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I buy blu-rays because they offer better quality than streaming. Plus I get to keep what I buy. I don't care about having to get up and change discs often. I have over 3,000 titles in my collection, and I have been collecting Blu-rays for over 10 years. If physical media ever dies, I'll still have my discs that I've already bought. There's nothing like having the disc and holding it in your hand. It's yours. The content is there to stay and can not be altered or changed or taken away, and their's no license agreement that will expire and cause the film to get removed. You buy it. It's permanently yours.
I'm a strong supporter of physical media. I hate having to rely on streaming services to find my favourite films. There's just something so special about owning your favourite media physically, as you can revisit them anytime you want.
@@jefftakesdscakes30 I have well over 2,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I pay for no streaming services, and haven't in many years. If you're completely reliant on streaming, it seems you're the clown, not Jon. 🤡
@@Fluoride_JonesYep, there was a movie my wife and I wanted to watch and for some reason, it wasn't working on streaming. I got up and said dont worry, I've had it on DVD for years and popped it right in.
100% agree with you bro. I also like physical media. Streaming services are not good as physical becoz physical one has less compression and better quality
I still buy DVDs and blu-rays. If I’m in the mood to watch a movie, I don’t want to worry about if it’s on streaming or if my internet connection is down for maintenance. Plus, a lot of movies never made the jump to streaming, so I like to have a physical copy of films that would otherwise be lost.
Well I just hope dvds and blu rays can still hold out at least for another decade. As much as streaming is convenient, it just doesn’t have the magic of owning a dvd copy yourself. It can hold memories forever and won’t be affected by short term licensing. I also like having special features like directors commentary, trailers and interviews since it explains the greater context. I’m just glad that they are here to stay for the time being in the uk at least but the news about Disney dropping physical media in Australia does worry me.
I agree with you. I think physical media is special. I prefer the tactile experience of handling my own copy of a film that I own forever and not needing internet connection to watch. It makes watching movies into more of an experience.
Not only that, but more and more frequently content on streaming sites is redacted. They'll cut out or alter scenes that are considered sensitive to modern audiences, sometimes even dropping an entire episode from a season. Toy Story 2 and Lilo and Stitch were both altered by Disney+ to remove scenes considered insensitive. Sometimes it'll be edited because directors can't leave well alone, sometimes for political reasons, sometimes because an actor is considered unpalatable these days (Danny Masterson, for instance). As AI is rapidly improving I can potentially see this trend increasing. Eventually the streaming version _may_ end up completely different to the original. So I like owning the physical copy as it cannot be altered.
I always buy Blu-ray when possible. I'm a big proponent for physical media. Own your movies, don't let the bastards turn everything into perpetual renting.
DVDs also took off for the simple reason that it was cheaper and faster for studios to make copies of movies on DVD than VHS (the actual materials and process of making a copy). Along with the better picture for the movie itself, studios were able to transfer all the bonus content usually reserved for laserdiscs and offer them up for a fraction of what laserdiscs cost. In 1999, a sale copy of a VHS tape was about 20 bucks. Suddenly, there was a CD sized laserdisc with a ton of extras that you could buy for 5 more dollars. Once DVD player prices dropped below 200 bucks around 2002, it was game over for VHS.
Many reasons for DVD's success. In Europe, for example, the same master could be used for multiple countries (several audio streams, dozens of subtitle streams) whereas VHS masters had to be made individually for each country, with the appropriate legal warnings, audio language or subtitles, etc. North America DVDs tended to be English, with perhaps French & Spanish subtitles, European DVDs often had multiple languages of audio/subs, and even menus in multiple languages. I worked in the DVD business for many years, from the beginning to the bitter end. I don't miss it! I guess it was fun for a while, in the early days, but towards the end it was tedious as hell. Early DVDs were often quite creative, later ones were BORING to work on (HBO box sets, etc. YAWN!!) The HBO box sets ended up being authored in India once the last of the London/New York authoring houses got closed down. (Thanks, Deluxe!) Sony closed their optical media dept in New York too. After 3 lay-offs/office closures, I finally moved on to other things! 🙂
Any other movie collectors out there? I have about 2,000 Blu-rays, 1,500 DVDs and 400 4Ks. On top of that I have over 300 different tv shows on Blu-ray and DVD. A couple months ago a huge storm knocked out our city’s internet for a couple of days and I was the only one at work that was still able to watch tv and movies.
I have well over 2,000 DVDs and Blu-rays, but to be honest, I've never actually counted them. Physical media's special to me. I don't like streaming services holding power over what I can watch, when I want to watch it. At this point, I can see myself slowing down on physical media purchases, as I'm running out of stuff I think I truly need in my collection, and probably have stuff I'll never get around to watching. That being said, the year is young. 😆
I still remember the first time I saw a DVD. I went over a friend's house in 2000 and when he showed me the movies they had, I was utterly confused they weren't VHS. I knew of CDs but movie "CDs"? It blew my mind. 2 years later, we had our own player, and by 2004 we had a sizable collection and I also got my own player with the movies Texas Chain Saw, Creepshow around that same time. Great memories.
I never got rid of my core DVD collection and I’m so glad. I also recently started a VHS collection. And ontop of that I’m back to collecting CDs and vinyl because man I miss the world of physical media so much
DVD was so much better than VHS. It also came out at a time when streaming video was not widely adopted and the technology was affordable. Video quality, sound quality and ease of use was tremendously better than VHS. DVD also had the luxury of being included in the PlayStation 2 which was a relatively affordable DVD player that also played video games. That alone launched tens of millions of players in the USA alone. Although DVD players were expensive at first by the time 2000-2002 came around DVD players became super affordable and there were also combo DVD/VHS players which helped some people get both formats if they still had a ton of VHS rentals. It really was the perfect storm.
I think DVDs and physical media as a whole are things that should never die off. Sure streaming is a lot more convenient, but with all the bullshit that comes with it (multiple services you have to pay for, short-lived licenses to keep something up on the service, and especially the stupid tax write-offs among other things), it overall just doesn't hit the same as owning the piece of media on a physical disc, tape, or cartridge. Especially when they have the advantage of you actually owning the thing unlike streaming. Not to mention, the additional benefits they have for lost media and general media preservation (the latter most especially considering how greedy corporations are with content these days). Also it's more fun to press play on the Shrek 2 DVD menu than it is to stream the same movie on Peacock.
Thing is, if you care enough about a movie to want it preserved on a DVD so studios can't take the movie back or change it, you probably also care about it enough to value the increased picture and audio quality of Blu-Ray. For most movies, streaming is better because of the lower cost and increased convenience (watch it anywhere, not just places which have a DVD player). There's no market for DVDs anymore.
There are several reasons I still buy DVD or more likely these days, BluRay discs. The main one is so I can easily watch something without having to worry about which streaming service it is on or has it been removed or changed service, but the other reasons are so that I don't have to worry about whether or not it has it been censored (something that is becoming more and more of an issue with the Twitter mobs) and so that I can watch my favourite movies even on the rare occasions I have no internet connection. I buy a lot of music too on vinyl and CD, but I don't consider one to be better than the other just that the different formats suit different moods and different genres of music. 80s synth, modern synthwave and dance music usually benefits from the clarity of CD I find, while rock and metal tends to sound better to my ears on vinyl. Finally I do subscribe to a few streaming services too, but tend to then buy the physical media if it's available if I like what I'm watching.
@13:13 It's funny hearing someone talking about DVD's as if they stopped producing them, they didn't go anywhere. Still to this day, when movies leave the theater they get manufactured on DVD's and put on sale like they always have. I like the 3 tier quality/price options of DVD, Bluray or 4K.
i am just newly getting into film and recently have been collecting blu ray and dvd mainly because i prefer to own a physical media rather than hope its still online somewhere, also feels nice to always know i have my favorite movies to my desposal
DVD still popular because : 1- quality is good enough 2- dvd drives are everywhere, computers, cars and playstation 3- dvd is cheap, you can get new dvd for 5$ at some stores and on amazon 4- many titles are only available on dvd
I’ve noticed that more studios are releasing their films on collectors labels like Shout Factory, Arrow, and of course Criterion. I think modern physical formats like UHD Blu-ray have become more like the laserdisc days- more for a niche audience that will pay a bit more for the best versions of their favorite films.
Yep. I purchase stuff from all the boutique labels, but have yet to make the leap to 4K UHD. I already have a massive DVD and Blu-ray collection, and that's honestly good enough for me, even though I have several 4K UHD titles that came with Blu-rays I wanted.
I still buy dvds of my favorite movies from thrift stores! Some films jump around different streaming services and it’s worth it to have a physical copy :) plus, buying dvds and coming home to pop them into a machine brings me joy
I still think blu rays look better than HD streamed content. I also think DVD's look good still compared to VHS and most digital 0:00 physical media these days is worth buying as it's so cheap most of the time. People are practically giving away all there dvds or blu rays to charity shops which sell them for less than £2 each and sometimes 50p each. Streaming is good but it's just not the same. Having something physical makes you feel like you actually own something rather than the almost endless amount of streamed films and TV that all of the time won't always be on these services
As someone who worked in retail at the time, you are underestimating how much the extra functionality affected DVD sales. The ability to skip instead of fast forward or rewind sold a lot of players. Same with Scene selection and DVD extras like deleted scenes. Blue-Ray, flat screen TV and digital TV all happened at the same time so they fed off each other to generate sales, but at the end of the day, better picture quality is what sold the three.
definitely sold all formats to me. Blu-ray and UHD not just for their better picture but also for their lossless Audio. Because i hated the bitrate limitation and compromises on DVD. If you wanted lossless Audio on DVD, there was only PCM and no other option. And the bitrate for lossless audio drastically cut the videobitrate short. So we only really had lossy compressed Dolby Digital or DTS (and even MPEG Audio) for most released. I still don't get why DVD-Audio's Meridian Lossless Package was not incorporated as lossless audio codec for DVD-Video....
@@KRAFTWERK2K6With DVD-Audio, the whole 5 gigabytes can be dedicated solely to audio. With DVD-Video, most of the space has to be used up on the video, so there's much less for audio.
@@me-myself-i787 Yeah every DVD audio was usually a DVD-Video / DVD-Audio hybrid, like SACDs also contained a redbook CD audio layer. It's just sad that DVD Audio didn't pull off... It even contained all sorts of samplerates so there was no need to upmix . Ans even 16 and 24bit were both supported.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Because adding Meridian Lossless would have broken the already established DVD-Video spec, and by the time DVD-Audio was released into the market, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD were already being prepared for commercial release.
I will NEVER GIVE UP on physical media. I still buy DVDs and Blu-rays of tv shows and movies. I can’t stand streaming. Yes I like UA-cam, but that’s the closest I get to streaming. I’ve been trying to find the tv shows I grew up watching and even some classic shows from before I was born on DVDs. When I can, I’m going to cancel my dish subscription and dive into my own library of movies and tv shows. Screw the streaming services. If I hear about a new show I might like, I’ll get the physical version of it if possible. If not, so be it.
Im 14 years old and I have VHS tapes from my grandparents, DVDs from my childhood and a collection of my parents old CDs. Whenever I go to thrift stores I always look at their DVDs and CDs to see what I can add on to my collection. Even though I have VHS tapes I don’t have a VCR so I don’t really have a use for them but there’s just something so nostalgic about them that makes me want to never get ride of them. Personally, I like physical copies of media. I was fairly young when the rise of streaming came but I still remember watching VHS tapes and DVDs. There’s just something about watching/listening to a physical copy of a movie/show/album that is somehow rewarding. I plan on continuing my “passion” for collecting DVDs and CDs.
I think the big thing with DVDs is that they are going to become more collectible and more sought after especially used DVDs as production draws down and studios stop wanting to produce them since it’s a lot easier to prevent people from making copies with streaming, who’s main draw is exclusivity. Therefore I don’t think vhs tape are coming back, but dvds will start seeing a revival over the next 2 decades.
The masses are not very smart, so that’s why they think it’s more convenient to stream something they’ll never own, while I have my big collection of VHS, DVD, and Blu-Rays that never can be taken away or censored
The funny thing about most format wars, is that the winner - aside from user-friendliness and price point - it was mostly the porn industry that became the tipping-point. Both when it came to filming (cheap and easy to handle for a small crew), but also easy to pump out a large amount of cassettes/discs/whatever, so that the "content" itself could be sold for cheap. And then we have the bootleggers, who had the same reason, since you could sell knock-offs for even less without a big investment.
I still get DVDs of my favorite movies. Not super often anymore, as I don't really watch as many movies as I used to anyway, but every once in a while.
I think one of the big factors in the DVD format becoming so popular was the PC market. Computers were rapidly becoming a staple of people’s homes at the time, and it felt amazing to use one for all sorts of different media, including movies.
Not at all. Bluray not only has a weird name, but scratches and the players are very expensive. HD VHS and Upscaling dvd players are the way to go.@@ROBLOX-1gv7ej2j
Love my physical media so when I heard the recent Best Buy news I was shocked but not surprised. Looks like Barnes & Noble is my new best physical media friend
I still regularly buy Blu-rays and DVDs, always like to browse the movie sections at Walmart and B&N. I love collecting, and the better quality than streaming
I have always thought there was something about the timing of when DVDs came out. It was right around when a generation of us kids who grew up on VHS had recently entered the workforce and had the disposable income to buy all the movies we wanted... up to and including movies we only had a passing interest in.
I have a Blu-ray collection as well as a DVD collection which I've downsized when I've upgraded to Blu-ray on those titles. My main reason for keeping some of my DVD's is the fact that I know most of those titles are never going to be released any time soon on Blu/4K so I can revisit them.
DVD is still popular and has outsold bluray and 4ks. Even it still does better than vhs 📼 which is still kinda active while other disc formats like laserdisc and ced were not popular in USA 🇺🇸 I think DVDs will still be around in an age of streaming
CED was indeed unpopular and died quickly. But Laserdisc still had new players and releases up to the year 2000. It was not a mass market product, but it wasn’t a failure
There’s a pretty noticeable difference in quality when you go from streaming to watching a physical version of that same movie. For some movies it’s like night and day. Of course there’s the convenience factor of streaming and streaming will be improving, but right now popping in a blu ray for a film is 👌
not really if I really like I movie I still want to own it so I can watch it I may have to eventually buy a portable bluray player cause that's all that I have found in my region but its nice to have the movie and not have to deal with streaming
@@FilmStack I'm no fan of streaming services, but I don't want to go back to physical media and see no reason to do so. What you really want is where you can rip the original quality of something, whether that be a Blu-ray movie, a CD song and so on and basically where there is no loss in quality and you can do whatever you want with it. I find that is way better than physical media because it gives me many options in how I can view and listen to that media, I can put them on a network drive at home, any Wi-Fi device has access to it and if you have a decent internet connection, you can stream the contents over the internet, yes that includes Blu-ray level quality. Being able to access all my contents on any device in the home or out and about through the internet with no quality loss over the original contents is far better than what physical contents can offer. Streaming can get a bad rap because of the corporations, but if you do it yourself, it works great, and there's no way I would go back to physical media with how much better the setup I have now. The only downside to what I do, you still need physical access to CD's and Blu-rays so you can rip the contents, but that's only because the music and movie industry won't give us the option of being able to download the original contents with no loss in quality, at least with movies, that does seem to be changing with music.
8:57 Going from 480i to 480p essentially is a doubling of resolution, but the increased resolution really shows horizontally. Analog TV could carry about a 4-6 MHz signal. At a ~15kHz refresh rate, this is about 360 pixels wide. VHS cuts this down to 3 MHz, and really compresses the color info. Add to this the horrible signal to noise ratio of both VHS tape and antenna TV, when I first got DVD as a kid it looked like nothing i'd seen before, even over composite on a CRT. As for the audio, VHS Hi-Fi was near CD quality stereo, with some titles offering matrixed Dolby Surround, but DVD offered PCM audio, and discrete 5.1 Surround Sound. All that caterwalling about how much "warmer" analog sounds is just the socks and sandals brigade trying to justify why vinyl records are neat.
DVDs at this point are old news for movie collectors or movie buffs. The audience out there for bluray and high resolution over DVD should not be underestimated. Streaming is problematic due to the quality of your stream. Distortion, buffering, ads, bad video connections, bad weather, etc. None of that is a problem when it comes to physical media.
With streaming you don’t own the movies physical you do . And picture quality is better on Blu Ray then streaming. I still buy DVD , Blu Ray and 4K Blu Rays have over 6100 movies in my movie collection Netflix Prime and Disney plus don’t have as much then I have and I own them . No monthly bill . Nothing is better then physical.
On the topic of bonuses, there's a small number of films that got a dedicated VHS for their commentary tracks while DVDs had it already included a commentary option
Beta wasn't any better than VHS in terms of quality, there really wasn't much difference at all and I doubt most people could tell them apart. The main benefit VHS had was a longer run time and price. However, there was a professional TV studio version of beta called Betacam, which used the same size cassettes (and was backwards compatible initially) and this was used professionally well into the 2000s. Later models were digital and in HD. But because the cassettes looked identical the myth of beta being better persisted.
@@TheBudgie29think you'll find MTV was using Betacam, not Betamax. Which are rather different things. Betacam was a professional broadcast quality fornat, used by many TV and video organisations.
The first incarnation of Betacam is referred to as "oxide Betacam" due to both formats using the same tape formulation. SP and onwards used metal-formuated tape :)
When I'm 70 years old and long retired I want to have my physical media to take a stroll back to memory I don't care in 30 years if DVDs and blu-rays become irrelevant they will be my enjoyment when I'm old.
Great video. It's a tad ironic that you showed the Ultimate Middle-Earth box set as an example of being packed with bonuses because it actually wasn't, that was the biggest complaint about it. 😂 To see the great legacy docs you need the older DVD or BD editions.
I have a bunch of dvds that I took from home when I moved out. Even though I don't have a dvd player, I intend to get one in the future, so I can rewatch them. To me, the biggest advantage of dvds is the extra content like you just said; I mean where else can we get scene selection, deleted scenes, special features, etc. Even though streaming services are way better and have dominated the earth, dvds will never disappear.
You forgot to mention that LaserDisc was one of the precursor technologies that DVD discs were based on, along with another disc format known as VideoCD (that was hugely successful in most Asian countries), which used the MPEG-1 video codec to compress video onto a CD. The only snag with VideoCD was that the quality was around the same as VHS and you couldn't fit a whole movie on one disc, due to the space limitations of CDs being around 650 to 700 Megabytes. Philips and Sony got together with the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) to try to create a new disc format in the early to mid 90's, which eventually turned out to be DVD. The aim was simple, get standard definiton video and audio to fit a whole feature film onto a CD sized disc, without splitting the movie onto 2 discs. The MPEG 2 codec was created specifically for DVD, but was later adapted for digital TV broadcasts and early Internet video streams. MPEG 2 was very efficient at the time and didn't require expensive processors to decode it, which was a major plus. In fact the codec was so good it was used in early Blu Rays for experimental HD, albeit slightly altered for the increased bandwidth required.
DVDs had amazing special features and even Easter eggs that VHS couldn't have and most Blu-rays not all but most don't include to save money. I say most because I know there is are excellent but niche boutique Blu-ray markets too.
When physically owning a DVD or Blu-Ray Movie you own a licence to view as much as you like. When Streaming you're relying on the Studio or Platform not taking the content down or heavily editing the Move/TV Show, due to current social politics. It's shame or Gain 'For people buying' that DVDs have gone the way of CDs in that they can be bought for next to nothing pre-owned!
After seeing the news on a possibility that retail stores will not be selling DVDs/BluRay in the future is a very big mistake. This is one of the main reasons why streaming is bad, don’t get me wrong, streaming is good, but it has lots of flaws. Physical copies of DVDs/BluRay can be beneficial if you look at the quality, what happens if your internet goes out? Also, the internet around your area? You’re screwed! This also can translate to video games, you need online support to access games you bought digitally, without it you’re also screwed.
Streaming sucks.. I have over 2000 films Blu-ray DVD and 4K. The benefit of this being if my favorite title leaves Stream I can walk over to my shelf and put it on any time I like. Not to mention the collectibility there are quite a few collectors that are willing to pay crazy money for outer print titles.. I wouldn't have it any other way I love this hobby.
Couple of points. 1. DivX was not a different format DVD format, it was just an additional media codec an individual player might support, just like VHS players used to support SP, LP and EP modes - but it was still VHS. A DVD player that claimed DivX support still played all standard DVDs: also DivX was never used by any movie release AFAIK, it was only for downloads. 2. You seemed to lightly discard the suggestion that VHS had half the resolution of DVD saying that most would not notice. This difference in quality was a fact, and the quality difference was immediately obvious in the AV store to anyone with eyes looking at a decent TV. This no doubt drove the sale of a lot of flat screen TVs when those started appearing soon after DVD itself. Why was VHS lower resolution? Because they only stored one of the fields of an interlaced analog video signal. For example PAL is 576 lines of interlaced video with a field refresh rate of 50 Hz. VHS discarded one of the fields, resulting in 288 lines of analog video at 25Hz - hence halving both the vertical resolution and the refresh rate, allowing for longer record times on inferior media. Also it was analog on magnetic tape with all of the built in recording defects that implies (colour bleed, snow). DVD video was still typically interlaced, but it was full resolution and refresh rate - and digital, with perfect reproduction every time.
DVD won't have a resurgence because it's just a worse 4k. But I hope physical media sticks around, I like collecting 4ks because I want to OWN my movies, I don't like just borrowing them at the whims of a studio.
Don't know why people still buy DVD when better quality blu-ray is available and looks much better for watching on large 4K HD TVs. Many DVDs. Especially older titles that look terrible when viewed on these kind of TVs. The only reason to still buy DVD is for titles that were never released on blu-ray.
Twister was ONE OF the first wave of DVD titles released simultaneously by Warner and MGM on March 26, 1997. A Time to Kill, Blade Runner, Eraser, Goodfellas, Interview with the Vampire, The Road Warrior, Se7en, The Birdcage, The Bridges of Madison County, The Fugitive, The Mask, The Wizard of Oz, Twister, Unforgiven, and Woodstock was the complete list.
I’m 70 and have an extensive media collection in my ManCave 14 bookcases. 😳 I love watching movies 🎥 on my 100” screen from my Vankyo HD projector. My dad got me hooked when he brought home a reel to reel tape recorder when I was a kid. I followed suit in 1980 when I bought my 1st VHS player. A RCA portable 2 piece VHS 📼 player recorder with a VHS camera 🎥 for $2,500 😳. Beside a lot of non fiction books I have - reels of audio, cassettes, 8-tracks, vinyl, laser discs, VHS, DVD 📀 Blu-Ray, posters, and photos. I have bought some new but mostly pick up great content at yard sales and thrift stores. I really enjoy collecting and watching, listening and reading my content. It’s like I’m living in a museum 😂. Lucky for us the price of this has gone down over the years. 👍 Great video 👌
I still buy physical media even though I use streaming because you never know if the platform will remove a movie permanently or possibly edit it. Plus I tend to love weird or obscure movies that a lot of streaming sites don't offer
I was born in 2001, i still keep the VHS and DVD collection from my childhood (+a couple of 3d blue rays), (idk just in case society collapses and streaming services cease to exist). As a child I couldn't have imagined that 4K streaming on massive flat screen TVs would've been a common thing just 10 years later.
You're mistaken on the difference in PQ. VHS only populated half the available SD scan lines, DVD populated all of them. SVHS and DVHS were much closer but these formats were hardly used and an absolutely tiny amount of content was actually released on them. Granted this was less perceptible on smaller screens but on 20"+ screens, even older ones with curved geometries, it was quite noticeable.
One Industry you didn't mention, that put the money back Into development of DVD's was the Porn Industry. It had one thing that VHS, BETA and Video2000 didn't. And that was Multi-Camera Angles. Hence the change of name from Digital Video Disc, to Digital Versatile Disc. You can see this on some films, on the back, you will see a Picture of a Movie camera, and on the top a Number. This Is the Number of Camera Angles you can change too while watching the Movie. I am afraid to say, but In the UK, they will give you a bag of DVD's Blu-Rays or CD's, just for buying something off a table at a Boot Sale (Yard Sale) But Vinyl Is still huge and selling well.
it was a perfect storm you see, DVD wasn't just the new VHS, to manufacturers they were also the next CD, the DivX thing was also about that. whether a CD could do the same job. the DivX technology lives on as AVCHD encoding. ultimately CDs were on their way out because of file sizes being better for the internet. consumers on the high end however already had CD burners and so for a brief time period the DVD format was locked and irreplicable while CDs were being used with computers like VCRs with DivX. the music industry was also changing because of Mp3 encoding that meant a hundred songs could fit on a CD.
There's also the fact that nobody wanted to buy a DivX disc that they could only watch for a short period of time (without having to pay a reactivation fee) when they could just buy a DVD once and be able to play it an unlimited number of times.
@@lovelydolltime8006 you obviously are a more casual user of this technology than me I authored my own on a computer all day using file sharing even before broadband because the cheapest DVD player at Walmart from China could play them
I wanted higher quality on a disc that didn't have to be flipped. And being the size of a cd, that looked like an incredible breakthrough for me. Was it a great example of Moore's Law? Or can it even be compared to the Analog LD format? They both have pits read by lasers. Anyway, dvd tool time to catch on. The PS2 really helped alot. Many common people initially thought, I don't see a difference. And then they went back to vhs and back to dvd and back to dvd and stared saying, I think I see a difference! Okay, that bs but that was my impression. Dvd was very affordable also. 20 dollars to own a movie was very good, especially compared to LD. Not having to rewind the discs was another plus. Suddenly, friends had cd cases full of movies. The 5.1 surround sound soundtrack definitely had a lot of people buying surround sound setups. People who were never even into hifi systems. Dvd was just better, and people caught on. Some bs like that is my opinion at least
Great video! However, on what planet does VHS only last 10 to 25 years lol. Still watching home recordings from almost 40 years ago with no drop in quality. I fully understand that in theory tape can degrade over time but 10 to 25 years is a bit much 😂
I buy physical media, because i can listen or watch it always when i want too! I think it's nice to have a personal collection on your shelf at home. Streaming is not the same, i like it to watch at the physical media. The pictures on the covers, and the extra included books that they have! Greets from Marcel The Netherlands in Europe
I still collect physical media, Blu-Rays are becoming more affordable, even Ultra HD Blu-Rays at least in the UK you can find some for less than £10, don't forget that the vast majority of Ultra HD Blu-Rays come with the standard Blu-Ray versions of the films plus if you have a PlayStation 5, Xbox One S, Xbox One X or Xbox Series X you can watch them on those consoles, don't forget that the Japanese had a GameCube with a built-in DVD player manufactured by Panasonic and the Wii was going to support DVDs but Nintendo decided not to because they didn't want to pay royalties to Dolby and they thought that everyone else already owned another DVD player however you can play DVDs on earlier models (pre-2009 I believe) of the Wii if it's modded
I remember watching a long TV ad for DVD back when it was new. They were saying on one side would be the full screen version of the movie and on the other side the widescreen version of the movie. Believe I only have one DVD movie like that. But have a few of those cheap multi pack movies on DVD, where there are 4 movies on 2 DVD discs. Still have lots of VHS.
Not TOO many mistakes (for a UA-cam tech video essay). Some confusion about resolution though. All formats have the exact same vertical resolution - it's fixed, as part of the NTSC or PAL specs. 525 or 625, respectively (480/576 visible lines of actual picture). Only the horizontal resolution varies, typically described as how many vertical lines can be displayed without blurring into each other. Aside from that, and a U-Matic machine masquerading as a Betamax, not too bad 😉
I would love to discuss/ show you my CED RCA SELECTAVISION video disc collection. With working player of course I have an extensive VHS collection as well but thats not as rare these days lol
DVDs were revolutionary compared to VHS. Blu-ray was more expensive, and really all it offered was a sharper image. In fact, people still buy movies and shows on DVD. I own 318 movies on DVD, and I have several television shows on DVD.
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I don't care if they go out of style I'm keeping my DVD Blu-ray collection well after I retire.
I buy blu-rays because they offer better quality than streaming. Plus I get to keep what I buy. I don't care about having to get up and change discs often. I have over 3,000 titles in my collection, and I have been collecting Blu-rays for over 10 years. If physical media ever dies, I'll still have my discs that I've already bought. There's nothing like having the disc and holding it in your hand. It's yours. The content is there to stay and can not be altered or changed or taken away, and their's no license agreement that will expire and cause the film to get removed. You buy it. It's permanently yours.
I'm a strong supporter of physical media. I hate having to rely on streaming services to find my favourite films. There's just something so special about owning your favourite media physically, as you can revisit them anytime you want.
Ye and u still miss blockbusters 🤡
@@jefftakesdscakes30 I have well over 2,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I pay for no streaming services, and haven't in many years. If you're completely reliant on streaming, it seems you're the clown, not Jon. 🤡
@@Fluoride_JonesYep, there was a movie my wife and I wanted to watch and for some reason, it wasn't working on streaming. I got up and said dont worry, I've had it on DVD for years and popped it right in.
100% agree with you bro. I also like physical media. Streaming services are not good as physical becoz physical one has less compression and better quality
I still buy DVDs and blu-rays. If I’m in the mood to watch a movie, I don’t want to worry about if it’s on streaming or if my internet connection is down for maintenance. Plus, a lot of movies never made the jump to streaming, so I like to have a physical copy of films that would otherwise be lost.
Well I just hope dvds and blu rays can still hold out at least for another decade. As much as streaming is convenient, it just doesn’t have the magic of owning a dvd copy yourself. It can hold memories forever and won’t be affected by short term licensing. I also like having special features like directors commentary, trailers and interviews since it explains the greater context. I’m just glad that they are here to stay for the time being in the uk at least but the news about Disney dropping physical media in Australia does worry me.
We hope so as well. There is also a very nostalgia inducing smell to them that I would hate to go away.
I agree with you. I think physical media is special. I prefer the tactile experience of handling my own copy of a film that I own forever and not needing internet connection to watch. It makes watching movies into more of an experience.
Not only that, but more and more frequently content on streaming sites is redacted. They'll cut out or alter scenes that are considered sensitive to modern audiences, sometimes even dropping an entire episode from a season. Toy Story 2 and Lilo and Stitch were both altered by Disney+ to remove scenes considered insensitive. Sometimes it'll be edited because directors can't leave well alone, sometimes for political reasons, sometimes because an actor is considered unpalatable these days (Danny Masterson, for instance). As AI is rapidly improving I can potentially see this trend increasing. Eventually the streaming version _may_ end up completely different to the original. So I like owning the physical copy as it cannot be altered.
Not to mention, a physical copy of your recipient’s favorite movie could make for a solid Christmas/birthday present
You’ll own nothing and be happy
I always buy Blu-ray when possible. I'm a big proponent for physical media.
Own your movies, don't let the bastards turn everything into perpetual renting.
I still collect Blu-Ray movies, especially from The Criterion Collection. Still good to collect something physical.
Eyyy we do as well! Used to a lot more, need to grab some 4K blu rays on Black Friday to catch up
the criterion collection and kino lorber, my friends
@@michaeledwards6683 Don't forget Shout! Factory, Code Red, Vinegar Syndrome, Arrow Video, Severin Video, Vestron Video, MVD and several others! 👍
Same here, and I will never stop 🙂 If they stop selling media, I'll starting more and more with older releases, like I already do with Laserdiscs.
DVDs also took off for the simple reason that it was cheaper and faster for studios to make copies of movies on DVD than VHS (the actual materials and process of making a copy). Along with the better picture for the movie itself, studios were able to transfer all the bonus content usually reserved for laserdiscs and offer them up for a fraction of what laserdiscs cost. In 1999, a sale copy of a VHS tape was about 20 bucks. Suddenly, there was a CD sized laserdisc with a ton of extras that you could buy for 5 more dollars. Once DVD player prices dropped below 200 bucks around 2002, it was game over for VHS.
Many reasons for DVD's success. In Europe, for example, the same master could be used for multiple countries (several audio streams, dozens of subtitle streams) whereas VHS masters had to be made individually for each country, with the appropriate legal warnings, audio language or subtitles, etc. North America DVDs tended to be English, with perhaps French & Spanish subtitles, European DVDs often had multiple languages of audio/subs, and even menus in multiple languages. I worked in the DVD business for many years, from the beginning to the bitter end. I don't miss it! I guess it was fun for a while, in the early days, but towards the end it was tedious as hell. Early DVDs were often quite creative, later ones were BORING to work on (HBO box sets, etc. YAWN!!) The HBO box sets ended up being authored in India once the last of the London/New York authoring houses got closed down. (Thanks, Deluxe!) Sony closed their optical media dept in New York too. After 3 lay-offs/office closures, I finally moved on to other things! 🙂
Physical is the main way I watch movies. Feels great to have a personal collection.
Any other movie collectors out there? I have about 2,000 Blu-rays, 1,500 DVDs and 400 4Ks. On top of that I have over 300 different tv shows on Blu-ray and DVD. A couple months ago a huge storm knocked out our city’s internet for a couple of days and I was the only one at work that was still able to watch tv and movies.
Holy Christ.
@@qasimmir7117 there’s collectors out there with a lot more than that too lol
@@Tomhyde098
I know, it’s mad. Out of your archive, have any suffered from disc rot? If any, how many and which formats?
@@qasimmir7117 not a single one. The only problems are scratched discs from eBay sellers every now and then.
I have well over 2,000 DVDs and Blu-rays, but to be honest, I've never actually counted them. Physical media's special to me. I don't like streaming services holding power over what I can watch, when I want to watch it. At this point, I can see myself slowing down on physical media purchases, as I'm running out of stuff I think I truly need in my collection, and probably have stuff I'll never get around to watching. That being said, the year is young. 😆
I still remember the first time I saw a DVD. I went over a friend's house in 2000 and when he showed me the movies they had, I was utterly confused they weren't VHS. I knew of CDs but movie "CDs"? It blew my mind. 2 years later, we had our own player, and by 2004 we had a sizable collection and I also got my own player with the movies Texas Chain Saw, Creepshow around that same time. Great memories.
I never got rid of my core DVD collection and I’m so glad. I also recently started a VHS collection. And ontop of that I’m back to collecting CDs and vinyl because man I miss the world of physical media so much
DVD was so much better than VHS. It also came out at a time when streaming video was not widely adopted and the technology was affordable. Video quality, sound quality and ease of use was tremendously better than VHS.
DVD also had the luxury of being included in the PlayStation 2 which was a relatively affordable DVD player that also played video games. That alone launched tens of millions of players in the USA alone.
Although DVD players were expensive at first by the time 2000-2002 came around DVD players became super affordable and there were also combo DVD/VHS players which helped some people get both formats if they still had a ton of VHS rentals.
It really was the perfect storm.
I think DVDs and physical media as a whole are things that should never die off. Sure streaming is a lot more convenient, but with all the bullshit that comes with it (multiple services you have to pay for, short-lived licenses to keep something up on the service, and especially the stupid tax write-offs among other things), it overall just doesn't hit the same as owning the piece of media on a physical disc, tape, or cartridge. Especially when they have the advantage of you actually owning the thing unlike streaming. Not to mention, the additional benefits they have for lost media and general media preservation (the latter most especially considering how greedy corporations are with content these days).
Also it's more fun to press play on the Shrek 2 DVD menu than it is to stream the same movie on Peacock.
Thing is, if you care enough about a movie to want it preserved on a DVD so studios can't take the movie back or change it, you probably also care about it enough to value the increased picture and audio quality of Blu-Ray. For most movies, streaming is better because of the lower cost and increased convenience (watch it anywhere, not just places which have a DVD player).
There's no market for DVDs anymore.
There are several reasons I still buy DVD or more likely these days, BluRay discs. The main one is so I can easily watch something without having to worry about which streaming service it is on or has it been removed or changed service, but the other reasons are so that I don't have to worry about whether or not it has it been censored (something that is becoming more and more of an issue with the Twitter mobs) and so that I can watch my favourite movies even on the rare occasions I have no internet connection.
I buy a lot of music too on vinyl and CD, but I don't consider one to be better than the other just that the different formats suit different moods and different genres of music. 80s synth, modern synthwave and dance music usually benefits from the clarity of CD I find, while rock and metal tends to sound better to my ears on vinyl.
Finally I do subscribe to a few streaming services too, but tend to then buy the physical media if it's available if I like what I'm watching.
I still buy DVDs, and other physical media. Physical Media will never die.
@13:13 It's funny hearing someone talking about DVD's as if they stopped producing them, they didn't go anywhere. Still to this day, when movies leave the theater they get manufactured on DVD's and put on sale like they always have. I like the 3 tier quality/price options of DVD, Bluray or 4K.
i am just newly getting into film and recently have been collecting blu ray and dvd mainly because i prefer to own a physical media rather than hope its still online somewhere, also feels nice to always know i have my favorite movies to my desposal
DVD still popular because :
1- quality is good enough
2- dvd drives are everywhere, computers, cars and playstation
3- dvd is cheap, you can get new dvd for 5$ at some stores and on amazon
4- many titles are only available on dvd
DVD stop being good enough by 2010 when Blu ray disc started using MPEG-4/AVC codec stop using VC-1 and MPEG-2
There's also the fact that DVDs oftentimes come with cool bonus features.
@@RobertK1993 What the hell are those
I’ve noticed that more studios are releasing their films on collectors labels like Shout Factory, Arrow, and of course Criterion. I think modern physical formats like UHD Blu-ray have become more like the laserdisc days- more for a niche audience that will pay a bit more for the best versions of their favorite films.
Yep. I purchase stuff from all the boutique labels, but have yet to make the leap to 4K UHD. I already have a massive DVD and Blu-ray collection, and that's honestly good enough for me, even though I have several 4K UHD titles that came with Blu-rays I wanted.
The first movie I got on DVD was 'Desperado', and I still have it 😁
I still buy dvds of my favorite movies from thrift stores! Some films jump around different streaming services and it’s worth it to have a physical copy :) plus, buying dvds and coming home to pop them into a machine brings me joy
I still think blu rays look better than HD streamed content. I also think DVD's look good still compared to VHS and most digital 0:00 physical media these days is worth buying as it's so cheap most of the time. People are practically giving away all there dvds or blu rays to charity shops which sell them for less than £2 each and sometimes 50p each. Streaming is good but it's just not the same. Having something physical makes you feel like you actually own something rather than the almost endless amount of streamed films and TV that all of the time won't always be on these services
Huh yes disney blurays and mcu movies shits all over Disney plus quality With the movie national treasure
As someone who worked in retail at the time, you are underestimating how much the extra functionality affected DVD sales. The ability to skip instead of fast forward or rewind sold a lot of players. Same with Scene selection and DVD extras like deleted scenes.
Blue-Ray, flat screen TV and digital TV all happened at the same time so they fed off each other to generate sales, but at the end of the day, better picture quality is what sold the three.
definitely sold all formats to me. Blu-ray and UHD not just for their better picture but also for their lossless Audio. Because i hated the bitrate limitation and compromises on DVD. If you wanted lossless Audio on DVD, there was only PCM and no other option. And the bitrate for lossless audio drastically cut the videobitrate short. So we only really had lossy compressed Dolby Digital or DTS (and even MPEG Audio) for most released. I still don't get why DVD-Audio's Meridian Lossless Package was not incorporated as lossless audio codec for DVD-Video....
@@KRAFTWERK2K6With DVD-Audio, the whole 5 gigabytes can be dedicated solely to audio. With DVD-Video, most of the space has to be used up on the video, so there's much less for audio.
@@me-myself-i787 Yeah every DVD audio was usually a DVD-Video / DVD-Audio hybrid, like SACDs also contained a redbook CD audio layer. It's just sad that DVD Audio didn't pull off... It even contained all sorts of samplerates so there was no need to upmix . Ans even 16 and 24bit were both supported.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Because adding Meridian Lossless would have broken the already established DVD-Video spec, and by the time DVD-Audio was released into the market, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD were already being prepared for commercial release.
I will NEVER GIVE UP on physical media. I still buy DVDs and Blu-rays of tv shows and movies. I can’t stand streaming. Yes I like UA-cam, but that’s the closest I get to streaming. I’ve been trying to find the tv shows I grew up watching and even some classic shows from before I was born on DVDs. When I can, I’m going to cancel my dish subscription and dive into my own library of movies and tv shows. Screw the streaming services. If I hear about a new show I might like, I’ll get the physical version of it if possible. If not, so be it.
Im 14 years old and I have VHS tapes from my grandparents, DVDs from my childhood and a collection of my parents old CDs. Whenever I go to thrift stores I always look at their DVDs and CDs to see what I can add on to my collection. Even though I have VHS tapes I don’t have a VCR so I don’t really have a use for them but there’s just something so nostalgic about them that makes me want to never get ride of them. Personally, I like physical copies of media. I was fairly young when the rise of streaming came but I still remember watching VHS tapes and DVDs. There’s just something about watching/listening to a physical copy of a movie/show/album that is somehow rewarding. I plan on continuing my “passion” for collecting DVDs and CDs.
I think the big thing with DVDs is that they are going to become more collectible and more sought after especially used DVDs as production draws down and studios stop wanting to produce them since it’s a lot easier to prevent people from making copies with streaming, who’s main draw is exclusivity. Therefore I don’t think vhs tape are coming back, but dvds will start seeing a revival over the next 2 decades.
Used DVDs are vulnerable to scratches
The masses are not very smart, so that’s why they think it’s more convenient to stream something they’ll never own, while I have my big collection of VHS, DVD, and Blu-Rays that never can be taken away or censored
HUGE CD collector, I just love the format and feeling like I truly own my albums
DVD's was very BIG in the 00's I have a lotta nostalgic DVD's and VHS from Walmart and people.
The funny thing about most format wars, is that the winner - aside from user-friendliness and price point - it was mostly the porn industry that became the tipping-point. Both when it came to filming (cheap and easy to handle for a small crew), but also easy to pump out a large amount of cassettes/discs/whatever, so that the "content" itself could be sold for cheap. And then we have the bootleggers, who had the same reason, since you could sell knock-offs for even less without a big investment.
I still get DVDs of my favorite movies. Not super often anymore, as I don't really watch as many movies as I used to anyway, but every once in a while.
I think one of the big factors in the DVD format becoming so popular was the PC market. Computers were rapidly becoming a staple of people’s homes at the time, and it felt amazing to use one for all sorts of different media, including movies.
Dvd's and vhs are becoming sort of popular again due to streaming services just sucking pretty much
VHS is long dead though. Physical media on the whole sure, but VHS is dead dead
vhs isnt long dead, its the best format for movies made before 2000@@Yetaxa
@@YetaxaMe over here with my VHS collection and two VCRs 👀
Cds blurays shits all over cassettes and vhs lol.
Not at all. Bluray not only has a weird name, but scratches and the players are very expensive. HD VHS and Upscaling dvd players are the way to go.@@ROBLOX-1gv7ej2j
Love my physical media so when I heard the recent Best Buy news I was shocked but not surprised. Looks like Barnes & Noble is my new best physical media friend
I purchase CDs of some of my favorite albums! Discs hold a special place in my heart, plus I can get a clean rip from them!
I still regularly buy Blu-rays and DVDs, always like to browse the movie sections at Walmart and B&N. I love collecting, and the better quality than streaming
I have always thought there was something about the timing of when DVDs came out. It was right around when a generation of us kids who grew up on VHS had recently entered the workforce and had the disposable income to buy all the movies we wanted... up to and including movies we only had a passing interest in.
I have a Blu-ray collection as well as a DVD collection which I've downsized when I've upgraded to Blu-ray on those titles. My main reason for keeping some of my DVD's is the fact that I know most of those titles are never going to be released any time soon on Blu/4K so I can revisit them.
DVD is still popular and has outsold bluray and 4ks. Even it still does better than vhs 📼 which is still kinda active while other disc formats like laserdisc and ced were not popular in USA 🇺🇸 I think DVDs will still be around in an age of streaming
CED was indeed unpopular and died quickly. But Laserdisc still had new players and releases up to the year 2000. It was not a mass market product, but it wasn’t a failure
Yessa....guilty as charged...currently acquiring dvd/blu/4k
"Physical media Abuse"
i imagine dvds becoming collectors items like vinyls in another 30 years
I wish they’d make LaserDisc 💿 Players again‼️
Am I the only person who likes to own physical media so you can watch content even when it is no longer available streaming?
There’s a pretty noticeable difference in quality when you go from streaming to watching a physical version of that same movie. For some movies it’s like night and day. Of course there’s the convenience factor of streaming and streaming will be improving, but right now popping in a blu ray for a film is 👌
Physical is the way I do it.
You are definitely not alone
not really if I really like I movie I still want to own it so I can watch it I may have to eventually buy a portable bluray player cause that's all that I have found in my region but its nice to have the movie and not have to deal with streaming
@@FilmStack I'm no fan of streaming services, but I don't want to go back to physical media and see no reason to do so.
What you really want is where you can rip the original quality of something, whether that be a Blu-ray movie, a CD song and so on and basically where there is no loss in quality and you can do whatever you want with it.
I find that is way better than physical media because it gives me many options in how I can view and listen to that media, I can put them on a network drive at home, any Wi-Fi device has access to it and if you have a decent internet connection, you can stream the contents over the internet, yes that includes Blu-ray level quality.
Being able to access all my contents on any device in the home or out and about through the internet with no quality loss over the original contents is far better than what physical contents can offer.
Streaming can get a bad rap because of the corporations, but if you do it yourself, it works great, and there's no way I would go back to physical media with how much better the setup I have now.
The only downside to what I do, you still need physical access to CD's and Blu-rays so you can rip the contents, but that's only because the music and movie industry won't give us the option of being able to download the original contents with no loss in quality, at least with movies, that does seem to be changing with music.
8:57 Going from 480i to 480p essentially is a doubling of resolution, but the increased resolution really shows horizontally. Analog TV could carry about a 4-6 MHz signal. At a ~15kHz refresh rate, this is about 360 pixels wide. VHS cuts this down to 3 MHz, and really compresses the color info. Add to this the horrible signal to noise ratio of both VHS tape and antenna TV, when I first got DVD as a kid it looked like nothing i'd seen before, even over composite on a CRT.
As for the audio, VHS Hi-Fi was near CD quality stereo, with some titles offering matrixed Dolby Surround, but DVD offered PCM audio, and discrete 5.1 Surround Sound. All that caterwalling about how much "warmer" analog sounds is just the socks and sandals brigade trying to justify why vinyl records are neat.
I have over 2074 blu ray I have addictions
Wow! That’s crazy!
DVDs at this point are old news for movie collectors or movie buffs. The audience out there for bluray and high resolution over DVD should not be underestimated. Streaming is problematic due to the quality of your stream. Distortion, buffering, ads, bad video connections, bad weather, etc. None of that is a problem when it comes to physical media.
Dvds with 1080p tvs and 4k tvs Are only poor and can afford high-definition.
With streaming you don’t own the movies physical you do . And picture quality is better on Blu Ray then streaming. I still buy DVD , Blu Ray and 4K Blu Rays have over 6100 movies in my movie collection Netflix Prime and Disney plus don’t have as much then I have and I own them . No monthly bill . Nothing is better then physical.
On the topic of bonuses, there's a small number of films that got a dedicated VHS for their commentary tracks while DVDs had it already included a commentary option
Beta wasn't any better than VHS in terms of quality, there really wasn't much difference at all and I doubt most people could tell them apart. The main benefit VHS had was a longer run time and price. However, there was a professional TV studio version of beta called Betacam, which used the same size cassettes (and was backwards compatible initially) and this was used professionally well into the 2000s. Later models were digital and in HD. But because the cassettes looked identical the myth of beta being better persisted.
Oh interesting, didn’t know that!
All the Music Videos You saw on MTV, were played from Beta-Max tapes. And they are still used to this day.
@@TheBudgie29think you'll find MTV was using Betacam, not Betamax. Which are rather different things.
Betacam was a professional broadcast quality fornat, used by many TV and video organisations.
Beta trash vhs is trash
discs anyday
The first incarnation of Betacam is referred to as "oxide Betacam" due to both formats using the same tape formulation. SP and onwards used metal-formuated tape :)
When I'm 70 years old and long retired I want to have my physical media to take a stroll back to memory I don't care in 30 years if DVDs and blu-rays become irrelevant they will be my enjoyment when I'm old.
A big thank you to Laserdisc, the pre cursor for DVD!
Great video.
It's a tad ironic that you showed the Ultimate Middle-Earth box set as an example of being packed with bonuses because it actually wasn't, that was the biggest complaint about it. 😂 To see the great legacy docs you need the older DVD or BD editions.
I have a bunch of dvds that I took from home when I moved out. Even though I don't have a dvd player, I intend to get one in the future, so I can rewatch them. To me, the biggest advantage of dvds is the extra content like you just said; I mean where else can we get scene selection, deleted scenes, special features, etc. Even though streaming services are way better and have dominated the earth, dvds will never disappear.
I'm completely over streaming. I went back to buying all my media mostly in physical format.
I still collect movies on dvd and blu ray and in 4K and love home cinema
You forgot to mention that LaserDisc was one of the precursor technologies that DVD discs were based on, along with another disc format known as VideoCD (that was hugely successful in most Asian countries), which used the MPEG-1 video codec to compress video onto a CD.
The only snag with VideoCD was that the quality was around the same as VHS and you couldn't fit a whole movie on one disc, due to the space limitations of CDs being around 650 to 700 Megabytes.
Philips and Sony got together with the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) to try to create a new disc format in the early to mid 90's, which eventually turned out to be DVD. The aim was simple, get standard definiton video and audio to fit a whole feature film onto a CD sized disc, without splitting the movie onto 2 discs.
The MPEG 2 codec was created specifically for DVD, but was later adapted for digital TV broadcasts and early Internet video streams. MPEG 2 was very efficient at the time and didn't require expensive processors to decode it, which was a major plus. In fact the codec was so good it was used in early Blu Rays for experimental HD, albeit slightly altered for the increased bandwidth required.
Love the video! Keep making great and interesting content!
Thanks, we’ll try to!
Physical media collector since the LD era…..
Criterion Collection Forever 🙌🏼
I still buy the big releases in 4k
DVDs had amazing special features and even Easter eggs that VHS couldn't have and most Blu-rays not all but most don't include to save money. I say most because I know there is are excellent but niche boutique Blu-ray markets too.
First dvd title for me was Rocky, back in 1999 in San Diego. Great memories.
When physically owning a DVD or Blu-Ray Movie you own a licence to view as much as you like. When Streaming you're relying on the Studio or Platform not taking the content down or heavily editing the Move/TV Show, due to current social politics. It's shame or Gain 'For people buying' that DVDs have gone the way of CDs in that they can be bought for next to nothing pre-owned!
After seeing the news on a possibility that retail stores will not be selling DVDs/BluRay in the future is a very big mistake. This is one of the main reasons why streaming is bad, don’t get me wrong, streaming is good, but it has lots of flaws. Physical copies of DVDs/BluRay can be beneficial if you look at the quality, what happens if your internet goes out? Also, the internet around your area? You’re screwed! This also can translate to video games, you need online support to access games you bought digitally, without it you’re also screwed.
I grew up before VHS, then VHS came and it was like wow! DVD was like the space age to us & BlueRay absolutely blew our minds.
I still buy used DVD.
Streaming sucks.. I have over 2000 films Blu-ray DVD and 4K. The benefit of this being if my favorite title leaves Stream I can walk over to my shelf and put it on any time I like. Not to mention the collectibility there are quite a few collectors that are willing to pay crazy money for outer print titles.. I wouldn't have it any other way I love this hobby.
I'm reminded of a quote..."I ain't released my greatest hits chip yet." Zenon the Zequel
Couple of points. 1. DivX was not a different format DVD format, it was just an additional media codec an individual player might support, just like VHS players used to support SP, LP and EP modes - but it was still VHS. A DVD player that claimed DivX support still played all standard DVDs: also DivX was never used by any movie release AFAIK, it was only for downloads. 2. You seemed to lightly discard the suggestion that VHS had half the resolution of DVD saying that most would not notice. This difference in quality was a fact, and the quality difference was immediately obvious in the AV store to anyone with eyes looking at a decent TV. This no doubt drove the sale of a lot of flat screen TVs when those started appearing soon after DVD itself. Why was VHS lower resolution? Because they only stored one of the fields of an interlaced analog video signal. For example PAL is 576 lines of interlaced video with a field refresh rate of 50 Hz. VHS discarded one of the fields, resulting in 288 lines of analog video at 25Hz - hence halving both the vertical resolution and the refresh rate, allowing for longer record times on inferior media. Also it was analog on magnetic tape with all of the built in recording defects that implies (colour bleed, snow). DVD video was still typically interlaced, but it was full resolution and refresh rate - and digital, with perfect reproduction every time.
DVD won't have a resurgence because it's just a worse 4k. But I hope physical media sticks around, I like collecting 4ks because I want to OWN my movies, I don't like just borrowing them at the whims of a studio.
Don't know why people still buy DVD when better quality blu-ray is available and looks much better for watching on large 4K HD TVs. Many DVDs. Especially older titles that look terrible when viewed on these kind of TVs. The only reason to still buy DVD is for titles that were never released on blu-ray.
Because dude there's people who still have 480p crt and dvd portable players
@@ROBLOX-1gv7ej2j Exactly. I happen to be one of those people myself for that matter.
I remember putting my thx theater sound system so hard my windows vibrated you can feel the action
Twister was ONE OF the first wave of DVD titles released simultaneously by Warner and MGM on March 26, 1997. A Time to Kill, Blade Runner, Eraser, Goodfellas, Interview with the Vampire, The Road Warrior, Se7en, The Birdcage, The Bridges of Madison County, The Fugitive, The Mask, The Wizard of Oz, Twister, Unforgiven, and Woodstock was the complete list.
I’m buying more movies now than ever boutique, Blu-ray, and 4K are really on the rise
I’m 70 and have an extensive media collection in my ManCave 14 bookcases. 😳 I love watching movies 🎥 on my 100” screen from my Vankyo HD projector. My dad got me hooked when he brought home a reel to reel tape recorder when I was a kid. I followed suit in 1980 when I bought my 1st VHS player. A RCA portable 2 piece VHS 📼 player recorder with a VHS camera 🎥 for $2,500 😳. Beside a lot of non fiction books I have - reels of audio, cassettes, 8-tracks, vinyl, laser discs, VHS, DVD 📀 Blu-Ray, posters, and photos. I have bought some new but mostly pick up great content at yard sales and thrift stores. I really enjoy collecting and watching, listening and reading my content. It’s like I’m living in a museum 😂. Lucky for us the price of this has gone down over the years. 👍 Great video 👌
I enjoy this video a lot . I really love DVDS.
We're glad you enjoyed it!
I still buy physical media even though I use streaming because you never know if the platform will remove a movie permanently or possibly edit it. Plus I tend to love weird or obscure movies that a lot of streaming sites don't offer
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I was born in 2001, i still keep the VHS and DVD collection from my childhood (+a couple of 3d blue rays), (idk just in case society collapses and streaming services cease to exist). As a child I couldn't have imagined that 4K streaming on massive flat screen TVs would've been a common thing just 10 years later.
You're mistaken on the difference in PQ. VHS only populated half the available SD scan lines, DVD populated all of them. SVHS and DVHS were much closer but these formats were hardly used and an absolutely tiny amount of content was actually released on them.
Granted this was less perceptible on smaller screens but on 20"+ screens, even older ones with curved geometries, it was quite noticeable.
They're cheap now, they look OK, and they probably have the most media available out of any format. DVD pride worldwide
One Industry you didn't mention, that put the money back Into development of DVD's was the Porn Industry. It had one thing that VHS, BETA and Video2000 didn't. And that was Multi-Camera Angles. Hence the change of name from Digital Video Disc, to Digital Versatile Disc. You can see this on some films, on the back, you will see a Picture of a Movie camera, and on the top a Number. This Is the Number of Camera Angles you can change too while watching the Movie. I am afraid to say, but In the UK, they will give you a bag of DVD's Blu-Rays or CD's, just for buying something off a table at a Boot Sale (Yard Sale) But Vinyl Is still huge and selling well.
it was a perfect storm you see, DVD wasn't just the new VHS, to manufacturers they were also the next CD, the DivX thing was also about that. whether a CD could do the same job. the DivX technology lives on as AVCHD encoding. ultimately CDs were on their way out because of file sizes being better for the internet. consumers on the high end however already had CD burners and so for a brief time period the DVD format was locked and irreplicable while CDs were being used with computers like VCRs with DivX. the music industry was also changing because of Mp3 encoding that meant a hundred songs could fit on a CD.
There's also the fact that nobody wanted to buy a DivX disc that they could only watch for a short period of time (without having to pay a reactivation fee) when they could just buy a DVD once and be able to play it an unlimited number of times.
@@lovelydolltime8006 you obviously are a more casual user of this technology than me I authored my own on a computer all day using file sharing even before broadband because the cheapest DVD player at Walmart from China could play them
Growing up we had our cousins VSH. The first DVD we owned was The Little Mermaid in 2007 I think.
I still have my VSH and my dvd !
What are you talking about I still use physical media. Streaming is for the birds, who want to own nothing and be happy.
The transfers got so good that it’s still quite okay to buy a DVD. Physical media 4 life.
I wanted higher quality on a disc that didn't have to be flipped. And being the size of a cd, that looked like an incredible breakthrough for me. Was it a great example of Moore's Law? Or can it even be compared to the Analog LD format? They both have pits read by lasers. Anyway, dvd tool time to catch on. The PS2 really helped alot. Many common people initially thought, I don't see a difference. And then they went back to vhs and back to dvd and back to dvd and stared saying, I think I see a difference! Okay, that bs but that was my impression. Dvd was very affordable also. 20 dollars to own a movie was very good, especially compared to LD. Not having to rewind the discs was another plus. Suddenly, friends had cd cases full of movies. The 5.1 surround sound soundtrack definitely had a lot of people buying surround sound setups. People who were never even into hifi systems. Dvd was just better, and people caught on. Some bs like that is my opinion at least
Great video! However, on what planet does VHS only last 10 to 25 years lol. Still watching home recordings from almost 40 years ago with no drop in quality. I fully understand that in theory tape can degrade over time but 10 to 25 years is a bit much 😂
the shrek animation tests freaked me out as a kid, also i collect doctor who dvds and blu rays
i do.. i still buy physical media almost every week
I love DVD and Blu-Ray!
Just bought mission impossible dead reckoning on Blu-ray I love Blu-ray never seen a 4K I hope I never have to upgrade to that
I buy physical media, because i can listen or watch it always when i want too! I think it's nice to have a personal collection on your shelf at home. Streaming is not the same, i like it to watch at the physical media. The pictures on the covers, and the extra included books that they have! Greets from Marcel The Netherlands in Europe
I still collect physical media, Blu-Rays are becoming more affordable, even Ultra HD Blu-Rays at least in the UK you can find some for less than £10, don't forget that the vast majority of Ultra HD Blu-Rays come with the standard Blu-Ray versions of the films plus if you have a PlayStation 5, Xbox One S, Xbox One X or Xbox Series X you can watch them on those consoles, don't forget that the Japanese had a GameCube with a built-in DVD player manufactured by Panasonic and the Wii was going to support DVDs but Nintendo decided not to because they didn't want to pay royalties to Dolby and they thought that everyone else already owned another DVD player however you can play DVDs on earlier models (pre-2009 I believe) of the Wii if it's modded
I remember watching a long TV ad for DVD back when it was new. They were saying on one side would be the full screen version of the movie and on the other side the widescreen version of the movie. Believe I only have one DVD movie like that. But have a few of those cheap multi pack movies on DVD, where there are 4 movies on 2 DVD discs. Still have lots of VHS.
Not TOO many mistakes (for a UA-cam tech video essay). Some confusion about resolution though. All formats have the exact same vertical resolution - it's fixed, as part of the NTSC or PAL specs. 525 or 625, respectively (480/576 visible lines of actual picture). Only the horizontal resolution varies, typically described as how many vertical lines can be displayed without blurring into each other. Aside from that, and a U-Matic machine masquerading as a Betamax, not too bad 😉
I would love to discuss/ show you my CED RCA SELECTAVISION video disc collection. With working player of course
I have an extensive VHS collection as well but thats not as rare these days lol
I still have some old DVDs in my home. And Player Also
The same way color TV first took over the world. The difference between VHS and DVD was just as if not more a huge change/transition.
i love all the special features that come with physical media. i would fall asleep to the director commentary of the movie
I like collecting 4k steelcase movies, physical is still king imo
DVDs were revolutionary compared to VHS. Blu-ray was more expensive, and really all it offered was a sharper image. In fact, people still buy movies and shows on DVD. I own 318 movies on DVD, and I have several television shows on DVD.
Only bought 4 DVD movies. Ever. Long live TPB.