Hollywood Keeps Reminding Us Why We Need Physical Media More Than Ever
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- čas přidán 22. 01. 2024
- A new year means yet another shuffling of the films and television shows available on the myriad of streaming services that customers now have to keep track of. But despite the age of digital media promising unlimited access and more options than ever, we have often seen the opposite actually happen in practice. For a pressing recent example, most of the Star Trek films were taken off of Paramount+ in the United States at the start of 2024, with only the newest trilogy of films starring Chris Pine remaining on the service. Paramount may have promised that their in-house streaming service was the place for all your Trek needs, but if you want to watch the first 10 films on streaming, you’ll have to fire up HBO Max.
This is not an isolated incident. Although most of the major film studios now have a proprietary streaming service of some kind, the idea of every piece of media from fan-favorite franchises all being in the same place has largely proven to be a mirage. So much confusion about where various installments are, and the anxiety of knowing that the powers that be could yank them away at any given moment, is further proof that it may be time for physical media to make a big comeback.
Why should you consider going back to the way of the box set? Let’s take a look.
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Physical media is clearly superior. You own it forever no matter what.
Thats true. Iam also a collector of physical media. But there is one disturbing problem. There are some labels which disc Arent working after years anymore. Iam from germany and habe About 600 blurays. 2 discs in the collections Arent readable anymore.
You should be ripping your physical collection onto hard drives and have sophisticated backup solutions. You will also have to replace hard drives every so often as they fail. If you are new to that, perhaps buying a networks storage solution out of box may help you, like Synology
You should be ripping your physical collection onto hard drives and have sophisticated backup solutions. You will also have to replace hard drives every so often as they fail. If you are new to that, perhaps buying a networks storage solution out of box may help you, like Synology
Well for as long as you have the means to use it. After that it might as well be toilet paper.
@@gamingrealmhd1444 That is true. Same thing goes for CDs and DVDs. It is very rare though, but it did happen to me as well.
Very surprised that this video even came out. Physical media should never disappear.
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Indeed! 💯% agree!
*WILL NEVER
Yeah, it was random. But appreciated
Amen to that
For years, people scoffed at me buying everything physically, saying it's silly when everything is on Netflix. Now they all get pissed when their favorite show or movie gets removed and ends up in the ether or on a different streamer.
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Same!
Irony
It's funny you got the last laugh, as long as you have a working Blu-ray player you're fine.
You should also mention the higher quality of physical media. A 4k HDR Bluray delivers more picture and audio information than a 4k HDR stream. You can see the difference.
My favourite is when you get a random internet drop and you have like 6 pixels on screen until the video starts to buffer again.
A 4k HDR Blu-ray is still digital, and if you ever hook up your player to the internet, the movies can still be altered.
No....I'm not sure what you mean. Hooking your Blu-ray player up to the internet doesn't affect the disc itself, nor can the company alter the movie.@@flavaj13
@halfbakedmovies , believe what you want, reality begs to differ. As long as you connect to the internet with their licensed property, you are at their whims, period. Now if you want to be safe, go back to VHS, betamax, basically anything made last century.
@@flavaj13 you.. have no clue what you're talking about. shush
Never gave up on physical media…Never will!
Same here.
Yeah. Me too.
Same
Yuuup
Yes sir!
Sometimes, the internet goes down. It happens. Things just happen sometimes. Physical media should never go away.
Physical media has a life span, the data is then broken.
It is. A lot of people clearly don't know about CD buffing machines for those of us who have hundreds of dvds and thousands of music cd's. The un-informed will aways hold us back as a society.
@@Swisshost They can make DVD'S and Blu Ray movies again. They used to do it often every 10 or 20 years and call it "collectors edition."
@@Swisshostblurays last 30-100 years. And they can be just archived to other storage devices. And there are also M-Discs, which theoretically last 1000 years
@@xXRealXx Wow. What are, "M-Discs"? This the first I've ever heard of them before.
What's insane is just how quick digital-only owners are to slam physical media. Not only are they happy to surrender their ownership, but they're all too happy to ridicule those who think it's important.
Yeah, it's ridiculous!
Digital doesn't mean Download. Blu-rays and DVD are digital.
As long as digital means you have an .mp4 on your computer of your movie or show, it IS superior. Unfortunately thats rarely the case.
@@jer1776how does that make it superior? lol
@@DONWASABIJUAN Not everyone wants a giant shelf full of DVDs, nor can you take all those with you on a trip somewhere with limited cell service
Also, physical media prevents any altering or censoring that these corporations now do.
Started my 4k uhd/Blu-ray collection last year, no looking back! It’s actually so fun to build up your own personal catalogue of films and tv.
so is going outside and not wasting ur money and life
@@poopedcheetah2How long has it been since your wife left you?
@@poopedcheetah2 why even bother posting that comment just cause someone else is enjoying their life more than you are yours
that higher bitrate :)
@@poopedcheetah2
You can do both my dude.
I've just dropped most my subscriptions, reduced my viewing by 90%, and took up about 6 different hobbies and started hiking to stay entertained. Happier and healtheir!
If you want movie studios to release more films/shows on physical media then start buying physical media! The more sales increase the more content will be released on disc.
Maybe when economic inflation goes down.
This!!
One issue not touched on in this video is that physical media can be the original TV show/movie. So many shows are being edited for PC reasons - if one wants to watch the original version, best to look for older versions of the DVD/VHS tape.
Physical copies are always better because it means you actually own it.
Exactly.
@halfbakedmoviesdo you have an IQ below 70, or are you just a troll with no life? You know exactly what he means, so grow up.
@halfbakedmovieslol you can still install the data on 5he disc and edit yourself into the film via green screen, thus making you a member of the production crew
@halfbakedmoviesDon't be pedantic, you know what he means.
@@freeman10000 No, you don't understand. Have you seen what they did to games? Some games need a permanent server connection - even if they are single player games. The fact that the games come on a physical disc doesn't mean anything anymore. The same nightmare could become true for movies.
The bonus features (I.e. deleted scenes and commentary) are one of the advantages of owning physical media
You can watch deleted scenes and other bonus content straight from CZcams.
@@adrianelias2365 until CZcams deletes it for violating copyright or the company chooses to delete it.
@@adrianelias2365it depends. These companies are usually pretty strict with their copyright ©️ policies.
100% youtube is great but one day it will become another myspace lost to time
And the warning screen, that any copies are illegal 😂
Physical media will always be relevant. This past holidays we were visited by friends and family every weekend and we played DVDs everytime.
DVDs? What a nightmare
@@SENATORPAIN1grow up.
@@Anonymous-wb3nz cram it mam
@@SENATORPAIN1 A normal human watches movies only on physical media at home or waits for them to air on TV. Physical media will be the law thanks to an act of Congress.
"Physical media will always be relevant. " ...unless the content owner decides not to release physical media anymore. Which already started to happen.
People need to do something like protest against digital taking away physical copies. It’s not just movies and shows it’s also games the people need to do something.
Buy gamepass and never own anything again, problem solved.
Don't forget Netflix and Amazon subscriptions. @@benjaminbaer5485
@benjaminbaer5485 you've missed the point entirely
@@benjaminbaer5485game pass doesn’t have everything and they remove the games after a year
Yeah
Never give up your right to full ownership in exchange for convenience...
Unfortunately that's precisely what the majority of people do
It's just a fact of life now. We own nothing
@@mgiebus1869speak for yourself.
That is exactly what PC gamers have done and what console gamers are doing now.
@@mgiebus1869when you’re dead you leave with NOTHING. Stop surrounding yourself with worthless clutter that your family have to get rid of.
Never stopped collecting, Physical Forever!
Same here
Same
Media remaining physical will bar any chance for the studios to edit films for sensitivity or censorship reasons. Don’t let them rewrite history or undermine artistic vision.
Like Star wars special edition?
@@ztk1138
And Little Britain.
@@ztk1138 to be fair that was an artistic reason but whatever
@@ztk1138 And Criterion Collection's release of the The French Connection?
@@LoliconSamalikHe’s talking about existing physical media, you smartass
Max’s purge of shows like Close Enough, Infinity Train, and Summer Camp Island shows why physical media should still be around and protected. They can get rid of whatever they want on their service. But if you have a disc, you can still watch it
The inner hoarder in me smiled to my belly's fill after hearing this affirmation that my desire to buy a SeriesX and buy physical media boxsets doesn't make me MAD.
The ps5 is a better media player then the seriesX fyi
Physical media for the win once again!
It doesn't help that retailers are dropping DVDs etc
Then. Buy. Them.
We are always going to want to have physical media as an option. Neither Hollywood or the games industry is ever going to get audiences to stop people from buying or seeking out physical discs/media of content. It’s just ingrained in us as fans, we love to own something tangible.
Sure about that? Major retailers like Best Buy have already pulled all forms of physical media
@@yacobell7108 Exactly! Everyone seems to forget the companies that actually make the physical media can stop at any time. Sure,there are boutique labels,for now.
@@yacobell7108 you still have Walmart, Target, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, eBay and others.
If you don’t want physical home video formats to not go away, simple, people have to buy them.
There is still Redbox where I'm at, and buying dvds are $5 a piece. The only drawback about collecting physical copies of media is storing it. Not everyone wants or has the ability to set up shelving space.
A reminder. You can get A LOT of blurays and DVDs from your local library.
If your collection is more non-english like mine, you been already done knowed that physical media is the only way to go as there you are guaranteed to get yhe original language version and you get all the neat extras
Only buy phiscal. Don't let someone else own your stuff.
@@halfbakedmoviesOwning a home is a better investment as you have equity in it.
own your own movies and home its the best.@@halfbakedmovies
You only bought the licence to watch the movie. You don't even own the physical disc.
@@Swisshost 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
@@Swisshost , people don't realize that ignoring the fine print doesn't change the terms of service you agree to without reading.
Huge number of films from 60s and 70s were on vhs but never made it to DVD format. Finding some of them in digital is impossible as well. For same reason more than 3/4 of films from 1930-60 period are gone.
Physical media: dies
Digital media: rises
Piracy: rises a ton
With physical media, data and quality will come from a direct source. Enthusiasts wouldn't have to worry about bandwidth, internet speeds, and pixelated pictures.
You're preaching to the choir, at least in my case. I've been shouting from the rooftops this exact perspective for over a decade and a half, going back to the early Amazon ebook days. The public has made their own bed here, trading actual ownership for smoke and mirror promises of convenience and "forever" subscriptions. Now, suddenly, with content getting removed at the whim of providers and people hopefully are starting to see the problem - that they've been renting content.
Go watch Louis Rossman and get educated. And get MAD....
My man ✊
This is why piracy will continue to flourish
If not physical piracy, I’d say digital piracy has the same or even more problems. Collectors don’t buy original because the love giving money to corporations. Look it up a bit
you know there's digital piracy too right? Ever hear of limewire, frostwire, piratebay.....? Older examples yes but physical media doesn't drive that market. The digital files do.... How do you think they get on to disc in the first place?
Prime example not owning what you watch will come back and bite you. The same can be said for renting your software...lol. Nothing is forever when companies are involved.
Higher quality and you actually own it... Yeah, my favourite movies, and albums on physical media ALWAYS
Every time they do something anti consumer a new pirate is born.
Arrrrrrrr
Right!
That's why they are pushing all the fancy computers WITHOUT OPTICAL DRIVES!!!
Sad to say...
I've been preaching this on the plantation for YEARS. Bless you for this.
We knew they would take it away from us, but we still walked into their slaughterhouse.
Sounds like a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Lyric 😅
@@DanKeatisby order of the Peaky f**kin Blinders!
PHYSICAL DISC RULES!
All of my favorite movies ARE in one place. On my shelf 😌👌🏾
Now you know what it was like for cinephiles before VCR's (and the movies themselves) became affordable!
Forever physical 🙏🏼
Finding tv shows let alone movies on dvd is getting harder by the day. It has to be concerning, let alone companies throwing money away. Don’t get me started on ads being introduced
For newer stuff yes... But older movies and shows are abundant! Not like the newer stuff is better anyway...
Censorship also plays a part ether removing the whole thing or cutting/ altering portions of media.
not to mention you're at the whim of the version they give you. You want the original color grading, audio, cut, ending, etc.? Well too bad
You don't mention the edits and outright deletions of scenes of material, Disney being a major one where they show an original show and a few weeks later it gets edited, meaning the original release is simply gone forever!
This!
Ehhhh physical media not immune to this either. Wong Kar Wai changed color grade for the blu rays of his films. So if you want the original release you have to resort to lower quality DVDs. Also like with Star Wars the unedited physical releases carry an inflated price on sites like eBay.
@@shinycheeto5779 That's not exactly the point. When you already own the discs there's nothing that can be done against them
@@andrzejkopalnia It's exactly the point. Physical discs will already contain altered versions.
Do you have any examples of Disney doing this?
This is the best video you guys have made this year. Hopefully this blows up. Nice Job.
I’m kinda shocked any media outlet is allowed to say this. Your corporate masters must be pissed.
inb4 announcement "We have discontinued our collaboration with Seth due to differences of opinion."
one of the best videos i've seen from this channel. couldn't have said it better myself 👏
Physical media WINS in my book. 💯 This is especially true given the seemingly endless subscription service price hikes 🤦🏽 I have returned to collecting my movies on DVD and bluray 🎥
I'm here for this kind of content! the irony of big businesses is they are resistant to change, then make wild swings to adapt to it, then have to make drastic changes to correct their bad choices made after denying change in the first place...
It’s the pirates life for me 📀🔥😉🏴☠️
This goes to Disney, which ended physical media in Australia
for those not aware *disney empire (ie fox, pixar, marvel) so many movies you wouldn't even think should be related.
Disney will be required by law to have all its movies on physical media.
Just boycott them. Nothing of value anyway.
*me looking at my $15,000 4K / Blu ray collection smiling from ear to ear*
Disc rot still exists so be mindful of that
Keep those movies on a hard drive to fully future proof them
@@Djboyrimo
Disc degradation tends to take multiple decades though...but you're right, it will happen eventually.
@@Djboyrimo Disc rot is (for the most part) a myth. It applied to a VERY small line of CDs back in the 90s. Since then. disc rot has been completely eliminated and no longer exists.
Woah that's a lot of money to brag about
Yo, same here.
This vidoe needs to go viral 100%
That $5 WAlmart bin is so clutch. Sometimes up to 5 movies in a single disc.
"Physical media" is also a file you download and keep forever.
Love physical media as it actual proof you own it, also if there is a global internet outage at least i’ve got it on DVD 😂
Also, things like Netflix etc will only ever continue increasing their prices every month. And then do other things like adding adverts, surveys etc to increase their revenue.
This is an important video. Thanks for making it
my sister found a twitter/X post saying that 28 days later is out of print and in licensing hell. so the Dvd that my older brother got years ago is a neat collectors item :)
The end of this video says it all. You should definitely seek out the expensive physical media if you are a lover of the art and a collector. What percentage of the population are those things? Very small. Most people don't care. Is that sad? Maybe, but unless that changes.....
Another issue is cancel culture - if an actor or movie or subject becomes controversial, it can disappear overnight. Like he pointed out - it can even happen to your purchases. A purchase is not purchasing a movie, but purchasing unlimited views of something in their catalog *as long as it stays in their catalog*
Lol the only DVD left at my local goodwill is a Bill Cosby stand up disc. Nobody dares touch it.
It's a sad time when the only way to watch certain shows /movies is through pirating
we are lucky we have pirating links
Another argument for physical copies. Studios are constantly making changes to older movies and shows to fit modern audiences.
Don’t forget about libraries! Most libraries allow you to borrow movies for free with a library card. So important that we continue to use physical media and public institutions
Was watching a digital version of Name of the Rose the other day and noticed that one important scene was removed that my old DVD had. Not only is availability of some movies threatened, but sometimes they alter content for the political correctness of the day or some legal/rights technicality.
This also happens for movies shown on broadcast TV. They will edit certain scenes to make room for commercials.
@@GameArmorGameplay Yeah they did that a lot back in the day, but this was a commercial free stream, and they really don't care if it runs long these days because it doesn't need to fit in a time slot.
Never ever sell your vinyl records.
Arguably, Paramount would earn more from leasing the properties to Max than they would gain in subscribers for the old movies. Like, a lot more.
But greed got the best of them, so here we are. Disney did the same with their back catalogue - leased it to Netflix until it created Disney+. Disney+ is now a huge financial drag on the whole company, with Disney themselves predicting that it won't be profitable until 2025! That's a long time to subsidise a failing part of your business. Especially when they could have just continued raking in easy money for lesaing their content at no effort to themselves!
@@simonfrost7094
Go
Got the Office on DVD box set when it moved to Paramount. Never got Paramount, and - after similar smaller purchases - just ‘cut the cord’ on Netflix.
There is NO substitute for having a physical backup.
You never know when some conglomerate will buy some parent company or something and then your favorite classic disappears.
The best are the rare blu rays that you hunt down 😁
If you really care about it you should definitely own it
Very small titles were for a long time burned to (short-life span) BD-R, and sold professionally, that way. Possibly, it will be a wide-spread practice to order physical media on demand, for example on BD-R or BD-M (which, however ALREADY are made to lesser quality standards). No pinpack racks in stores, but burned and printed for you in volumes of 1. Like self-printing services for book authors and their very few book buyers.
The thing is, buying the DVD's of a series can be cheaper in the long run. If you watch a show a few times, and only watch that show for weeks\months on end, a couple watch throughs later (like 2) you are making profit.
Still own all my physical media and totally refuse to get rid of any of them
Of course physical media forever. I've been telling people for years but kept being called all the names in the book for it.
Bond on Prime in the UK pops up “free” every now and again but not in 4K in the last session, even though they were previously available in UHD.
They have been sat on a hard drive for 20 years in 4K after Lowry Digital restored them, and they were even rereleased at the cinema, one a week, in 2022.
However, apart from the Craig films, they are not available in 4K Blu-ray, which seems an odd thing not to squeeze another release in another format.
Thank You!
Time to sail the seven seas
got all 11 films on dvd star trek and 2700 films in all blu and DVDs and tv shows
My hope is even if physical media drops from the mainstream, there’s enough people that keep buying it that they keep making it. Similar to how with music, most people don’t collect vinyls but enough people do that they’re still available.
Great video, fully agree!
Replace "Piracy" whenever you hear the phrase "physical media" in this video, and you have the answer to the problem that studio greed created for themselves.
This. Is. The. Way.
agree slowly growing my collection but keeping it manigible this time
Hope it works out for you
Oh my goodness this is a great video!!
Well this is a great time for the secondary markets for DVD and other physical media.
It's all great until you have to move. Though right now I've shed a lot of DVD's and Blu-Rays and just keep 50 or so that are beloved or classic films.
Not all of us are lazy.....
Lets just remember digital books never replaced physical.
Another aspect of physical media is that it paradoxically does a better job of sorting for quality at the front end, as a specific investment is required to get the art, but also does a better job of preserving lesser and less popular material at the back end, because physical copies, once produced, don't require ongoing profitability to simply exist.
All this implies a general acceptance of mass reproduced culture, which honestly is not a universal opinion, and deserves interrogation. Adorno and others have given us tools to unpack what mercantile replication does to culture.
Funny you use the clip from The Dark Knight Rises, consider the imax shots are altered in the digital versions. Making the only way to watch the movie as intended is with the physical version.
Its crazy how much of a great deal physical movies are when its compared to video games they give you multiple versions and a digital code
Spread the news guys!
It’s not about the media, it’s whether you can control the use of the contents. For instance, downloads would be perfectly acceptable.
Solid news, and even better transitions.
Physical forever!
Easy having a wfi outage or waiting for wifi ? Just pop the disc in you still get 4kUHD
Yesterday, saw someone laugh at a request to use a physical usb stick to store something - "that's such an old way to do anything!"
USB stick much more secure than the Cloud.
@@GameArmorGameplay Exactly! But it's like people think the cloud is safer/ everlasting?
It's so strange how most people seem to agree that physical media isn't just better, but vital for all art forms, yet the statistics generally tell a different story.
Of course there will always be pockets of people to keep the physical "thing" alive (vinyl has had a relative boom but is of course still defunct at a truly macro level), but the tide is still moving towards full blown digital.
People mostly don't agree. Entertainment has always been mostly ephemeral.
Honestly, do what’s right for you. If that means digital or physical then that’s fine.