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[TheAtomicPile]

Idk I just moved and felt like an asshole moving huge boxes of DVDs and Blu Rays from one basement to another, likely to never be used again. If I don't offload them before I'm dead I'm sure the kids will spit on my grave after having to throw all that crap in the garbage themselves.

Regardless, yes I'm still in for select 4k releases like the upcoming Ninja Turtles trilogy from Arrow. Sorry kids!

 

[GateofD]

I feel like it's not even watching them. Just showing off what my favorite movies and tastes are. I watched back to the future multiple times when it aired on tv, I still love my unopened Back to the Future triology blu ray set on my shelf to show that I like the movie. Also proudly display my VHS Star Wars triology of the 1997 remastered versions

 

[jason10mm]

Idk I just moved and felt like an asshole moving huge boxes of DVDs and Blu Rays from one basement to another, likely to never be used again. If I don't offload them before I'm dead I'm sure the kids will spit on my grave after having to throw all that crap in the garbage themselves.

Regardless, yes I'm still in for select 4k releases like the upcoming Ninja Turtles trilogy from Arrow. Sorry kids!

I kinda feel that way as well, and try to curb my hoarding tendencies, especially now when I have the funds to buy virtually anything like this.

I try to keep it in perspective as if I stumbled across my grandfathers 8mm film collection of B&W westerns or betamax or whatever. Cool? I supppose. Am I gonna spend the time to figure out how to watch them? Maybe. AM I gonna watch that kind of content, unlikely. Vinyl, perhaps, though my dad had nothing but 45s of beach music really, almost not my jam. Books would be more interesting. My folks have a MASSIVE 100+ year old bible with full on leather and wood carving cover, I'm trying to see if I can get them to restore it. Damn thing must be 20 pounds, could probably summon Cthulhu with it

I need to set a goal of total divestiture of media collection by age 70 just so my kids don't have to wade through a pile of junk. I figure by then I'll be well into the VR future.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

I switched to blu-rays this year.

I did a plex server for a while, but I hate how some formats fuck up when you rewind, and I feared my drive is gonna crash and ruin my collection at some point. I also want extras and it's hit and miss on what you can find digitally, plus blu-rays usually have perfect subtitles, while not everything digital do.

The reason it's blu-rays and not UHD is because blu-rays are way cheaper and easy to get used. UHD wouldn't be worth it for me. I can't spend that much on movies, I already spend too much on games.

Physical is worth it if you like extra content and watch a lot of stuff. I have watched all my blu-rays and I watch commentary tracks on the regular. I just listen to Ridley Scott commentating Alien, and last week, I listened to Stallone commentate First Blood, which was excellent.

I watch a lot and enjoy looking over my collection to find cool stuff.

I have had several collections in the past, but sold it off because of the clutter (women hate shelves with films), or because I convinced myself I am gonna stick with streaming. But I love to see what I have, and have grown tired of streaming services, and I don't trust that everything will be up forever.

Blu-rays solve my nitpicks, and I just put them in boxes now and stash them in my storage room, so it doesn't clutter.

 

[Rival]

I sold a collection of about 500 dvd's about 20 years ago and never really got back in to it. Only have about 50 Blu-ray's and 4ks of some of my absolute favorites but I also have a decent amount available via movies anywhere. Honestly o don't really watch movies much at all anymore.

 

[Chittagong]

It could be, but they won't let it. Every potential progress is being ruined by fucks.
Anyways, I started from scratch on UHD and Bluray a year ago. I only buy movies I know I'll rewatch 3+ times because it's super expensive here in Canada. I won't pay 50$+ for a standard release. I wait for sales, but they also don't print a lot so you can miss out also.

It's insane how bad it is for movies.

For music, you have the original lossless files available for pretty much any music you want, in your subscription app of choice. Better than CD quality.

In films, there is no fundamental reason why you couldn't access the same original DCP files your local cinema gets, uncompressed at full master quality, in a single service. It's not some miracle technology, thousands of cinemas get any film they want downloaded today. You, instead, you need to fuck around a dozen services hoping you can find at least a bad HD version.

I actually looked into creating a home cinema around original DCP files. It's possible using DCP certified kit. Chasing the files from different studios is a massive pain though, but there are concierge services like Bel-Air Cinema who do that.

It's probably 20 years out, but the endgame of movie services will be a single catalogue of the DCPs wrapped into an iTunes-like, purchase-based service. Streaming economics are too bad.

 

[GateofD]

My first dvd was Ninja Scroll, still have it

 

[SupaComputa]

It's probably 20 years out, but the endgame of movie services will be a single catalogue of the DCPs wrapped into an iTunes-like, purchase-based service. Streaming economics are too bad.

I don't know I am a bit blackpilled. Most aren't dissatisfied from the lack of audio-video quality clearly. I've had tech guys trying to convince me prime video quality is the same as a UHD disk. People are getting annoyed by the separate steaming services, but not enough to go back to physical media at least not at the current price. I'd bet on them losing interest in movies in albums in general vs a major comeback of physical media, I hope to be wrong.

 

[GateofD]

thing is that the majority of consumers aren't going to jump back physical media no matter how bad streaming gets. these people are happy with webcam streams of movies, that's how little they care for any effort of visual/audio quality

 

[EviLore]

I don't know I am a bit blackpilled. Most aren't dissatisfied from the lack of audio-video quality clearly. I've had tech guys trying to convince me prime video quality is the same as a UHD disk. People are getting annoyed by the separate steaming services, but not enough to go back to physical media at least not at the current price. I'd bet on them losing interest in movies in albums in general vs a major comeback of physical media, I hope to be wrong.

Life in current_year is basically just having your attention siphoned by low quality slop in every conceivable direction.

 

[Chittagong]

I don't know I am a bit blackpilled. Most aren't dissatisfied from the lack of audio-video quality clearly. I've had tech guys trying to convince me prime video quality is the same as a UHD disk. People are getting annoyed by the separate steaming services, but not enough to go back to physical media at least not at the current price. I'd bet on them losing interest in movies in albums in general vs a major comeback of physical media, I hope to be wrong.

I think you are right that discovery across dozens of services, and the sheer unavailability of many films is the main consumer pain point. Particularly that could be fixed by making a master DCP catalogue and a system to distribute income, and you'd get the max quality as a bonus.

 

[CGNoire]

My first dvd was Ninja Scroll, still have it

Still my Favorite.
I adore Kawajiri's Neo-Noir phase from 1987-1993. He hasnt been at that level since.

 

[kevboard]

relevant video:


apparently some newer DVD re-releases cheap out and are using a lower quality encoding than older copies and some use low quality discs

 

[EviLore]

relevant video:


apparently some newer DVD re-releases cheap out and are using a lower quality encoding than older copies.

Nope, that guy unknowingly bought bootleg releases on eBay.

 

[kevboard]

Nope, that guy unknowingly bought bootleg releases on eBay.

oh, shit... just saw the pinned comment. ok. a completely different issue, and an even worse one lol

 

[EviLore]

oh, shit... just saw the pinned comment. ok. a completely different issue, and an even worse one lol

Yeah, gotta be careful on eBay, lots of stuff looks legitimate at first glance now. No point giving bootleggers money, doesn't support the existence or restoration of media unlike buying from the boutique publishers.

 

[AREYOUOKAY?]

Ever since the PS3 I was all in Bluray. Well a few occasional DVD's before that I guess.

Best Buy removing all their stuff in stores still hurts since that's where I got most new release copies offline and with good sales to go with them.

 

[Lambogenie]

I think I relegate to favourite movies and nature documentaries. But have not bought physical in a long while!

 

[Maiden Voyage]

My collection of vinyl sits today at 244 records. I need to get a second shelf to accommodate this sick, twisted addiction.

 

[jason10mm]

Bring back Columbia House!!!

 

[jshackles]

I guess I consider my media consumption hybrid.

I will personally go out of my way and am willing to pay more for physical media, as long as it isn't totally crippled by some crazy DRM scheme (code in a box, Switch 2 key cards, game discs without the actual game, etc.). My game collection, especially Switch 1 software, is admitadly ridiculous and probably unnecessary. With everything being key cards on Switch 2, my collection there is paltry. I also have a pretty sizable collection of movies and several TV shows as "complete series" on a range of DVD, Blurays, and a handful of 4K stuff.

That being said, there are lots of areas where I go digital. Steam is probably the worst offender for me personally, as I own license a few thousand games digitally there. Even still, I prefer GOG since it's totally DRM free and have hundreds of purchases there as well but still digital. My wife is hugely into K-Dramas, so I have an ongoing annual subscription to Rakuten Viki as it's seemingly impossible to find any of the shows she watches in any sort of physical form (unless you're willing to buy Asian bootlegs, which I am not).

I own a lot of blu-rays, and tons of them came with digital codes that I've redeemed. Even though I could pull a movie off the shelf to play it in higher quality, I'll usually opt to just stream the digital copy instead. Back when Walmart owned VUDU I got a lot of my other DVDs and Blu-rays converted to digital for cheap, so I have a pretty sizable Movies Anywhere digital collection (just looked, 690 movies). I have a lot more on Fandango At Home, formally VUDU, as a lot of the movies I converted at Walmart weren't on the MA program. (just looked, 969 movies).

So the system I have kinda works for me. I have a lot of digital stuff purchased, but most of it is backed up by physical media that will still be useful if a service, studio, or game company shuts down their servers.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Rituals are important. Ownership is important. Living intentionally is important.

Let's not exaggerate. The drive for physical is largely a fad IMO, hippy kids finding something to do. As others have mentioned - you re-watch or re-read a vast minority of what you own, all those movies are just filling out space till either you decide to donate/sell almost all one day or you die and your kids will do likewise or just throw it away. Not to mention companies learned it and will scam you with super-never-seen-before-deluxe edition with a few plastic gimmicks (made in China) for $99 or more.

I have very, very few book series that I bought in entirety in one shot just because they together look nice on the bookshelf. A few coffee books, that's it. Instead I have quite a lot of paintings in my house.

Same with media - yes, I don't own things, but instead of 10 cables behind the TV stand I have three hidden behind the piano - Apple TV, TV, wi-fi router.

I greatly prefer my space not cluttered by objects. If you see many rich people's homes this is also what you see - no clutter.

 

[Liopleurodon]

I keep all my favorite stuff on the Internet.