, for instance, the new Godzilla Minus One when it comes out and other things. Streaming does not always work with issues like buffering. I understand why these companies are doing this but they will lose some business to Amazon Marketplace, Ebay, and others. I am currently looking for a new Blu-ray player.
I upgrade my collection when a classic comes out in 4k. It's very rare when I find a new movie worth owning, in any format.
Unfortunately you're right most new content is garbage and no one wants it it's based on an agenda.
I believe the real reason for dvds is that streaming and cable companies have got together to stop selling them, look if you want to see the same show again you pay again they love it this way. Comcast is the the worst crook when it comes to this
I argue Netflix lost viewership because of their cutting down on their pw sharing. My dad and I can no longer share our membership,, so we dropped it completely.
Most people I know cancelled Netflix after they blocked password sharing.
I still collect physical media. Streaming can be good, but the costs keep increasing. Too many times I've started TV series but have been unable to finish them. "Included with Prime" means only one or two seasons are included but to watch the entire series means paying for still another service. Several times, content was dropped suddenly without explanation before I could finish it. If I own what I like on physical media, I don't have to rely on the decisions of desk jockeys to see what I like. I've dropped a couple of services, & am considering tossing at least two more. However, even paying for seven services was cheaper than my cable bill was.
got almost 8 year old blu ray player and a few year olds multi regional player got black adman on DVD last year
i think people will regret ditching the physical media in decades to come got around 2700 films and tv shows not on streaming in my personal collection both blu rays and mostly DVDs been a collector since the 2000s
It won't kill Blu rays etc as this is a collectors market now who of which mostly by direct from boutique labels or Amazon etc. it's not dead it's just changing.
It already has one foot in the grave. It’s just not selling anymore like it used to.
@@wingman-1977Yes, they are still selling. Try finding Oppenheimer in Steelcase, as an example.
@@jimroscovius 🤦♂️One title out of how many?
@@wingman-1977 Many. If you don't buy right away, forget it. You won't get it.
Netflix has ZERO shame multiplying their prices every year 🤢🤢🤮
Yeah, and 98% of their content is garbage with a good chunk of it trying to push "the message" many of us don't want to watch, or our kids to watch. So I stopped paying for it years ago!!
Yall are cry babies. Netflix is is cheap
@@thedude5040I can buy two other streaming services for the cost of Netflix alone.
@jimroscovius I think the problem is people don't know how to handle money. I'd argue most people who complain about prices are just either ignorant of production costs/maintenance or are so worried about dollars and pennies because they have to make it to next week's paycheck and the end of month credit card bill. It's my belief if you have any amount of credit card debt then you should cancel all forms of streaming and notallow yourself the boredom pleasure of sitting down to watch TV.
@thedude5040 I agree with you on that. We have no debt and a paid-off house. We pay cash for cars and have savings and an emergency fund. We both worked and we had kids. I'm now semi-retired, but my wife works fulltime yet. Why? Because she wants to.
The point is we planned, and that's what a lot of people don't do. We subscribe to Hulu + Live TV, but we'd cut it if we were broke. As it is, we've cut back on some things to plan for future full retirement. You've got to plan.
I restarted buying HD & UHD Blu-Rays recently thanks to David Zaslav and other streaming services that started deep sixing movies and series in order to make more money. The only way to guarantee availability is to own the physical media.
I will keep buying physical media tell I can't. I don't like the idea of having a streaming service controlling when I can watch something or change it. Like WWE will edit matches or music so they don't have to pay more to stream it again.
Regarding the idea that you don't need physical media because streaming services offer the content:
You don't own the content you stream. And if the streaming service you use drops the content or decides it needs to be edited to "update" it for a "modern audience," you're stuck with their edits of choice. They can't change your DVDs or Blu-Rays.
Choose what content you stream carefully. Personally, I think a diverse home library trumps any streaming service out there.
I " cut the cord " a couple of years ago and stream and still have a VCR and a blue ray player . Don't use them much but they are here. Cable priced them selves out of my budget and so did the satellite companies I've had both. Now the streaming companies are doing it also! As long as the tv networks keep the translators working ill be satisfied,I live in a vary fringe area so I'm at the mercy of the tv networks.
You cant always find movies or tv shows on streaming that you want to watch. Also faster to grap a DVD and watch then trying to find them on streaming. Also you dont get everything for free. Have to rent or buy them and hopefully, when you buy, they will still be there. I think there are certain things that still need to be in physical form and movies and tv shows are one of those things
I don't buy DVD and Blu-Ray movies anymore. But, I still buy TV shows on DVD. Some of them aren't streaming plus I like having physical copies.
I have almost no movies DVDs, movies I watch once or twice then that's it. But I still buy a lot of music CDs. Its nice to have those around, you can drop one into the player and let it go while doing things around you. CD/DVD/Blue-ray players are still a thing and you can buy them from online vendors, sometimes all three formats in one player. My public library has a great DVD/Blue-ray collection for check-out, they have the recent 'Oppenheimer' movie on DVD and Blue-ray so you know studios are still manufacturing both those formats.
I have to give apple credit that you can truly purchase digital music now without any DRM. Songs you download today can be played in any player including your car's radio though a flash drive. Unfortunately movies purchased from Apple have DRM
We used to (buy Blu-Ray) before we went streaming for most of what we watch movie wise. We'll still likely buy _some_ movies rather than rent or wait for stream them - most of what we'll buy will be via physical media and where we already have earlier ones in the series (e.g. Fast & The Furious 20 where we already have 1-19 on DVD / Blu-Ray ;-) )
Love this channel very informative
I rather have physical media, I hate streaming! Buffering, lost programing, censored content, and high cost of streaming and now ota, turned me off TV at all.
When Amazon stops selling bluray and dvd, wake me.
Here where I live I had Dish and they had the local channels, but Lilly Broadcasting owns most of the local channels and Lilly Broadcasting blocked their channels from Dis because they wanted MORE money, from Dish to rebroadcast their channels, so local news and programs were cut by Lilly Broadcasting. If Dish is forced to carry all the local channels the they will also be forced to pay what ever Lilly Broadcasting says, with out any negotiations at all.
Like Doeboy breweries live so slowly converting from DVDs and I refuse to pay the big movie companies for streaming for things I wanna watch whenever I wanna watch them for free, so Blu-ray may be dead to them. They’re not dead to me eBay and Amazon still sell them and I can get almost anything I wanna watch and there’s a lot of older stuff that never showed up in DBD that people live take me from the 50s And television movies that were never released so there’s a lot of stuff out there still to watch. It’s only corporate arrogance and greed that people to go and pay for streaming and not have media they can watch whenever they want and there’s also Rasputin record here and in San Francisco and Berkeley there’s amoeba And they sell used DVDs and Blu-ray and records and CDs of music.
Not sure if this is true, people still buy discs. Best Buy stopped selling DVDs a long while ago in Canada.
Still available online for many places, BB, Walmart, eBay, Amazon, etc.
Amazon & Ebay both sell millions of DVDS.
Precisely, anyone can buy DVDs at lots of places, Best Buy is just one store.
Yes, DVD's will be around for a long time. I don't think they are going anywhere. Many not as many titles will be available, but enough to keep the viewer happy.
I have a slight complaint about your titles of the videos, Luke. You don’t need to title them as though you are doing “clickbait” , using “ The Death of ____!” Neither Cable TV nor DVD’s are completely dead. It’s just getting harder to access those media.
I'm also a little worried about the click bait titles. If this continues I'll be unsubing.
Physical media had a good run -- since first phonograph cylinder went on sale in 1889!
Digital for video games is a bit of a different monster. Games these days have a life cycle of anywhere from a year (think Madden NFL Football or WWE 2K) to many years (think Destiny 2). During that life cycle, changes and additions are made to the game where the version running on the PC or console no longer resembles the copy of the game on the physical media. So what this situation ultimately distills to is your physical copy acts as a "CD key" to running the game you installed from a disc & would need to be in the disc drive for the game to run in spite of the bulk of the game engine residing on your console's HDD/SSD. And that is why digital purchases and downloads make more sense on video games. Additionally, depending on your device's DRM for game titles, you may be able to purchase once and install on more than one device. Let's take Sony Playstation as our example - you can set one console as your primary console on which any other user can play your digital content and you can set a second console of the same generation as your secondary console where only you can play your digital content. The net effect is you can enjoy a multiplayer experience with other family members off of one digital purchase across two of the same generation console. There is a catch though - live service games such as Destiny 2 require each individual account holder to purchase a season pass to unlock the content for each user, but that's the developer/publisher controlling that rather than the platform.
Now movies - that's different from video games. Aside from remastered re-releases with extras, movies and TV shows do not change. Having a physical copy of a movie or TV show you really enjoy doubles up as insurance against the licensing on that same content via some cloud streamer expiring...whether that means discontinuing on whatever streaming service you are watching it on or like the situation late last year between WBD & Sony where people who had outright purchased content for their personal cloud library on the Playstation platform were informed their WBD digital purchases would be removed from their library due to the end of WBD's relationship with Sony. That eventually got resolved, but it was a HUGE red flag to digital consumers that their digital purchases could vanish under their noses at any time. Hence the advice I've long given folks - if there is movie or TV show you really like, buy in on physical media so you always have access to it.
I havent been in a Best Buy for a few years and itll probably continue that way. Its now just a cell phone store while also dabbling with TVs and computers. This company is clueless. I get all my blu ray from online stores and TV, blu ray equipment and speskers from speciality shops. I used to shop at Best Buy every week when it was a fun place, including their giant shelves of discs. Its now a depressing shell of its former glory, sadly
T-Mobile "Carrier Aggregation" refers to combining multiple signal carriers T-Mobile owns, not other companies. All cell phone companies have done this for years. This new effort is just increasing the number of signals that can be combined.
With all the reports of Blu-Rays dying many seem to have missed that various news media reported a few weeks ago that the film Oppenheimer's Blu-ray release broke sales records for a Blu-Ray release. I think a lot of reports are confusing regular DVDs with Blu-ray. The manufacturers of Blu-ray players should be trying to work out deals with streaming services to incorporate their apps into their devices much more efficiently than they have in the past. I would love to own a Blu-Ray player with a Roku app.
Roku probably won't adjust based on the capability of the tv. They will actually base on the download speed meaning that even though a download speed is low Roku will automatically drop the resolution even though it may not be necessary. Rural areas would be limited to 480i in most cases even though 40-50 mbps can actually handle 4k. Most streaming is actually 720P....not 1080 or 4k
I stopped buying Blu rays 11 years ago. Recently, I realized how dumb it is to ‘hope’ the show I want to rewatch is on a platform. I now buy the blue rays I want to rewatch( only a few meet that criteria )on my Amazon gift list. Friends & family can see my shared lists file, & now can shop wherever & buy me a gift I love.
I have started building my digital library through Apple TV and I love it. Here are some of the reasons: 1) cost effective..new releases cost less in digital than the physical copy. I purchased the movie The Killers of the Flower Moon through Apple TV for 19.99. Amazon wanted 27.00 2) takes up zero space. 3) Don't have to worry about scratches or fingerprints on the disc 4) don't have to get up to put the disc in or take it out 5) All of your movies are in 1 place an in alphabetical order 6) You get first release quicker(especially if you have Apple) 7) You can take your collection with you on the go. That's just a start. So YES....digital movies is going to be the future. It's going to do to Blu Ray and DVD's what streaming music has done to CD's
🤔QUESTION:
I’m worried about the status of the Roku streaming devices, I’ve noticed that Roku hasn’t released a new streaming model since September 2021…
I was curious to hear your thoughts on this?
Are they discontinuing the devices & maybe focusing more on their TV line?
I enjoy the Roku devices, my favorite model right now is the Roku Ultra “2019” (4670) Love The Roku 3 “2015” (4230)
Best Buy is not only a place that sells DVDs
I have over 650 movies on DVD and Blu-ray I can just grab a disk and watch anytime I want without paying a service each time I feel like watching a movie, and quite a few in 3D. Was really disappointed when our last video store closed, that was the only way I could get the newer movies. Can't go to the theater because all of those around here also closed up.
I canceled Netflix after my mother died 2 yrs ago. I know ppl that canceled Netflix because they no longer have dvd's
Same here.
I do still buy physical media but not on any regular basis.
you're missing what is happenning....the "download" trend isn't actually a download. You actually "lease" the video. It stays on their server. You can't actually have a file that you can put on your media server. At any point they can remove your access to the movie. This is going to be a lot worse than nyou are describing. Movies will disappear.
I used to think that streaming was the answer to everything, but not every service has every show/movie ever made. Things get added, things get taken away. The ONLY way to make sure you can have what you want forever is to buy it on DVD/Blu-ray. I wonder if this means there is another format coming down the pike that will be better.
You can buy it digitally too. I have quite a bit of stuff in Apple (even obscure boutique label items) that have never been removed.
QUESTION FOR LUKE on T-Mobile's network speed and volume upgrades - Any information on how that's going to impact broadcast TV? Over the last decade+ the FCC has been taking the top-end UHF bands away from TV broadcasting and selling it for cellphone & 5G use, thus compacting TV broadcasting into a narrower range of the radiowave spectrum. Any impact for us OTA, antenna-using TV viewers?
There will be no more changes. The impact to OTA TV has already happened during the last reshuffle. A few people may benefit from a 600mhz low pass filter if they live within eye site of a cell phone tower.
@@thedude5040 Thanks for the info!
I do buy physical media. Mainly DVDs. My small digital library is like 80% free digital copies. I have not been a Netflix subscriber for a while now. We will pick it up again for Stranger Things 5. My only current service is Peacock. We got the BF deal for FNAF.
This has been a long time coming. Right now there are only two companies making disc players (Sony & Panasonic) and it's not like their options are cheap. I think when one of them decides to stop making new players, that's really what will finish discs off for good. Yes you might have some boutique company jump in and start making them. That's what happened with turntables. The end of discs doesn't mean you have to stream everything. There are still options like Vudu and Apple which are actually fairly decent quality. I've also never lost access to anything I have bought directly through Apple, whether it is music, movies or TV shows.
the only time we use DVDs is when the internet is out and the kids want to watch something.
Best Buy is just a horrible barometer to measure DVD life/sales. Or any other brick and mortar business for that matter.
Amazon is retail sales king now. Doing a quick search on Amazon will show units sold for the past month for that title. Best Buy will never hit these numbers. People shop differently now.
For me Best Buy is "dying" rather than DVD's/Bluerays.
I have not been in a Best Buy in years. I used to go in to look at their vast DVD collections. Now I buy them on Amazon or Ebay.
Still purchasing physical media. It’s still better than any streaming version. Plus, if you don’t buy the physical media you don’t own it. That needs to be addressed or everyone should still purchase physical media.
Going with physical disk is the way.
They cannot delete your media if you have the disks or have to pay every time you want to see a movie or tv show.
With the way streaming services are yanking content. Stores are foolish to stop selling DVDs
Haven’t had a CD player in any of my vehicles in about five years now, and haven’t had a DVD player hooked up even longer. I say that and I don’t have a Netflix account. I basically use Amazon and I still use iTunes to download music.
Long live physical media. I will never pay money to download a movie. I also have no more reason to go to Best Buy.
I have found that physical media is superior to streaming media in picture and sound quality, plus you own it and that is why I still buy it. On the other hand, streaming is more convenient. I cancelled cable a couple of years ago but did not rush into streaming. I tried out several different streaming services for a month and then ended up cancelling them for one of the same reasons I cancelled cable. That reason being there are too many channels that I'm paying for that I don't watch.
Also, the price of streaming keeps going up and one of the main reasons I hear is the cost of creating content is going up. I'm sure that's true, but if I'm not watching the content on most of those channels anyway, I don't want to have to pay for it. This is where streaming and cable are pretty much the same. Streaming should allow anyone to be able to select and pay for just the channels they watch. The technology is already available, but the streaming companies won't make as much money if they did this so that is the problem. Thanks for reading my reply.
One problem I have it streaming is Amazon prime. I have been trying to watch the James Bond thing where they go out and try to find items and they get paid so many hundreds of thousands of pounds every time I watch it or on Amazon prime the video stops working, and they say we cannot present this content right now this has been since I moved in here And became a prime member years ago whether it Star Trek or Mission impossible or Perry Mason it will stop and you cannot watch it again. This is why I hate streaming why I like physical media I have about 200 blue and about 500 DVDs and 600 CDs of music spoken word, soundtracks, and even a few records of movies I really like that I kept for one reason or another.
Sound Depth in Bluray Movies is far superior then Netflix and Amazon. You this difference if you use Denon or Maratz Receivers with 7.1 sound Atmos. Blu-rays will prevail may be in less selling like 3D Avatar -2 is having very good effects. Streaming till now not able to stream 3D content. 8K Blurays are on the way. As 8K TV manufacturer Sony LG are completing formats for 8K 3D with 100" to 300" TVs OLED and LED pure view series.
Hey Luke, Question for today. Baseball season is coming, What will be the best streaming? Thank you
Great question! It's too early to tell
Some people are satisfied with the inferior quality of streaming. I'm not one of them, so still buy physical media. It's there whenever I want to watch/listen to it. I'm not at the mercy of somebody else who can determine whether I can access it and what I will have to pay.
Physical media - we buy it somes still but mostly Disney or something special we like.
Netflix- Its 4 of us so we watch something several times a month and it's mostly paid for by T-Mobile and we pay the difference. We have the highest plan.
I buy new movies exclusively on 4k bluray. The bitrate is much higher and compression is much less. If you want the best fidelity visually and audibly, streaming is just not there yet.
I will always buy dvds blu-ray s as long as I can do it, there are alot of shows that aren't on streaming, physical media is still the best for me.
Physical media gives you what streaminy doesnt:
*control*
When you have a dvd/bluray, its yours. A streaming service can just remove a movie or series whenever. I stream some but i ultimately stick to my dvd library and always will.
I still watch dvd’s. I don’t want downloaded content as I used to buy games online, they took them down after awhile and after put them back up months later wanting people to repurchase! No thanks!
I still buy physical media because there's only so much I'm willing to pay for and there are classic movies that you just can't find on streaming services.
BB's 86ing of physical media is certainly a blow, but not existential. Serious collectors will have all kinds of sources online. The studios may pare back their releases, but many titles will be licensed to smaller releasing companies that take physical media seriously & have solid relationships with their customers. What's lost is the fun of a store visit and a browse; not to mention the giddy madness of Black Friday. DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4Ks will be coming our way for many more years; and a billion used disks will be out there for the picking. As for the machines, someone will always be making them. And there a copious quantities of them in all the used markets, from Craigslist and Goodwill to tens of thousands of yard sales. I have 4 Blu Ray players, 2 region free DVD players and 2 DVD recorders; and when something good pops up cheap, I grab it.
Does viewership hours matter that much if you didn't lose subs? I mean less hours mean less cost for bandwidth etc, Netflix saving money. Of course that may turn off advertisers.
Films a d show before 1990 will rarely be available from streaming. My physical media collection grows weekly. I have not bought anything from Best Buy for 5 years. Price and selection is better on line.
I bought a Sony x800m2 Blu Ray Player during black Friday sales since I knew this was coming. So sad.
Still buy DVDs. I can watch my favs at anytime I want, no spinning circle, no seeing half a ad or the same same three times in a row. Also having to remember have to pause on different systemss.
Physical is NOT dying! Sales are rising every year.
Questions for Luke Please:
I cut the cord with cable TV 4+ years ago. My Spectrum bill was cut from $289 to $65 dropping cable TV and returning 5 cable boxes leaving me with internet and home phone service. I chose Sling TV for my streaming service which included our local TV channels. This left me with a total internet, phone and streaming bill of about $115 a month which to me was an extreme savings. With that kind of savings allowed me to buy Apple TVs for my streaming devices which enabled me to update my home network to a mesh network system.
Spectrum has been updating their service and I currently am getting 300+ Meg downy but only 9 to 12 Meg up.
The upload speed to me is critical and am looking to change internet provider to someone who offers a guaranteed upload speed of 20+ Meg.
When you talk about internet speeds from the carriers you very seldom give any upload speed information. I think this information would be very helpful to many of us, out here, to make an educated decision on changing internet providers!
Thank you for your time and Thank you for what you are doing towards educating the masses on cord cutting!
Purcyp in Alabama
If Noone answers you, it depends what else you do. If you don't host a plex server or depend on your home internet for work, then 3mbps upload should be plenty. Yes it does mean you will have to wait a few extra seconds per picture uploaded to Facebook.
For the record I spend $310/mo with taxes for internet (att fiber and verizion LTE prepaid backup), streaming (slingtv (orange+blue +2 packs), netflix (1080p no ads), disney bundle (hulu w/adds, disney no ads, and espn+), sirrus xm (2 cars), and cell phones (verizion 15gb prepaid and tmobile 10gb prepaid). Edit this price also includes the digital version to a local newspaper. I also have an antenna for OTA TV
When it comes to local channels in your area, can you pick any of them up with an antenna, either an outdoor or indoor model? I have an indoor antenna with an inexpensive Walmart amplifier, and I can get the big four networks in my area. But as I'm about 40 or so miles from the towers, I can't get the smaller independent local channels. And for the antenna to work, I had to run a long cable from my TV, along the baseboard and under a door to the top shelf of my bedroom closet. It's a bit much, but it's the only way I can reliably pick up the major channels for free.
@EncoreEnterprisesLLC theres alot of information you dont know and most of the information pitched to consumers is wrong. So forget everything you know about antennas. indoor antennas suck. Here's the problem: all antennas that advertise over 80 miles is a fake antenna, which is about 95% of antennas sold between amazon and Walmart online. There is no electronic device or booster that can increase the range of an antenna, it's just snake oil. However there are situations where you do need an amplifier and it has more to do with splitters and bad coax cables. All antennas including the antenna at the bottom of the ocean from the titanic made in thr 1900s are analog, digital, 480p, 720p, 1080p, 2k, 4k, 8k, 10000000k, atsc 1.0, atsc 3.0, and all future resolutions not yet invented. If you care about getting reliable antenna TV and don't want to spend a lifetime studying radio frequencies then look up Tyler the antenna man and just pay for his antenna selection service. I don't have time to teach you nor care to start a competing business.
@EncoreEnterprisesLLC because of the intensity of lightning and living in a rural area, I have an outdoor antenna mounted at a high point in my giant garage. I've been hit with lighting too many times, so I do take a small hit to reception reliability by having the outdoor antenna inside, but its not worth the lightning risk to me. So far I've been hit by lightning directly or indirectly every year since I built this house in 2021. Surprisingly I've only had about $1300 in total damage and haven't lost a major appliance... yet.
No! Those idiots they can’t do that, can they?
I will always buy physical media, as long as someone makes it. A 4K disc is a thousand times superior to streaming. Your disc is your's, unaltered and always available.
I still buy Blu-Rays and CDs. The video and sound quality are far better than streaming. I have an extensive CD collection of opera recordings. Nothing better than to sit back and watch a movie or play a CD on my Blu-Ray player. For us opera lovers there is no streaming service that streams operas.
People like myself are buying VCR players cleaning tapes vhs movies everything else off eBay and Amazon now days everything proven people don't know what is happening behind their back
I will NEVER stop buying DVD's & VHS! I have 4 large cabinets full of DVD's! I watch physical every single day! They are superior (my opinion) to fickle streaming services. I do stream a lot of things but I will always keep my 2 VCR's and 2 DVD Recorders (Not A DVR>) I also sell DVD's and Movies on EBAY and Amazon in my own shops. I have some rare movies that streaming just don't show! So, I will never let go of my Physical Media!!
I think physical meda has far more value than streaming or downloading. The lazy sheep are helping greedy companies destroy the business.
Wow. Take off your tin foil hat
Just watched the 4K disc of Loki season 1 and it really made it hard to watch the second season on Disney plus
I really hope for a resurgence in physical media. So many movies I watch now have to purchase this way. It's an odd time to watch movies 🤣
I do wonder why the movies are not sold on zip drives so storage volume would be reduced.
Plastic is far cheaper than microchips