Same especially with video games and older films. Recently I tried to show my husband my favourite movie that was produced in the 1950s and it’s nowhere online including legal/illegal streaming sites.
Good thing I have a copy of Dogma. However, I am of the opinion that every movie and tv show ever, should be available for watch and purchase to the masses. Media is art. And art deserves to be observed.
@@Burn3r10 Fine. Then you decide what television show/music/movie needs to be available and YOU foot the costs associated. Printing every DVD/CD/Blue-Ray, plus packaging costs, storage, distribution, advertising, plus all royalties.
This cracks me up! I own almost everything on this list on DVD! My children are both millennials and are always saying “why do you bother keeping all those DVDs you can get EVERYTHING on streaming!”LOL I always reply “NO YOU CAN’T”
I'm a millennial and have a huge dvd collection...I think you might mean Genz Millenials were born between 1981 and 1996. Streaming services weren't really a thing until the early 00s. We had dvd players.
Three of my favorite movies are not available on streaming, but I have the physical copies - Dawn of the Dead (original), Pink Floyd the Wall and Island of Lost Souls. That is reason enough for me to keep my physical copies!
I have a large DVD library, and this video captures why I don't rely on streaming (nevermind the service hopping as contracts expire). I own Moonlighting and Dogma special edition and have them backed up on my Plex server should anything happen to the DVDs themselves. I would add that the masterpiece war film "A Midnight Clear" from 1991 starting Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinese, Frank Whaley and John C. McGinley is criminally difficult to find and should be on this list as well. Why there is no anniversary release with commentaries and making of docs is beyond me
Hypothetically speaking, let's say I had the entire Moonlighting series DVD set, was curious about its value and had had an extremely bad experience with E-bay. Are there hypothetical alternatives?
Disney: "We can't have Song of the south because it's racist" Also Disney: "We bought the rights to Star Wars and our first film is going to have strong Nazi influences."
@@fluidikons It's boring. And the problem between the kid's parents - that he's pro ending slavery and she's a moron - is completely ignored because Disney was afraid it would be boycotted in the South if they took an anti-slavery stance.
Plus, you never know when you get a hankering for a movie with a rubber poop monster? Actually, got almost all the Smith stuff on DVD including the talking shows. Surprised how much Dogna goes for on Amazon nowadays!
I remember getting a DVD player for Christmas when they came out and all my friends were jealous lol. Fk Getting old 😭😂 I still have a VHS player too not goona lie. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
I'm so glad for DVD burners and the ability to convert from VHS to DVD back in the day, especially when Netflix was a DVD rent-by-mail company! You could get 3 at a time so my collection is HUGE! I learned from records/8-track/cassettes going to CD to ALWAYS save the old technology and get it converted over yourself to the latest medium when possible.
I converted all my VHS to DVD with the exception of those that were locked. The only movies out of the 200 or so that I wasn't able to converted because the content was copy protected were Disney movies (every single one) and Heavy Metal. F'n Disney, I love them but they're a bunch of money grubbing bastards. Walt is rolling over in his grave
My point in the debate of "rasist" movies that were done in a time when such things weren't considered racist, is: We should not seek to delete historically made "mistakes" because then there is a greater risk that we'll repeat them.
The reason it took so long for the tv show “China Beach” to come out on dvd was music rights problems. They had great soundtracks on that show. I waited and hoped for years for a box version. Then, finally!
There is a scene in one of the episodes that played the Star Wars theme as Bruce Willis was fighting a bad guy with some swords or something like that. I just remember it was one of the funniest scenes in a TV series I've ever seen.
"The Drew Carey Show" has the same problem with musical rights. The show was wonderful, with guest stars ranging from Rush Limbaugh to The Reverend Horton Heat
The thing I remember about "The Reverend Horton Heat" episode, is that only "Jim Heath" got a speaking part. The rest of the band were snarling, and making threatening postures😄👍
Had this issue with Cold Case, love that show, and every episode had music from whatever year the murder took place in. So glad that hbo max has it now. There wasn't even any dvd's of it either!
I was such a devotee of this show, that when a pay TV station in my country showed these again, I painstakingly recorded each and every episode on VHS. Most of the music is the same as shown on TV, so I made my own collection.
WhatCulture: "Dogma DVD and Blu-Rays are out of print." Me staring at my Dogma Special Edition DVD: "Mwahahaha!" Also me: I don't have anything to play DVDs... WhatCulture: "Mwahahaha!"
@@chaosbringer546 studios love it because it makes licensing easier and sometimes more lucrative. Now they they only have to allow you access to the film/game/software rather than providing you with an actual physical copy. Users like it because solid state drives take up less space and are faster. Me...I have a 400+ library of titles on Bluray/DVD/CD. Every build gets an optical drive.
I know several seasons got DVD releases (the packaging gimmick was the box 'wearing' a Parka.) so I don't know why/how Streaming would be that big of an issue... unless their issue was with Multiple Studios having produced it and with everyone having their own app (Hulu, Peacock, Paramount+)
NX IS available with ALL of the original music on a region-B BluRay box set -- tracked it down about a year ago for $100-ish new. US box-set versions stopped featuring the original music after season 2 because of rights issues HERE that never became a problem in the UK.
Anyone else remember the show that went up against NX in its time-slot called _Key West_? Fisher Stevens, Jennifer Tilly, Tasha Yar, a bunch of other recognizable names. I liked NX okay for the 1st season, but really dug KW for the far more congenial atmosphere of its setting. I'm *still* trying to get there, half a lifetime later! 😂
@@TJ52359 Was sure had seen some on a shelf at Half Price Books. How I wish I'd bought several series before I moved. There isn't a Half Price Books where I live now.They always had a huge offering of DVDs of movies and TV series and I loved the box sets.
There’s a euro set with the music intact. the north american versions had a lot of the music replaced with generic or other music that sticks out like a sore thumb (they left the children’s choir intro of Inchworm in but dubbed out Danny Kaye with a woman singing a country tune). the season 1 north american box set has the original music but only by accident and only in the spanish dubbed audio track.
My dad was a real videophile back in the 80s. He had a 1983 (not sure the exact year of release) bootleg vhs copy of Song of the South ripped from a Japanese laserdisc release. He didn't care anything about the movie. He was just proud to possess such a rare thing. I myself have seen the movie several times because, believe it or not, Disney used to show it about once a year for a while on primetime TV back in the early 70s as a part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series on Sunday nights on NBC. And yes, I am that old...
Voting integrity opponents: "Why are you making it harder for people to vote by insisting on ID?" Movie pirates: "Why are you making it harder to watch a movie by insisting that we pay for it?"
That reminds me of my bootleg DVD set of "Cowboy Bebop." I did look everywhere for Bandai/official DVDs, but the company wasn't interested at the time. I have since added a "Best of" DVD set which looks MUCH better, but Bandai was shortsighted.
Florence Stoker sued Prana Films for ripping off her late husband's novel "Dracula" and had the court order that all copies of "Nosferatu" be destroyed; we have an enterprising movie pirate to thank for its survival. "Nosferatu" is now considered a classic, not only of the silent era, but of all time.
I think Cold Case should be included. It was never released on DVD or BluRay and it’s not on any major streaming service (at least here in Australia). It was an amazing show with good writing acting and absolutely phenomenal casting.
I watch Cold Case seven days a week on a free station called START TV. It runs with Crossing Jordan, Unforgettable, Rizzoli and Isles, The Closer and Major Crimes.
This is why I kept my physical media. Streaming falls apart when it comes down to rights disputes and when the servers fail. I'd say the hardest part is finding alot of horror. So much never made it to dvd let alone streaming. Maybe Dawn of the Dead 1978 because of the Richard Rubinstein debacle.
These stupid children have no concept of the benefits of physical media. They were never tought to truly appreciate anything. Josh, the immature narrator is a prime example of this if you follow the channel enough.
I still have a massive physical media store in my town. VHS movies are 30 cents regardless of what the movie is, and there is always about 5,000 different tapes on the shelves. And that section pales in size in comparison to the DVD/Blu Ray. I have gotten so many rare late release VHS movies there. Napoleon Dynamite, Mean Girls, 40 Year Virgin, Harold & Kumar, Team America, Dodgeball, Freddy Got Fingered, Without A Paddle, Bad Santa, Anchorman, The Longest Yard (Sandler), Herbie Fully Loaded, The Pacifier, etc.....99% of people have no idea these movies are rare and valuable
Digital download has its advantages. Getting copies of stuff that is extremely difficult to get physically for one. I've got some films tv shows, gigs, documentaries, etc that were never released on DVD thanks to downloading them. Also I got rid of a few of my CDs because I don't listen to them all that much and I don't have the space. But I've still got a digital copy of the albums if I feel the need to listen to them. But nothing can replace having physical copies.
The one I would love to see released is HBO's "Dream On". I loved that show. But I can understand that the rights to the old movie clips that were interspersed throughout the episodes would make it impossible.
Actually, I just checked The Criterion Channel today (June 1, 2021), and "Pink Flamingos" is among the newly added. Not my cup of tea, but just letting you know.
@@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu not at all but no one cares about the people downloading them... They are too busy trying to stop the uploaders. Not to mention how do you go after someone in China using American law or visa versa?
Definitely. Why you shouldn't be getting your books via Kindle and other such readers, you don't own you rent and they can take them from you whenever they feel like and you've no recourse to get them back.
I have 100s of DVDs in physical form. The most difficult move for me to get was a 1980’s film called “The Manhattan Project”. It’s a movie about a genus high school kid that makes a hydrogen bomb for a science project, to stick it to the “man”. One of my favorite movies of the era. Another difficult movie for me to find was “D.A.R.Y.L.”. Very good movie and I think it can now be streamed on some platforms.
If you grew up with heavily watched VHS tapes from Blockbuster DVD seemed insanely good quality. Best example was Pitch black, I honestly thought it was a super cheap movie that didn't actually show the aliens...
It should be "Difficult to Find", rather than "You Can No Longer Watch". The latter only applies to titkes that no longer exist, like "London After Midnight" and a lot of BBC shows that got wiped. Just because a title isn't streaming doesn't necessarily mean it can't be had, if you're determined.
They did clear up in the video that the only way to access them is through second hand copies, obtaining them through other means like buying them from another country altogether
The best example of this are the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton Doctor Who episodes that got erased because nobody at the BBC honestly thought that people would be wanting to watch them 60 years in the future. Fortunately, fans managed to make audio recordings of all the episodes so the BBC has tried to recreate them by making new animated episodes to recreate the visuals of the original TV broadcasts.
@@greenmonsterprod people tell me the same thing every week when I go looking for stuff in my old tapes collection. Only 2 days out of the week that I can look and today is one of them. Time to get back at it...
Let It Be was in fact rereleased on Disney+ in May of 2024 As for Dogma, Kevin Smith said at a screening in June 2024 that he purchased the rights, so we may get a rerelease after all.
All of these are available to buy online on DVD or vhs. They're just not airing on TV or being put on streaming servers. Dogma is free to watch on UA-cam btw.
I've got Dogma on DVD. I love that film, haven't watched it in years though. So strange. I didn't even know this was a thing. And when I look at the list, there are so many films and shows that I use to watch and love. Cocoon was on every Christmas when I was a kid. I loved Chicago Hope and Moonlighting was my favourite. Memories.
I found a set of the first series of Moonlighting in a second hand shop - gave it to a neighbour. The real question it - can you still get Bruce Willis's craptacular music album?
“Herman’s Head”. Sweet Jesus, did I ever love this show! William Ragsdale was adorable, Hank Azaria was endearingly sleazy, and Yeardley Smith was cute as a button. The scripts were breezy and fun, and the storyline was engaging, Oh, and Leslie Nielsen played God.
That's why I hang on to favorite dvds, most of which I picked up for a dollar or two when those laughing people were dumping their dvds. This includes my copy of Cocoon. :)
So true! I have 100's of my DVD's and VHS movies I refuse to part with. Kind of a visual thing for me. To be able to look at the physical covers of the movies just does something for me. Old fashioned I guess👌🏽👍🏽
The Law & Orders. The CSIs. The NCISs. I don't care how many versions or how long they remain on the air, they have NEVER matched the brilliance of "Homicide:Life on the Streets". Never! May Jon Polito (d.2016), Ned Beatty (d.2021)& Yaphet Kotto (d.2021) forever rest in peace. 🙏
A lot of you are getting confused by what they meant by no longer available, which is “not on any streaming or currently in print on physical media. “Just because *you* have a copy on DVD doesn’t mean you can find it *new* on Amazon. Yes, there are physical copies out there on the second hand market, but no one is manufacturing new ones. Oh, and being on torrents and illegal streaming does not count as “available.”
Yup, I have 5 bookcases in my house... all filled with books. That is my 1 splurge expense ever since I was a kid and my dad would let me go crazy at Waldenbooks, B. Daltons... remember malls y'all and book stores?!?! I do have a kindle for travel, but I so love the touch and feel of a great book... a graphic novel... a coffee table book, even a children's colorful book!! I did get rid of my DVDs and CDs though... I had to make a choice regarding space and the books won! But I do fear the future of digital copies as I pay for music and think... will this still be available to me forever like my old CDs?!?🤔
@@agravery223 I kept my cds, but they're in a box in my closet. I did rip them all to my pc tho, so I have digital copies to listen to. But I'm w/ you on your worry of digital copies bought still being there when you want them. I don't like video games stored on the game console's server. I mean, do I really own it? Or am I borrowing it? 🤔
@@agravery223 I bought a DJ case, that holds around 1200 discs, put all my DVD's/Blu-ray's/4k discs into the case in alphabetical order and put them all on a spreadsheet so I can just look up the number and pull what I want and it saved on space too as the cases went into the loft.
You missed an important one! "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne" was the first hour long show to be filmed completely in HD and originally aired on Sci-Fi Channel in the US (before the stupid Syfy BS). It was apparently hideously expensive to film but I remember it being a gorgeous and fun show. I've found exactly one place that sells the DVD's and it is super sketchy and I've never seen it on any of the less legit streaming/torrenting websites. It came about when Steampunk was really becoming a thing and I believe was highly influential in the way the esthetic evolved.
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR!? Wow, I have sooooo much respect for WC's writers for thinking up this one! I read this book when I was younger (and it scarred me in the way great books often do) and then my mother hunted, hunted, hunted for a ripped copy of this movie for me to see it -- and she ended up getting it on eBay on VHS and then converting it to a DVD for me. I'm so impressed it was on the list!
They got released on DVD years ago as "bonus discs" to the special editions, but they have a weird aspect ratio, not sure if it was the player I was using but last time I tried to watch it was letterboxed massively and cropped on the sides, the picture was tiny.
When I was urged by my family to get with the times , and abandon my VHS player and tapes which included collectors editions of Star trek tv series a number of years ago I was adamant not to comply , I'm glad I did as I now see where the modern age is headed with media , I have a first run tape of Cocoon , and all the theatrical releases of Star Trek , and a home recordings of mash and Ed .
@@JuniperMe The widescreen versions are non-anamorphic, so thus the horrible cropping. You’d have to zoom using the TV, which zooms in on the image severely lowering the image quality. It’s a shame. Might as well be using the widescreen VHS.
Now you know why I still have more than one Laserdisc player in storage, and you can have my Star Wars Laserdiscs when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Love that movie!! Filled with music so I’d imagine that’s why. It has a Great dramatic performance from Ellen Greene, better known as Audrey from the musical movie of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
Because it isn't streaming doesn't mean it's " unavailable". There is only so much content they can have in.their inventory. Also, lack of bluray doesn't mean it's " unavailable". DVD is a quality format especially if you play it using your bluray machine, which significantly upgrades the picture resolution. People are so effing spoiled these days!😅
Damn im lucky. I bought the whole DVD box set of Moonlighting at a local pawn shop for 5 bucks. My mother loved that series when i was a kid and i happened to find that right before her birthday this year.
The drew Carey show is another one that got hit by the music licensing issue. Sucks because I loved that show. They only could release the first season since they changed the theme song starting in season 2.
I have the DVD too but I am wondering now if my sister stole it. I had it during my university days - it was part of the UK Film 4 films that were released on DVD.
You can get it for 10-20 dollars on ebay. Prices haven't gone up all that much. It's also very much a stable at most pawn shops and you can buy 5 dvds for $10 at most of them.
@@rebeccam.9963 I actually did have one decades ago that my sister's ex-husband gave to me. At the time I hadn't seen the movie yet so I didn't know what it was from. I used it for a school project in English and then gave it to a friend of mine.
A big one, IMO, is the 1959 Porgy and Bess w/ Sidney Poitier, Dorthy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. and Pearl Bailey and directed by Otto Preminger. It was nominated for four Oscars and won one for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Poitier, from what I understand, was not a fan of the film because of its stereotypical portrayal of Black people, which I appreciate, but it would still be nice, as a film collector to have a quality copy of it and not just a bootleg.
Better title: “10 Movies & TV Shows You Can’t Legally Find on Major Streaming Services”, but it’s not as click bait-y… P.S. Add Herman’s Head to the list
that show was all "needle drops" and as such has not, nor is it likely to ever get a 'bulk release' whether streaming or box set... - IIRC some Torrents are available... but illegal and wrong lol trying to recall if any of the Digital Sub Channels have it as part of their 'linear feed'...
StarVista/Time Life released it a few years ago. It’s not exactly cheap (It’s about $80) but the majority of the music is restored. So unless if their license lapsed, it should still be in print.
Cocoon isn’t available for streaming because the music rights aren’t cleared yet, but other films and television series from the same decade have overcome that hurdle. The question is: why? Why didn’t Disney succeed in securing the music rights for Cocoon when they managed to do so for other films? And why didn’t 20th Century Fox attempt to do so when they were still an independent company?
I absolutely loved "Cocoon" when I was younger. I watched it so many times that I actually wore the tape out. The sequel was pretty decent in its own right, but the original was just phenomenal from start to finish.
@@Leonard1977ful It was shown on free to view tv in Australia less than 2 weeks ago. I saw it while scrolling through channels and thought oh that’s an old movie
Moonlighting is easily one of the best things Willis has ever done though looking at his resume from the past decade that’s no real biggie. Fortunately I picked up the DVD box set several years back for £20 and have both rewatched the series and stared in awe and drooling disbelief at how gorgeous Cybill Shephard was, one of my first famous crushes and the owner of the best legs of my childhood!
This “Musical Rights” issue puzzles me. If a movie has copyrighted music on it and people discover this music by watching, it likely will motivate them to purchase the music if they really like it. The movie would expose music to viewers that otherwise may never discover it. By forcing the movie to be held hostage and thus not shown, who is going to discover its sound track? This same wrong thinking goes on with UA-cam. Videos being blocked for the music. A video of Phil Collins “ In The Air Tonight “ went viral on UA-cam seeing millions of views in a short time. That song went to number two on Spotify! Exposing music to new listeners is always a good thing.
Yup, in the long run they are screwing themselves out of perpetuity. I get that creators should make money but if it is unavailable, becomes strictly a product of the time it was released. All the tv shows, movies have soundtracks that fit a scene, making it iconic. Imagine John Cusack holding up the boom box & instead of hearing, In Your Eyes, some generic, noncopyrighted music plays, the power of that moment is gone. Charmed, Supernatural are examples of shows with popular songs that dragged thru approvals. I understand that SPN lost some classics when it aired on Netflix and people complained how it changed the whole feeling of how it played.
@Robert Seasrs a lot of people like to have physical copies of media. Like, I don't buy physical copies of EVERYTHING, but I'll buy the vinyl of all my fav albums, and BluRays of my fav movies/shows to always have
Update on pink flamingos: as of June 28th 2022. The criterion collection has released a Blu-ray of pink flamingos. It's available on Amazon. (At least Amazon Canada) I hope someone sees this and it helps them out or whatculture updates the video.
An actress and her movies almost completely forgotten is Jill Clayburgh. Doing a variety of movies late 70's early 80's that got notable acclaim, most of them now are impossible to find. Criterion recently issued An Unmarried Woman, so there's ONE at least!
It's crazy, I've seen Dogma, Cocoon, Looking For Mr. Goodbar and Sleuth on TV within the last 3 years. I didn't realize it was hard to see them like that.
George A. Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' is on blu-ray and 4K. As for Star Wars, I'm amazed nobody has seen fit (yet) to re-release the original versions before George Lucas meddled with them. Maybe someday.
I have the THx versions and those are just about perfect. I cant even watch the 'originals' that they play on Disney or on TV, especially Jedi, that's just brutal for people who saw it in the theater.
@@ShanghaiRooster The original Star Wars Trilogy was released on DVD. I own them. If you find a copy, remember to make sure they are fully widescreen. I've seen versions that look widescreen by normal widescreen standards, but the original trilogy was at least half again more widescreen than that!
Well, I own a videos store (yes, in 2021, bite me!) I specialize in Out Of Print media , and I have all those movies and series on the shelf. I and my customers can watch ALL of them anytime they want. Except ED, since there is no official physical media release at all..
Awesome there are still a few where i live in British Columbia's lower mainland. always nice to see them as movies can be expensive as hell to buy when you do want them
I recently seen a DVD of Cocoon at Walmart in the $5 bin so it's out there . Unfortunately I watched Pink Flamingo several years back on DVD and I still regret it . I do own Dogma on the original DVD release and still enjoy watching that movie . The only show that never got the full DVD treatment was the Drew Carey show . It only got one season and a one disc best of release and that's a show I really wanted .
@It's simple, we kill the SJW the boxed sets only have the episode segments, none of their heckling bad (and sometimes good) videos, or rocking out to their favorite videos. What there is on the DVDs is pretty good, but it's disappointing not to have the other content. Many of those were full of my favorite jokes from the series. I, too, miss Daria episodes. The original 'misery chick', which I believe the series coined the phrase?
@@davematkins6829 I happen to recall episodes which played samples of popular music of the time. A particular scene, where they're sitting in traffic and someone says, "This is like that REM video, except we can't read each other's thoughts!" 'Everybody Hurts' kicks in, and the shot settles on Daria, and then a subtitle appears under her, it is the words "Thank. God."
Biggest one you missed is The Drew Carey Show. That show was EVERYWHERE in syndication, and I looked forward to buying the DVDs. But after the first season it didn't happen. Largely believed to be because of music rights. Stupid music industry has screwed over a lot of people wanting higher money for streaming, etc. You'd think that they'd negotiate something more permanent or all-encompassing, but there's always some unseen future format that was unanticipated when the original contract was made. WKRP in Cincinnati was similarly famous for using big hits of the era, and then running into renegotiation problems when trying to put it on DVD. They finally had to remove a lot of the music and use sound-alikes to release it, which is frustrating because that lacks the charm of the actual episode. Similarly, MST3K had to conclude their DVD box sets of their series without any of the Godzilla films and missing out on some of the great films, even final season-era films like "Quest of the Delta Knights" and "KIller Bees", because they just couldn't get permission.
@@themoviedealers Thanks for correcting me. I am only vaguely aware of the situation and wrong to say anything other than "some.". It's still frustrating that this happens again and again. BTW: I was watching Taxi on Hulu and many episodes are missing. Explanation: music rights issues.
Thank Gawd for that. I love the way they walked into a 30yo crime scene, turned over the corned of a mat and found a note, "Must kill X today" signed the culprit, and it was all solved!
Wow I didn’t know this! 30-100 years sayeth Google, so Dogma for instance could already be on its way out at the low end of this estimate. I wonder if its like video tapes, where the tape still looked fine but would glitch out or if it warps
Sad sbout the original Sleuth not being available. A masterclass in acting. I do look for it every so often. But Ed, well that not being available is a blessing.
This is why I'm a huge supporter of physical media. I buy dvds, blu-rays, cds, vinyl records, physical books.
Ditto.
Same especially with video games and older films. Recently I tried to show my husband my favourite movie that was produced in the 1950s and it’s nowhere online including legal/illegal streaming sites.
Or piracy
I like a Hardcopy of a Hardcover.
Same.
Good thing I have a copy of Dogma. However, I am of the opinion that every movie and tv show ever, should be available for watch and purchase to the masses. Media is art. And art deserves to be observed.
But sometimes, the costs associated with a show outweigh the amount of money to be made.
@@captainshaw685 Think you're missing the point. Money shouldn't be a reason art isn't observed.
@@Burn3r10 Fine. Then you decide what television show/music/movie needs to be available and YOU foot the costs associated. Printing every DVD/CD/Blue-Ray, plus packaging costs, storage, distribution, advertising, plus all royalties.
@@captainshaw685 Release the digital files temporarily. If they did, the individuals on p2p file sharing networks would maintain the content for them.
Exactly, even controversial art.
This cracks me up! I own almost everything on this list on DVD! My children are both millennials and are always saying “why do you bother keeping all those DVDs you can get EVERYTHING on streaming!”LOL I always reply “NO YOU CAN’T”
Millennials also watch stuff on tiny cellphone screens. How can you do that, you miss so many little things that are cool in the background.
I'm a millennial and have a huge dvd collection...I think you might mean Genz
Millenials were born between 1981 and 1996. Streaming services weren't really a thing until the early 00s. We had dvd players.
@@thesnailtale8490 Thanks, I thought millennials were people born around the millennium. What a confusing label.
Three of my favorite movies are not available on streaming, but I have the physical copies - Dawn of the Dead (original), Pink Floyd the Wall and Island of Lost Souls. That is reason enough for me to keep my physical copies!
@@thesnailtale8490Na they mean Millennials since am a gen Z and I have the massive collection of DVDS
I've always wondered why Moonlighting was not to be found on streaming services. I'd like to watch it and Northern Exposure again
It's on there, now.
It's available on Hulu right now. Thank God!
I can just hear Sterling Archer: DO you want more Piracy? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET MORE PIRACY!
If they won't provide it, you can assume they don't care if we pirate it.
Dead on.
Exactly. And when they finally decide to release them, then they'll start going after DCMAs.
Arrr!
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This is why illegal streaming sites etc are so popular. You can actually find everything you want to watch and all in one place too.
I feel like leaving a like on this comment is a trap. lmao xD
Just imagine a 30 dollars per month, and it has fucking everything.
I’m talking everything from the shining to The Godfather
@@synvice7491 🤐
Correct
@@teshiku1249 shining to the godfather? So no Marx Brothers then. Or Saturday night fever?
I have a large DVD library, and this video captures why I don't rely on streaming (nevermind the service hopping as contracts expire). I own Moonlighting and Dogma special edition and have them backed up on my Plex server should anything happen to the DVDs themselves. I would add that the masterpiece war film "A Midnight Clear" from 1991 starting Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinese, Frank Whaley and John C. McGinley is criminally difficult to find and should be on this list as well. Why there is no anniversary release with commentaries and making of docs is beyond me
Hypothetically speaking, let's say I had the entire Moonlighting series DVD set, was curious about its value and had had an extremely bad experience with E-bay. Are there hypothetical alternatives?
When I hear "Disney considers it inappropriate today" My first thought is, ok, now I HAVE to watch it.
Song of da south a bit raw
And German Uberm ens ch are your betters wasn't much fun either
I have Song of the South. I won't watch it but I knew I should own it.
Disney: "We can't have Song of the south because it's racist"
Also Disney: "We bought the rights to Star Wars and our first film is going to have strong Nazi influences."
@@ladydeerheart1 why won't you watch it? Have you ever seen it? It's pretty darn good.
@@fluidikons It's boring. And the problem between the kid's parents - that he's pro ending slavery and she's a moron - is completely ignored because Disney was afraid it would be boycotted in the South if they took an anti-slavery stance.
Wow..I actually have a copy of Dogma still on dvd..it's one of the most underrated comedies.. ever!
You lucky son of a bitch
I have it on VHS lol. However just managed to buy it on DVD for less than the tape cost me in 1999 🤷♀️
Picked up a special edition dvd set from a video store going out of business sale 10+ years ago. Glad I did.
Plus, you never know when you get a hankering for a movie with a rubber poop monster?
Actually, got almost all the Smith stuff on DVD including the talking shows. Surprised how much Dogna goes for on Amazon nowadays!
I have all Kevin Smith movies up to and including Dogma
“Ancient DVD release”
Not ready to hear that, to be honest.
It’s bullshit
New movies are still being put out on DVD
Makes you feel old don't it...
I still buy the occasional DVD when a film I want hasn't got a Bluray release.
Also lots of tv shows still only get a DVD release in physical media
I remember getting a DVD player for Christmas when they came out and all my friends were jealous lol. Fk Getting old 😭😂 I still have a VHS player too not goona lie. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
I'm so glad for DVD burners and the ability to convert from VHS to DVD back in the day, especially when Netflix was a DVD rent-by-mail company! You could get 3 at a time so my collection is HUGE! I learned from records/8-track/cassettes going to CD to ALWAYS save the old technology and get it converted over yourself to the latest medium when possible.
I converted all my VHS to DVD with the exception of those that were locked. The only movies out of the 200 or so that I wasn't able to converted because the content was copy protected were Disney movies (every single one) and Heavy Metal. F'n Disney, I love them but they're a bunch of money grubbing bastards. Walt is rolling over in his grave
@@mszoomy Torrents are still a thing. Great thing about torrents is it all fits on the hard drive!
@@davidb7180 I have no idea what that is
@@mszoomyI always say that Walt Disney would be turning in his cryogenically frozen chamber. LOL.
Man, Cocoon was on HBO in the eighties five times a day. With Revenge of the nerds, and Baron Von Muncheisen.😂😭
Omg! I LOVE the Barron!!!
I remember that!
Moonlighting won't be back for one simple reason: no one will believe Bruce Willis ever had hair.
He had hair in the best Christmas movie ever
Die hard
He had hair in the chest, in the best movie evet!
Lol. That's so true. I have never seen him with hair. Lol.
He had hair in the sixth sense and the kid.
Everybody still watches Die Hard. Unless maybe you’re still in high school or something.
And people make fun of me for keeping my vast DVD collection all these years...
the internet giveth the internet givith away
Wait another decade and sell it on Ebay. Walk away laughing!
@@funkyfiss He doesn't keep them to sell them. He keeps them to be able to watch them.
@@CrusardModding why not both? Burn the DVDS on an external hard drive for personal use. And sell the DVDs for cash.
@@funkyfiss I don't know about you but having a physical copy in a shelf is more satisfying than having just the file.
My point in the debate of "rasist" movies that were done in a time when such things weren't considered racist, is: We should not seek to delete historically made "mistakes" because then there is a greater risk that we'll repeat them.
The reason it took so long for the tv show “China Beach” to come out on dvd was music rights problems. They had great soundtracks on that show. I waited and hoped for years for a box version. Then, finally!
Thats a great show !
Moonlighting was such a great show. Bruce Willis made the show shine. He was so funny in that role.
I loved it!
what a blast from the past! loved that show!!
I had such an odd crush on Cybill Shepherd back then, too. Very funny show, and the cases they were tracking were often mini-mysteries. Great series.
I loved it until they stopped solving cases.
There is a scene in one of the episodes that played the Star Wars theme as Bruce Willis was fighting a bad guy with some swords or something like that. I just remember it was one of the funniest scenes in a TV series I've ever seen.
"The Drew Carey Show" has the same problem with musical rights. The show was wonderful, with guest stars ranging from Rush Limbaugh to The Reverend Horton Heat
I'm not a religious man but there is something fishy about a reverend with the last name Heat. Sounds like he works for the devil lol
@@tylerrutherford4148 Actual name is Jim Heath. Kind of like Eddie Mahoney shortening his name to Eddie Money. Also a guest star on the show
Reverend? Hmmnm
Tammy Faye Bakker also guest-starred as Mimi Bobek's mother.
The thing I remember about "The Reverend Horton Heat" episode, is that only "Jim Heath" got a speaking part. The rest of the band were snarling, and making threatening postures😄👍
“WKRP in Cincinnati” was released on a box set, but some of the original music had to be changed because of musical rights.
Had this issue with Cold Case, love that show, and every episode had music from whatever year the murder took place in. So glad that hbo max has it now. There wasn't even any dvd's of it either!
I wanted to buy the DVD's but they were never released.
Im guessing you never pirate lol
I was such a devotee of this show, that when a pay TV station in my country showed these again, I painstakingly recorded each and every episode on VHS. Most of the music is the same as shown on TV, so I made my own collection.
It is currently on Start TV at 2 pm CST. I think it has most of the original music on there.
WhatCulture: "Dogma DVD and Blu-Rays are out of print."
Me staring at my Dogma Special Edition DVD: "Mwahahaha!"
Also me: I don't have anything to play DVDs...
WhatCulture: "Mwahahaha!"
its 2021 and you dont have any kind of disc reader? no xbox, PS, CD drive on PC nothing?
You can literally buy the blu-ray easily from the Secret Stash too. Like a signed copy is like $30. It’s pretty readily available.
@@chaosbringer546 studios love it because it makes licensing easier and sometimes more lucrative. Now they they only have to allow you access to the film/game/software rather than providing you with an actual physical copy. Users like it because solid state drives take up less space and are faster. Me...I have a 400+ library of titles on Bluray/DVD/CD. Every build gets an optical drive.
Just check ebay dvd is reasonable priced. The Blu ray is super expensive.
lol me too and my moonlighting boxsets
"Northern Exposure" deserves to be on this list. And it too is tied up with music rights and unlikely to ever come to streaming.
I know several seasons got DVD releases (the packaging gimmick was the box 'wearing' a Parka.) so I don't know why/how Streaming would be that big of an issue... unless their issue was with Multiple Studios having produced it and with everyone having their own app (Hulu, Peacock, Paramount+)
NX IS available with ALL of the original music on a region-B BluRay box set -- tracked it down about a year ago for $100-ish new. US box-set versions stopped featuring the original music after season 2 because of rights issues HERE that never became a problem in the UK.
Anyone else remember the show that went up against NX in its time-slot called _Key West_? Fisher Stevens, Jennifer Tilly, Tasha Yar, a bunch of other recognizable names. I liked NX okay for the 1st season, but really dug KW for the far more congenial atmosphere of its setting. I'm *still* trying to get there, half a lifetime later! 😂
@@TJ52359 Was sure had seen some on a shelf at Half Price Books. How I wish I'd bought several series before I moved. There isn't a Half Price Books where I live now.They always had a huge offering of DVDs of movies and TV series and I loved the box sets.
There’s a euro set with the music intact. the north american versions had a lot of the music replaced with generic or other music that sticks out like a sore thumb (they left the children’s choir intro of Inchworm in but dubbed out Danny Kaye with a woman singing a country tune). the season 1 north american box set has the original music but only by accident and only in the spanish dubbed audio track.
It's incredibly sad that my kids won't know the feeling and smell of walking into a Blockbuster or Hollywood Video... 😥
If you go to Canada they will; Blockbuster still exists there
My dad was a real videophile back in the 80s. He had a 1983 (not sure the exact year of release) bootleg vhs copy of Song of the South ripped from a Japanese laserdisc release. He didn't care anything about the movie. He was just proud to possess such a rare thing. I myself have seen the movie several times because, believe it or not, Disney used to show it about once a year for a while on primetime TV back in the early 70s as a part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series on Sunday nights on NBC.
And yes, I am that old...
Studios that won't release a movie: "You're going to steal a movie?"
Pirates: "Commandeer. We're going to commandeer a movie."
Are you starting an insurrection?
I’m dying laughing at this - saving it for later
@@yoopernow He can't. He doesn't have a buffalo horn-hat.
Voting integrity opponents: "Why are you making it harder for people to vote by insisting on ID?"
Movie pirates: "Why are you making it harder to watch a movie by insisting that we pay for it?"
The word is Liberate. It Is to be set free. Freedom! For all videos. Regeme change for these dictatorship studios.
Then it's lucky the pirates are in fact preservationist, ain't it? Yarr!
No problem watching any of these movies
That reminds me of my bootleg DVD set of "Cowboy Bebop." I did look everywhere for Bandai/official DVDs, but the company wasn't interested at the time. I have since added a "Best of" DVD set which looks MUCH better, but Bandai was shortsighted.
They can be.
Florence Stoker sued Prana Films for ripping off her late husband's novel "Dracula" and had the court order that all copies of "Nosferatu" be destroyed; we have an enterprising movie pirate to thank for its survival. "Nosferatu" is now considered a classic, not only of the silent era, but of all time.
If it weren't for pirates, classic films like Nosferatu and classic TV shows like Doctor Who would be lost forever.
I think Cold Case should be included. It was never released on DVD or BluRay and it’s not on any major streaming service (at least here in Australia). It was an amazing show with good writing acting and absolutely phenomenal casting.
I watch Cold Case seven days a week on a free station called START TV. It runs with Crossing Jordan, Unforgettable, Rizzoli and Isles, The Closer and Major Crimes.
It's on HBO Max only place I found it
Dark Angel, highly underrated and nowhere I can find it.
Yes! Though it was always a shame it was cancelled just as it was getting good.
Another series infuriatingly hard to find is Better off Ted.
The Wonder Years 😔 forever locked on tv vhs recordings i think it has soundtrack copywrite problems
Pretty sure I have that on dvd
Tales From The Crypt should definitely be on this list. I love and miss those grotesque morality tales
My brother recently purchased the entire recent series release at Best Buy.
you can see it on Tubi tv streaming
@@stevenf1953 it's on tubi I'm on there all the time and never saw it I'm going to have to go it up now !
@@mchamber366 look n search
HBO go doesnt have it?
This is why I kept my physical media. Streaming falls apart when it comes down to rights disputes and when the servers fail. I'd say the hardest part is finding alot of horror. So much never made it to dvd let alone streaming. Maybe Dawn of the Dead 1978 because of the Richard Rubinstein debacle.
I have Dawn of the Dead on DVD, back when I got it, around 2004, the real bugger for me was finding Day of the Dead on disc.
These stupid children have no concept of the benefits of physical media. They were never tought to truly appreciate anything. Josh, the immature narrator is a prime example of this if you follow the channel enough.
Ditto. They can take my CDs and DVDs from my cold, dead hands.
I still have a massive physical media store in my town. VHS movies are 30 cents regardless of what the movie is, and there is always about 5,000 different tapes on the shelves. And that section pales in size in comparison to the DVD/Blu Ray. I have gotten so many rare late release VHS movies there. Napoleon Dynamite, Mean Girls, 40 Year Virgin, Harold & Kumar, Team America, Dodgeball, Freddy Got Fingered, Without A Paddle, Bad Santa, Anchorman, The Longest Yard (Sandler), Herbie Fully Loaded, The Pacifier, etc.....99% of people have no idea these movies are rare and valuable
Digital download has its advantages. Getting copies of stuff that is extremely difficult to get physically for one. I've got some films tv shows, gigs, documentaries, etc that were never released on DVD thanks to downloading them. Also I got rid of a few of my CDs because I don't listen to them all that much and I don't have the space. But I've still got a digital copy of the albums if I feel the need to listen to them. But nothing can replace having physical copies.
The TV series Brimstone definitely deserves to be on this list!
I remember that
100% agree. Loved that show. I still check every few months to see if it's available.
The one I would love to see released is HBO's "Dream On". I loved that show. But I can understand that the rights to the old movie clips that were interspersed throughout the episodes would make it impossible.
I LOVED that show! I always wondered why it wasn't released in syndication!
I was trying to remember the name of that show over the last few days. That kinda mirrored my childhood.
Actually, I just checked The Criterion Channel today (June 1, 2021), and "Pink Flamingos" is among the newly added. Not my cup of tea, but just letting you know.
Thought they'd have pink flamingos
@@DJStupidful Yeah, they do (for now, at least).
Torrents: Hold my drink.
🏴☠️
Thank God for Torrents preserving culture and history. ❤️
If you have an android device get an app called streamio... Turns torrents into netflix
Are torrents legal?
@@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu not at all but no one cares about the people downloading them... They are too busy trying to stop the uploaders. Not to mention how do you go after someone in China using American law or visa versa?
Holy crap... I just saw a boxed DVD set of a season of Moonlighting at a second hand store recently. Didn't know it was so rare.
I guess I’m one of the lucky ones that’s kept dogma as a dvd in my very limited collection of dvds over the years.
Dogma was easily one of Kevin smith’s best movies.
@wheredoyougowhenisleep well, we all need to aspire to something.
Pretty chuffed that I own a copy.
Looking forward to seeing Tusk also
It is his best if you ask me.
DOGMA IS AMAZING
Well, it is the first time Matt Damon played a character called Loki.
The correct title of this video should be “Why you need to buy physical media”
Definitely. Why you shouldn't be getting your books via Kindle and other such readers, you don't own you rent and they can take them from you whenever they feel like and you've no recourse to get them back.
I think the title should be "you should no longer watch movies and tv shows". That would be more helpful.
Hear hear well put
Nah, the correct title is "Movies and shows you can't watch anymore if you've never heard of Google".
Only 2 entries of this list are worth watching.
I have 100s of DVDs in physical form. The most difficult move for me to get was a 1980’s film called “The Manhattan Project”. It’s a movie about a genus high school kid that makes a hydrogen bomb for a science project, to stick it to the “man”. One of my favorite movies of the era. Another difficult movie for me to find was “D.A.R.Y.L.”. Very good movie and I think it can now be streamed on some platforms.
I recall seeing a bootleg of “Sleuth” on UA-cam a few years ago. It was quite good.
Who’d think we’d live long enough for DVD quality to be called “grotty”?
Struth! Remember when HD tvs first came out & you could finally get the full 480p of dvd's promised resolution? That was a good day...
Blu-Rays aren't much better admittedly. Some of them are still wildly compressed.
If you grew up with heavily watched VHS tapes from Blockbuster DVD seemed insanely good quality. Best example was Pitch black, I honestly thought it was a super cheap movie that didn't actually show the aliens...
I think he meant the subject matter of the film not the actual media itself.
DVD image quality is perfectly fine with me. I have no obsessive need for hyper crystal clarity.
It should be "Difficult to Find", rather than "You Can No Longer Watch". The latter only applies to titkes that no longer exist, like "London After Midnight" and a lot of BBC shows that got wiped. Just because a title isn't streaming doesn't necessarily mean it can't be had, if you're determined.
They did clear up in the video that the only way to access them is through second hand copies, obtaining them through other means like buying them from another country altogether
The best example of this are the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton Doctor Who episodes that got erased because nobody at the BBC honestly thought that people would be wanting to watch them 60 years in the future. Fortunately, fans managed to make audio recordings of all the episodes so the BBC has tried to recreate them by making new animated episodes to recreate the visuals of the original TV broadcasts.
@@eddiejc1 Such people should get a medal for preservation of culture.
@@greenmonsterprod people tell me the same thing every week when I go looking for stuff in my old tapes collection. Only 2 days out of the week that I can look and today is one of them. Time to get back at it...
Let It Be was in fact rereleased on Disney+ in May of 2024
As for Dogma, Kevin Smith said at a screening in June 2024 that he purchased the rights, so we may get a rerelease after all.
All of these are available to buy online on DVD or vhs. They're just not airing on TV or being put on streaming servers. Dogma is free to watch on UA-cam btw.
The 'missing' episodes of 'The Muppet Show' that are locked up due to the musical performances of their guest stars...
only the Brooke shields ep is due the music the other one is due to the guest star being convicted for possession of child porn.
Lame
Because the old seasons didn’t have musical numbers?
@@scottwelch3578 which guest was that?
@@jmorton201 Chris Langham
Not gonna read all of the comments to find out if anyone else has said this, but Pink Flamingos is currently streaming in HD on The Criterion Channel.
Cocoon was easy to find on Amazon with 2 options for purchase. Single feature and double feature with Cocoon 2.
Boston Public and New York Undercover are some of the best shows never to be released on DVD or Bluray
I loved Moonlighting so much! I wish they would stream the series somewhere. ☹
I've got Dogma on DVD. I love that film, haven't watched it in years though.
So strange. I didn't even know this was a thing. And when I look at the list, there are so many films and shows that I use to watch and love.
Cocoon was on every Christmas when I was a kid. I loved Chicago Hope and Moonlighting was my favourite. Memories.
"Song of the South" has entered Public Domain in Japan, where both DVD and Blu-Ray releases are available.
Thanks God that I own a "Special Edition" of both Dogma and Moonlighting. 😁
...yeah...I’ve got the all singing, all dancing version of Dogma too...had to order it from ViewAskew...
I found a set of the first series of Moonlighting in a second hand shop - gave it to a neighbour.
The real question it - can you still get Bruce Willis's craptacular music album?
I had just rewatched Dogma about a month ago... Had no idea! Was wondering why no one I had met recently had ever heard of or seen Dogma...
I have both on dvd
I got both Dogma special edition and the complete series of Moonlighting on DVD. I still love purchasing the physical copy of things.
I don't know why you think all of these have gone...cause I can find 6 out of the 10 to watch whenever I want...rock on streaming 😁
“Herman’s Head”. Sweet Jesus, did I ever love this show! William Ragsdale was adorable, Hank Azaria was endearingly sleazy, and Yeardley Smith was cute as a button. The scripts were breezy and fun, and the storyline was engaging,
Oh, and Leslie Nielsen played God.
More accurate, movies/shows you can’t legally stream but if you have a dvd/vhs player there are hundreds if not thousands of copies available.
And they ARE on the internet! The only subscription one needs is a VPN, because piracy is the way to go.
See people who laugh at those of us who keep the dvds wont be laughing when one if their favourites is taken off streaming
That's why I hang on to favorite dvds, most of which I picked up for a dollar or two when those laughing people were dumping their dvds. This includes my copy of Cocoon. :)
It's why I stick to Netflix dvd service instead of streaming. I don't have to wait for Netflix to get the digital rights or renegotiate them.
Exactly why I'll always hang on to my DVDs/Blu-rays, and why I still scour charity shops/CEX for obscure releases.
This is why we down load! Who has the control now !
So true! I have 100's of my DVD's and VHS movies I refuse to part with. Kind of a visual thing for me. To be able to look at the physical covers of the movies just does something for me. Old fashioned I guess👌🏽👍🏽
Homicide: Life on the Streets. I loved that show.
The Law & Orders. The CSIs. The NCISs. I don't care how many versions or how long they remain on the air, they have NEVER matched the brilliance of "Homicide:Life on the Streets". Never! May Jon Polito (d.2016), Ned Beatty (d.2021)& Yaphet Kotto (d.2021) forever rest in peace. 🙏
@@Ididnotwanttojoin Yes it is. I hate stuff like that! Just have to add at the end of the HLotS tv movie I cried.
A lot of you are getting confused by what they meant by no longer available, which is “not on any streaming or currently in print on physical media. “Just because *you* have a copy on DVD doesn’t mean you can find it *new* on Amazon. Yes, there are physical copies out there on the second hand market, but no one is manufacturing new ones.
Oh, and being on torrents and illegal streaming does not count as “available.”
It actually pisses me off, that you can't get Dogma on DVD anymore, really like that film.
One of my favorites
Thank gawd I bought a special edition of it! Very funny.
I have a copy I can sell.
I feel you. Still got my blu-ray and it's not going anywhere.
eBay. Less than $15. Seriously.
I still don't like the trend of intangibles. I want to own books, movies and games I like and paid for
Absolutely despite you paying for it should the service fail/close then that's it all your paid for media gone
Yup, I have 5 bookcases in my house... all filled with books. That is my 1 splurge expense ever since I was a kid and my dad would let me go crazy at Waldenbooks, B. Daltons... remember malls y'all and book stores?!?!
I do have a kindle for travel, but I so love the touch and feel of a great book... a graphic novel... a coffee table book, even a children's colorful book!!
I did get rid of my DVDs and CDs though... I had to make a choice regarding space and the books won! But I do fear the future of digital copies as I pay for music and think... will this still be available to me forever like my old CDs?!?🤔
@@agravery223 I kept my cds, but they're in a box in my closet. I did rip them all to my pc tho, so I have digital copies to listen to.
But I'm w/ you on your worry of digital copies bought still being there when you want them. I don't like video games stored on the game console's server. I mean, do I really own it? Or am I borrowing it? 🤔
Me too. I can't understand people proud about owning a digital copy
@@agravery223 I bought a DJ case, that holds around 1200 discs, put all my DVD's/Blu-ray's/4k discs into the case in alphabetical order and put them all on a spreadsheet so I can just look up the number and pull what I want and it saved on space too as the cases went into the loft.
Well, I JUST looked on Amazon, Dogma is available on DVD from multiple sellers and can be at your home by this weekend.
“Ancient dvd release”, yeah those thousand year old shiny discs 🙄
“Northern Exposure” is another one.🥺
💔
Yes!!!!!
I have that whole series on dvd
@@hauntedvamp Can I come over?
@@traceytrotter9934 you can order them on Amazon. Lol
You missed an important one! "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne" was the first hour long show to be filmed completely in HD and originally aired on Sci-Fi Channel in the US (before the stupid Syfy BS). It was apparently hideously expensive to film but I remember it being a gorgeous and fun show. I've found exactly one place that sells the DVD's and it is super sketchy and I've never seen it on any of the less legit streaming/torrenting websites. It came about when Steampunk was really becoming a thing and I believe was highly influential in the way the esthetic evolved.
I love reading these comments learning about shows like this. Influential. First of its kind yet somehow lost in time
I did find it on one of the big ones- but not in HD
So I'mma just touch my nose.
Yes
Oh, yes! I'd forgotten all about that one. Thanks for the reminder! Adding it to my list.
The movies Dogma, Pink Pelican, Cocoon, etc.... are all in YTS
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR!? Wow, I have sooooo much respect for WC's writers for thinking up this one! I read this book when I was younger (and it scarred me in the way great books often do) and then my mother hunted, hunted, hunted for a ripped copy of this movie for me to see it -- and she ended up getting it on eBay on VHS and then converting it to a DVD for me. I'm so impressed it was on the list!
Star Wars original trilogy in their original theatrical versions. I would love to have these on DVD or BluRay.
They got released on DVD years ago as "bonus discs" to the special editions, but they have a weird aspect ratio, not sure if it was the player I was using but last time I tried to watch it was letterboxed massively and cropped on the sides, the picture was tiny.
Despecialized versions of all three original movies are available on the high seas. They look fantastic
When I was urged by my family to get with the times , and abandon my VHS player and tapes which included collectors editions of Star trek tv series a number of years ago I was adamant not to comply , I'm glad I did as I now see where the modern age is headed with media , I have a first run tape of Cocoon , and all the theatrical releases of Star Trek , and a home recordings of mash and Ed .
@@JuniperMe The widescreen versions are non-anamorphic, so thus the horrible cropping. You’d have to zoom using the TV, which zooms in on the image severely lowering the image quality. It’s a shame. Might as well be using the widescreen VHS.
Now you know why I still have more than one Laserdisc player in storage, and you can have my Star Wars Laserdiscs when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
A great Christin Slater flick "Pump Up The Volume" is nowhere to be found.
I still have the VHS and cassette soundtrack, which by the way is amazing, and probably the reason why you can't find it streaming.
I have a 1080p version on my Plex server.
it's all over Ebay. I got it 3 months ago for less than $20
I watched it on UA-cam not long ago. It's in several pieces.
Love that movie!! Filled with music so I’d imagine that’s why. It has a Great dramatic performance from Ellen Greene, better known as Audrey from the musical movie of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
Because it isn't streaming doesn't mean it's " unavailable". There is only so much content they can have in.their inventory.
Also, lack of bluray doesn't mean it's " unavailable". DVD is a quality format especially if you play it using your bluray machine, which significantly upgrades the picture resolution.
People are so effing spoiled these days!😅
Damn im lucky. I bought the whole DVD box set of Moonlighting at a local pawn shop for 5 bucks. My mother loved that series when i was a kid and i happened to find that right before her birthday this year.
The drew Carey show is another one that got hit by the music licensing issue. Sucks because I loved that show. They only could release the first season since they changed the theme song starting in season 2.
And Malcolm in the Middle, Cold Case... And whatever happened to Boston Public?
@@Zeetana1 looks like malcom and the middle is still on Hulu at least. I didn’t finish it on Netflix before it dropped.
There's a company that making Drew Carey Show the complete series on DVD
@@xxxsully420 don’t you get my hopes up! I would lose my mind if I could watch that show again.
@@ggr1zz I ordered the entire Drew Carey Show last year. All you have to do is Google it and it should pop up
Makes me so glad I bought Dogma on DVD a number of years ago before the price started to go up on various websites. It's one of Smith's best films.
I have the DVD too but I am wondering now if my sister stole it. I had it during my university days - it was part of the UK Film 4 films that were released on DVD.
You can get it for 10-20 dollars on ebay. Prices haven't gone up all that much. It's also very much a stable at most pawn shops and you can buy 5 dvds for $10 at most of them.
Does anyone else have a "Buddy Jesus" figure? 😏
@@rebeccam.9963 I actually did have one decades ago that my sister's ex-husband gave to me. At the time I hadn't seen the movie yet so I didn't know what it was from. I used it for a school project in English and then gave it to a friend of mine.
I love Dogma, and am just so glad I bought a DVD copy ages ago, and have kept it. Hooray!
A big one, IMO, is the 1959 Porgy and Bess w/ Sidney Poitier, Dorthy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. and Pearl Bailey and directed by Otto Preminger. It was nominated for four Oscars and won one for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Poitier, from what I understand, was not a fan of the film because of its stereotypical portrayal of Black people, which I appreciate, but it would still be nice, as a film collector to have a quality copy of it and not just a bootleg.
Better title: “10 Movies & TV Shows You Can’t Legally Find on Major Streaming Services”, but it’s not as click bait-y…
P.S. Add Herman’s Head to the list
You didn't want to get the lawyer involved.
Right LOL a quick Google search literally found me every single one of these
Also Undercover Blues
It's on Piratebay, series 1-3 now.
Thanks for remembering Herman's Head.
What ever happened to China Beach with Dana Delaney and Marg Helgenberger? That was an awesome show. It also had lots of '60's needle drops, though.
I purchased a box set of the complete series at the Walmart just a year or so back.
that show was all "needle drops" and as such has not, nor is it likely to ever get a 'bulk release' whether streaming or box set...
- IIRC some Torrents are available... but illegal and wrong lol
trying to recall if any of the Digital Sub Channels have it as part of their 'linear feed'...
It was released as a DVD set after they had re-recorded some of the music to get around the rights issues.
StarVista/Time Life released it a few years ago. It’s not exactly cheap (It’s about $80) but the majority of the music is restored. So unless if their license lapsed, it should still be in print.
Loved that show! I had to be a teenager when it come out. Really loved it. Watch again as an adult!
Cocoon isn’t available for streaming because the music rights aren’t cleared yet, but other films and television series from the same decade have overcome that hurdle. The question is: why? Why didn’t Disney succeed in securing the music rights for Cocoon when they managed to do so for other films? And why didn’t 20th Century Fox attempt to do so when they were still an independent company?
You can watch 'Moonlighting' on Hulu, at least in the US, I just double checked and it's still there. Worth watching!!
I absolutely loved "Cocoon" when I was younger. I watched it so many times that I actually wore the tape out. The sequel was pretty decent in its own right, but the original was just phenomenal from start to finish.
I agree. Both movies are great, but it sucks the original Cocoon can't be found anywhere.
@@Leonard1977ful It was shown on free to view tv in Australia less than 2 weeks ago. I saw it while scrolling through channels and thought oh that’s an old movie
@@Leonard1977ful It's available in bluray in France ;)
@@Leonard1977ful
You need to look in my collection..I have it (along with the Michael Caine Sleuth). ^_^
Cocoon is available on Amazon, Amazon Australia for definite, not sure about other countries
Kathryn Bigelow’s STRANGE DAYS is another one that’s hard to find.
Great list!
Available on pirates sites
Is that the one with Ralph Fiennes?
@Tiguar Jagger Mine too.
@@mangbawi2 Bad call the gov monitors those sites at all times, that's the reason they left them open, to catch unwary downloaders.
@@thorgrootsweetrabbit2244 I did download it too. What now
I taught my daughter how to play a record in 1999 (she was 2).
She knows the value of holding it on your hand media.
Moonlighting is easily one of the best things Willis has ever done though looking at his resume from the past decade that’s no real biggie. Fortunately I picked up the DVD box set several years back for £20 and have both rewatched the series and stared in awe and drooling disbelief at how gorgeous Cybill Shephard was, one of my first famous crushes and the owner of the best legs of my childhood!
Are you dissing the original "Die Hard"?
This “Musical Rights” issue puzzles me. If a movie has copyrighted music on it and people discover this music by watching, it likely will motivate them to purchase the music if they really like it. The movie would expose music to viewers that otherwise may never discover it. By forcing the movie to be held hostage and thus not shown, who is going to discover its sound track? This same wrong thinking goes on with UA-cam. Videos being blocked for the music. A video of Phil Collins “ In The Air Tonight “ went viral on UA-cam seeing millions of views in a short time. That song went to number two on Spotify! Exposing music to new listeners is always a good thing.
PREACH!!!
It's mind boggling!!
Yup, in the long run they are screwing themselves out of perpetuity. I get that creators should make money but if it is unavailable, becomes strictly a product of the time it was released. All the tv shows, movies have soundtracks that fit a scene, making it iconic. Imagine John Cusack holding up the boom box & instead of hearing, In Your Eyes, some generic, noncopyrighted music plays, the power of that moment is gone. Charmed, Supernatural are examples of shows with popular songs that dragged thru approvals. I understand that SPN lost some classics when it aired on Netflix and people complained how it changed the whole feeling of how it played.
how much juice do you get from the squeeze? if you can make 1mill from releasing a blue ray but new music rights cost 1mill, theres zero profit
Not when music is controlled by the Record companies, TV chains and predatory streaming platforms instead of the artists.
That's not how copy rights or royalties works. They're using a product not advertising a product.
“Pricey second hand copies”
CEX: hold my monster energy
In the northeast we got a small chain of stores Bullnose Music. You can get just about any movie or album for $10 if you're patient!
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@Robert Seasrs a lot of people like to have physical copies of media. Like, I don't buy physical copies of EVERYTHING, but I'll buy the vinyl of all my fav albums, and BluRays of my fav movies/shows to always have
C.E.X in England, bloody ace place and so cheap.
Update on pink flamingos: as of June 28th 2022. The criterion collection has released a Blu-ray of pink flamingos. It's available on Amazon. (At least Amazon Canada) I hope someone sees this and it helps them out or whatculture updates the video.
An actress and her movies almost completely forgotten is Jill Clayburgh. Doing a variety of movies late 70's early 80's that got notable acclaim, most of them now are impossible to find. Criterion recently issued An Unmarried Woman, so there's ONE at least!
It's crazy, I've seen Dogma, Cocoon, Looking For Mr. Goodbar and Sleuth on TV within the last 3 years.
I didn't realize it was hard to see them like that.
Also the 1978 “Dawn of the Dead” and the original cuts of the original “Star Wars” trilogy. Sure glad I have my DVDs.
George A. Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' is on blu-ray and 4K. As for Star Wars, I'm amazed nobody has seen fit (yet) to re-release the original versions before George Lucas meddled with them. Maybe someday.
@@ShanghaiRooster Sail the High Seas my friend. The "Despecialized" release is incredibly well done.
I have the THx versions and those are just about perfect. I cant even watch the 'originals' that they play on Disney or on TV, especially Jedi, that's just brutal for people who saw it in the theater.
Look up Star Wars Despecialized Edition. It's your dreams come true.
@@ShanghaiRooster The original Star Wars Trilogy was released on DVD. I own them. If you find a copy, remember to make sure they are fully widescreen. I've seen versions that look widescreen by normal widescreen standards, but the original trilogy was at least half again more widescreen than that!
The great thing about physical media is I can watch what I want when I want...for now, at least.
another valid title: 10 Reasons why piracy will never go away
Well, I own a videos store (yes, in 2021, bite me!) I specialize in Out Of Print media , and I have all those movies and series on the shelf. I and my customers can watch ALL of them anytime they want. Except ED, since there is no official physical media release at all..
Awesome there are still a few where i live in British Columbia's lower mainland. always nice to see them as movies can be expensive as hell to buy when you do want them
USA or UK?
Wow, a video store I'm the only person I know who still has a VHS player do you rent tapes...
@@mrw9291 USA, Corpus Christi, Texas
@@jimmuscle2891 we sell to collectors mostly but have done a borrowing program similar to a checking out a library book.
Dogma is exceedingly easy to find on YT.
Not on TV. I have the dvd somewhere and I have a saved recording of it from years ago xD
Damn when I read this I was like.. nah. It's Literally the first thing that shows up..
There is literally many ways to find Dogma online
Unedited?
I own it
The series 'John Doe' was quite interesting and well done but disappeared and was never released on DVD.
I recently seen a DVD of Cocoon at Walmart in the $5 bin so it's out there . Unfortunately I watched Pink Flamingo several years back on DVD and I still regret it . I do own Dogma on the original DVD release and still enjoy watching that movie . The only show that never got the full DVD treatment was the Drew Carey show . It only got one season and a one disc best of release and that's a show I really wanted .
Daria is also caught in the trap of copyright music, they had to re record the songs. Totally takes away from it
@It's simple, we kill the SJW flying skulls!!!
@It's simple, we kill the SJW the boxed sets only have the episode segments, none of their heckling bad (and sometimes good) videos, or rocking out to their favorite videos. What there is on the DVDs is pretty good, but it's disappointing not to have the other content. Many of those were full of my favorite jokes from the series. I, too, miss Daria episodes. The original 'misery chick', which I believe the series coined the phrase?
Glad I bought it [Daria] when I found it...at Walmart of all places! Go figure!
I have boxed set of Daria. Don't remember any music not created by the show. Maybe u thinking of Beavis & Butthead?
@@davematkins6829 I happen to recall episodes which played samples of popular music of the time. A particular scene, where they're sitting in traffic and someone says, "This is like that REM video, except we can't read each other's thoughts!" 'Everybody Hurts' kicks in, and the shot settles on Daria, and then a subtitle appears under her, it is the words "Thank. God."
Biggest one you missed is The Drew Carey Show. That show was EVERYWHERE in syndication, and I looked forward to buying the DVDs. But after the first season it didn't happen. Largely believed to be because of music rights. Stupid music industry has screwed over a lot of people wanting higher money for streaming, etc. You'd think that they'd negotiate something more permanent or all-encompassing, but there's always some unseen future format that was unanticipated when the original contract was made. WKRP in Cincinnati was similarly famous for using big hits of the era, and then running into renegotiation problems when trying to put it on DVD. They finally had to remove a lot of the music and use sound-alikes to release it, which is frustrating because that lacks the charm of the actual episode.
Similarly, MST3K had to conclude their DVD box sets of their series without any of the Godzilla films and missing out on some of the great films, even final season-era films like "Quest of the Delta Knights" and "KIller Bees", because they just couldn't get permission.
WKRP DVDs have 90% of original music. I think that's tolerable.
@@themoviedealers Thanks for correcting me. I am only vaguely aware of the situation and wrong to say anything other than "some.". It's still frustrating that this happens again and again.
BTW: I was watching Taxi on Hulu and many episodes are missing. Explanation: music rights issues.
Yeah, they screwed up fighting online music in the early days too and only gave in when they finally conceded it was inevitable.
@@themoviedealers The WKRP ones didn't at firsts. Took a long time before they got the rights for the 90% version.
IT would be great to see Saturday Night Live from 86-94. It has to have the same problem. I'd be happy about it.
I have a Firestick with an app on it. I’ve just checked and I can get Cocoon, Pink Flamingos, Song of the South, Let it be, Dogma and Moonlighting.
New York: Undercover is another one that is not streaming and can't be found anywhere. Was a great show.
Cold Case is another show caught in "music rights" hell.
That show was actually kinda decent always the most fucked up endings tho
@@drakesmith4857 I loved it.
I LOVED cold case one of the best shows ever
Thank Gawd for that. I love the way they walked into a 30yo crime scene, turned over the corned of a mat and found a note, "Must kill X today" signed the culprit, and it was all solved!
This is why Miami vice can’t get a hd remastering.
One day my once worthless DVD/Blu-ray collection will be called "antiques" and I'll be able to make a fortune.
"Vintage"
Keep the players too...
Actually discs do have an expiration date, so they will become useless one day
Wow I didn’t know this! 30-100 years sayeth Google, so Dogma for instance could already be on its way out at the low end of this estimate.
I wonder if its like video tapes, where the tape still looked fine but would glitch out or if it warps
They are great Underrated U.S. shows from the 80's you can't get on DVD, because of music rights. For example Knots landing and Midnight caller.
Sad sbout the original Sleuth not being available. A masterclass in acting. I do look for it every so often.
But Ed, well that not being available is a blessing.