Why I'm Done With Streaming Services
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2025
- In the age of streaming services, why on Earth am I going back to physical media? Let's yap about it!
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Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.
Amen
I have lots of music cdd🎉
Wow, great quote!
I love collecting DVDs and finding a classic at a thrift store for 3 bucks
I found Days Of Thunder at a thrift store for $1.
I like Always Sunny in Philadelphia, been finding seasons of that for 1 buck on DVD at goodwill. Early seasons, the good stuff!
Reading the comments. I feel like ive found my people.
I’ve been a physical media fan since I was a kid and we were so poor all we could afford for fun stuff, was the old technology of the past. And going through the motions of using physical media, makes you appreciate the media you’re watching, and be aware of how much media you have that you don’t like or want taking up space. And you had a point there at the end of the video about making yourself inconvenienced, to appreciate the stuff you used and give it meaning, that’s what we’re missing with modern technology. There’s not ritual to it. The small little rituals of something like physical media, going in the living room to pick a vhs tape or going to blockbuster to pick a movie out, making popcorn and getting your family friends gathered in the room, watching the previews, and just sitting there watching, there’s nothing that can replace that. Or like if you wanted to listen to a cd back in the day, you had to go to your media shelf and pick out a CD, go put it in the cd player and hit play. Or same thing for vinyl records. All these tiny little things involved in selecting the stuff you want to consume actually adds up to your appreciation of a thing more than you would think. And modern tech just has no personality or character to it, since the iPhone came out. It’s all about making things sleek and simple, and forcing things to be more convenient even if it doesn’t need to be.
You nailed it: Intention makes all the difference.
As a person who actively collects VHS, laserdisc and DVDs my only complaint about VHS is that you end up watching most movies in “pan and scan” format. In this regard i think DVD is far superior due to the movies being presented in their proper widescreen format, but VHS tapes are still fun as hell to collect and watch
There are dozens of movies considered "classics" which might -- are you ready? - actually be in black & white!!! - and were NOT filmed in 16:9!! These types of movies, from the 1940's through the 60's are perfectly preserved on VHS, and might even be worth a look!
Oh my god, I went to my local target and I asked one of the employees, "Didn't you guys used to have a larger selection of movies??" Granted, the answer has been streaming services. I look back and it's like, what the hell happened, honestly. I miss those 5 dollar movie bins man.
Walmart still has them!!!! They have a $5 and $7.50 bins. They actually have some pretty good movies in there. I got “Everything Everywhere All At Once” a few months ago in one of those bins
@BrettAbaurrea that's such a great film!! I gotta get that for dvd! You Don did it! I'm gonna have to go to my local Walmart now, get some movies! I'm all jazzed up now 😁😁
Happy to be part of this movement. Been listening to albums on CD from start to finish every morning and it's a different world from listening to music while doing ten other things and bouncing from track to track across various artists. Plus I know the music was created by actual human beings and is not AI generated.
There’s just something about the quality and effort that makes it all the more worth it
I just bought my first vinyl record a few days ago, and now I'm gonna get a decent record player
I never got into streaming; I always preferred physical media and ended up having that vindicated by the way these corporations splintered up the streaming, edited their products on the sly, or even just straight-up pulled stuff off the platform. My copies of Dumbo or Peter Pan doesn't have some "content warning" on it.
Recently I got a converter so my VCR will work again. I've hooked up my DVD player near my computer so I can listen to my movies and shows. I've gotten a music player that plays everything from records to tapes to CDs. And yes, I've pirated shows that never got a proper release, not even on streaming. Some people might mock those of us who prefer cultivating these collections, but my collection is tailored to me, not them, and it's not dependent on a constant internet connection either.
At the end of the day it makes us happy and we have something to show for our money it’s a win win
Love it man. For me, picking up physical media is basically the highest praise I can give to a show or movie. If I’m buying a movie on tape or a box set of a show, it’s my gold seal of approval. And adding films and shows to my physical collection is always super exciting.
8:40 as far as trying to pick out a movie to watch with your girlfriend. What I like doing is we take turns picking, and when we pick a movie we also have to think of a dinner and drink option that pairs with the movie. It makes us actually always have a plan for what to watch next and we never get stuck undecided about what to watch anymore.
What I enjoy from Blu-ray is all the special features. Streaming does not offer all that good stuff
Such a massive perk included with the price I’m a huge fan of special features
The downside with blu ray is some releases don't have any special features like commentarys or deleted scenes. Thats where the old DVDs come in handy.
I was done with Netflix in the pandemic when their stream looked worse than DVD so i cancelled it and carried on with my large physical collection instead!
It can be more expensive upfront but I genuinely just enjoy watching physical more especially with all the special features you get
Sometimes even their “HD” looks worse than dvd
Bro, fear and loathing in las vegas is a classic. Its a must watch ASAP
Any physical media will do great for this! Love me some VHS
I started collecting vinyl a few years ago alongside VHS and it makes your house look like something out of a time capsule for sure!
@stonesfan285 I always preferred VHS to DVD. DVD often had unskippable ads and didn't remember your place. As a kid/even as an adult, being able to stop and immediately pick back up is a huge win.
I love physical media. My wife and I put off streaming services for YEARS and we never had cable. So we ended up with a ton of dvds that we never got rid of luckily. Once we had our kiddo, we bought a box of 100 Disney (and similar) VHS tapes for something like $20. I started buying vinyl records of the albums that mean a lot to me and I use film for family pictures and trips in a photo album. It will be nice to pass all this along to our kiddo rather than everything getting lost when a phone breaks. Plus who knows how long streaming services will last.
My parents have a load of DVD’s that I watched on repeat and I have my own Blu Ray and 4K collection now that I hope to share with my family someday. I started buying records and photographing on film and it’s all just so enjoyable and tangible it’s hard to describe!
Wait till your kid is older and bringing friends round to watch movies, they’ll be like “what the heck are these plastic bricks?” Hell, some kids don’t even know what a CD is now (which is so sad)
16:27 you know I've heard that 35mm film looks so good today because it has the equivalent of 35 million pixels. That may not be accurate but yeah it captures sooo much more detail than digital cameras. Its why a 4K remaster of 60 year old movie can look so good.
Yeah I’m very interested in the amount of data that film captures and how it compares to digital, it’s amazing just how much information is stored that’s why I love getting 4k scans of older movies
My physical media is used/thrifted.
That’s the best kind of media getting a deal and adding to the collection
Way back when the dvd came out there were all these magazine and newspaper articles telling you that the life span of a VHS tape was only 8 years so you need to just throw them out and get the space saving and far superior DVD along with the player. I never could get rid of mine. I loved them so much especially when they were being left at thrift shops and resold for practically nothing. I now have too many to count all in shelves in the garage. They did not deteriorate save a few that got white mold probably from poor storage by a previous owner. I have a special room equipped with an older smaller flat screen that allows me to hook up my VHS player. It is my happy place.
That’s awesome and crazy to think they said lifespan was only 8 years… I have tapes from the 80’s that play flawlessly
@@RealSkylarDolanAgreed. I've had the same VHS copy of Jurassic Park since I was 8, still have the same VCR that I got for my 8th birthday and only got a new television about 5 years ago (I also got it for my 8th birthday). Keep the tapes clean and they'll last forever.
Yea I remember hearing the same about music casette only lasting 20 years. Im still listening to my old music tapes from 1982!! I guess " they" were wrong
@@CHRISMED2 Yep, still listening to my cassettes too on my 1990's Sony boom box.
I have VHS tapes from the late 80s that still play. Granted, the picture quality is crap, but they are still watchable. I would back them up, but some of them have Macrovision, and they look awful compared to the same movie I could get in the 5 dollar bin in Walmart on DVD.
I've been stock piling Blu-rays and DVDs damn I even still have a couple of VHS players with a large collection of old pre certificate horror tapes. Dinosaur and proud
VHS will never Die! Rock on Broski you are right up my style of collecting and hunting, In the physical media wars you either Rent or Own! I have been hunting VHS since 2012 as well as never stopped buying them technically, 3rd generation. I have 33 VCRS and roughly 4K Tapes, wise to stay ahead of the craze that will come, like what happend with Retro Video games is occuring with VHS in ways right now.
Hell yeah! Crazy to see VHS be the wave but obviously very happy to see it and enjoy it while it still lasts
@@RealSkylarDolan There will always be damaged junk out there in the future, but it is thinning out. When Collections get turned over to thrift stores untouched, that is where I intervine LOL I found 4 box sets of special episodes from each of the first 4 seaons, FOX Release, 24 episodes 12 Tapes $4.35 People think "I don't have a VCR and can't watch this." Turn it over regardless what it is....... Do people stop and think that these are vintage collectibles? 2004 last main stream VHS year. 2024 Broski, Keep on Huntin'
@stonesfan285apparently not. Grow up.
With streaming it’s only going to get worse and far more dystopian. If a platform doesn’t want to show a movie or film, it could just disappear into the ether of nothingness never to be seen again.
I got my DVD collection and gaming collection, so I’m good.
It makes me sad to see so many films and tv shows just be straight up lost to the public because studios don’t want to deal with rights issues or for tax incentives like Warner Bros. Same with video games especially I’ll always push for physical games.
@@RealSkylarDolan So true, so many times while searching on my roku for some obscure movie 9 times out of 10 the only streaming channels that have it are amazon prime or apple TV. It makes me wonder what things will look like 10 years from now. Will amazon or some other service have a monopoly on all movies and be free to charge high prices like $20 pay per view on everything? I left the streaming subscription scene a few years ago and have been building my collection in physical media for the last 15 years. I pay more overall but it's an investment also. Buy once, watch multiple times. I can sell it , trade it, or keep it. Physical is much better audio/video quality also. 5 megabites per second bitrate for streaming vs 40 for a blu ray and up to 100 for a 4K disc.
100% agree with you on this!
Streaming has gotten out of control on prices plus digital rights still aren’t true ownership.
I’ve gotten back into collecting DVDs & CDs for these reasons alongside nostalgia.
I get so annoyed seeing everything leaving streaming and switching services etc that it has to pop this bubble soon
100%!!!
Thank you for this video. I have felt this same way for a while now.
Recently, I started collecting vintage PC technology and have actually built a Windows 98 PC for older games and a Windows XP PC to sort of recapture that magic I once knew as well as VHS tapes and other means of physical media.
Additionally, do not say that your video isn't going to change minds or change hearts because it certainly will. Even if it changes ONE persons mind, then it's worth it.
That is so cool! I love the idea of keeping games alive with older technology. Thank you for the kind words :)
@@RealSkylarDolan oh no prob! Just discovered your content today but already lovin it
Love collecting vhs. Recently picked up a 27” Samsung CRT for free to upgrade my set up.
Nice! Those are getting expensive so getting one for free is a real score
Every time I stream something (which isn’t often), I’m reminded of why I dislike it. I’m with you on the VHS. It’s a lot of fun. I’ve been recollecting Dragon Ball Z on VHS and it’s cool, because the spines of the tape covers form a picture mural when you put them next to each other. It’s a warm feeling watching stuff on VHS again.
I think people are getting into buying VHS and DVD as they get older because they realize that the content is worth more than the number of pixels and surround sound channels. Plus your favorite movies are not subject to AI crap editing or George Lucas revisionist stuff unless someone comes to your house and manually edits the tape/disc.
I resonated with so much of what was said. Tv/movie streaming offers lots of choice yet often the stuff I want to watch isn't even available. I also like the idea of being slower and more intentional with what I consume.
It's peace of mind to have the movie on the shelf instead of digging through 20 different streaming services to find the movie. Not to mention getting the movie uncut in most cases with extras vs. a chopped up version on the streaming services.
I don't understand people who don't own and have no interest in owning CDs. I've always hated listening to music on the radio because they choose the music, not the listener. And I have no interest in hearing "More than a Feeling" for the 1000th time or whatever Foreigner tune they pull out of their bin. I am constantly scouring thrift stores for CDs. $2. Give it a try. Brazilian music, Chinese classical music, some bizarre band that nobody's ever heard of. Choose an album based solely on the cover. But have Sirius XM choose the next song? Pay money to a streaming service so that I can hear the same music I've already got on CD? I will admit, however, that having a streaming service to watch some TV show or some movie that I'm never going to watch again is convenient. I liked watching "Bosch" and "Flying Circus" on Amazon or whatever because I just can't see owning the DVD. Shows and music aren't like music. There's only so many times I can watch something. Black Sabbath or Miles Davis is forever.
Not to mention CD quality is so much higher than streaming and radio! Radio has always annoyed me because it’s mostly ads now anyway but I love finding CD’s for cheap
Streaming is good to watch movies you have never watched and try to check it out but physical media is if you like the movie enough to purchase it so you dont have to watch it on streaming.
Less choices makes you be deliberate and put effort into the things you consume
There was this guy in my 4K Facebook Movie group who ONLY used to watch Lord of the Rings Extended editions EVERY SINGLE week. He was the happiest guy ever.
I started collecting dvd blu ray and 4k again I also bought a record player and started collecting records to
I don't care how much they cost you own them and can watch or listen to them at anytime you want
I watch a movie every day
It’s more expensive but more gratifying is how I look at it
@@RealSkylarDolan true collecting physical media is so cool and a great hobby
Plus things you collect will go up in value to imo
These days, I only keep streaming services installed on my phone or using streaming services on my tv to experience new films I haven't seen that also have a dvd/blu-ray copy for purchase somewhere. If a movie is good enough after i watch it, I'm increasingly more likely to buy it physically. Eventually, I'll reach a point in time where I'll also be done with streaming services and will have more money in my wallet month by month from just using dvds and blu-rays on one of my playstations.
I'm 41 years old, I can never let go of physical media, it's what I've known most of my life. I LOVE owning, truly owning, movies and tv shows without needing an internet connection and without worrying if it'll disappear from the streaming services. And there are LOTS of movies still not available on streaming services and likely will never be. Thank goodness for the VHS archivists. Keep on collecting! 🤗
streaming services are 99% 2010+ brainrot and 1% edited old stuff
No one can take your DVDs, Blu-rays or 4Ks away from you. But once you are dependent on a streaming service, you're leasing your favorite movies or TV shows from these corporations
"There's so much more intention". Mindfully consuming, instead of mindlessly consuming. What musicians do you like? "Oh I don't know, I just put on this playlist on Spotify." No connection to what's being consumed!
Great video, thanks for posting!
Thank you for the kind words!
A question that I really love and always have an answer to because every time I really like an artist, I buy their music either in physical or downloadable files on Bandcamp. My CD collection is like a family to me. I always know which styles of music are on them and the names of every song for the most part. Owning media is so cozy and engaging.
It's crazy to me when I'm talking to people about music and I ask what their favourite album is, and the response is "Oh i don't listen to the albums" or "I just listen to the top tracks". Worse again is if they don't know the name of the song even remotely.
@@bigmanmccheez5342 zero connection to the artists creating what they consume.
I ditched streaming almost a decade ago when they started upping the price and splitting into so many services. I already had a small selection of films and just started using the streaming/cable fee as a base for what to spend each month on new acquisitions. I currently have over 400 dvds (about half tv shows), 100+ Blu-rays, and a slowly growing 4k selection. The best part is you can get an entire show on dvd, and after watching it if you're not going to be watching it again, you can sell it for close to what you paid for it. You can get dvds from goodwill, estate sales, and some thrift stores for around a dollar each. If it's not great, it was a dollar! I reserve Blu-ray/4k purchasing for the great films I already love. Only thing you need to watch for especially on DVDs from the early 2000s is disc rot.
That’s pretty similar to what I do I have a lot of TV shows on DVD specifically seasons 1-8 of The Simpsons and then if I truly love a movie or show I splurge on the 4K or Blu Ray
Your awesome man it makes me so happy that there are other people out there who still collect vhs like myself. Hard agree that a little inconvenience is a good thing things matter more when you have to put in a little work to get them and enjoy them.
This is a follow up for a video about how buying physical is cheaper than streaming. He calculated at least 1000$ a year on subscription services just for the access to the platforms, not even for the content. If you have four or more of these services it would be cheaper to buy a good movie every once in a while and getting other movies from the library
I detest them. Raising prices, adverts not only at the begining but during the movie, short episode runs, 2 year gaps between seasons, weekly episode releases, an attempt at abolishing binge watching, are all factors. If i wanted normal tv then id watch normal tv.
We’ve just successfully created cable 2.0 that’s all it is
@@RealSkylarDolan I just watches on hour long episode of the boys on prime and i have 7 adds broken into 3 segments. This is getting out of hand already.
90% of the time I look up an old movie on IMDB, it's not playing on a streaming platform I am paying for. The closest I get is an offer to rent it from Amazon for $5. That's a pretty reasonable price, but why am I paying Netflix each month? To fund their new movies? A list of new movies that I will probably watch 1% of? I'd rather go hang out at a used movies/record store, listen to cool music blasting, and buy used Blu-rays for $5-10 (plus, you can keep the money local!). Do the Blu-ray cases take too much room? They can, and you are renting that space in your home each month. Keep the discs in an old school disc folder and ditch the cases. Of course, that becomes it's own problem lol
I’ve definitely run into the space issue with books more than movies but worse case scenario I either buy more shelves or downsize my collection which isn’t too bad of a scenario either way
Same here man I got like over a 100 vhs tapes
I started out collecting mostly horror tapes and now I’m rounding it out so I probably only have around 30 or so
Reject modernity and embrace tradition. These video streaming services are run by people who hate you and would jump at the chance to erase any record of the way things used to be. Save your $ and start converting your disc based movies to MKV files. You'll be so glad you started that project within a decade.
for me I watch shows and movies on netflix just whatever comes out, but when I really LOVE a movie I buy a DvD for it out of respect for the film
I’m the exact same way
I've started to build up a collection and I am absolutely all for it. There are so many films that have taken me years to get to because of the abundance of choice i got with Netflix. I now watch films with intention more than i have before in the last 10-12 years and I love it.
I can't really afford to buy physical movies so my current situation is video files but even so, they're still so much higher quality than Netflix has been. I've built up a collection of sci fi and horror movies that I've been wanting to watch for years and have finally gotten to them because my choices are now limited. I've wasted a lot of time just scrolling through netflix for 20-30 minutes before giving up and watching a youtube video, completely missing out on what I wanted to do, which was enjoy a movie.
I have downloaded and watched so many classic movies that I was missing out on in the last 2 weeks, stuff like Scream, The Crow and Friday the 13th, things i should have watched a long time ago.
Netflix gone yesterday. I actually feel free!
I want to join you but my partner likes Netflix. So I'm stuck with it for the time being
@@TheAshdan81get a smarter partner.
You can only watch so much with streaming services. That was the main reason why I stopped and canceled my subscriptions.
And the moment paid streaming platforms like Netflix started putting advertisements inbetween your watches, I knew I made the right move.
There are free streaming platforms like Pluto or Tubi and they play advertisements between watches, and I'm fine with that.
The nice thing about physical media is the satisfaction of not only owning what you buy, but the satisfaction of not relying on the Internet when you watch the content. And the DVD/Blu-ray has extra behind the scenes stuff, something streaming platforms do not provide.
Yeah i’m a huge fan of special features and getting so many different extras and documentaries is a bonus that just can’t be replicated with streaming
with digital, I often start movies and then I have so many other options I can switch to instantly that I often do so bc I am not invested or I don't feel like I will be able to be invested in the film at that time. When you put a tape in, you're going through a ritual that gets you more invested in the experience, and you can't just change what you're watching instantly, so you don't. You look at the box, and read the descriptions and look at the stills, and think about how great the movie will be.
That's really different from digital, where you sorta remember the main premise of the film, and then don't enjoy it, despite there being 100 different great moments that you are not thinking about. I struggle w that when I am watching media I have already seen. Fight Club is highly entertaining, but if I start to stream it, I think about the general story in my head, and then I just find something else.
That problem is even worse with TV shows I have seen. I skip the best episodes sometimes bc I can think of 1 part in my head or I know how it ends.
I have an entire bookshelf in the basement of films. Ive been going through thise and have half abandoned most online services
It’s always fun to physically see how much media you’ve watched, I’m definitely guilty of not watching all my own movies
I was the video buyer for Virgin Megastore in Las Vegas for basically the entire time the store was there (first year I was not a buyer but just a sales clerk).
Every hard to get, high vale sets and copeis, I had in the store. Isles & isles vhs, laserdisc, and dvd's.
I would just spend hours just going through the aisles just looking at different movies I might not have seen or things that I want to see. I miss being able to peruse and go through physical things.
But not only that a lot of things didn't get translated in some special editions of things are just not there. (Like the criterion collection of The Killer).
Also I found that by using digital streaming services you tend to watch the same things over and over you don't really go into the depth of your collection that you would have and just pick out something random or weird or that wouldn't be on streaming (Suicide Circle or Dogma).
NFL known what I know now I would have probably picked up a few things (like any PSOne rpg, or Steel Battalion, The Star Wars Laserdisc collection (best versions released, even over the DVD's).
Personally for me, I would stick to streaming but I think compared to most people, I don’t really have the usual habits most people do. Like I literally never rewatch anything, once I see a movie/TV show, even if it’s my all time favorite in the whole world, I never go back to it. Most people nowadays seem to have “yearly binges” of stuff they watch every single year so for that kind of audience, it totally makes sense to buy once and be able to watch forever even if the cost upfront is so much more. But for someone like me? Why would I ever pay $10-20 for a movie outright only to watch it once and have it sit on a shelf rotting away while I could instead pay the same $10-20, watch at least ~15-25 movies/shows in a month, and have gotten a drastically better value.
When it comes to preserving old games, I would recommend going with the emulators on PC
It''s crazy how some VHS tapes go for
Horror titles seem to sell for a lot of money
i would love to burn some dvds to keep.
Fantastic video! i hope you continue to consume your content this way! it puts way more value onto something and you actually become a fan of a movie, musician or video when you cherish it and replay it! mindless consumption takes away the value of art and creation!
i totally agree! thank you for the kind words
I've kept all our old family tapes, i still have my original tape of Twister, my favorite movie. I even have our original VCR and tv. Just holding that tape is a different vibe from it appearing in a menu.
100% it’s a special feeling to hold it in your hands
I’m 16 years old, somehow I always knew what a VHS tape was. One day when I was 12 my uncle gave me a Star Wars set on VHS that he got when he interned at Skywalker Ranch in 2001, then I got a VCR. and now I got over 200 tapes and watch them. I don’t use streaming. Too much hassle. Plus the high price. Everyone I meet is always super confused on why I use VHS. All I can answer is “there’s something about it.”
I also started collecting VHS this year. I stopped at 150 movies since I don't want it too turn into hoarding.
Bad Boys came out in 1995, the home video release was 96.
Letterbox VHS ftw!
I'm with you ! I've been realizing that when I browse on netflix or spotify and even youtube at times.. I get a bit of anxiety and not much excitement, there's too much stuff ! My main problem with streaming services is the whole experience, it's not only about owning that movie...or cd.. it's everything.. I like to browse cds or dvds in places where people sell that stuff, I miss so much the record stores!! even if you don't buy anything.. it's a cool experience, I used to get lost in time just browsing cds and listening to some of the new releases. When it comes to movies, I miss blockbuster, I'm starting to go to the cinema from time to time..but streaming movies..yikes.. it's a waste of life.. Most of the movies I own are not original, however the experience of having 200 hundred movies is less stressing than having a bunch of streaming services trying to get your attention/time. When I put a dvd I do pay attention to the movie, I enjoy it more, it's like spending time in my life.. Streaming services have a weird vibe, kinda like social media..
I think people are going back to physical media or any other option that replaces streaming services, because many many consumers are tired of what they are offering.. or at least I am!! netflix is full of crap.. too many bollywood stuff, so many movies I've already watched.. too much of the same thing.. too much "Noise". It's like people in general, specially after the worlwide thing we went through a few years ago, we are having a growing desire to go back to the life before it... and that's probably one reason why physical media is back, why people are so nostalgic and why anything that involves spending time with people is having so much success.
I think in a weird way it gives you a sense of ownership and control within a reasonable range of options and to me that’s pretty appealing!
Physical media is gonna make a huge comeback in a few years, specifically because of the breakthrough that’s been made with disc technology. Some computer scientists figured out a new way to store data on a dvd disc, to where they can store up to 1.6 Petabits of data, or
1,600,000 gigabytes. That’s insane. And it all fits on a dvd sized disc. So, when that tech becomes commercially available, you’ll be able to fit an entire TV series, multiple seasons, on a single disc, with all the extra features you can imagine. And once companies can do that, they’ll do it. Trust me. The reason they don’t really do complete series TV show box sets anymore is because it costs way too much to create new specific packaging, and cases that can hold all the discs. So if companies can put an entire TV Show on a single disc, in a regular Blu Ray sized case, they can actually make profit off of it, and probably more than what they make on streaming services so it will be an exciting opportunity for those companies.
I just regret tossing out my dvd cases cause I wanted to put them in one of those dvd books and my collection is about over 400 + dvd and blu rays i also have a vhs collection vinyl and cd collection i also regret that me have a huge collection of physical i was still paying for streaming but just yesterday i said no more I cancelled all my streaming services… love your video by the way
Thank you! I also have a DVD book for when I bought movies from Redbox to keep and wish they had cases but can’t win em all
i also collect vhs tapes. i loveee physical media in general. i started watching the x files recently and got it on dvd and partly on vhs. it just feels better to me than streaming!!! like its .. SO NICE
Watching X-Files on VHS hits a part of my brain I wasn’t aware existed it rocks
I too have went back to buying Music, Movies, and TV Shows on physical media. But however, I do believe that physical media is going back to being an collectors market thing for hobbyists
100% I was in Target the other day and they had like 10 movies in their media section and it was just sad
I am so glad this popped up on my homepage. This is an enjoyable listen while doing other stuff fr. (Like writing this comment. xD )
I could go on and on, but all I'll say is I saw the original Alien from 1979 for the first time when it was re-released in theatres a few months back for the 45th anniversary, all its glory on the big screen. Digged the Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack (Which as a Trekkie, well, the likelihood was quite high that I would, yeah.), and now I found them all for dirt cheap on VHS at a sale and watch them on an ancient round screen TV. (Well, maybe. I think the first one will be my favourite, have not even seen the others. Though the fun thing about the franchise is they are kind of all standalone) Life is good.
Gotta love it when you're luck enough to have many unlabeled tapes to explore. (Ah, brutalmoose, inspiration.)
Going back to older media and seeing it in different forms is genuinely so fun and I love brutalmoose! His series in VHS tapes always makes me laugh and hits that nostalgia center of my brain.
I agree, but VHS is too lowball picture quality for me, heck even during my LaserDisc years, before DVD, VHS was just too low quality. I'm doing Blu-ray since day one and DVD when the film is not available in BD.
Fuck Streaming.
VHS for me is the most fun with horror movies, it adds that nostalgia and depending on the movie the effects are more seamless but if I truly love a movie or show I try to also get it on 4K or blu ray
nobody sells vhs tapes around me at all
Then move to a cooler city.
Amen brother. I get HBO Max with my overpriced ATT cellular subscription. I get peacock with my reasonable Xfinity subscription. I’m not paying for anything else. I’d rather own something, get the maximum quality available, and be able to watch it whenever I want to.
DVD > VHS
I grew up with VHS and didn't shed a tear when VHS became obsolete.
The dream of the internet and streaming was the preservation and availability of everything everywhere but instead the mechanisms that inform what is available on streaming services has ruined them. Corporations / publishers using their "content" as bargaining chips in a ratrace to sell license packages to the highest bidder which only results in a terribly unpredictable supply for the consumer when the entire point of the model was ease of use and freedom of choice. So much old stuff isn't offered either, or they do offer them but it's some inferior version of the thing you want, or they only offer it partially. It's honestly horrific considering how much cultural momentum has been sucked out of the television and cinema industries, trying to watch certain old shows on streaming services is very hard to do and it almost feels like a deliberate move to obfuscate how crap some of the new stuff is by trying to hide the old stuff as best as possible. The absolute best way to get what you want it to just buy it physically.
In the olden days when streaming services had just started it was incredible to have so few services and so many shows and then it just devolved into chaos and it’s really unfortunate. I hope that since we likely won’t go above 4K in terms of home media that we start getting more things that are stuck in DVD seeing new releases.
The internet has provided that through piracy, so in a way we got it. Just not through the official means (by their own fault)
how do the vhs tapes look on an hdtv? last time I tried that years ago I remember it looking terrible. I have a crt now specifically for vintage gaming or the occasional vhs.
Sadly my TV doesn’t have a spot for component cables so I have to use a convertor and it looks good enough to watch without a problem but it’s definitely not the purest way to watch them
I stopped all streaming services and went to discs for the first time in my life last year. I bought like $50K of media (no joke), and I'm very happy, much more than I ever was with streaming. I rip everything though. I won't buy "put it on in the background" shows, so like you, it's always intentional when I watch stuff. Streaming was less special, and it has so many issues. Lower bitrates, only one version or cut, censoring, etc.
I mainly got into this because I have 3 kids and renting over and over isn't cost-effective. Also, they pull good kids shows off streaming all the time! Better to buy, so I don't have to worry about it. My wife likes having everything in one place (Plex), and that means it directly improves my marriage. She also doesn't have to worry about bad stuff because we chose everything my kids have access to.
If you want to really get into VHS, make sure you take care of them. I know it seems silly and probably obvious, but the tape can and will deteriorate with time
Also woke-azz shows everywhere. Go back and watch The Office, Cheers, Roseanne and 1980's/90's movies on DVDs. Save your money. Save your brain.
To be honest idk a single young adult man who doesnt collect stuff. My spongebob figurine collection is threatening to drown me lol. But yeah i love physical media. Nevermind the fact i don't want to subscribe to ANOTHER streaming service just to watch the one movie or show my current subscription services dont have. But if it's a good enough movie, i want to see it in the best quality possible. Low bit rate, and frequent dips in resolution due to internet lag is not how i want to view 2001 A Space Odyssey
Exactly! It also gives a sense of more intention which I really enjoy
vhs tapes can break so easily so u have to be so careful with them
I haven't watched the whole video yet so you may cover this at some point but I think the idea that it is more expensive is a common misconception. It is more expensive initially but in the long term I think it's cheaper. If I buy a DVD or album today I have that for ever and that cost is now covered. Most people after a certain age stop really seeking out a ton of new music so eventually you kind of have what you want to listen to and don't keep spending the same amount, an album ever 3 or 4 months is much less than the cost of spotify every month so it becomes cheaper eventually. Movies are similar, up front you may spend a lot getting all your favorites and building up a collection but eventually it slows down and your monthly expense becomes less than all the streaming services combined. This math might change if you are the kind of person that feels the need to upgrade every piece of media you own to the newest high quality format that releases.
I’ve found that lately I’m gravitating more towards purchasing a movie I want in the cheapest fashion rather than the cleanest format, once I got over the “I need everything in Blu-Ray and 4K” hurdle my cost of media also went down
DO IT SKYLAR !!!!!!
I'd collect VHS tapes if they didn't degrade over time. I'm building a collection I wanna keep for at least 40 years if not longer.
There are a lot of variables to tape condition but so far I’ve found it enjoyable to watch horror movies on VHS and it adds to it in a way
I will always buy DVDs, CDs, and physical copy games, this coming from a 31 year old. It feels like physical copy video games are barreling towards extinction 😭 I don't care if they offer a digital version two months ahead of the physical release! I want the nice case to display, the artbooks, and any extra little goodies that come with them. I will wait as long as it takes to buy a physical copy of said game but I am starting to think we have maybe one more generation of consoles that aren't digital. I am/have been trying to vote with my wallet but everyone I talk to says "physical media takes up too much space". When did others stop enjoying owning what they buy? I love looking through all my games, cds, and dvds! What has changed so much? 😥
I much prefer physical games over digital, I like lending them out and buying them for dirt cheap and just showing off what I like! It definitely strikes me as odd how easily people can just “own” things digitally and never be concerned about it going away
@@RealSkylarDolan It sometimes sounds like brain washing lol 😅 I feel like my media owns me when it is digital. While physical copies I don't have to worry if my favorite shows and movies will be cancelled.
Bring back Blockbuster!
Still a big goal of mine to go to the last one! I have merch from them but still need to visit
What got me back to collecting dvds was so i can rip them and try to make them 1080p with ai as a hobby
Also failing at it too but gonna keep going and learning
I’ve watched a few videos on AI upscaling and it seems really interesting, good luck!
1:36 hey I see Adventure time also I do recommend investing in a region free Blu-ray or 4k region free player
Huge fan of AT! Region free is actually super good idea
As far as my music I constantly switch songs going down the road so UA-cam works great for me on music because I can listen to tons and tons of different types of music and songs riding down the road. I'm okay with that because I don't have the money to buy all the music and songs I listen to and also I don't want to risk having a wreck trying to change music going down the road. Because I'm liable to listen to four or five different bands by the time I get from point A to point B on my trip which is not very far. And I don't want to have to be fiddling with a CD. So UA-cam works great in that aspect. But I have to have physical media for my movies and games.
But as far as my movies and video games I have to have physical media.
I'll pass on the VCR tapes. I had hundreds and hundreds of those in the 80s. I don't miss having to take the tape apart and literally having to put like actual Scotch tape on the VCR tape to fix it because the VCR ate the tape just like I don't miss cassette tapes. But I will buy 4K Blu-ray discs. I love the quality and I love the the collectibility of the 4K steelbook. And the same thing with my video games I have to have physical video games I don't do download.
I will buy actual physical video games like PlayStation ECT and 4K Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray steelbook the collector's edition if it's a movie I really want.
I would definitely consider VHS to be a "gimmick."
Cassette tapes for music I would consider less of a gimmick as it's somewhere around 75% of the perceivable sound quality you'd get from CDs, and there's an argument to be made for the "warmth" of tape.
But movies? VHS is worse in every single aspect, particularly in comparison to blu-ray and don't even get me started on how it compares to 4k. (It doesn't.)
Anyway, me, I've been collecting physical media for years, though it's ramped up since 4k has come out, I get every single movie I like in 4k the moment it's released. Fortunately for my wallet, I don't actually like that many movies. I dislike or don't care about most popular stuff, yet my tastes are still "expensive": I like blockbusters like Jurassic Park and Independence Day. I don't care for almost any Bruce Lee movie, but I like half a dozen movies from Jackie Chan, maybe more.
I don't like any mobster movies, and I don't like any movie that doesn't have a happy ending, which removes Heat, Godfather, Goodfellas, _et cetera._
Here's the movies I like: Angels in the Outfield, Arsenic and Old Lace, No Escape, Behind Enemy Lines, Phonebooth and Unleashed.
They're movies with budgets, big-name actors and skilled artists, but they're not movies most people are going to bring up in almost any movie discussion.
Occasionally one of my favorites gets a release on 4k (Ocean's 11, can't believe it didn't get one sooner) but mostly I'm just waiting around.
Happy Gilmore is apparently coming soon to 4k! And with the Sixth Sense and two other M. Night movies, I'm _really_ hoping for a release of The Village in 4k!
I literally couldn’t care less who objects to me not liking streaming as it literally has nothing to do with them and doesn’t affect them in the slightest. I think streaming sucks, just objectively sucks. Most don’t. I don’t really care. Their opinion about what I should do is worthless and meaningless.
As long as you’re happy and not hurting anyone then I don’t see a problem!
@RealSkylarDolan Exactly. Likewise their streaming isn’t hurting me either. People need to mind their business
VHS takes too much space and does not have any new releases, more than 90% og VHS are on DVD/bluray. theres literally no reason to get VHS movies unless it was never released anywhere else.
Get over yourself. It's OK for others to enjoy things that you don't.
@@Anonymous-wb3nz go ahead and enjoy it lol
It’s just a fun alternative to streaming imo, I have movies on VHS that I got dirt cheap compared to buying a new Blu Ray or 4K and it is especially fun to watch horror movies that way
Bro it’s called a VCR!!!!!
It’s a 20 min one shot vid I was bound to mess up at least once
LETTERBOX whatever that means. LMFAO
20 a month just go to goodwill and you can get movies for 1 a piece or like 10 VHS tapes for 1 dollar near me, I’d rather do this and slowly build a library. TV shows are definitely easier for streaming though. I absolutely love getting 20-30 tapes for 3-4 bucks and watching them on my CRT
Why are you holding a mic? You a 60's news reporter in the field?
And I have to say something because you said something really cringy you. You said when you pop twister in the VHS !
You don't pop twister in the VHS. You pop it in the VCR. You can call that a VHS tape if you want but it goes in a VCR. But I've never called him a VHS I've always called it a VCR tape because that's what it is it goes in a VCR and the VCR plays it. I had hundreds and hundreds of those things in the 80s back when VCR competed with Beta
That's why I watch movies for free on sketchy websites 😅😅
those of us without netflix had to watch Beverly Hills Cop 4 somehow 🫡
I can't believe this isn't a joke or an RLM sketch. You sound like the old hipsters who used to swear that vinyl was the best way to listen to music, that the cracks and pops made it sound more authentic, the way it was meant to be heard, and all the technical hassles were worth it. You're got this adopted nostalgia for a time you missed out on and it's sad, you need to find ways to appreciate your own time. As for media, physical is sometimes worth it but only for special features and commentaries, anything else is so much better stored digitally. You didn't grow up with VHS so you didn't get to use its main function, making your own tapes from free sources or movie channels. That habit extended to some who would also make their own copies of tapes they rented, and then that would translate into the era f ripping dvd's. Sadly, no one thought to preserve all the features and extra people worked so hard to collect before disc rot claimed them, streaming services just have the title itself and you're lucky is the subtitles work correctly. Yes, collect and curate your own collection, but drop this silly love of the boxes and plastic cases and magnetic tape, all that is doomed to die out. Try to preserve value in your own collection, not monetary, but cultural and entertainment value, and for that the dvd era is your golden age. If you're going to be a physical collector, at least make plans to back it up digitally, trust me, you'll be glad you did later on. Dedication of any kind to VHS for any purpose other than making content or turning it into digital is pure vanity.
I grew up on VHS and tape. To claim that a hobby of enjoying a media format is vanity is an insane stretch, I’m just trying to have fun
I get what you’re saying, but especially for old movies/music, they were made with the hardware of its time in mind.
A “worse” experience might very well be more enjoyable in some cases.
As a personal anecdote, recently i watched Phantom Menace on 4k Bluray and was disappointed that i thought the CGI looked realistic 25 years ago. “How could i have been fooled like this, it looks terrible!”
Then i tried watching it on DVD on an old CRT, and it look much better despite the lower resolution (and zoomed in image). The CGI actually looked credible again, because it was meant to be seen on this older lower fidelity hardware. Not on a 55” 4K living room display , it doesn’t hold up to that level of scrutiny and the experience is worse for it
You can go backwards with your streaming nonsense, low nitrate trash while us with physical discs have the highest quality and it's ours, not in the possession of these companies that remove it at any cost due to rights issues etc. I've had multiple people asking me do I have such an such on disc and 9 out of 10 times i lend it out as no streaming site has it unless you pay to rent the title say off Amazon.
@@cd.knuckles This is especially true for anything sci-fi or basically anything that used a lot of special effects. I watched A New Hope on Disney+ a few months back and it's just not the same as watching the DVDs. Even on a modern TV, the slight blurriness of the DVD bothers me much less than the pixel perfect smoothness of 4k. 4k makes me uncomfortable anyway, I don't entirely know why but i find that extreme amount of detail unnerving.
I dont understand this video. Its like you made this just to persuade yourself.
Why are you buying VHS? its such low quality that they dont even make them anymore. Stranger things and Jaws are still bluray but in VHS packaging for reteo style.
How is you listening to the same songs the fault of spotify? you have access to millions of songs.
Not able to find a movie to watch is a you problem. People nowadays have low attention span and cant try new things. You have more ease of access to movies than any generation before. And yet people are conplaining about this? Place a movie lover from the 80s or 90s to today and theyd be absolutely ecstatic from the cenveience of watching movies.
I see these kinds of videos all the time. Not only being pro physical media but somehow regressing to VHS. They dont even make VHS players anynore. Ridiculous.
Also, cant afford to stream? Seriously?
I love my VHS collection. I still have the same VCR I got when I turned 8 (over 25 years ago). I really think it's just a preference. I still have cassette tapes and my cassette walkman. I put music from my CD collections on my mp3 player and make my own mixed tapes. It's actually quite fun.
@@futoijosei I like VHS too but the downside is that many 'Scope/Panavision movies are pan & scan. I have a ton of VHS and still record stuff on tape at times but really prefer DVD overall, even to later formats.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 I usually have a copy of both if I like the movie.
@@ben99ny69 Streaming is overwhelming, impersonal, erratic, confusing and unreliable
I hate streaming
It just sucks
@@MetalSamantha Are those the biggest words you know amd toss them around even if they make zero sense?
Right now I'm watching all of the kurosawa films on Max. All for 15 bucks. I dont know how much it would cost to buy them physically, but I know 4 of them are Criterion so that's at least $90 right there.
Disregarding the streaming exclusives, there are you cant watch in physical such as the chase, the Pink panther, and Lady vengence (Probably in dvd but I'd rather wait for a better format than dvd).
Physical media loves to price gouge you. Such as retailing oldboy in 4k at $75 which is ridicoulous.
As someone who spent most of my life in the pre-streaming days, I find you guys absolutely hilarious.
$16/mo. for Spotify = access to most recordings ever made
$16/mo. for new physical media = maybe one new CD per month (if you're lucky)
What a deal!
And VHS, seriously? It was a trash format when it was new, and it looks terrible on a non-CRT monitor.
It's funny how none of us who lived through this era have almost no nostalgia for it, while you guys do? Your problem is not the format and convenience, it's managing your expectations that matters.
The whole point is that overconsumption creates diminishing returns, sure I can listen to anything on Spotify but it becomes mindless. As for VHS I lived through it to see the creation of the DVD and it’s just something nostalgic that people find fun, it’s not about getting the best picture quality that’s what 4K is for which is why I use both. At the end of the day if you’re not hurting anyone who cares?
@TheSkylarDolan
My point is that overconsumption is a choice, and making considered choices from a vast library of options does not diminish that experience. Growing up, I was so frustrated that there was so much music out there that was out of my reach because I couldn't afford to buy everything I wanted. While scarcity did make me cherish what I had all the more, I would NEVER want to return to that era when you would only be able to experience some music if you happened by chance to catch it on the radio or MTV. For a real music afficionado, it really sucked compared to today.
Now I listen to pretty much everything from streaming services (and I have literally thousands of CDs and LPs collecting dust). But I don't listen indiscriminately to whatever some algorithm thinks I like. I curate my own playlists and mostly listen to what I've chosen myself...I just have a much bigger library to choose from than ever before...and I'm no longer stuck listening only at home or to whatever cassettes/discs I have floating around the car. The flexibility, price, quality, and choice are the greatest thing that have ever happened for listeners of recorded music. I don't even miss the liner notes, as all of that information and much, much more is available at my fingertips on the same device as my music plays on!
Spotify is complete trash and CDs can be had for pennies in thrift stores.
What looks better...Digipak remastered releases of AC/DC albums which I have all the early classic ones or looking at thumbnails of the album covers on a screen?
@DavidMander-rs4uk
I'm curious why you think Spotify is trash. And album artwork is great to have, but the portability of music is most valuable to me.
I was born in 1980 and collect VHS. Analog signals have soul. No 4k transfer can reproduce that.