This is why I'm a huge supporter of physical media. I buy dvds, blu-rays, cds, vinyl records, physical books.

I can just hear Sterling Archer: DO you want more Piracy? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET MORE PIRACY!

This cracks me up! I own almost everything on this list on DVD! My children are both millennials and are always saying “why do you bother keeping all those DVDs you can get EVERYTHING on streaming!”LOL I always reply “NO YOU CAN’T”

I have a large DVD library, and this video captures why I don't rely on streaming (nevermind the service hopping as contracts expire). I own Moonlighting and Dogma special edition and have them backed up on my Plex server should anything happen to the DVDs themselves. I would add that the masterpiece war film "A Midnight Clear" from 1991 starting Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinese, Frank Whaley and John C. McGinley is criminally difficult to find and should be on this list as well. Why there is no anniversary release with commentaries and making of docs is beyond me

This is why illegal streaming sites etc are so popular. You can actually find everything you want to watch and all in one place too.

“Ancient DVD release” Not ready to hear that, to be honest.

I've always wondered why Moonlighting was not to be found on streaming services. I'd like to watch it and Northern Exposure again

When I hear "Disney considers it inappropriate today" My first thought is, ok, now I HAVE to watch it.

Good thing I have a copy of Dogma. However, I am of the opinion that every movie and tv show ever, should be available for watch and purchase to the masses. Media is art. And art deserves to be observed.

And people make fun of me for keeping my vast DVD collection all these years...

Man, Cocoon was on HBO in the eighties five times a day. With Revenge of the nerds, and Baron Von Muncheisen.😂😭

I'm so glad for DVD burners and the ability to convert from VHS to DVD back in the day, especially when Netflix was a DVD rent-by-mail company! You could get 3 at a time so my collection is HUGE! I learned from records/8-track/cassettes going to CD to ALWAYS save the old technology and get it converted over yourself to the latest medium when possible.

Moonlighting won't be back for one simple reason: no one will believe Bruce Willis ever had hair.

Dogma was easily one of Kevin smith’s best movies.

The reason it took so long for the tv show “China Beach” to come out on dvd was music rights problems. They had great soundtracks on that show. I waited and hoped for years for a box version. Then, finally!

Dark Angel, highly underrated and nowhere I can find it.

Wow..I actually have a copy of Dogma still on dvd..it's one of the most underrated comedies.. ever!

Torrents: Hold my drink.

Had this issue with Cold Case, love that show, and every episode had music from whatever year the murder took place in. So glad that hbo max has it now. There wasn't even any dvd's of it either!

I think Cold Case should be included. It was never released on DVD or BluRay and it’s not on any major streaming service (at least here in Australia). It was an amazing show with good writing acting and absolutely phenomenal casting.

The correct title of this video should be “Why you need to buy physical media”

WhatCulture: "Dogma DVD and Blu-Rays are out of print." Me staring at my Dogma Special Edition DVD: "Mwahahaha!" Also me: I don't have anything to play DVDs... WhatCulture: "Mwahahaha!"

The TV series Brimstone definitely deserves to be on this list!

It's incredibly sad that my kids won't know the feeling and smell of walking into a Blockbuster or Hollywood Video... 😥

Then it's lucky the pirates are in fact preservationist, ain't it? Yarr!

Studios that won't release a movie: "You're going to steal a movie?" Pirates: "Commandeer. We're going to commandeer a movie."

My point in the debate of "rasist" movies that were done in a time when such things weren't considered racist, is: We should not seek to delete historically made "mistakes" because then there is a greater risk that we'll repeat them.

I guess I’m one of the lucky ones that’s kept dogma as a dvd in my very limited collection of dvds over the years.

Who’d think we’d live long enough for DVD quality to be called “grotty”?

"The Drew Carey Show" has the same problem with musical rights. The show was wonderful, with guest stars ranging from Rush Limbaugh to The Reverend Horton Heat

My dad was a real videophile back in the 80s. He had a 1983 (not sure the exact year of release) bootleg vhs copy of Song of the South ripped from a Japanese laserdisc release. He didn't care anything about the movie. He was just proud to possess such a rare thing. I myself have seen the movie several times because, believe it or not, Disney used to show it about once a year for a while on primetime TV back in the early 70s as a part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series on Sunday nights on NBC. And yes, I am that old...

The one I would love to see released is HBO's "Dream On". I loved that show. But I can understand that the rights to the old movie clips that were interspersed throughout the episodes would make it impossible.

"Northern Exposure" deserves to be on this list. And it too is tied up with music rights and unlikely to ever come to streaming.

Moonlighting was such a great show. Bruce Willis made the show shine. He was so funny in that role.

I recall seeing a bootleg of “Sleuth” on KZfaq a few years ago. It was quite good.

I have 100s of DVDs in physical form. The most difficult move for me to get was a 1980’s film called “The Manhattan Project”. It’s a movie about a genus high school kid that makes a hydrogen bomb for a science project, to stick it to the “man”. One of my favorite movies of the era. Another difficult movie for me to find was “D.A.R.Y.L.”. Very good movie and I think it can now be streamed on some platforms.

Tales From The Crypt should definitely be on this list. I love and miss those grotesque morality tales

The 'missing' episodes of 'The Muppet Show' that are locked up due to the musical performances of their guest stars...

Holy crap... I just saw a boxed DVD set of a season of Moonlighting at a second hand store recently. Didn't know it was so rare.

Homicide: Life on the Streets. I loved that show.

Actually, I just checked The Criterion Channel today (June 1, 2021), and "Pink Flamingos" is among the newly added. Not my cup of tea, but just letting you know.

It should be "Difficult to Find", rather than "You Can No Longer Watch". The latter only applies to titkes that no longer exist, like "London After Midnight" and a lot of BBC shows that got wiped. Just because a title isn't streaming doesn't necessarily mean it can't be had, if you're determined.

“WKRP in Cincinnati” was released on a box set, but some of the original music had to be changed because of musical rights.

Well, I JUST looked on Amazon, Dogma is available on DVD from multiple sellers and can be at your home by this weekend.

See people who laugh at those of us who keep the dvds wont be laughing when one if their favourites is taken off streaming

It actually pisses me off, that you can't get Dogma on DVD anymore, really like that film.

Just watched Cocoon on tv a couple months ago. Was it just blocked since then?

Boston Public and New York Undercover are some of the best shows never to be released on DVD or Bluray

This is why I kept my physical media. Streaming falls apart when it comes down to rights disputes and when the servers fail. I'd say the hardest part is finding alot of horror. So much never made it to dvd let alone streaming. Maybe Dawn of the Dead 1978 because of the Richard Rubinstein debacle.

I still don't like the trend of intangibles. I want to own books, movies and games I like and paid for

I loved Moonlighting so much! I wish they would stream the series somewhere. ☹

The movies Dogma, Pink Pelican, Cocoon, etc.... are all in YTS

Thanks God that I own a "Special Edition" of both Dogma and Moonlighting. 😁

“Northern Exposure” is another one.🥺

All of these are available to buy online on DVD or vhs. They're just not airing on TV or being put on streaming servers. Dogma is free to watch on KZfaq btw.

I’ve found two of these at 2nd & Charles and Edward McKay’s. Gotta love used book stores.

Dogma is exceedingly easy to find on YT.

Not gonna read all of the comments to find out if anyone else has said this, but Pink Flamingos is currently streaming in HD on The Criterion Channel.

another valid title: 10 Reasons why piracy will never go away

LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR!? Wow, I have sooooo much respect for WC's writers for thinking up this one! I read this book when I was younger (and it scarred me in the way great books often do) and then my mother hunted, hunted, hunted for a ripped copy of this movie for me to see it -- and she ended up getting it on eBay on VHS and then converting it to a DVD for me. I'm so impressed it was on the list!

This “Musical Rights” issue puzzles me. If a movie has copyrighted music on it and people discover this music by watching, it likely will motivate them to purchase the music if they really like it. The movie would expose music to viewers that otherwise may never discover it. By forcing the movie to be held hostage and thus not shown, who is going to discover its sound track? This same wrong thinking goes on with KZfaq. Videos being blocked for the music. A video of Phil Collins “ In The Air Tonight “ went viral on KZfaq seeing millions of views in a short time. That song went to number two on Spotify! Exposing music to new listeners is always a good thing.

A great Christin Slater flick "Pump Up The Volume" is nowhere to be found.

China Beach is a hard one to come by, though I know that did get a DVD release eventually (imported it from the states for my sister for her 40th!). Would be good if it was available on streaming somewhere though. Northern Exposure too, would love to rewatch that.

China Beach is not streaming anywhere or on Blu-ray. It is still available in the DVD box set. Even the DVD box set took quite a while to make possible due to the heavy incorporation of mostly period music in the show. I ended up buying the DVD box set within the last 2 yrs when I was unable to find any other legal way to re-watch it.

More accurate, movies/shows you can’t legally stream but if you have a dvd/vhs player there are hundreds if not thousands of copies available.

I've got Dogma on DVD. I love that film, haven't watched it in years though. So strange. I didn't even know this was a thing. And when I look at the list, there are so many films and shows that I use to watch and love. Cocoon was on every Christmas when I was a kid. I loved Chicago Hope and Moonlighting was my favourite. Memories.

Another point in regards to old films transferring to HD....were they filmed on FILM or TAPE?

Damn im lucky. I bought the whole DVD box set of Moonlighting at a local pawn shop for 5 bucks. My mother loved that series when i was a kid and i happened to find that right before her birthday this year.

Also the 1978 “Dawn of the Dead” and the original cuts of the original “Star Wars” trilogy. Sure glad I have my DVDs.

Cold Case is another show caught in "music rights" hell.

The series 'John Doe' was quite interesting and well done but disappeared and was never released on DVD.

Cocoon plays regularly on the FXM channel. I also found several region 1 DVD's for sale on ebay, after watching this. A few were overpriced, but a few were also reasonably priced if you are a fan of the film.

“Pricey second hand copies” CEX: hold my monster energy

Star Wars original trilogy in their original theatrical versions. I would love to have these on DVD or BluRay.

One movie I searched for years was Hidden City staring Charles Dance. You still cannot find it to stream anywhere. It was years ago on 4od but no longer available there. I couldn't even find it on dvd. It is a brilliant mystery thriller about a missing film hidden somewhere in London. Ironic or is it just very meta?

Another show I loved that I can't find anywhere is Picket Fences, I found the 1st season on dvd years ago but that was the only season ever released!

Better title: “10 Movies & TV Shows You Can’t Legally Find on Major Streaming Services”, but it’s not as click bait-y… P.S. Add Herman’s Head to the list

Daria is also caught in the trap of copyright music, they had to re record the songs. Totally takes away from it

“Herman’s Head”. Sweet Jesus, did I ever love this show! William Ragsdale was adorable, Hank Azaria was endearingly sleazy, and Yeardley Smith was cute as a button. The scripts were breezy and fun, and the storyline was engaging, Oh, and Leslie Nielsen played God.

I recently seen a DVD of Cocoon at Walmart in the $5 bin so it's out there . Unfortunately I watched Pink Flamingo several years back on DVD and I still regret it . I do own Dogma on the original DVD release and still enjoy watching that movie . The only show that never got the full DVD treatment was the Drew Carey show . It only got one season and a one disc best of release and that's a show I really wanted .

There's like 4 different rips of Dogma on KZfaq, go nuts

The drew Carey show is another one that got hit by the music licensing issue. Sucks because I loved that show. They only could release the first season since they changed the theme song starting in season 2.

I don't know why you think all of these have gone...cause I can find 6 out of the 10 to watch whenever I want...rock on streaming 😁

Still Waiting. It was released on DVD in R1 but not anywhere else and cannot be streamed anywhere in the world (If i am wrong on that last part, please correct me)

What ever happened to China Beach with Dana Delaney and Marg Helgenberger? That was an awesome show. It also had lots of '60's needle drops, though.

Well, I own a videos store (yes, in 2021, bite me!) I specialize in Out Of Print media , and I have all those movies and series on the shelf. I and my customers can watch ALL of them anytime they want. Except ED, since there is no official physical media release at all..

Wow I guess I'm really happy I still have the 2-disc collector's edition of Dogma, although as recently as last year you could find it and watch it here on KZfaq, but the video was removed (duh).

A TV series that was ahead of its time and now can't be found is "Max Headroom". Would love to see that again.

Biggest one you missed is The Drew Carey Show. That show was EVERYWHERE in syndication, and I looked forward to buying the DVDs. But after the first season it didn't happen. Largely believed to be because of music rights. Stupid music industry has screwed over a lot of people wanting higher money for streaming, etc. You'd think that they'd negotiate something more permanent or all-encompassing, but there's always some unseen future format that was unanticipated when the original contract was made. WKRP in Cincinnati was similarly famous for using big hits of the era, and then running into renegotiation problems when trying to put it on DVD. They finally had to remove a lot of the music and use sound-alikes to release it, which is frustrating because that lacks the charm of the actual episode. Similarly, MST3K had to conclude their DVD box sets of their series without any of the Godzilla films and missing out on some of the great films, even final season-era films like "Quest of the Delta Knights" and "KIller Bees", because they just couldn't get permission.

One day my once worthless DVD/Blu-ray collection will be called "antiques" and I'll be able to make a fortune.

Basketball diaries is another. So hard to find - it was streaming for a while and on iTunes to purchase about a year ago and then it just disappeared

China Beach Can't find this one - Also Cold Case is having issues being released on DVD due to music rights

Makes me so glad I bought Dogma on DVD a number of years ago before the price started to go up on various websites. It's one of Smith's best films.

You can probably add Near Dark and Something Wicked This Way Comes

Dogma was in the $5 DVD bin at my local WalMart the other day. It was a multi movie disk with another silent bob and jay movie… I think with Mallrats.

A lot of you are getting confused by what they meant by no longer available, which is “not on any streaming or currently in print on physical media. “Just because *you* have a copy on DVD doesn’t mean you can find it *new* on Amazon. Yes, there are physical copies out there on the second hand market, but no one is manufacturing new ones. Oh, and being on torrents and illegal streaming does not count as “available.”

Chris Carter's "Millennium" starring Lance Henriksen

You missed an important one! "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne" was the first hour long show to be filmed completely in HD and originally aired on Sci-Fi Channel in the US (before the stupid Syfy BS). It was apparently hideously expensive to film but I remember it being a gorgeous and fun show. I've found exactly one place that sells the DVD's and it is super sketchy and I've never seen it on any of the less legit streaming/torrenting websites. It came about when Steampunk was really becoming a thing and I believe was highly influential in the way the esthetic evolved.

If you live in the States, get yourself a library card. At least in my area, libraries carry many dvds that they have had since original release, and material can be checked out from a whole consortium of libraries. So if your local doesn't have it, it's possible it can be ordered from another. Just a quick check of the online system here shows Cocoon, Dogma, Sleuth and seasons 1-4 of Moonlighting are all available. (I didn't bother searching for Song of the South.)

There is a movie called Dante's inferno made in 2007 starring Durmont Mulroney and James Cromwell that I can't find anywhere, do you know why?