yeah I’ve heard this. Makes sense. I was a big buyer of DVDs myself back in the 2000s, but once streaming came along it was over.
I still have a couple dozen movies on blu ray and such, and people are total assholes about it asking me why I am so ‘weird’ owning physical media. Movie collecting doesn’t get the cultural ‘cool’ of say, owning records on vinyl, and btw often the people who own vinyl are the same ones who give me shit about having physical media… sigh
everything is streaming rights sales now, and you can’t command a high price for it on a low budget movie, hence why most streaming services are full of cheap schlock and the high priced premium content moves from service to service ever other month.
As for reasons DVDs are so cool. LGR made this pretty rad video about all the cool things one might get for putting a DVD into a PC’s DVD-ROM drive. :D
It’s bizarre how much derision you get for collecting physical movies you care about though. I always simply respond with “Have you ever really wanted to watch a favorite movie and found it got dropped from streaming services you do have, and worse, it’s nowhere to be found at all?”
Not to mention how streaming operations can simply cut, censor, or edit anything they like depending on various cultural factors at play.
Usually it gets them to think.
The biggest scam is “buying” movies on platforms like Amazon. Although, kinda hypocritical of me, if you’ve seen my Steam library! 😂
Matt Damon explains how mid budget cinema died when physical media became obsolete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6K2IxC9O8
yeah I’ve heard this. Makes sense. I was a big buyer of DVDs myself back in the 2000s, but once streaming came along it was over.
I still have a couple dozen movies on blu ray and such, and people are total assholes about it asking me why I am so ‘weird’ owning physical media. Movie collecting doesn’t get the cultural ‘cool’ of say, owning records on vinyl, and btw often the people who own vinyl are the same ones who give me shit about having physical media… sigh
everything is streaming rights sales now, and you can’t command a high price for it on a low budget movie, hence why most streaming services are full of cheap schlock and the high priced premium content moves from service to service ever other month.
As for reasons DVDs are so cool. LGR made this pretty rad video about all the cool things one might get for putting a DVD into a PC’s DVD-ROM drive. :D
https://youtu.be/L2MdOK92MHE?is=xyZsGw-iJI1e3qoP
It’s bizarre how much derision you get for collecting physical movies you care about though. I always simply respond with “Have you ever really wanted to watch a favorite movie and found it got dropped from streaming services you do have, and worse, it’s nowhere to be found at all?”
Not to mention how streaming operations can simply cut, censor, or edit anything they like depending on various cultural factors at play.
Usually it gets them to think.
The biggest scam is “buying” movies on platforms like Amazon. Although, kinda hypocritical of me, if you’ve seen my Steam library! 😂