Was a movie collector. Now selling all i have before moving to my retirement place in the philippines. I find collecting a terrible material mentality. Especially now where it's not about finding things but just browing ebay and buying.
I never stopped collecting physical media. Books, comics, music, movies, and TV shows are all things I collect physical media for. Especially if I'm able to go to Value Village and pick up some great DVD and VHS finds. I'm glad you mentioned Big Shiny Tunes, because I love those albums. I have Big Shiny Tunes 3 to 8 on CD. Much Dance is another Canada exclusive music series that I enjoy on CD as well. Same with the Now! series.
@@NerdCrave My dad has Now! 3, and I have Now! 7, Now! 11, and Now! 12. So definitely more 2000's music, all of which were on the radio when I was in high school and my year off between high school and college. Big Shiny Tunes 4 is my favourite of all three series of albums. My dad had it on audiotape, and he always played it in the car when he drove me to a summer day camp I went to in my early teens. I eventually got it on CD, but being in the car with my dad, listening to it on audiotape was awesome.
@@NerdCrave And you're right, you're not gonna find those online. I mean, sure, you can find the songs on iTunes or Spotify from the digital versions of the albums the artists originally recorded them for, but those particular collections? With those particular versions of those songs, as some of them are remixes or special versions not on any other album? Not a chance.
I have all 14 Big Shiny Tunes as well as the 3 spin-off sets - Big Shiny 90's Volumes 1 and 2 and Big Shiny 80's. My wife burned a CD for what she guessed Big Shiny Tunes 15 could have been.
My thing is definitely gaming and I dont like to buy digital only content normally for a variety of reasons. I never really stopped buying physical games or even questioned transitioning away from it as the tangibility of the product means a lot to me. Also, digital only content is worth absolutely nothing monetarily which is a serious problem because it takes money to get or get access to media, so coming out with nothing of note other than a file isnt good since I cant make any decisions with that file other than to delete it or re-download it. A lot of folks spend a lot of money on gaming and other digital content and don't realize or think about how little official worth it has. Theres a lot else to say but I really liked this top 10. Excellent points made all through it and important for everyone to remember. Thanks NC!
Thanks for stopping by. I haven’t heard from you in a while. I absolutely agree about the value of digital products. I actually did get rid of a lot of of my physical media back in the day and I’ve spent the last three or four years reacquiring it. I probably have more now than I ever did.
@@NerdCraveI am doing the same. I had a large collection and got rid of it all and started buying digitally. For the past year I have started building a physical collection again.
I've had 4K movies for awhile but just year I JUST started collecting and have bought 300 DVDs, 150 Blurays, 150 VHS, and about 100 CDs. I would say my collection is pretty complete. If the internet shuts down tomorrow I am good for awhile. Also bought some old video game systems and bought a bunch of PS3, PS2, 360 games.
i tell EVERYONE to do this & they think i'm crazy!! it's very annoying--hey! i saved $1,000 in itunes by ILLing international CDs thru my library. over 800 tracks!! i have everything backed up on discs i've made for people or in my server. i figure w/a battery generator one could have music to last a long while; this would be part of control & contact.
The Santa Claus Parade footage absolutely took me back 🥲 Just curious if the footage at 11:33 is from a personal collection or a shop? Saw a few things I’d love to get my hands on! (Especially if it’s in the GTA!)
The footage from that timestamp is from retro Chase games in Barrie Ontario. It’s my personal favourite game store. I live about 90 minutes away and I travel there at least once a month.
Cds better sound quality u own the music and support the artist 🧑🎨 physical media forever 🤙🤙🤙💿💿💿 let’s keep buying movies and music and keep physical alive
I recently brought out my CD collection because of nostalgia and I’m tired of streaming. I realized I’ve been streaming for almost 10 years now and I feel sick thinking about all of the CDs I’ve passed up because I thought streaming was the best option. What I’d streamed were songs on discs I already owned or had bought digitally 😑
That’s the thing when I’m streaming I tend to listen to the same music over and over again anyway the same 40 or 50 albums over and over again and I’m just paying over and over for the same content
I must correct you regarding Spotify and Apple Music, neither have used mp3 codec. Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis and Apple uses AAC and Alac (for its lossless option).
Thank you for the correction but it’s not really important. What format they use most streaming services have a high-quality option and the quality is fairly good if not in excess of CD quality at times, however because it’s being streamed over the Internet, generally the quality is not as great as it could be, there’s gotta be some kind of compression or something going on because your average UA-cam video does not sound as good as a CD
@@NerdCrave UA-cam certainly compresses audio by default. Yet broadband internet is more than sufficient to stream 1.4 mbps (cd quality) and 9.2 mbps (hi res) without data compression from Apple, Qobuz, Amazon HD and Tidal. Data streaming via cellular internet when outside the house may struggle with hi res.
@@gavinhardy75 cellular Internet streaming is the number one use case for streaming audio, and to be clear, I find the quality of streaming audio to be perfectly acceptable. It really becomes more of a divide when you compare streaming video which claims to be in 4K versus actual 4K on an ultra Blu-ray.
Public domain. Movies we love should be archived and freely available to all after their copyright expires... media should not be lost to time. but this is not ideal for current and future rent seekers. I could see corps further trying claw their royalties to century old media.
Hmm, honestly, I really just prefer "obtaining" everything and throwing it on a big ole hard drive lol. Price of a VPN and a couple 8+ TB hard drives is gonna win out every time. Can even add a seedbox in there for slightly more $. And you don't use up any space irl. If you like going out and buying this stuff that's cool though. It's an interesting hobby.
The problem with obtaining everything is that little of it has value or is special. At that point it is all disposable. I say this not even from a physical vs digital angle. I have too many physical pieces of media. At some unseen point, it all becomes too much. But, I also have to talk about the physical cs digital angle. There is more to the experience of media than just the core content itself. From going out and buying it, to opening the package, to looking at the artwork. Handling the disc/cassette/cartridge. Touch is a very important aspect for human interaction. That is why car dealerships want you to test drive the cars. Once you've touched it, it creates a feeling of ownership that makes one much more willing to buy. Clicking on a list will never create that form of attachment. Though there is the argument that maybe we should be less attached to our entertainment. Who knows?
@@williamwest7008 that's true, but since obtaining all those were free(via a pirates life) to begin with, it's just as simple to get them again in that situation.
I only stopped for maybe a few years or more, but I'm all out on streaming and digital media, except for PC games, PC gamers already lost that fight around the time Gabe Newel released his abomination into the world.
I don’t hate steam, but it would be cooler if we still had physical
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I do think there will eventually be a future for physical when something more efficient comes... I personally think there should be a VHS2 that's like a 1TB thumb drive, but is actually not considered piracy to play movies off of. Optical discs just aren't appealing to that many people anymore. The DVD now is as old as the VHS was in 2003.
I agree this could actually be a good and legitimate use for NFTs allowing a digital file to have a unique ownership number that allows people to buy and sell it and move it around
U guys are forgetting those shinyyy discs are what makes the movies look better 4K and blue rays are the best Soooo true movie lovers will buy them don’t care the price we want see movies in good picture quality Streaming is garbage 🤮🤮🤢🤢🤮🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤢 low cheap quality
@@TakaD20 wouldn’t you rather wait that one minute, then wait potential years for your favorite show to come back around your streaming service. Oh wait I know you’ll just pay for it again on a different streaming service!!! You’re the perfect example of a modern day tool they’ll take you money and hand you nothing in return. lol
Why would you collect physical media when you can just as easily download onto HDD and make one or more backups that take up no space at all? The physical space, the dust, the need to inventory, the chance of losing your collection if you have a flood, fire or other disaster. What if you have to move, what if you have to move quickly as in SHTF.
Well, there are many pros and cons to both standpoints. I personally do both. I have like 20 TB of downloaded files that I run through a Plex server. I literally have a digital copy of every single DVD I own. I still watch the DVDs and prefer to interact with physical media most of the time.
Bunch of streamers in these comments 😅😅😅 Physicsl media is easy to get back u can buy cds DVDs and records again cause stores still sell them Streaming is for lazyyyyyt people that wooo never own anything and prices will go up good luck for them taking all ur money 😅😅😅😅😅
@@RobertQuant People who choose to own media in this day and age do it because they think it is hip, trendy and makes them superior. They proudly show off their collection thinking men will want to be them and women will want to be with them. You are just amassing a collection that will be tossed out on the day you die, or at the very least sold off for pennies on the dollar after you die. Happens every day.
Are you a music collector? Movies? Games? What brings out the hoarder in you?
Was a movie collector. Now selling all i have before moving to my retirement place in the philippines. I find collecting a terrible material mentality. Especially now where it's not about finding things but just browing ebay and buying.
You're preaching to the choir, Brother Aaron.
I’ve heard you sing, I believe you
@@NerdCrave Yeah, sorry to have damaged your ears like that!
I never stopped collecting physical media. Books, comics, music, movies, and TV shows are all things I collect physical media for. Especially if I'm able to go to Value Village and pick up some great DVD and VHS finds. I'm glad you mentioned Big Shiny Tunes, because I love those albums. I have Big Shiny Tunes 3 to 8 on CD. Much Dance is another Canada exclusive music series that I enjoy on CD as well. Same with the Now! series.
I have a bunch of now cds!
@@NerdCrave My dad has Now! 3, and I have Now! 7, Now! 11, and Now! 12. So definitely more 2000's music, all of which were on the radio when I was in high school and my year off between high school and college. Big Shiny Tunes 4 is my favourite of all three series of albums. My dad had it on audiotape, and he always played it in the car when he drove me to a summer day camp I went to in my early teens. I eventually got it on CD, but being in the car with my dad, listening to it on audiotape was awesome.
@@tgif1345 that’s awesome!
@@NerdCrave And you're right, you're not gonna find those online. I mean, sure, you can find the songs on iTunes or Spotify from the digital versions of the albums the artists originally recorded them for, but those particular collections? With those particular versions of those songs, as some of them are remixes or special versions not on any other album? Not a chance.
I have all 14 Big Shiny Tunes as well as the 3 spin-off sets - Big Shiny 90's Volumes 1 and 2 and Big Shiny 80's. My wife burned a CD for what she guessed Big Shiny Tunes 15 could have been.
If vinyl can make a comeback, so can dvds and blurays. Not entirely sold on 4K.
Very true
@@NerdCraveDVDs and blue rays is the wayyyyy to go there really cheap know As in 4K hella expensive just for 1 movie like records
@@RobertQuant Yes, DVD is still the way to go for me and most people and I do also prefer Blu-ray to the overrated 4K nonsense.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 same here nothings against 4K peopld but theyyyy wayyy expensive like records Blue rays is Farr I’ll go and there cheaper
U forgot to mentioned cds 💿 better sound quality and less space on bookshelves
My thing is definitely gaming and I dont like to buy digital only content normally for a variety of reasons. I never really stopped buying physical games or even questioned transitioning away from it as the tangibility of the product means a lot to me. Also, digital only content is worth absolutely nothing monetarily which is a serious problem because it takes money to get or get access to media, so coming out with nothing of note other than a file isnt good since I cant make any decisions with that file other than to delete it or re-download it.
A lot of folks spend a lot of money on gaming and other digital content and don't realize or think about how little official worth it has. Theres a lot else to say but I really liked this top 10. Excellent points made all through it and important for everyone to remember. Thanks NC!
Thanks for stopping by. I haven’t heard from you in a while. I absolutely agree about the value of digital products. I actually did get rid of a lot of of my physical media back in the day and I’ve spent the last three or four years reacquiring it. I probably have more now than I ever did.
@@NerdCraveI am doing the same. I had a large collection and got rid of it all and started buying digitally. For the past year I have started building a physical collection again.
Physical media all the way. I'm glad I never got rid of my physical movies and games.
I prefer viewing content in the native aspect ratio. you can actually lose lots of information during the aspect ratio conversion.
Absolutely, VHS is not great for that, but it got better with DVD
I've had 4K movies for awhile but just year I JUST started collecting and have bought 300 DVDs, 150 Blurays, 150 VHS, and about 100 CDs. I would say my collection is pretty complete. If the internet shuts down tomorrow I am good for awhile. Also bought some old video game systems and bought a bunch of PS3, PS2, 360 games.
Me too, I’m prepping for the apocalypse!
i tell EVERYONE to do this & they think i'm crazy!! it's very annoying--hey! i saved $1,000 in itunes by ILLing international CDs thru my library. over 800 tracks!! i have everything backed up on discs i've made for people or in my server. i figure w/a battery generator one could have music to last a long while; this would be part of control & contact.
They want you to own nothing
The Santa Claus Parade footage absolutely took me back 🥲
Just curious if the footage at 11:33 is from a personal collection or a shop? Saw a few things I’d love to get my hands on! (Especially if it’s in the GTA!)
The footage from that timestamp is from retro Chase games in Barrie Ontario. It’s my personal favourite game store. I live about 90 minutes away and I travel there at least once a month.
Cds better sound quality u own the music and support the artist 🧑🎨 physical media forever 🤙🤙🤙💿💿💿 let’s keep buying movies and music and keep physical alive
Absolutely, my friend spread the word!
YES! Support the Arts!
I miss the days of old school TV sets. There was not any 24 hour programming.
I recently brought out my CD collection because of nostalgia and I’m tired of streaming. I realized I’ve been streaming for almost 10 years now and I feel sick thinking about all of the CDs I’ve passed up because I thought streaming was the best option. What I’d streamed were songs on discs I already owned or had bought digitally 😑
That’s the thing when I’m streaming I tend to listen to the same music over and over again anyway the same 40 or 50 albums over and over again and I’m just paying over and over for the same content
Hey man, remember City TV's "Night Drive" and "Night Walk"?...I'd love to find those accidental ASMR from the 80's shows somewhere
I’ve seen some clips of it on UA-cam I think retro Ontario UA-cam channel may have some
@@NerdCrave I'll check it out, thanks man 👍
I must correct you regarding Spotify and Apple Music, neither have used mp3 codec. Spotify uses Ogg Vorbis and Apple uses AAC and Alac (for its lossless option).
Thank you for the correction but it’s not really important. What format they use most streaming services have a high-quality option and the quality is fairly good if not in excess of CD quality at times, however because it’s being streamed over the Internet, generally the quality is not as great as it could be, there’s gotta be some kind of compression or something going on because your average UA-cam video does not sound as good as a CD
@@NerdCrave UA-cam certainly compresses audio by default. Yet broadband internet is more than sufficient to stream 1.4 mbps (cd quality) and 9.2 mbps (hi res) without data compression from Apple, Qobuz, Amazon HD and Tidal.
Data streaming via cellular internet when outside the house may struggle with hi res.
@@gavinhardy75 cellular Internet streaming is the number one use case for streaming audio, and to be clear, I find the quality of streaming audio to be perfectly acceptable. It really becomes more of a divide when you compare streaming video which claims to be in 4K versus actual 4K on an ultra Blu-ray.
Public domain. Movies we love should be archived and freely available to all after their copyright expires... media should not be lost to time. but this is not ideal for current and future rent seekers. I could see corps further trying claw their royalties to century old media.
Absolutely good point
Hmm, honestly, I really just prefer "obtaining" everything and throwing it on a big ole hard drive lol. Price of a VPN and a couple 8+ TB hard drives is gonna win out every time. Can even add a seedbox in there for slightly more $. And you don't use up any space irl. If you like going out and buying this stuff that's cool though. It's an interesting hobby.
i do that as well. i have a plex server feeding me 20+ TB of obtained files lol
The problem with obtaining everything is that little of it has value or is special. At that point it is all disposable.
I say this not even from a physical vs digital angle. I have too many physical pieces of media. At some unseen point, it all becomes too much.
But, I also have to talk about the physical cs digital angle. There is more to the experience of media than just the core content itself. From going out and buying it, to opening the package, to looking at the artwork. Handling the disc/cassette/cartridge.
Touch is a very important aspect for human interaction. That is why car dealerships want you to test drive the cars. Once you've touched it, it creates a feeling of ownership that makes one much more willing to buy.
Clicking on a list will never create that form of attachment. Though there is the argument that maybe we should be less attached to our entertainment. Who knows?
Hard drives are unreliable and when they inevitably break, you lose everything.
@@williamwest7008 that's true, but since obtaining all those were free(via a pirates life) to begin with, it's just as simple to get them again in that situation.
@@iiqulour wrong No one is telling u to buy all the cds 💿 in the world Just buy cds that u want and that’s it 😅😅😅😅 same with movies
I only stopped for maybe a few years or more, but I'm all out on streaming and digital media, except for PC games, PC gamers already lost that fight around the time Gabe Newel released his abomination into the world.
I don’t hate steam, but it would be cooler if we still had physical
I do think there will eventually be a future for physical when something more efficient comes... I personally think there should be a VHS2 that's like a 1TB thumb drive, but is actually not considered piracy to play movies off of.
Optical discs just aren't appealing to that many people anymore. The DVD now is as old as the VHS was in 2003.
I agree this could actually be a good and legitimate use for NFTs allowing a digital file to have a unique ownership number that allows people to buy and sell it and move it around
U guys are forgetting those shinyyy discs are what makes the movies look better 4K and blue rays are the best Soooo true movie lovers will buy them don’t care the price we want see movies in good picture quality Streaming is garbage 🤮🤮🤢🤢🤮🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤢 low cheap quality
1 reason against physical media: menues
Are you saying you don’t like menus? That’s like the best part of physical media
@@NerdCrave No, who doesn't like waiting for minutes till episode selections craws in sight, only to see a not skipable trailer?
@@TakaD20 wouldn’t you rather wait that one minute, then wait potential years for your favorite show to come back around your streaming service. Oh wait I know you’ll just pay for it again on a different streaming service!!! You’re the perfect example of a modern day tool they’ll take you money and hand you nothing in return. lol
@@michaeldietz2648 Und Sie sind jemand, der meint, aus einem Satz ein Psychogramm anfertigen zu können. Wood head.
@@michaeldietz2648 Großartige Leistung, aus einem Satz ein komplettes Psychogramm zu fertigen. Freud erblasst vor Neid.
Why would you collect physical media when you can just as easily download onto HDD and make one or more backups that take up no space at all? The physical space, the dust, the need to inventory, the chance of losing your collection if you have a flood, fire or other disaster. What if you have to move, what if you have to move quickly as in SHTF.
Well, there are many pros and cons to both standpoints. I personally do both. I have like 20 TB of downloaded files that I run through a Plex server. I literally have a digital copy of every single DVD I own. I still watch the DVDs and prefer to interact with physical media most of the time.
Once you’ve seen two or three hard drives go down and you lose terabytes worth of stuff in one day you’ll stop trusting hard drives
Bunch of streamers in these comments 😅😅😅 Physicsl media is easy to get back u can buy cds DVDs and records again cause stores still sell them Streaming is for lazyyyyyt people that wooo never own anything and prices will go up good luck for them taking all ur money 😅😅😅😅😅
@@RobertQuant People who choose to own media in this day and age do it because they think it is hip, trendy and makes them superior. They proudly show off their collection thinking men will want to be them and women will want to be with them. You are just amassing a collection that will be tossed out on the day you die, or at the very least sold off for pennies on the dollar after you die. Happens every day.
The quality is better on physical media.