Why You Should Keep and Collect Physical Media
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Streaming prices are going up, there's thrift stores on every corner, so here is 10 reasons to keep and collect VHS, DVD, BLU RAY, 4K, LASERDISK, CDS, RECORDS and MORE.
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There is a sense of pride in owning physical media. They will never be taken away from me.
Totally 💯
It's nice to be able to display them too.
I've got bookshelves full of DVD, VHS, vinyl, Cds
and books of course.
Streaming is so soulless, can’t beat finding an absolute gem for the collection. I’m glad I grew up in a time before netlfix
There's something to be said about having too much at your finger tips in the comfort of your own house. Sometimes suffering the elements to get to the rental store and only renting a movie or two gave you character and made you appreciate the movie more
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That is so true.
It's also nice to interact with another human being.
You might strike up a conversation with them,
which can't be a bad thing.
I have spent hours in charity shops
(I don't know what you call them in Canada, thrift stores?)
just talking to old ladies.
It's great.
400 horror VHS (no doubles except different editions) so far
Nothing can top physical media
Please put us in your will if that's the case haha
Nice.
I had 700 of them at one point
but due to moving house
without any help or transport,
I had to leave them behind.
I have less than 50 now
Absolutely!! Physical media is true ownership. Preach!
Oh LORD! Are you listening!?
Oh man. Agree with you guys so much on this. I have a ton of thoughts (most of which you have covered) but I'll focus on one that really ticks me off. Owning your physical media is the only way to keep them from taking it away from you. Everyone thinks they can steam it or if they can't find it streaming, they can buy it digitally. A streaming service losing the rights is frustrating enough. But the thing that I find absolutely unacceptable is any digital media you have purchased can be cancelled by the company and it is gone. We don't own digital media. We are buying a license to access it and that can be taken away.
I would venture to guess that many younger horror fans in particular are probably in a hurry now to collect stuff, if they don't want to solely be relying on streaming in the future because a lot of stuff won't be on there and only available on physical media...
Yeah man same goes with computer software. I sopped paying for plug in synths cause if you computer goes down and you loose your download code or the program won't work on your new OS you're fucked. Hardware as long as you take care of it or doesn't get stolen won't just disappear for no reason.
Hi guys. Love the channel! As far as Star Wars goes, you're 100% correct. At least as far as OFFICIAL releases go. I suggest you Google Project 4k77. Basically, some crazy awesome fans bought 35mm prints of the films and scanned them into digital files. They're incredible. You can put the VHS and laserdiscs away. It's like being in the theatre in 1977. Honestly, even if Disney ever did an official release of the unaltered films, I probably wouldn't buy it because I don't trust Disney to get it right. Project 4k77 is done by the fans, and no one knows the film more than them. Including George Lucas.
Streaming had such promise but is screwing the pooch in ways that we never even imagined pooches could be screwed. 0/10 fricheks
Physical media? 10/10 fricheks. Frightfully Forgotten? Also 10/10 fricheks
Yeah streaming was okay when there weren't too many platforms. Cheers man glad you're with is
My girlfriend was at her wits end with my media collection. I’ve now gotten into manga collecting, she’s losing her shit lol. Keep collecting and keep drinking fellas ❤️🍻🤘🏼
ha! well that IS the downside of collecting... ROOM you need ROOM!
I never understood why people only stream. You can spend the same money on physical media that you would paying for streaming. And the movies or shows stay in your possession.
Exactly!
Vinyl is still being manufactured. AC/DC is re-releasing their whole catalog on vinyl, but it’s not cheap.
That sound I just heard is everyone running to Adam's house to watch the original Star Wars.
Fuck yea! Lets do it!
I am literally watching this video with a bowl of popcorn. I should bring it to watch Star Wars.
@@FrightfullyForgotten your movie room is like a dust free version of my dad's house. 🤣🤣🤣
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I sold off almost my entire movie collection many years ago and while I don't regret doing it since it felt right at the time, at the same time I do wish I still had it. There was some good obscure stuff in there that I'd like to watch right now.
yeah we're not saying you need to own every damn thing under the sun, but your faves and the ones you know will be hard to find. It always sucks when you're booting yourself in the ass years later for selling something you should have kept
All true! I ended up getting Star Trek TOS collection just in case the streaming version goes away. Same with Game of Thrones. Any series I really loved I always try to get a physical copy of for all these reasons.
And if I didn't live in fucking Wpg you could have borrowed me GOT when I was watching it!
@@FrightfullyForgotten haha very true! And you could loan me The Entity!
This warmed my heart so much. Amen. 🙏. Have a good weekend.
Thank you! You too!
I only do physical media. I hate commercials and I can never find what I want to watch on streaming anyway. Plus it looks better, no censorship and no worries that what I love will suddenly be gone
Then you've come to the right place my friend!
It would be great if, maybe monthly, you would show us any finds you get from thrift stores or yard sales. You guys are addicting!
Haha thanks. Yeah that's an idea. We just aren't really into the vlogging thing too much. But it's something we can toy with. Thanks for the suggestion
I've got some physical media that I'm never parting with. Years ago, I came across somebody selling a reasonably priced DVD-R of Tobe Hooper's Night Terrors for $10. A confused movie, plot-wise, but beautifully filmed. My pride and joy is a German import 2 disc special edition DVD of 1986's The Hitcher. The movie had a terrible DVD release in the US, but the German edition is fantastic. Loaded with special features, commentary, interviews, and a crisp picture that doesn't have that crappy orange color coding to it.
I'm a reader, but I have a system with that. I usually read ebooks, bought for cheap whenever possible. Most are trash, but if it's a treasure (see what I did there?) I'll buy a physical copy, and many, especially 80's horror novels, don't have new print releases, so I track down a used copy. Letters From the Dead is one of my favorites, and reading it in paperback is a different experience. Some books are completely out of print, and you have to buy used. For instance, I have a copy of Ray Russell's Incubus as a used hardcover. Good discussion video. Keep drinking!
Justin has a good collection of 80's horror books too! Thanks for watching and sharing cheers!
i’m 24 and became old enough to look to buying my own media a few years before streaming blew up and totally fell for the idea that it was unnecessary anymore. over the last year decided to start with my very favorite media and have enjoyed just getting other stuff too, such as local bands cds and random dvd’s from thrift stores and am excited to collect more. my dad has a bunch of dvd’s i hope one day i’ll get to have too. btw recent subscriber to the channel, love the videos!
Awesome great to see someone in your generation getting into collecting, glad to have some young blood watching this channel and not just all the old fucks. haha, cheers.
The last VCR was made in 2015.
It was a little know Japanese brand.
well we were way off!
I've been collecting DVDs since the turn of the century, just started collecting Blu-rays within the last few years. Been focusing on TV shows lately, picked up the 1980s Transformers, Married With Children, the og Twilight Zone, Star Trek DS9, and Penn and Teller's Show from Showtime, if you instantly know what I'm talking about, we should be friends.
ah nice, yeah we're big fans of Twilight Zone and especially DS9
I'm drinking ol' fashioned water from a tap... It costs nothing and is great for you! 😆👍
Couldn’t agree more with this list. I love that I’ve been part this group my whole life. Many will never understand my love my retro/nostalgia but I’m glad I got peeps who do. Haven’t gotten anything super cool in a while but def need to hit up some hunting asap
Some of this really applies to a lot of the stuff I watch, especially the Italian horror and that sort of thing. I have Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead on DVD and Blu-Ray, but when I was a teen back in the '90s, I used to rent that movie on VHS under the title, The Gates of Hell and I still frequently refer to it as that to this day. Then there are the ones where more than the title was changed, such as Zombie Holocaust/Doctor Butcher MD. I bought an old VHS of Doctor Butcher MD to have that version, which has different music and opening, plus an additional scene shot at a different time. This one has since been released on Blu-Ray, though.
This a bit of a weird point, maybe, but I also kind of miss watching these releases that were taken from those old, beat-up grindhouse prints. I remember watching Fulci's Zombie on VHS for years, before getting nicer, cleaned-up versions, and there was a jump-cut in the end credits where the film probably broke and the print had to be spliced back together. Or just the scratches and all those weird little "flaws" related to old worn-out film prints, which were the sources for many of those earlier VHS releases. Don't get me wrong, I love being able to watch these movies transferred from a clean, restored print, but it is sometimes nice to go back to the old beat-to-hell version. For instance, I have an old VHS of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre (in addition to the VHS version I bought in the '90s when I was in high school). This version I bought because it was the same version I used to see as a kid in the video store and it would have been the version I first rented. I have watched that tape multiple times when I wanted to watch the movie, rather than the DVD version I also had. It was overall more enjoyable as the DVD was an early DVD and those don't always look that great. I have a nice Blu-Ray version that I usually watch now, as my VCR is in storage with my old tube TV.
I had to edit this part in, as I forgot about it. Something that you'd need to go back to VHS for is House By the Cemetery through Vestron Video, which apparently had some of the reels out of order, so the movie makes even less sense than normal. It has been decades since I have seen that version, but I want to get a copy to watch it again, after having watched the correct version for so many years now.
Totally agree, that some movies just look better gritty and raw rather than super cleaned up. BUT lots of movies look great cleaned up too, Zombie is one example that you don't realize how great the cinematography is until the bluray came out, but it ALSO looks good on gritty vhs.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
is a good example of that.
On VHS it's quite dark,
as it's supposed to be.
The DVD I've got is really bright and looks like an American
soap opera.
You can see Krueger really clearly
which is not the movie's intent.
I still own all of the vhs tapes i bought when i was younger. And many dvds and Blu-rays. Love physical media, its like books, I would rather hold it in my hands to read. But then again im old.
Great video, guys! Ha! I'd forgotten about the "Jub Jub" song! Mea culpa. I haven't hung on to any outdated video media - I still have all my vinyl and CDs. Growing up, we were an underdog format household. We had Beta video players and, oddly, CED video discs. I wonder if those are still in my Mom's basement. Yeah, I miss the days of looking for dvd bargains in the bin at Blockbuster. Half-Price Books still yields some treasures.
Justin is getting into collecting Beta but can't find a working player to save his life. Don't think I've seen a CED in person EVER!
Another great video. I love physical media
Thanks for watching!
There's nothing better than grabbing the copy opening it up put it in the drawer and you know you're getting awesome quality picture and sound
I saw Excalibur on your shelf ahhh I love that movie!!!
Got the original at a thrift store
I absolutely love physical media. There are a lot of movies that ideally I'd like to own physical and digital... But if I have to choose, I buy physical copies.
As an aside, I was watching the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for the first time last night... At midnight, when we switched from Feb to Mar, the site I was watching it on dropped the movie mid way thru. Crazy mess.
See? Exactly the kinda shit we are talking about
Whoa! They can do that??? Mid watch too, that is f'n ridiculous, at least let the poor streamers finish the movie before it gets yanked...
WTF?! Wow.
Edit: now that I think about it, I had a similar experience but not quit as bad. I stopped in the middle of the movie and when I went back to finish it a day or two later it had been removed.
Quality is also an issue. I spent a lot of money on a good TV and a pretty decent surround sound setup and I want to get my money's worth out of it. Streaming simply doesn't look or sound as good as Blu-ray, and nowhere NEAR as good as a 4k disc. Once you feel dolby atmos vibrate your floor there's no going back.
That's very true too
Horror was meant for VHS. I have some older DVDs of the original Star Wars trilogy that contain the original cuts in the sets.(2 disc sets with original and re-released to theaters versions.)
That do those DVDs look like? Would like to keep an eye out for em.
@@FrightfullyForgotten They were released as limited editions in 2006. I just checked e-bay and saw them there. Hope that helps.
This is so important for us fans.
I love physical media it's my favorite thing to collect
And DOUBLE IPA
I love my blurays and 4ks. Nothing made me happier than the death of VHS, but bless your hearts for keeping them out of the landfill.
haha you really got a vendetta against the vhs, we have dvd and bluray too, just not as many.... trouble with blu ray is I got no way to rip them for our reviews so I lean towards DVD so they can actually be used for footage in our episodes
My favorite movie is Jaws and for years I had to watch that shitty pan and scan VHS...once DVD came along I never looked back!
ha yeah well those movies that were shot on super wide screen didn't translate great to vhs at all. Well most movies' didn't. Never realized that Winston was in a bunch of shots in Ghostbusters until the DVD came out and realized they cropped him out for the full screen version
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@@FrightfullyForgotten that's something I argued with my parents about back in the day. They thought widescreen was cutting off the top and bottom of the movie. And I had to explain that No! Widescreen is how it's meant to be seen! Watching fullscreen or a widescreen movie on old, standard TV, you're actually cutting of the sides of the picture!
We don't have any thrift stores or flea markets around me
We must be lucky cause we have quite a few. That being said most trips end up being a bust.
I've never bought a digital download movie I would not waste like six or seven dollars I'd rather wait for $19 and have a physical copy with the cover everything that comes with it
Exactly, same thing here man!
Two good working order vcrs. At my house.
We got more than a few haha
Great video guys. I have over 1000 DVDs/blu-rays in my collection. Mostly MMA shows and kung fu films. My biggest ptoblem with streaming, as you said, is that A LOT of what I like to watch isn't available on streaming services. Horror is probably the worst for streaming. How many old, obscure horror flicks are VHS only?
Well there's allot that have finally had bluray releases over the last few years, so there's not so many lost to VHS as there once was. So we couldn't even tell you.
Bravo fellas and I wholeheartedly agree. Building my humble 4K collection. I do have 3000 vinyls though 😮
Any cool soundtracks? I've been on the hunt for the Omega Man Soundtrack.
@@FrightfullyForgotten my man let me tell you, my soundtrack vinyl collection is THE SHIT. Where do I start lol how about Cannibal Holocaust by Riz Ortolani. Fucking amazing love that album. I have an original ray Parker Ghostbusters with an extended theme. Bunch of John Williams shit like Close Encounters and Indiana Jones and original Star Wars etc, tons of David Lynch i got the soundtracks for original Twin Peaks show, the Return, and Fire Walk With Me and Lost Highway (amazing Bowie song). Midnight Express, MASH, lots of videofame vinyls like Zelda, Mario, FF7, Castlevania, Secret of Mana (manawave), Esperwave (FF6), yooo so many more. Thanks for asking
Imma just continue listing lol yo I got a 7 inch of the Neverending story theme lmfao. Love that shit. I have a big set of Ennio Morricone scores. Classic shit like To Kill a Mockingbird and Lawrence of Arabia Bride over River Kwai (I'm also a hip hop producers so I've sampled tons of shit over the years) oh shit bro I got a lot of the Fulci soundtracks too: City of the Living Dead, The Beyond and House by the Cemetery
I have some vinyls for sale on discogs my name on there is Octavators (that's my hip hop producer name too). My biggest production recently was producing the entire double album for a rapper named Vivid. Album is called Beholder you can peep it on YT or Spotify etc. We have a music video called Spat on here. Another one about to drop. It's a mix of 90s type hip hop with also live instruments that I played. Technics turntable scratches etc
You would probably recognize the obscure horror samples I used on that Beholder album lol. I sampled Life-force on one I love that film alot. TOBE hooper the legend
aint nobody getting their greasy mits on my nice clean blu-ray boxes. might "loan" you a digital rip but you aint getting my boxes or discs. my collection is my collection.
Damn rights. We've lost too many things lending stuff out! We will lend to eachother and that's about it
I'm currently on a mission to find the VHS version of TeenWolf and Can't Buy Me Love because I distinctly remember the nude scenes in both movies but for whatever reason they have been framed out of dvd, bluray, 4k versions. Some people are trying convince me that this is the Mandela Effect but I'm calling bullshit on that. Maybe you guys could help if you have those movies..
Hmm well I do have Teen Wolf on VHS and I don't think there's any nude scenes, Can't Buy Me Love, that I'm not sure.
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I don't know if it counts but
there's a guy with his dick out
at the end of Teen wolf.
It's not easy to see
(the guy isn't blessed)
and it's quite far away
but it's in there.
No Pamela Wells flash scene in TeenWolf, WOW. Curious if anyone else remembers boob scenes in any of these movies. They only last a few short seconds but I remember them. We dubbed those rentals and I watched those movies so many times. Finding this hard to except but....... maybe I fell into a true blue Mandela Effect. Great video guys.
For the masses physical media is over. No one is collecting discs to load into a player. And what about the inevitable max out of physical space in your home. No thanks.
And I never rent movies when they come out oh people said have you seen that new movie I'm like I'm not renting that I'll wait for a physical copy not wasting my money to watch it one time in 24 hours
That's good if it makes you happy. I think the reality is that we collect things that sit there for years and years and there's this small chance we come back to it. Some day you'll be dead and some family member will have to go through your stuff and donate it to goodwill. Also, people aren't idiots for trying to find original versions of star wars that aren't VHS or laserdisc because that's how we get projects like The Silver Screen Edition, or Project 77, 80, and 83. People have taken different sources of the star wars films, like actual 35mm prints, scanned them in, cleaned them and put them up for free in HD or 4K. I think that is extremely cool and an active form of preservation for the masses, not idiotic. Anyway sorry if that seems like a rant, just a different opinion, I do like your videos a lot and I agree streaming sucks.
Our families at least better try to sell the shit that might be worth something!! Yeah we are aware of the star wars restoration project which is super cool. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Cheers.
Netflix in-house programs mostly garbage
Especially in the horror genre
I got rid of Netflix years ago, due to price increases, but mostly because there was nothing that I wanted to watch on there.
too much garage look thru, to pick something.