Do you still collect DVD, Blu-ray, 4K?
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^They do put out some great stuff. Not a horror fan, so I stick to the Shout Factory side of the website, but yeah, I've heard good things about their horror releases.
I have over 600 blu-rays (movies and T.V. shows and I have 45 DVDs (all T.V. shows). I had more DVDs but got rid of them when I upgraded some to blu-Ray. I definitely love physical media. I don’t have to worry that a streaming service will messing around with them.
I mainly buy blus but I do get DVDs for T.V. shows when dvd is the only option. I have the last season of Stargirl on dvd because the blues stopped. It sucks but I hate having incomplete T.V. shows.
I own the last two seasons of The Blacklist on digital because there were no physical media releases of those seasons in the US. It sucks because one season is on VUDU and the other is on iTunes.
I mainly buy blus but I do get DVDs for T.V. shows when dvd is the only option. I have the last season of Stargirl on dvd because the blues stopped. It sucks but I hate having incomplete T.V. shows.
I own the last two seasons of The Blacklist on digital because there were no physical media releases of those seasons in the US. It sucks because one season is on VUDU and the other is on iTunes.
Too true. There's a few shows I have that I'd like to complete, but they stopped physical releases of here (or at all).
Some they just downgraded to dvd, so I got those, but it's annoying
When I grew up "Blu-ray" was always such a rich people thing. And I guess mostly out of spite I still don't buy them, which is a shame since nowadays all cool features get released on Blu-ray only. But if I am completely honest the concept of watching an episode from 1995 in 4K is just incredibly silly to me.
Why?
it's not as if it was recorded in 4K
If it was shot on film, it can be scanned at 4K.
Still I get it, because if the show wasn't restruck from the film masters, the best you're getting is an upscale of a show shot on film and edited on video. The 90's had some of the ugliest TV shows since the days of kinescopes.
However, 100%, if it was shot on at least 35mm film and put out in 4K, it can look great. Although, shows like Star Trek don't benefit from too much detail. We already see Shatner's toupee line and Spock's ear seams. How much more detail do we need?
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If there's a movie I love enough I'll still buy a permanent copy, either DVD or blu ray depending on whichever is more accessible. Just because I don't trust streaming services to guarantee me permanent access to it.
Shout Factory is one of the best boutique sellers right now, along with Criterion, Kino Lorber, Arrow, Indicator (UK), StudioCanal Vintage Classics (UK), and Imprint/Via Vision (Australia).
It's really handy to have an all-region blu-ray player... it also makes things really expensive once you realize you have the whole world of movies available to you.
This is precisely the reason why I do not subscribe to any streaming service myself. Plus, its a fact that even the online versions advertised as being 4K are still more compressed for online playback. There's far more room for the data on a physical disc, so the picture and sound will always be better.
I'm probably going to slow down on buying disks, tho. I used to buy anything that looked like I might enjoy it. If I did, it might be years before I watch it again. If I didn't enjoy it, it sits on the shelf forever, or maybe I'll give it another watch in a decade or so. At 67, I'm coming to realize that 2nd watch may never come. So now I'm mostly satisfied with watching something on streaming or cable, and if I like it I'll save a digital download. If I REALLY like it and will definitely wanna watch it often, I'll buy physical media.
I like to watch TV series during lunch, and for that I prefer to have the series on disk. I just finished NuBSG and plan to start Agents of SHIELD next, after an interim disk of the 90s Outer Limits.
I wanted to watch Route 66, which I've never seen, and I saw Amazon Prime has it for streaming. Episode 1 was fine, but the rest of them have the sound out of sync!! WTF?? Not to mention ever few episodes require a fee - not all of them, just some of them.
I like to watch TV series during lunch, and for that I prefer to have the series on disk. I just finished NuBSG and plan to start Agents of SHIELD next, after an interim disk of the 90s Outer Limits.
I wanted to watch Route 66, which I've never seen, and I saw Amazon Prime has it for streaming. Episode 1 was fine, but the rest of them have the sound out of sync!! WTF?? Not to mention ever few episodes require a fee - not all of them, just some of them.
I've bought 5 4K Blu-Rays in the past decade because it was something I was extremely impressed with and wanted to keep around.
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Blade Runner 2049
Parasite
1917
Dunkirk
Parasite
Dune & Dune Part Two
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Blade Runner 2049
Parasite
1917
Dunkirk
Parasite
Dune & Dune Part Two
I had pretty much moved like everyone else to being digital-only for a few years. However, after growing increasingly annoyed with the various streaming services (and game consoles) I've done a complete 180 within the last year and gone back to collecting physical media if I can. It helps that I've discovered a number of used book and video stores where you can get second hand movies for a pretty good price, although you're at their whims for what they'll have in stock. I don't think I had any 4K titles until recently, but now I've got maybe a dozen or so. I prefer 4K if I can, but I've picked up a few standard Blu-rays as well, including ones to replace my old DVDs
Surprised to see 4K polling the way it is.
Check out your local used music stores. I've picked up around 30 movies on BD this year for $2 each.
Check out your local used music stores. I've picked up around 30 movies on BD this year for $2 each.
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Not only am I still buying physical media, I'm also ripping them in full-quality to a home Plex server for safety. I just got a new much-overdue external hard drive, so I'm going through my backlog, starting with my Babylon 5 DVDs; I've upgraded to the Blu-Ray, but it doesn't include any of the special features from the DVD release, and I prefer the widescreen presentation aesthetically, so I'd like to have both available.
I had old lossy rips of the DVDs, but I want to make sure I've got them in top quality, along with the extras, since I'd heard stories about the DVDs suffering from disc-rot. So far, it looks like mine have held up perfectly, so that's good, but I've found some other old DVDs that have gone bad after years on the shelf. [ETA: And having made it to the end of the line, ironically, it was the newest Babylon 5 DVD, The Lost Tales, five years younger than the rest, which is the only one that's gone bad. Cost-cutting in action!]
I do wish there was a good "video jukebox" solution that let me keep the menus and non-video features from the discs like image galleries, though it's a little academic since I only know of software that rips playable "virtual discs" of DVDs, and not the newer formats. Though, on the other hand, thanks to streaming, disc producers gave up on life and blu-rays and 4K discs don't tend to have elaborate menus and disc-only features like image-galleries or multi-angle scene breakdowns anymore, so DVDs might be the only thing worth saving fully-playable copies of.
Remember the Star Wars DVD releases, where each movie had three randomly-selected, fully-animated suites of menus? We used to be a society, dammit!
On the bright side, 4K catalog releases are picking up. Galaxy Quest is coming out in a few weeks, and rumor is that 2025 is finally going to be the year of Master & Commander in 4k, while we're on the subject of the secret Star Trek movies from the turn of the millennium.
I had old lossy rips of the DVDs, but I want to make sure I've got them in top quality, along with the extras, since I'd heard stories about the DVDs suffering from disc-rot. So far, it looks like mine have held up perfectly, so that's good, but I've found some other old DVDs that have gone bad after years on the shelf. [ETA: And having made it to the end of the line, ironically, it was the newest Babylon 5 DVD, The Lost Tales, five years younger than the rest, which is the only one that's gone bad. Cost-cutting in action!]
I do wish there was a good "video jukebox" solution that let me keep the menus and non-video features from the discs like image galleries, though it's a little academic since I only know of software that rips playable "virtual discs" of DVDs, and not the newer formats. Though, on the other hand, thanks to streaming, disc producers gave up on life and blu-rays and 4K discs don't tend to have elaborate menus and disc-only features like image-galleries or multi-angle scene breakdowns anymore, so DVDs might be the only thing worth saving fully-playable copies of.
Remember the Star Wars DVD releases, where each movie had three randomly-selected, fully-animated suites of menus? We used to be a society, dammit!
On the bright side, 4K catalog releases are picking up. Galaxy Quest is coming out in a few weeks, and rumor is that 2025 is finally going to be the year of Master & Commander in 4k, while we're on the subject of the secret Star Trek movies from the turn of the millennium.
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If I like something enough to want a permanent copy I’ll still buy it physical. We already need like eight subscriptions to see half the movies we want, and licensing is only going to get worse. Great movies are worth not giving IP holders control over your access to them.
But of course I use streaming to try things out.
But of course I use streaming to try things out.
Of course I still collect. Christmas and Birthday - two days to massively stock up my DVD/BLu-Ray-Rack. Lots of Doctor Who, these days, and I'm looking forward to season 2 of Prodigy and seasons 2 - 4 of the WB-Superman-Show with Tyler H.
I'm pretty much doing the same, but I do compress the files a bit. If I didn't do that pretty much the whole 62 TB would be used.
P:\Video_Library\Movies>
Total Files Listed:
3457 File(s) 13,068,151,749,843 bytes
0 Dir(s) 40,845,907,031,040 bytes free
P:\Video_Library\Television>
Total Files Listed:
7237 File(s) 9,672,547,252,740 bytes
0 Dir(s) 40,845,906,821,120 bytes free
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