Great points! I went back DVDs because I got tired of streaming Services. The high prices, the ads… i now have over 1 thousand movies and tv shows. I don’t see my self going back to streaming.
I love DVD's for all the reasons you mentioned . I get most of mine from charity shops. If I like the film I'll keep it, if I don't, I just donate it back. Win Win.
I still watch movies on DVDs, I go to the library twice every week looking for new movies. Everyone finds it weird but in my opinion DVDs add more to watching a movie, if you just watch it on Netflix you could easily skip scenes, watch any movie you want, and way much more, but there is something so special about watching it in dvd
I love all your reasons for DVD's. I've never streamed or subscribed to a digital channel. I've stayed with my daughter and it DOES take 20+ minutes to find something to watch on Netflix. I buy from CEX or charity shops. I own them and if I ever choose to, I can resell them.
I recently started posting dvd extras to preserve them. I personally only watch blu rays because standard definition is kinda trash, but dvds are still worth preserving
I've actually been collecting DVD and Blu-ray combo packs for anime that are getting obscure or never getting re-released. Feels great to own them after the digital versions poofed out of existence when Funimation went away.
As a non-native english speaker, there´s the added value of the Dubs. Altough these days I watch everything in the original audio, the childhood memmories of watching Simpsons in Czech are priceless. Also my parents are older and never watch anything with subtitles, and Slovak or Czech dubs are often missing on streaming services while you can still find them even on 4K BluRays. Oh and the bonus features and bloopers are always great. Playing small minigames that were on Disney DVD was just awesome.
aside from streaming service exclusive shows anything I watch is from physical media I love having shows like cowboy bebop or Batman the animated series available to me whenever. Also the bonus features they have sometimes are genuinely really cool.
I buy almost exclusively DVDs and I'll keep doing so until I can get something similar in a DRM-free format with extras. I rip them to disc and convert them for use on my NAS streaming it to my Roku via Jellyfin. It's a very similar experience to one of the big streaming services, just a lot less expensive and a lot less annoying. It is a bit of work, but once you've got a disc converted, that's a one and done. Just store whatever queue you're using to process it and it's a lot easier if you need to do it again. Most of the reconversion time is just the computer chugging away without me if I need it to.
Ima start collecting them for the reason the person above me said, i dont wanna pay alot for subscriptions and if companies stop using movie theaters wich i hope they dont but if they do then i would go back to streaming but thats it
@@Wishfull._..Editor57 Well..I understand (and respect) what you're saying, but that's probably not the best reason to collect DVDs or another physical format tbh. Most collectors collect because of the need to own specific movies they always have access to. They collect because of the collecting itself, you see. Not because of financial reasons. And also, not everything is available on physical format nowadays. Some films and series are only available on streaming services. And that amount is growing.
I'm getting really sick of having to Google "where to watch [movie]" and seeing that it's only streaming on one of the 20 streaming services that I'm not subscribed to lol and honestly for me the biggest appeal of DVDs is just getting to see them stand on the shelf, as weird as that sounds haha my top is also Back to the Future, ironically a pretty timeless trilogy imo
yeah! I didn't really mention the oversaturation of streaming services but it's another huge problem. Glad you appreciate back to the future, it's such a nostalgic trilogy for me, I got the box set when I was 5 or 6 so I grew up with them. Thanks for watching as always 🙏
None of the pro DVD TH-camrs mention this, but you can also rip DVDs and back them up digitally. So, you essentially get a digital code with every purchase. The value is actually insane.
Great video. I’ll admit that I’m more purchasing Blu-Rays than DVDs. I have to agree with you on this although I still will buy shows physically. Last year I made my first imported home video purchases: Seinfeld Seasons 1 and 2 (found it in a British Heart Foundation for £2 without realising it was an American DVD until I got home lol), Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines, Toei’s The Little Mermaid on Blu-Ray which is a lot darker than Disney’s adaptation and more faithful to the original story and Oshi No Ko Season 1 the latter 3 imported from Amazon US
never seen > stream never seen, cheap, high IMDB rating > buy like > cheap DVD or BR when come across it in pawn/thrift shop like a lot > buy when relatively cheap online
Digital Video Discs, much like Videocassettes, when not in high demand, are so cheap, you can easily keep them forever, and retain the 4:3 aspect ratio that many re-releases in the mid to late 2000s and 2010s struggle to do to this very day. Also, the 480p on the DVDs still look nice and sharp as it was on the CRT TVs in the late 1990s to mid 2000s, even using a CD/DVD External drive for me when I need to record video or audio, or simply play them on my computer instead of my PS2 or DVD/VHS combo player hooked up to the back of a CRT/Digital TV with A/V and Component outputs/S-Video outputs built in (not instead it's all HDMI and I do miss the analog inputs from the early 2010s and before, and most of the new ones are kind of garbage if you ask me and don't quite give good resolution compared to a Retrotink for video games compared to movies if you ask me).
DVDs are 480p/576p though, they're not even HD. Blu-Ray and 4k Blu-Ray I understand (if you want the best picture quality you can get aside from a 35mm/70mm film projector,) but not DVD. Except for old movies and TV shows that were only ever released on DVD, and weren't originally in HD.
Besides price on the used market and things you can’t get on Blu Ray I’ve gotten Blu Rays for the same price as what Dollar General was trying to sell Venom 2 Let there be Carnage on DVD when No Way Home was out. I got a UHD and BR steelbook for the same 20 bucks. I’ve also been able to thrift a lot of Blu Rays. As far as compatibility with affordable portable options you might have us there other than the digital copies. Buying used makes Blu Ray very affordable if you know where to look.
yeah blu ray can be affordable if you do it smartly, I personally never bought blu ray as our family TV didn't support blu ray discs for a long time, so I was brought up on regular DVDs. And even now I have the means to watch blu ray, I tend to stick to regulars, but I can totally understand why you'd watch blu ray versions!
Solid points. I recently started collecting them because I generally find it annoying with streaming services with wanting to watch something and its never on. And there really cheap, (10p for single & £1 for a boxset) I wouldn't buy them new unless they were a good price.
Goodwill is quite the place for dvds, you can get dvds for 3 bucks, you can get a tv for 20, you can get a dvd reader for 15, you can get a table for 10, you can get a chair for 30
The last 2 years i was scrolling trough netflix 5 times a week for more then 30min to find something descent. I started a blu ray collection. Now have 200 blu rays. And everytime i want to watch something i pick 3 movies and most off the time i let my wife choose. Cost me like 3min now. And offcourse i buy dvd stuff never released on blu ray or to expensive. When i find something i already have i buy the blu ray and sell the dvd. Spend aloth of money on blu ray and dvd now but in the future the cost will be low. I used netflix an other streaming for more then 10 years at €25 month thats €3000 wasted. Here you find dvd from 0.50 to €2 and most of my blu ray i payed like €3.. Wasted so mutch on streaming my library could be huge by now! Sorry for english! Keep collecting!
Hey Man awesome video. I also own a lot of movies because when I was growing up my parents didn't want to bye any streaming services and we didn't have a smart TV so all we could watch TH-cam on was our family windows 10 laptop. And it was amazing every Friday when Mum got home from work She would put in the password and I could watch yt for an hour. Will talk more tomorrow bye man
Here is why physical media is better: Blu rays are better then dvd in quality, but both don't have the problems of streaming. but I will still take that over streaming. Also , Amazon, HBO , Disney plus , Netflix , only hold a Licence to a certain film or tv show for so long. for example: I brought a film on Amazon prime It was Matrix, (so it was on my amazon account) but as soon as Amazon has the rights to that film, it was also deleted from my account. Why Physical media is better : 1: The Quality format is better ( Blu rays and Blu ray4k are good example of this) The Quality stays the same, you don't have to worry about internet connection playing up (aka buffering) 2: You own the Blu ray/ dvd, unlike streaming. 3: The Special features and audio commentary that come with physical media are amazing and more of them! 4: You don't need to pay for multiple streaming services
I still own dvd and blue rays and it hasn’t been THAT long since i last time a bought a movie on dvd and did it, because it was cheaper than what Apple TV has to offer
#TeamPhysical. Corporate not gonna control what, where, when, & if I can watch something. Corporate enjoy streaming because they constantly make money on subscription services! You forever need internet connection just to enjoy entertainment
I watch VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. It's cheaper and I can watch the unaltered versions of movies and movies not available on a streaming platform. The main reason for VHS is for those movies or movie versions otherwise unavailable. I'm not collecting just to collect, and if I have a "thrift store" or other movie I don't like, I give it away or trade it.
Some tv shows dont show up on streaming why I have Hercules and Beastmaster the 90s on soon going to get Xenon warrior princess and being an anime fan I dont have the cash all the time to sub to sites so having the show on hand is nice one-time buy is nice
Xena was the straw that broke the camels back and got me back into collecting Media. I picked up Hercules, Cleopatra 2525. You know all that classic 90's cheese! 🤣🤣
@@synergil3605 yea having the old 90s show I grow up on is nice cause I want my kids to see what I watch and show them what story telling was like back then.
well, If you have a decent enough modern 4k tv (and even just a 1080p one tbh) - dvds usually look way worse than streaming. Blu ray and UHD disks are the way to go, though it probably won't be nearly as cheap
There is absolutely NO WAY that everyone will go streaming or digital only. You also said that you can watch anything you want on streaming. Most streaming platforms have only a minority of the films ever made. Try watching older films, and that's where these digital platforms fail. The rising streaming prices, always paying for subscriptions, means that in the long term, it's cheaper to buy all the films I want to rewatch and be free of paying forever.
Secondhand these things are cheap af nowadays. But buying them new is a different story. I think for the price it's not worth it. For a slightly higher amount you can buy the same movie on Blu-ray. Which is (of course) a superior product when you compare this to/with DVD.
Whilst DVD's are cool and VERY cheap, the majority of them (unless it's a British TV show) are converted from 24fps into 25fps because of PAL/NTSC format differences so there is a noticeable speed up of the ENTIRE piece of media. What I'm doing now is buying Blu-Rays which completely counteracts that issue, and they're also relatively cheap to pick up new or used from CEX or charity shops!
I do manage to enjoy some PAL DVDs as some movies are OAR on PAL DVD but are only P&S on NTSC DVD and not all of these are on Blu-ray and sometimes the color is better. I have a cheap DVD player I use for my PAL discs which converts them back to NTSC for viewing.
im not going to watch all my stuff at 480p just get the bluray or even the 4k. if you know where to look theyre cheap enough and if thats not good enough pirate the thing
I've got about 100 dvds. Out of them all I own the best films I've ever seen. Sorry, but you can't watch all of these online on streaming services I think. I own these films, and not being deleted off a streaming service that I pay loads for each month.
Call me optimistic. But physical media wont die for movies. As long as the people who grew up on it still exist it can be like vinyl. Also internet isnt good for everywhere and collectors exist as well. But eventually yeah it will die, dvds probably coming first since lets be honest collectors dont target them anymore and are like half of the current physical media market, but it will do since you kind of had to be there in the 2000s and early 2010s. But i see physical media lasting until the 2050s or 2060s at least, very optimistic sure but because some people will want dvd ownership until they become old and retire. Also gud video people like you slow the decline of dvds even marginally
arent DVDs only 480p though? thats a big let down abt them for me I like burning movies to dvd-r/rw s and using them as kinda like usb sticks because then u can burn stuff thats 1080p or higher onto them and watch them that way. ofc u cant play them in dvd recorders n such but i mostly watch movies on my pc anyway so its fine. It is ofc piracy though but I mean it isint really that bad since atleast if i did buy dvds they'd be mostly secondhand ones and with secondhand stuff you aren't even directly supporting the original artists anyway Ofc having the original copy would be way nicer but blurays are quiiteee expensive at times and some movies barely have any physical copies in the first place
Yes, my copy of The Matrix is 720x480p, which is more than enough for me. Some people are going to want the extra size that comes with a Bluray or 4k disc, and that's OK, but a lot of TV and movies really don't have more than 480p worth or resolution in the original copy anyways. Much of the TV from the '80s and '90s was taped on tape rather than film, and that has a limited ability to be blown up. Depending upon what you're watching, it can make more sense to just up convert it yourself, especially for more recent animation that's likely to take better to AI up-scaling than more detailed TV or movies would. That being said, the color gamut and sound improvements of Bluray are much better reasons to go with Bluray rather than DVD. Personally, I use DVDs mainly because I rip all of it to disc to stream to my TV. It's a Netflix like experience, with a lot fewer headaches in terms of finding stuff. If all else fails, I can have it show me the stuff in a random order and just pick the one of those options at random.
You forgot one point. When you purchase a digital movie you don't own it. One day the license is going to expire and poof your movie has been removed. Physical copies will never be taken away from you after you purchase it. I don't purchase digital content. I would rent them or torrent them...mostly torrent them. I'm mostly into physical media.
The renting aspect is fine with me, or it was back when it was cheap. But for the $16 or $23 a month that they charge for adfree viewing, you can buy a lot of DVDs or blurays with that. And, they're yours permanently. That's $200 to $280 a year roughly for Netflix and that can buy a large amount of media to watch. It's also not compulsory to spend the money every month. If you're like me and are way backed up in terms of watching what you've got, you can just not buy any for a few months. The other major issues is as he said in the video. The sites are designed to keep you stuck longer than you need to be just so you don't run through their catalog too quickly. My Jellyfin install doesn't do that. It helps me find what I want to watch, refers me to similar stuff I have, tells me what time it will be when I'm done watching and has randomization features if for some reason I'm being indecisive. I can just watch one of the first few options that it gives me and since I've curated the library I'm watching, there's nothing outright bad on there, and very little that isn't great.
Great points! I went back DVDs because I got tired of streaming Services. The high prices, the ads… i now have over 1 thousand movies and tv shows. I don’t see my self going back to streaming.
thanks for watching!
You had me at DVD bonus features.
Did he really mention them ?
I love DVD's for all the reasons you mentioned . I get most of mine from charity shops. If I like the film I'll keep it, if I don't, I just donate it back. Win Win.
I still watch movies on DVDs, I go to the library twice every week looking for new movies. Everyone finds it weird but in my opinion DVDs add more to watching a movie, if you just watch it on Netflix you could easily skip scenes, watch any movie you want, and way much more, but there is something so special about watching it in dvd
for sure, yeah, its much more of an experience watching a DVD then just streaming something!
Young people talking about nostalgia and showing the products of my youth.. LOVE IT.. 🙂
I love all your reasons for DVD's. I've never streamed or subscribed to a digital channel. I've stayed with my daughter and it DOES take 20+ minutes to find something to watch on Netflix. I buy from CEX or charity shops. I own them and if I ever choose to, I can resell them.
I recently started posting dvd extras to preserve them.
I personally only watch blu rays because standard definition is kinda trash, but dvds are still worth preserving
If you own a CRT TV DVDs look fantastic on them
I've actually been collecting DVD and Blu-ray combo packs for anime that are getting obscure or never getting re-released. Feels great to own them after the digital versions poofed out of existence when Funimation went away.
Great video. You, young man, have a wonderful future.
As a non-native english speaker, there´s the added value of the Dubs. Altough these days I watch everything in the original audio, the childhood memmories of watching Simpsons in Czech are priceless. Also my parents are older and never watch anything with subtitles, and Slovak or Czech dubs are often missing on streaming services while you can still find them even on 4K BluRays. Oh and the bonus features and bloopers are always great. Playing small minigames that were on Disney DVD was just awesome.
They are nostalgic, tho: I, as a full generation, grew up going in DVDs rental stores. ;)
You're a well clued up young man. Keep wandering into cex and those charity shops.
Fire DVD collection my dude! I have a huge collection myself and in the streaming era I’m more than happy I still have it 💯
Dvds are great but Blu-ray's are my fave. Streaming is the devil
aside from streaming service exclusive shows anything I watch is from physical media I love having shows like cowboy bebop or Batman the animated series available to me whenever. Also the bonus features they have sometimes are genuinely really cool.
heck yeah, Bebop is awesome, I'll have to get that on DVD at some point! Thanks for watching 😁
DVDs will never die while the niche collectors are still buying them
I buy almost exclusively DVDs and I'll keep doing so until I can get something similar in a DRM-free format with extras. I rip them to disc and convert them for use on my NAS streaming it to my Roku via Jellyfin. It's a very similar experience to one of the big streaming services, just a lot less expensive and a lot less annoying. It is a bit of work, but once you've got a disc converted, that's a one and done. Just store whatever queue you're using to process it and it's a lot easier if you need to do it again. Most of the reconversion time is just the computer chugging away without me if I need it to.
Don’t be jealous because we can still purchase and own our movies and you gotta pay a subscription fee to stream them🤣🤣🤣
Ima start collecting them for the reason the person above me said, i dont wanna pay alot for subscriptions and if companies stop using movie theaters wich i hope they dont but if they do then i would go back to streaming but thats it
i buy dvds and im not a niche collector im a normal person that has some dvds but not THAT much 😀
@@Wishfull._..Editor57 Well..I understand (and respect) what you're saying, but that's probably not the best reason to collect DVDs or another physical format tbh. Most collectors collect because of the need to own specific movies they always have access to. They collect because of the collecting itself, you see. Not because of financial reasons. And also, not everything is available on physical format nowadays. Some films and series are only available on streaming services. And that amount is growing.
I'm getting really sick of having to Google "where to watch [movie]" and seeing that it's only streaming on one of the 20 streaming services that I'm not subscribed to lol
and honestly for me the biggest appeal of DVDs is just getting to see them stand on the shelf, as weird as that sounds haha
my top is also Back to the Future, ironically a pretty timeless trilogy imo
yeah! I didn't really mention the oversaturation of streaming services but it's another huge problem. Glad you appreciate back to the future, it's such a nostalgic trilogy for me, I got the box set when I was 5 or 6 so I grew up with them. Thanks for watching as always 🙏
And sometimes it's not even on that streaming service, they just say it is, but you don't really know until you give them money.
None of the pro DVD TH-camrs mention this, but you can also rip DVDs and back them up digitally. So, you essentially get a digital code with every purchase. The value is actually insane.
Great video. I’ll admit that I’m more purchasing Blu-Rays than DVDs. I have to agree with you on this although I still will buy shows physically. Last year I made my first imported home video purchases: Seinfeld Seasons 1 and 2 (found it in a British Heart Foundation for £2 without realising it was an American DVD until I got home lol), Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines, Toei’s The Little Mermaid on Blu-Ray which is a lot darker than Disney’s adaptation and more faithful to the original story and Oshi No Ko Season 1 the latter 3 imported from Amazon US
I love the commentaries.
I but DVDs at thrift shops for all the special features
never seen > stream
never seen, cheap, high IMDB rating > buy
like > cheap DVD or BR when come across it in pawn/thrift shop
like a lot > buy when relatively cheap online
Digital Video Discs, much like Videocassettes, when not in high demand, are so cheap, you can easily keep them forever, and retain the 4:3 aspect ratio that many re-releases in the mid to late 2000s and 2010s struggle to do to this very day. Also, the 480p on the DVDs still look nice and sharp as it was on the CRT TVs in the late 1990s to mid 2000s, even using a CD/DVD External drive for me when I need to record video or audio, or simply play them on my computer instead of my PS2 or DVD/VHS combo player hooked up to the back of a CRT/Digital TV with A/V and Component outputs/S-Video outputs built in (not instead it's all HDMI and I do miss the analog inputs from the early 2010s and before, and most of the new ones are kind of garbage if you ask me and don't quite give good resolution compared to a Retrotink for video games compared to movies if you ask me).
Thanks to DVD, I found lots of new movies, and even made new favourites!
DVDs are 480p/576p though, they're not even HD. Blu-Ray and 4k Blu-Ray I understand (if you want the best picture quality you can get aside from a 35mm/70mm film projector,) but not DVD. Except for old movies and TV shows that were only ever released on DVD, and weren't originally in HD.
Besides price on the used market and things you can’t get on Blu Ray I’ve gotten Blu Rays for the same price as what Dollar General was trying to sell Venom 2 Let there be Carnage on DVD when No Way Home was out.
I got a UHD and BR steelbook for the same 20 bucks.
I’ve also been able to thrift a lot of Blu Rays. As far as compatibility with affordable portable options you might have us there other than the digital copies.
Buying used makes Blu Ray very affordable if you know where to look.
yeah blu ray can be affordable if you do it smartly, I personally never bought blu ray as our family TV didn't support blu ray discs for a long time, so I was brought up on regular DVDs. And even now I have the means to watch blu ray, I tend to stick to regulars, but I can totally understand why you'd watch blu ray versions!
Solid points. I recently started collecting them because I generally find it annoying with streaming services with wanting to watch something and its never on. And there really cheap, (10p for single & £1 for a boxset) I wouldn't buy them new unless they were a good price.
Goodwill is quite the place for dvds, you can get dvds for 3 bucks, you can get a tv for 20, you can get a dvd reader for 15, you can get a table for 10, you can get a chair for 30
The last 2 years i was scrolling trough netflix 5 times a week for more then 30min to find something descent. I started a blu ray collection. Now have 200 blu rays. And everytime i want to watch something i pick 3 movies and most off the time i let my wife choose. Cost me like 3min now. And offcourse i buy dvd stuff never released on blu ray or to expensive. When i find something i already have i buy the blu ray and sell the dvd. Spend aloth of money on blu ray and dvd now but in the future the cost will be low. I used netflix an other streaming for more then 10 years at €25 month thats €3000 wasted. Here you find dvd from 0.50 to €2 and most of my blu ray i payed like €3..
Wasted so mutch on streaming my library could be huge by now! Sorry for english!
Keep collecting!
I get em to watch when I have no wifi and I hate Netflix
yeah, exactly! what's your favourite movie?
Hey Man awesome video.
I also own a lot of movies because when I was growing up my parents didn't want to bye any streaming services and we didn't have a smart TV so all we could watch TH-cam on was our family windows 10 laptop. And it was amazing every Friday when Mum got home from work She would put in the password and I could watch yt for an hour.
Will talk more tomorrow bye man
wow yeah I remember when I was younger using my parents Ipad for the same thing, I was allowed to watch TH-cam for a couple hours a week haha
@@abriefintermission yes it was heaven
Decision paralysis is something I know too well. It really sucks, having a big collection of something and yet it never interests you.
Here is why physical media is better: Blu rays are better then dvd in quality, but both don't have the problems of streaming. but I will still take that over streaming. Also , Amazon, HBO , Disney plus , Netflix , only hold a Licence to a certain film or tv show for so long.
for example: I brought a film on Amazon prime It was Matrix, (so it was on my amazon account) but as soon as Amazon has the rights to that film, it was also deleted from my account.
Why Physical media is better :
1: The Quality format is better ( Blu rays and Blu ray4k are good example of this) The Quality stays the same, you don't have to worry about internet connection playing up (aka buffering)
2: You own the Blu ray/ dvd, unlike streaming.
3: The Special features and audio commentary that come with physical media are amazing and more of them!
4: You don't need to pay for multiple streaming services
So cheap at the thrift store, I can grab a bunch for cheap and give the ones I don't want straight back to the thrift store.
yeah exactly! out of interest, what's your favourite movie?
I still own dvd and blue rays and it hasn’t been THAT long since i last time a bought a movie on dvd and did it, because it was cheaper than what Apple TV has to offer
#TeamPhysical. Corporate not gonna control what, where, when, & if I can watch something. Corporate enjoy streaming because they constantly make money on subscription services! You forever need internet connection just to enjoy entertainment
I watch VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. It's cheaper and I can watch the unaltered versions of movies and movies not available on a streaming platform. The main reason for VHS is for those movies or movie versions otherwise unavailable. I'm not collecting just to collect, and if I have a "thrift store" or other movie I don't like, I give it away or trade it.
Some tv shows dont show up on streaming why I have Hercules and Beastmaster the 90s on soon going to get Xenon warrior princess and being an anime fan I dont have the cash all the time to sub to sites so having the show on hand is nice one-time buy is nice
Xena was the straw that broke the camels back and got me back into collecting Media. I picked up Hercules, Cleopatra 2525. You know all that classic 90's cheese! 🤣🤣
@@synergil3605 yea having the old 90s show I grow up on is nice cause I want my kids to see what I watch and show them what story telling was like back then.
well, If you have a decent enough modern 4k tv (and even just a 1080p one tbh) - dvds usually look way worse than streaming. Blu ray and UHD disks are the way to go, though it probably won't be nearly as cheap
DVD vs Blu-ray. How does a dvd look on a big tv compared to a blu ray?
i have a lot movies at home that is hard to get on line.the last movie was willy wonka.
Charlie and the chocolate factory is a banger movie 🔥
@@abriefintermission i have all three and they are all great.
When I last buy a DVD? Eh a hour ago 😅😅. I collect it.
There is absolutely NO WAY that everyone will go streaming or digital only.
You also said that you can watch anything you want on streaming. Most streaming platforms have only a minority of the films ever made. Try watching older films, and that's where these digital platforms fail.
The rising streaming prices, always paying for subscriptions, means that in the long term, it's cheaper to buy all the films I want to rewatch and be free of paying forever.
Dude, don’t stack them like that, you’re applying pressure on the discs and they get warped and damaged
This Guy Plays Minecraft, Collects DVDs Loves Cex And Is British This Is My Kinda Channel subed immediately
haha glad to have you here! Thanks for the support 🙏
If someone DOESN’T want DVDS in 2024 they never used them
Hell, I'm still watching Laserdisc and CEDs!
I have a ton of laserdiscs including back to the future and forest gump!
@@jamesrgamesofficalGood for you! Gosh, I have original old DiscoVision/MCA discs some going back to the late '70's.
Secondhand these things are cheap af nowadays. But buying them new is a different story. I think for the price it's not worth it. For a slightly higher amount you can buy the same movie on Blu-ray. Which is (of course) a superior product when you compare this to/with DVD.
Whilst DVD's are cool and VERY cheap, the majority of them (unless it's a British TV show) are converted from 24fps into 25fps because of PAL/NTSC format differences so there is a noticeable speed up of the ENTIRE piece of media. What I'm doing now is buying Blu-Rays which completely counteracts that issue, and they're also relatively cheap to pick up new or used from CEX or charity shops!
I do manage to enjoy some PAL DVDs as some movies are OAR on PAL DVD but are only P&S on NTSC DVD and not all of these are on Blu-ray and sometimes the color is better. I have a cheap DVD player I use for my PAL discs which converts them back to NTSC for viewing.
im not going to watch all my stuff at 480p just get the bluray or even the 4k. if you know where to look theyre cheap enough and if thats not good enough pirate the thing
I've got about 100 dvds. Out of them all I own the best films I've ever seen. Sorry, but you can't watch all of these online on streaming services I think. I own these films, and not being deleted off a streaming service that I pay loads for each month.
Look into the Cobra Kai DVDs if you don't have them yet.
Call me optimistic. But physical media wont die for movies. As long as the people who grew up on it still exist it can be like vinyl. Also internet isnt good for everywhere and collectors exist as well. But eventually yeah it will die, dvds probably coming first since lets be honest collectors dont target them anymore and are like half of the current physical media market, but it will do since you kind of had to be there in the 2000s and early 2010s. But i see physical media lasting until the 2050s or 2060s at least, very optimistic sure but because some people will want dvd ownership until they become old and retire. Also gud video people like you slow the decline of dvds even marginally
arent DVDs only 480p though? thats a big let down abt them for me
I like burning movies to dvd-r/rw s and using them as kinda like usb sticks because then u can burn stuff thats 1080p or higher onto them and watch them that way. ofc u cant play them in dvd recorders n such but i mostly watch movies on my pc anyway so its fine.
It is ofc piracy though but I mean it isint really that bad since atleast if i did buy dvds they'd be mostly secondhand ones and with secondhand stuff you aren't even directly supporting the original artists anyway
Ofc having the original copy would be way nicer but blurays are quiiteee expensive at times and some movies barely have any physical copies in the first place
Yes, my copy of The Matrix is 720x480p, which is more than enough for me. Some people are going to want the extra size that comes with a Bluray or 4k disc, and that's OK, but a lot of TV and movies really don't have more than 480p worth or resolution in the original copy anyways. Much of the TV from the '80s and '90s was taped on tape rather than film, and that has a limited ability to be blown up.
Depending upon what you're watching, it can make more sense to just up convert it yourself, especially for more recent animation that's likely to take better to AI up-scaling than more detailed TV or movies would.
That being said, the color gamut and sound improvements of Bluray are much better reasons to go with Bluray rather than DVD. Personally, I use DVDs mainly because I rip all of it to disc to stream to my TV. It's a Netflix like experience, with a lot fewer headaches in terms of finding stuff. If all else fails, I can have it show me the stuff in a random order and just pick the one of those options at random.
You forgot one point. When you purchase a digital movie you don't own it. One day the license is going to expire and poof your movie has been removed. Physical copies will never be taken away from you after you purchase it. I don't purchase digital content. I would rent them or torrent them...mostly torrent them. I'm mostly into physical media.
My top 5 films would be
Submarine
The dead zone
The shining
This is England
Dawn of the dead
Internet is no needed with dvd
I did not expect you to be a cute handsome young guy!
Refuse dvd, embrace blu ray and 4k blu ray
I still watch my vhs cuz id rather see the "1800spankme" part in the Santa Claus than the stupid edited 1 🤷♂️
No subscription needed is best and i also pirate content.😂
Because physical media is better than that Internet slave creature streaming service junk
Netflix is sucks you don't own you just renting them after that they dissappear. While dvd is cheap nowadays you can just buy them .
The renting aspect is fine with me, or it was back when it was cheap. But for the $16 or $23 a month that they charge for adfree viewing, you can buy a lot of DVDs or blurays with that. And, they're yours permanently. That's $200 to $280 a year roughly for Netflix and that can buy a large amount of media to watch. It's also not compulsory to spend the money every month. If you're like me and are way backed up in terms of watching what you've got, you can just not buy any for a few months.
The other major issues is as he said in the video. The sites are designed to keep you stuck longer than you need to be just so you don't run through their catalog too quickly. My Jellyfin install doesn't do that. It helps me find what I want to watch, refers me to similar stuff I have, tells me what time it will be when I'm done watching and has randomization features if for some reason I'm being indecisive. I can just watch one of the first few options that it gives me and since I've curated the library I'm watching, there's nothing outright bad on there, and very little that isn't great.