Physical Media Is Cheaper Than Streaming
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Physical media has a major argument against it: That it's more expensive than streaming services. There's a wrong perception that streaming services are less expensive than buying movies and tv shows to physically own, and that's just wrong.
Sure, there are expensive... people that are hyper-collectors of physical media. Just like there are ultra-consumers of streaming services like Netflix on the opposite side. But for the vast majority of us, I think I can lay down a decent argument as to why I believe streaming is costing us more money than we really think.
If this video does anything, I hope it is to help us just sit back and reflect on what it is we're actually spending our money on, and if it's worth it. This video is for those in search of physical media.
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The point at the end is really the big thing. Intentionality. People lose so much money because they aren't aware of their money. It's on a subscription that's tied to a credit card that you just make a payment on at the end of every month. This is gaming and not movie related, but I subscribe to Xbox Game Pass in one month intervals only when there's a game coming out I want to play on it. So I played Starfield for 10 dollars instead of 70. If I had kept that subscription, it wouldn't work out in my favor, but I don't, so it does.
That's the real trick. Paying attention to what you're doing and being intentional in what you're doing.
Very good point
Lesson: don't open a credit card.
Gamepass feels illegal sometimes because of this, the industry is raising the base prices from 60 to 70 dollars but here's gamepass.
@@imacg5 Credit cards are completely fine. Issues arise when the person using the credit card doesn't have discipline.
It's almost as if people don't have an understanding of keeping a balanced budget.
Ie: tracking where all your money goes to ensure you're not being wasteful.
Another benefit of physical media is that some films on streaming services are edited or censored, and not the full version that was originally released.
I turned on Peter Pan (the original) on Disney Plus and it gave me a MANDATORY 10 second trigger warning before it would play. My kids can't even watch this movie without having to read about what the people working at Disney Plus are forcing on them as supposedly triggering.
I was listening to an album I used to listen to in high school on streaming and I realized it didn’t have a track on there I kept on replay. Come to find out, they took it off! However, I have the original album still so I know I’m not losing my mind.
@@BringBackClassAndMaturity this is why I pirate everything in sight. Dont like to use these streaming services at all
@@ErikIversen better to just pirate so it's yours digitally forever
True. Netflix censored The Other Guys because the line Derek Jeter says at the end, "The whole damn system is clogged up with dirty money. And the news doesn't say a word about it. 'Cause who owns them? The same corporations that own the government. Courts and the law is all we have left. So here's you guys' next case. Guy by the name of Carl Bachand, CEO of Killister Bank. He took three billions in TARP funds. He's crooked. He's real crooked. Take him down, but be careful. He's got Blackwater mercenaries 24/7."
They removed it because that is legit whag is happening right now. And said billion dollar companies don't want people to find out about it and want to change the subject
I would also argue that you get your time back by using physical media. You’re not just watching things for the sake of filling your time because you’re bored. You’re more interested in what you’re watching and intentional about when you are watching it.
Couldn’t have said it better myself:) great addition to the convo. Thanks for sharing that
Very true
Ownership is identity is human being. They're trying to sell you on dissolution. It's retired.
Absolutely agreed
I have been finding that true since dusting off my old iPod and being intentional in picking the music out I listen to instead of just going with whatever The Algorithm provides. I have been enjoying music more now that I am more intentional about it
I'm most annoyed by tools that are subscription services (especially Adobe products)
I totally agree
shout out to whoever made blender and Davinci tho 🙌🏽
This
I’m still using an old Adobe cc from 2014 😅 I refuse to subscribe to get the newer versions
You can literally pirate the entire 2024 adobe Creative cloud and every application for free
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing. You cannot steal what you cannot own.
You can’t steal something that was designed to be free
Bro is being philosophical
@@theliampetersenBro really said "bro is being philosophical"
You got that dang right lol
@@TheClassicalFatCat bro really said “bro really said “bro is being philosophical””
Supernatural on streaming didn't have music rights to AC/DC and switched it with generic stock rock music. Physical media is the way to see the pure intended original
same with the Netflix re-dub of Evangelion. They couldn't get the rights to Fly Me to the Moon, so they just played other music from the show. Super lame!
A coworker and I have been talking about this and recently decided to collect physical media and use ebay a lot. Blu rays are so cheap.
those bulk lots are a great deal>>
Makes me wonder. I started up again a physical collection 1 1/2 yrs ago. With so many people coming back to physical media will it create a shortage? Will blue rays and dvds increase in value in the future? Idk but right now it’s great for collectors. I go to the flea market and get some Blu rays for $.25.
@@jessed1586 I wouldn't worry about a shortage. Remember these were often printed in the millions. The most people who would buy something is when the material is new. What you can get is what we saw with records where some music became very popular for collectors and went up in value, but not everything did. You may also find that as the interest in physical media increases the prices also increase but there's no way to know how much or what will go up.
i buy bulk lots then resell or donate what i dont keep been doing that for years
Its def the buffet fallacy. People are sold on the idea they're renting millions of albums but really they only listen to like a few dozen throughout the year. Whatever they paid for that they could've bought the CDs for
Completely agree!
Though in my case, I was making good use of my Spotify subscription. I started out by buying songs but realized it would be cheaper to just get Spotify.
I had my Spotify subscription for about 6 years, and just recently canceled it. Even if it is cheaper, I don't think it's worth it. You don't own the songs and the price just keeps rising.
Now that I have a CD collection, I'm more excited about listening to music. I don't have much to listen to now, but just thinking of how much my collection will have grown in a few years makes me really happy. And I know at some point I'll go a few months without buying a new album. If I kept going with Spotify, I'd have had to keep paying for the rest of my life.
3 more reasons to get physical:
1) extra features
2) content can’t be retroactively re-edited (/as was recently done with The French Connection)
3) with TV show, you get all the episodes, unlike streaming that suppresses “controversial” content such as Community DnD episodes
community mention!!
Def by design. The corporations purposely phased out the physical media/DVD era, to convince consumers to subscribe monthly to streaming. With almost everything being a subscription service is so dystopian.
It’s a million times more profitable. You even see it in the B2B space now. I believe Adobe was one of the innovators of this whole thing, taking what was a several hundred dollar product that lasted 5 years, to making it several hundred dollars per year with constant “updates” - definitely I’m going to try and make more videos around this kind of topic.
@@NomadOverNormalyou should do one on iPhones. They're the worst.😂
iPhone upgrades? or something else that im not picking up on
And people are stupid by allowing this to get too far.
@@NomadOverNormal Apple engineers ALL of its projects to become obsolete, or function poorly, over time. They bake in the need to buy upgraded products on the regular.
My dad used to have a decently sized VHS collection and never had cable or anything. By the time he watched all the movies and shows that he wanted to, he would just watch them again
why is there this notion that you have to subscribe to multiple services? you can literally pick any one, subscribe for a month and move on to the next.
this is one of the main benefits we’ve gained from streaming services, we can cancel with a couple of clicks instead of being on the phone for hours as they persuade you not to cancel.
That’s a great idea! Most people are a bit too lazy to follow, and like gym memberships, streaming services count on you not doing that
Absolutely, you get to a point where there’s nothing you want to watch so you drop that service and get a different one or get it for free with some other service you purchased then switch to another.
This doesn't really work in a household with multiple people that watch different types of things. I might only really watch things on Paramount but my wife only watches the things on Netflix etc
Have you tried living with a family of your own then?
Most people don't pay attention to their subscriptions like this
I'm not the target audience for this video as I don't use any paid streaming services, but I wholeheartedly agree with the message. Another thing you didn't touch is a lot of those services suggest that infinite tv show's and movies are a positive thing, but anyone who's used them will also tell you that having more choices does not actually make decisions come easier. Some people have named this The Paradox of Choice.
Exactly right. You’re also consuming whatever is being fed to you, rather than intentionally seeking it out
I feel streaming is a nice way to discover new things you have never seen or never heard of. It introduced me to a lot of things I now love and own on physical media.
Alice in Borderlands, Queen's Gambit, Cobra Kai, Squid Game, Black Mirror, Beef, Merlin, Doctor who, Torchwood, Snabba Cash, Continuum, Being Human, Orange is the new black, breaking bad, 2 broke girls, super store, Chuck, Gotham, The 100, Shannara Chronicles, Z-Nation, & so much more.
Digging the greats has a great video series about this, it's called the ipod series (I think)
Analysis Paralysis.
its actually sickening that i pay for just netflix and its completely unpredictable when a show i like will move to another service, or be completely gone from all legal streaming!
That's very relatable. My membership for both Netflix and hulu expired this year and I didn't care about renewing them because I moved on to DVDs and Blu-rays.
It's also important to note that physical media sort of stopped in it's development. For example there're 100Gb Blu-ray disks now, so those all seasons collections could fit on quarter of disks, but that's not going to happen because most money is made in streaming.
I started collecting physical media (primarily 4Ks) early this year and I absolutely love it.
The quality is way better, especially the sound and even not watching them feels good because I know I can watch them whenever I want, without streaming companies taking them away from me without a warning.
Always look for people selling their collections or part of them. Buying in bulk is way cheaper and you can just sell the movies you don't like
There's something to be said about the positive & reassuring feeling of stability. Also, a rack or shelf full of disk cases are a great conversation starter when someone comes to visit you or you go visit someone else's place. "Hey, I see you have ___ movie/show. What did you think of it?" and the like.
As a physical media collector since the 90s, the resurgeance of collecting makes me so happy. It's so much better in every way! And as a bonus the more people buy physical media, the more physical media will be released! Win win.
"Unlimited movies" meanwhile more and more movies are being taken down and moved to an ever-increasing amount of streaming services
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy" -Klaus Schwab
and that's what I'm aiming to address with videos like this!
Capitalism in crisis
BULL CRAP!
Will there ever be another quote used in these kind of videos, ever?! Yawn every time i see this quote now.
Resist the NWO
Brb going out to grab all my favorite comfort shows on DVD!
That's the right move:)
My issue is I don't rewatch shows or movies. I watch once and I'm done. Only a few like Xmas movies get rewatched. The selection in streaming became smaller and the cost went up. So I canceled them. Now I'm watching more youtube (have premium), I'm going to movies in theatre, and using the library to borrow, but I don't want to own these shows or movies. I may actually get cable again because for $5 more a month over my internet they'll add a basic cable package.
I'm surprised to hear football can't be watched in TV anymore. I can't believe that may people are paying $73/mnth to watch. You'd be better to go to the local bar and meet with friends and buy a drink.
I went through this in 2021. I noticed I kept watching the same stuff over and over, so I cancelled everything and just bought those movies.
I had about 7 or 8 streaming subscriptions and also a nice selection of blu rays and dvd’s of my favourite movies and series. I browsed through every streaming service not finding anything I wanted to watch. I still would stream a movie, watch for 20 minutes, get bored and play a game on my iPad. I haven’t bought any physical media or watched any dvd or blu ray for years until a few months ago. I actually bought some second hand blu rays. When they arrived I wanted to see if they would play so I put it in the player and I was speechless 😮. Everything was so bright and colourful. Sharp images and the sound was magical. I never knew, I never noticed. I feel ashamed that I was too lazy to pick a blu ray. Instead I just streamed like being in an automatic circle and now I’ve noticed that streaming made me tired and it took so much energy out of me. It also has to do with my circumstances. That’s another story. I have cancelled all my streaming subscriptions. I’m having fun buying movies on blu ray and dvd, second hand for a nice price. They will be mine forever and I enjoy watching movies again. I will never go back!!! 😊
Thank you for sharing this! what a great story.
@@NomadOverNormal Thank you ☺️ Next on my list is to declutter my house.
I am already experience the issues of not being able to own some of the media I enjoy. Like Arcane or The Sea Beast. If Netflix stop showing it and no one else picks it up, then bye bye to something that was never physical released, unless I decided to go an illegal route, which I think most of us don't want to do.
Same here. I’m a big physical collector and I’d love to own Netflix’s Klaus, a good animated Christmas movie. But they haven’t released it physically at all :(
@@kevinholley8538 Klaus is a good movie. There have been some amazing animation films these years :)
For me it's mostly about not supporting greedy companies, while also enjoying art of cinema. I just can't stand the idea of them making garbage with money I paid for the subscription. Physical is great and dirt cheap, while also providing the necessary inconvenience.
great point.
I miss when Netflix used to send you DVDs
They had that service up until recently I think! Those days were fun. It was so different and unique. I remember getting Adam Sandler's version of the longest yard haha
I kinda disagree. I spent years buying weekly releases spending about $50 to $100 a week on movies. I haven't even seen all the movies I own. Now I buy maybe 3 to 4 Blu-rays a month but I buy digital movies constantly. I split the streaming services with the people I live in. I spend a lot less now. VUDU has great sales often.
Right now Logan is $30 on Blu-ray and the same for Bones and All. That's more than I'm willing to spend. I want those physical but I'm waiting for a sale.
Also, it's insane to throw away the movie cases. I would die. DVD looks like sh.t too. I don't know how you don't see how bad DVD looks specially on a 4K tv. This video is nuts.
Logan is $20 on bluray and $25 on 4k.
@@jacobroberts2764 where?
I just checked again on Amazon and the price is $30 on Blu-ray. Are you not in the United States? Here in U.S.A. Amazon and Walmart at the time of writing the movie is $30 on Blu-ray.
(Edit: I just checked Walmart and it's currently $20. It wasn't $20 last week. Hopefully it's still $20 when I get paid at the end of the week. I'm leaving the whole comment up because it's still true but good looking out! )
That projector he is shilling is probably shit too tbh. “4k supported” is such a scam. It’s native 1080p. It just downscales like any other 1080p display would. Dvds probably look fine on it because of the softness of projection compared to a tv. Dvds look like shit on my 4k oled.
My physical media collection is growing and I love it. I have plenty of shows, films, and music that are all mine with no ads, Internet, or drm. Life is good!
I cancelled everything and just rented movies on Amazon for a while.
The streaming services have a lot of good shows on their own. The ultimate hack is the only subscribe to one at a time, white what you want, cancel it, then check out another service for another month.
I read an article recently that said Netflix was going to start charging more for someone to reinstate their account if they do something like this. That might have been a click bait, but I wouldn't put it past them.
@@busbybinne I feel like that could hurt their business.
It would be one thing if they locked you in at a cheap price, but they don’t. If I was still locked in at like nine dollars, I never would’ve canceled.
Hard to coordinate that when the family uses the services.
A lot of people do this.
I agree with this. I pay for two subscriptions, Crunchyroll and Spotify. It comes out to roughly $20 per month for me. If there was a cheaper alternative that wasn't sketchy or inconvenient then I would take it. But while that isn't the case, I'm happy with my two very well used subscriptions
Subscriptions cost more because the payment is unconscious. When you buy physical media, you weigh whether you really want it or not, and end up spending less because you choose your entertainment expenses deliberately and waste less of your precious time watching things you don't really like.
"unconscious" is a beautiful word to use here. Thanks for adding this to the conversation!
That is true-- many of my favorites are from long past (50s-80s), which streaming services rarely have; physical media makes it easy for me to determine if I indeed will enjoy something I try out (also, when Netflix was sending discs, I could test-drive certain shows to see if they had any merit; nowadays, in order to make that judgment, you have to get the whole season or the all-in-one [complete series], but as you say, that's still far better than streaming).
Remembering that libraries exist has been a huge game changer for me. Mine has almost the entire Criterion Collection and an interesting selection of CDs, like compilations and soundtracks that aren’t on streaming services. I have a branch on my way home from work and I’m overflowing with interesting things to watch, listen to, and read.
For consumers who primarily want to watch completed shows I would say they're better off with buying physical media on sale or finding a sale for digital copies (if you want to minimize physical discs). The problem is keeping up with current shows that are exclusive to streaming services. If you care about that, your best options are sharing accounts (while you can) or only paying for one or two at a time.
Throwing out cases is sacrilegious! I switched to streaming around 2013, because it was genuinely cheaper than tv, and Netflix had EVERYTHING. I switched back to physical media 5 years later when everyone started creating their own streaming service. It became the same price as cable. I only buy the top quality release, so 4K if available, so i probably spend more than you, but it still probably works out cheaper. I buy 12 movies or less a year, which is cheaper than Netlfix’s top package. I borrow from friends, and go to the theatre more. There are a lot of cheap or free ways to get movies, and nothing stopping you from ripping them to a server or your computer and selling the discs after. I have a 4k bluray player and it has unmatched visual quality. This all started because I have a home theatre, and streaming does not offer uncompressed surround sound. I think it is only a matter of time before there is another “cord cutting” like with cable 10 years ago.
my only complaint is some of the series' DVD boxes are designed terribly.
Indeed! When DVDs/Blu-rays/4K discs are stacked in those cases, it is a cause for concern!
You know what's even cheaper? Pirating.
i hope you don't throw away those dvd cases. i love the artwork on them. also, if you throw them in storage boxes, then when you have more space, you could display them on shelves, or sell them.
A display shelf or rack of such disk cases can make for a good conversation starter.
Don't use just random DVD sleeves/binders, spend a little bit more and get which comes with good materials
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I absolutely agree with the underlying point here, but a big factor being overlooked is the exclusivity of a lot of movies and shows on streaming. Unfortunately, most of the original content on these streaming services isn't even available on physical media. There are notable exceptions (many bigger HBO releases still get physical releases, as well as a handful of Netflix shows, Apple's Ted Lasso, and Hulu's Prey). But these exceptions are becoming rarer as time goes on.
I find what works best for me is to purchase the movies and shows that I absolutely love. These are few and far between, maybe only a few per year, but movies and shows that I will revisit. Then I'll subscribe to services just one service and one month at a time. I'm not always subscribed to a service, but when I am it's only one at a time and I'll try to catch up with whatever I want to watch on that platform. The end result is I'm only paying for 9 or 10 months of subscriptions for the entire year, but I rotate services and watch everything I want. Seems like the best option to watch everything you want without sailing the seven seas.
@zkiller195 It's been almost a year and I still can't get Killers of the Flower Moon on Blu-Ray. One of my favorites from 2023. Apple simply won't release it. Same with Napoleon. The shitty thing is the directors who made those movies are all for physical media. It really sucks.
@@thejman3489 Killers of the Flower Moon did get an Italian physical release. While the Blu Ray is region locked, supposedly the Italian 4k release is region free. It's not ideal, because it comes in a combo pack with a region locked Blu Ray, but on the 4k disc the menus, audio, and subtitles have english options. Price will also probably be higher than you'd pay for a US release on sale.
It's not ideal and definitely feels like jumping through hoops, but it's an option. I could also see Killers of the Flower Moon getting a Criterion release at some point (though that's purely speculation).
The fatal flaw in this video is assuming that you have seen everything and that nothing that comes out on streaming is new. The cost of taking a chance on a new streaming show or movie is always less than taking a chance on buying something you haven’t seen before.
This video makes less and less sense the more I compare costs and actually think about it. Just don’t be an idiot with your purchases streaming or physical and you’ll be fine. I have 5 streaming services and occasional buy physical media and it’s still miles less than cable.
i started my physical media collection because i wanted to watch my favorite shows in their original aspect ratio
I never realized how good the sound is on DVDs (& blu rays) compared to streaming until you brought it up but you’re so right! My DVD movies sound soooooo good compared to those same movies on streaming
I kinda miss when Netflix was a service that sent you a max of 3 DVDs at a time. It was a decent catalouge, and because you couldn't get another DVD until one was sent back we were motivated to watch the ones we had. Now I have all the options at my fingertips (sort of, their streaming catalouge has always been subpar) but I can never actually decide on a movie to watch.
The thing I liked about DVDs is all the extra content they came with like deleted scenes and behind the scenes
People need to check out their library for movies they actually wanna watch
Agree with absolutely everything you said. I’m very much the same with physical video games and music CDs. Just recently some of my favorite movie soundtracks were pulled from TH-cam for some reason and have become largely lost media except for their cd releases. It’s the same thing with gaming. I have PlayStation Plus which would let me play older games if I want, but I always opt to just buy the physical copies instead. You never know when these things will go away and owning the physical copies can be a lot of fun.
That’s why I as an music lover prefer to use CDs and even cassettes, because 1. The quality is ironically still higher, and 2. No one can take my CD away through not paying a service.
In music you can buy a CD album for 50p or £1. With 10 tracks (to make the maths easy), that's 5p a track and you can sell the physical item once ripped to your personal library. For £10 a month you'd need to play 200 tracks to be an equal price. For TV etc, I've not sen anything new worth watching in the last 20 years. For anything older, I have the DVDs for barely pence in charity shops. Even those I rarely feel the need to watch because I know them so well. I don't get modern culture for the new shows to appeal to me.
2:40 The average person rented. We went every week to Family Video and got a the cheaper movies for like $0.50 per movie for 3 days. If you just go to your local library you'll probably find tons still for rent. I even saw that you rented The Office from your library in this video.
we know all about libraries on this channel:)
Paying for access and not owning what you watch is not an issue by itself. I have DVDs and Blu-rays that I haven't touched in over 10 years - good quality ones, like special edition box sets. They became items of decoration (I will probably stream the same movies I own in physical format). I've also become very annoyed by clutter recently and physical media definitely adds to clutter.
The smart thing to do is to just rotate your streaming services every 3 months or so (not that easy when you have kids though)
Nearly everything you've said is exactly what's been on my mind for the past few months. It's almost like there's been this general awakening in people that subscription services don't always mean owning, rather it's more akin to renting. You don't truly own, and in an instant, it could all be taken away.
Physically owning your own personal copy seems to be the way to go.
Great video!
Just bought the complete series of Star Trek Discovery for the cost of about four months of Paramount+. Considering Trek is the only thing I watch it's an investment. 🖖😄
I've been collecting and using physical media since I was a kid. CDs, DVDs, VHS, ect. It's honestly very comforting to know if I want to listen to an album or watch a movie, I always have it on hand and not paying for something every month I don't use most of the time. Also books, physical books are a blessing and a great way to fill your time. I never stopped collecting and owning and probably won't ever. It's a lifetime investment.
Even with an amazon prime membership, you still have to pay for certain movies that are not labeled as amazon prime since certain movies and tv shows that are not labeled amazon prime still cost money. What's the point of paying for amazon prime for movies and tv shows when amazon is still nickel and diming there customer even with customers already paying for amazon prime. On top of streaming services, they are nickel and diming the customers to pay to remove ads. All the corporations have gotten greedy to the point that they are nickel and diming there customers with whatever ways that they can think of.
I've been seeing a LOT of really cheap movies at Wal-Mart for just $5. And these movies were well known movies like The Batman or Bumblebee. I've never watched any of them, so I might make a run to Wal-Mart one day and buy a bunch. They also have a lot of complete series box sets of tv shows.
EDIT: It isn’t feasible and isn’t possible to own all of my shows on DVD. Many are Originals and don’t exist on DVD and many again are not Originals but are still new and that doesn’t exist. I don’t believe the average person just watches one show forever like Gilmore Girls or The Office because you do.
In my country it is incredibly difficult to just buy, even find a DVD for the show you want. It gets even worse when so many of the shows I love are X Y OR Z Originals. So I’ll just have to…find an…MP4 to have for shows and buy movie DVDs.
I started a Jim Carrey collection recently, and the most I've spent on one of his DVDs is $8, and last month, I got 2 movies for $0.5 each. And whenever there's a new movie out for my Disney or Marvel collection, I simply wish for it for Christmas.
Having a physical media collection allows me to have only one streaming platform at a time and alternate every few weeks or months before i change platform.
Gotta disagree on this, lots of people share accounts, the only subscription I pay for is TH-cam premium, get other services from friends and family. I know netflix has cracked down on a bit (can't watch on multiple houses tvs, but still works on my laptop) but everywhere else is still fine.
I wanted to watch Power Rangers In Space, so I bought the DVD collection.
I wanted to watch Friends, so i bought the DVD collection.
I wanted to watch True Blood, so i bought the DVD collection.
Ok, you get the normal shows, but what about censorship on streaming services?
If you wana watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer, you gotta buy the originally unchanged DVD collection before streaming services ruined the series in HD.
It's only a singular example, but it's the perfect one - streaming services only need to supply you with enough entertainment to keep you busy for the next rollover.
Nice. I have the Shout Factory Power Rangers series because it was removed off of Netflix. Same with The Wonder Years. Now I see Power Rangers can at least be purchased digitally on Vudu for about $30 per season which is a rip off. Wonder Years I think is on Hulu now.
At this point it’s just 50% random Indian movies, 15% globohomo teen slop, 15% good shows from foreign countries with English subtitles or crudely dubbed in English, 10% mediocre remakes of old movies or shows, 10% actual old movies or shows originally filmed in English that are good. There’s really no point in having Netflix to watch “new shows” unless you unironically crave high school film class tier levels of talent and creativity.
When I moved back into my parents house a few years ago I set up their old VCR and with all the VHS movies they had from the 90's I didn't need streaming.
If you can get those movies on a disc format instead do get them because tape degradation can affect VHS tapes.
Also, if you live in a decently sized area, you can buy yourself a TV antenna and get Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, and other over-the-air channels for free. So you can at least still watch the biggest games of the year.
You can also rip your DVD library to your computer and run a program like Emby or Jellyfin and turn your library into your own personal Netflix. That way you can minimize the wear and tear on your physical discs and have them as a backup years down the road.
people don't know this!! Good info.
I still regularly purchase Blu-rays and the occasional DVD. (Though it is becoming problematic storing them all.) The only streaming service that I have is Amazon Prime, but that is mostly for the free shipping; Prime being included is just a bonus.
Also streaming sometimes has to change music on shows because of music rights.
4:17 I am pretty sure that NFL Sunday Ticket was originally a specific add-on for DirecTV, that let you watch more NFL games than you otherwise had access to (like out-of-market games broadcast on the local teams' RSNs), as well as a split-screen mode that let you watch multiple games at the same time. You can still watch the NFL without the NFL Sunday Ticket, you just need access to the cable or broadcast channels that air those games, like NBC, CBS, ABC, ESPN, etc.
It moved to TH-cam TV.
@@Halalmeat5000rh Still, you can watch the NFL without it.
Finally had a chance to watch and loved it. I see why this video is taking off. You have us all thinking about making more changes and inspired to make our lives better!!
Agreed, and i don't want to pay for permission to watch what i wanna watch. I'll stick to my physical media collection. Where i can watch whatever i wanna watch, whenever i wanna watch it.
I'm really fortunate where I live in the UK - charity shops, which are a bit like thrift stores, sell DVDs for 5 for £1 or Blu Rays for 50p each - CEX is pretty good too. I never subbed to more than one streamer at once, but I do occasionally sign up for one month a year to catch up on some things I missed. I couldn't believe how much Netflix had gone up in price.
Taking back control is the key. Owning what you buy and watching when you want and not relying too much on the Internet and not worrying when the platform will remove it from their servers is a relief.
Secondly, it's a rip off now that paid streaming services like Netflix are putting advertisements during your watch. I personally am streaming on Pluto, Tubi and even regular TH-cam -- they may put advertisements between watches but they are free.
By purchasing discs, you own them. No one can take them away from you.... evening streaming services.
I go to Walmart almost every payday and pick up a few DVDs or blu-rays. What's nice is that many movies are bundled now, and you can buy multiple movies in a franchise like Alien, Terminator, Jurassic Park all at once for prices between 10-20 dollars. A small investment per movie, and I keep them forever, and with no ad breaks. It's insane we ever left that world behind tbh.
Its not a matter of maybe or probably, the picture quality IS better than if you were streaming (Blu Rays or 4K quality) because the image isn't compressed to be able to be streamed. It's just good and crisp all the way through fresh out the box. Significantly way better than a stream quality could ever reach.
My philosophy: Let's do both! I want to be able to watch EVERYTHING
This is the chaos we need
near me we have a used media store, they have books, movies music and clothing even. It's a fun way to spend an hour or two
I have a small dvd collection and my one complaint is that I wish DVDs came in smaller cases like cd size.
I recently got a CD player from a thrift store and canceled my Spotify subscription. I love listening to music and Spotify is an amazing streaming service, but I hate how the price keeps rising.
At first I said I would put 12 dollars a month in my budget to buy CDs, but I completely overspent in the beginning to get a collection going.
I love it. My way of listening to music has changed, and I have listened to and appreciated songs that I would never have given a chance on Spotify. Plus you can still rip the CDs and have the songs digitally.
Another plus is that one of my friends also got into CDs. She's burning a mixtape for me and I'm thinking of making one for her. It just has a different and more real feel to exchange CDs rather than just send links with recommendations. Plus there is a lot more thought going into CDs. Which songs do you choose? What order do they go in?
That's so neat! What would you say to someone that says, "yeah but then how do you discover new music?"
@@NomadOverNormal Honestly the methods are pretty similar to when I had Spotify.
The main ways I find new songs are looking at different songs of artists I like, playing rhythm games (or just video games in general), and TH-cam recommendations.
If someone was asking for advice, I would also suggest listening to the radio or going to a store, seeing what CDs are on sale, and listening to a few songs from it on TH-cam/Spotify (the free versions) to see if they might be interested.
It all depends. Physical media usually drops in price over time but it's often older material. If you're buying a lot new when it comes out you can spend more than streaming. And if you're sticking with free streaming sources such as YT (the non-paid version) and Pluto, you're not spending anything at all.
We? I only have one streaming service at a time, don't start a service unless there is a new season of something I want to watch and I stop or pause the service when there isn't enough fresh content to justify spending money on it. I never pay for more than a month at a time. Sometimes I rent a movie on Amazon if the price is $5 or less. If streaming isn't cheap you are doing it wrong.
Paying for 4 streaming services at one time can be fixed in less than 5 minutes by going to each service and setting monthly renewal to off. If there is something you want to watch it takes one minute of your time to turn the service on and if you are forgetful and lazy you could turn renewal off at the same time because they always give you the option to switch renewal to on before it expires and there is zero penalty for letting it expire and restarting it.
If you mostly just rewatch films or if you watch maybe 10-15 new movies a year buying is the better option. However, if you watch over a hundred or more it's not as feasible. Especially if what you want to watch is new releases which cost 20 a pop
It's worth mentioning if you don't want to keep the dvds or do menus can rip them to a hard drive and plug that in or make a server with the drive and raspberry pi or pc
i dont rewatch dvds also storage issues i do borrow dvds from the library. Also you don't need to subscribe to everything
seems like a lot depends on what and how much you actually watch,, if one's take is that they don't use a streaming service for months then yeah that makes sense, but most people i know watch stuff on daily,, either movies or series, sometimes both....
I've really wanted to do this but the biggest problem is watching new things. I'm not personally one to rewatch a lot of things, I of course have my favorites and I have purchased those. But the majority of things we watch are brand new. These shows take years to end up on disc if they ever do
I think on the bright side of this sentiment is knowing that the most obvious answer to give independent companies or even small groups of artists that wants to promote their work is by making things that can be made into physical copies in order to stand out and possibly even promote that as a product
I know more than anybody that a QR code or even a logo isn't going to stand out to me nearly as much as something that was physically given to me hell even if it was just a USB stick you give me a physical copy of something with a custom design I'm going to try to find a way to consume the media that is on that thing
I can believe it without even watching the video. Physical media isn’t too terribly expensive these days. At least, not older stuff. Not to mention how much you can get if you go to certain stores that sell movies people have traded in
5:28 I wish it was that easy, I want to rewatch the 2022 America The beautiful documentary (National Geographic) but it's nowhere to be found
You're not even joking. I got Hulu just to binge Bob's Burgers and its $40 for the entire collection. Hulu is like $20 a month for ad free.
I get what you’re saying but I’m a massive movie person. I’d be buying stuff once every day or 2 if it weren’t for streaming.
7:54 I know it saves a lot of space putting them in a dvd binder, though it’s not exactly best way to store discs as it’s not as protected for DataRot as say a hard case. I would recommend is putting these in pc cd cases, you can find very slim ones and it will provide adequate protection and moisture control. While it save pretty close to the binder’s amount of space. a binder tend to scratch discs over time which is why cd’s are also served in a case than a plastic or paper sleeve because it’s not contacting the sleeve. Some are served that way but is usually intended to be not used as much like a motherboard bios cd.
Ive gotten plenty of comments telling me not to put them in binders, without explanation. So thanks for bringing this up to me:) makes a lot of sense.
@@NomadOverNormal I haven’t looked extensively in comments so didn’t know that but I try to explain reasoning for what I say. If you mean from other videos, tbh this ism g first video I’ve seen of yours. 😉
The only thing I don't like about disc movies is that they include most of the time unskipable advertisement at the beginning. Advertisement you have to watch every time you play the movie. Leaving that aside is amazing to own a copy of your favorite work of art.
@@angelemmanuelperezmuniz1474 there should be a button on your remote that allows you to skip warnings and stuff. On my PlayStation, it’s R1
@@NomadOverNormal I can skip most of the times but sometimes the action is blocked. It is still annoying to get advertisements when we already pay for the thing.
if its a movie you are curious about, i think you can rent it online (or use VPN to... you know...). but if its a movie you will watch over and over, better get the combo pack disc version; i paid once for my copy of King Kong set back in 2005, was in 5th grade. watched that over and over, and i can still play it today without paying anything. paid once, and thats it. also, VCDs, DVDs, Blu-rays are also digital (the 'D' in DVD stands for Digital, right? we tend to forget that) so with a compatible disc drive and a computer, we can copy the disc 😂 by paying that once you have the freedom to keep it, copy it, lend it, burn it, break it, throw it, sell it, etc, its yours 😂
I hate the idea of subscription base service. I rather pay once and keep it when ever I want.
Can’t wait to start putting movies and my curated music playlists onto empty discs
I feel like people were more excited and satisfied when you have to physically go/research look at digital media before streaming became a thing.
that's a good way of putting it
3 out of my 4 streaming services are coming from my phone carrier as an incentive when I switched. I’m only paying for HBO.
That's great. I'm also sure that your phone carrier is profiting off of that, and not doing it at a loss to be charitable
I spent years collecting physical media of all my favorites. Only to have it gone in a blink when I lost my home. I have never been one to pay for multiple streaming services, but I need Amazon for my business so I consider the movie streaming to be a side benefit. I actually love not having to organize physical media anymore, and having the novelty of watching different shows and tv whenever I feel like. The picture quality also doesn't make much difference to me as I live alone and only watch on a small screen. So weighing out the pros and cons, I vastly prefer a subscription rather than collecting DVDs that I will not even watch twice.
You're going to watch more than one dvd in 30 days. Also one 4k dvd is 25.00 plus.
Finally, I'm not bullied and called "fashioned conservative" for being so ahead of my time anymore. I've been trying to point out how much money can be saved by buying optical media for YEARS.
DVDs are in 480p. Most DVD and Blu-Ray players will upscale that to 1080p. While it does look good it's not as detailed as getting the 1080p Blu-Ray disc. Also the sound on Blu-Ray is the highest quality you can get. You can actually hear the quality difference between streaming, DVD, and Blu-Ray.
@@thejman3489 I love my Blu-ray’s:)
That's the only miss of the video - streaming HD looks better than a standard DVD, especially when the DVD is being upscaled.
This is exactly why I always buy only one month of a streaming service, go all out on it and then cancel instantly. You can either use a disposable credit card which only has a small amount to pay for a month of streaming or sign up and then instantly cancel, giving you access until the subscription cancels.
I’m spending much less, while watching much more than I used to