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I've been saying this for years. While physical media takes up space, it can't be removed on a whim by a streaming service.

Physical Media has always been the best. I’ve never stopped buying Blu-Rays or DVDs.

Physical media never went out of style in my house. It never will. Streaming services have their place, but there's just something special about actually owning a copy of a film, TV show, music album or video game that you really love.

If you can't physically hold it in your hand, you don't actually own it.

I've been saying this for years. DVDs can't be censored, edited or deleted and you own that copy. Not repeatedly paying to rent it over and over.

You forgot one: There's always the risk of them altering and editing classic work to "fix" 'incorrect thoughts and ideals' of the past or to 'update' a work. This is why I buy Blu-Ray's, DVD's and CDs. Cause if I physically own the copy, there's no way you can come up to me and say "You're not allowed to see that part anymore".

I've been saying this for YEARS on end to people. Paying for a movie or video game digitally thru a streaming service is like paying for air. I rather have a physical copy of something I buy.

I’ve always preferred physical media, not only is it always there, it’s easier to browse and a huge shelf of movies/games/books just looks cool

I found a physical copies of “Idiocracy” and Dave Chapelle a few weeks ago at a garage sale for less than a dollar USD. This made me want to go on a quest and future “cancel proof” my media collection and seek out other physical media.

I've already rediscovered my love for reading books. Like... physical books, and enjoying that feel of the turned page. 👍🏾

I already grew up "owning nothing" because of people who had too much trust in government services and insisted on not buying things as long as public libraries existed. My reaction to that was to start buying books and DVDs at the first chance that I got, that's how well it went with having to grow up relying on the public library for everything. And I received major criticism from the majority of people for how "wasteful" that was as subscriptions started taking off. I'm still buying as much as I can in physical media and won't stop.

When I found out that Disney had altered the movie Splash for their streaming service, I started collecting all my favorite 80s and 90s movies on dvd. Because once that starts it will never stop.

There's a reason why I own an extensive physical collection. I was wondering when people might wake up and realize that they've spent tons of money and all they have to show for it is a subscription.

I have over 4,000 DVDs/Blu-Rays with a lot of them episodic TV. I digitized the entire collection with my son about 6 years ago and set up a private LAN using Plex. We always have TV to watch even if the cable goes out and we can see the original shows without edits or changes made for political correctness. My wife always looks for DVDs and Blu-Rays at garage sales and thrift stores. We picked up 10 seasons of Blue Bloods on DVD for 2 bucks a season last year. I got all of Fraiser on DVD for 5 bucks a few weeks ago.

I still loving collecting blu-rays. Having a big library of them looks really cool and is always good when you have friends over (or pretend to have friends over in my case lmao)

We own thousands of movies & hundreds of our favorite TV series on DVD & Blu-Ray for this very reason. No matter what those in power may decide for online content, WE will still be able to watch what we want, when we want.

As someone whose enjoyed DVDs and sometimes Blu-Rays I say this. I'm perfectly happy with a Physical media renaissance. In fact both my girlfriend and I are fans of physical media.

I’m already sick of how I have to sub to multiple streaming services to watch a handful of shows.

You have some great points. Some weeks ago, I overheard a couple of guys at a table next to mine in a restaurant, talking about loving their 4K this and super sound system that, and the TV shows they watch. One of them said he was so glad to get rid of all his physical media, only to complain a few minutes later about how not a single streaming service is running a movie he really wants to watch. Well, congratulations. You've literally stranded yourself back in the 1970's, where, as I remember well, if there was an old movie you really liked and wanted to watch, just wait and hope that someday in the near future it pops up on a Saturday afternoon on one of the UHF channels way at the end of the dial. Thanks, but no thanks. I'll keep my DVDs and Blu-Rays. Especially certain older movies and shows I have that may become "problematic" with the onset of newer, more fragile generations.

I miss going into a place and renting a physical movie and making friendly banter with the guy that worked at the local store about which cult classics were actually good or not.

I was the guy who would buy up Blockbuster's old VHS tapes. New laptops have no DVD drive, new cars have no cd player, DVD & Blu-ray players are getting harder to find. Best get what you want in physical media and get something to play it on, now.

I’ve been buying physical media for ages and always will

This is why I have blazing saddles on DVD

I started buying physical when my internet wouldn't work and streaming services kept removing my favorite shows. Now I have a nice collection that I can watch uninterrupted at any time.

I've been made fun of many times for my ridiculously large DVD collection. I don't care; as soon as I started hearing about Netflix editing out parts of movies that don't fit our modern "sensibilities", I was glad for my hobby

This is something that I have been saying for years. We either have to save digital media into our own hard drives or we have to buy hard copies of the media we want to consume. Soon they will be able to digitally remove anything from the internet. The issue is, once everything is digital they might make it harder for people to download or burn or torrent it. We need to demand physical media otherwise, they can delete, change or disappear anything they want.

DVD and Blu-ray needs its revival like Vinyl and CD. Because there are many movies that never were available in Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, like The Man Who Saw Tomorrow starring Orson Wells and Pink Floyd The Wall directed by Alan Parker.

I find that really hard to believe that Blu-ray’s, DVDs and even books are considered going out of style. Physical media is the perfect alternative for whenever Wi-Fi is not available. And not to mention the bonus features on Blu-ray’s and DVDs as well, which streaming does NOT have.

Having a film and tv series "collection" on a streaming service is like a bank account. If you don't physically have it in your possession, then you don't have it at all. One of my biggest regrets in recent years was getting rid of my DVD and CD collection because was "taking too much space"... until one of my 1TB hard drives got damaged and lost thousands of pictures, movies and music albums! Physical media is already making a comeback. A lot of bands recently are releasing albums on cd, vinyl and even cassette tape now. And analogue photography in on the rise. People are realising that owning analogue/physical media is the way to go to preserve content,

I have always bought physical copies of movies, shows, books, music, comics, et al, and I always will.

I'm already collecting DVDs and Blu Rays of UK programmes that have been dropped by streaming services because they are deemed inappropriate. I just completed my DVD collection of Little Britain, for example.

You can store discs in wallets if you don't want the boxes taking up space.

Every now and then I am reminded how I actually miss the inconvenient but satisfying ritual of going to the video store to choose DVDs to watch. I was always a sucker for weekly deals and watched a lot of good movies for a bargain.... back when movies were actually good.

Yes! Always support physical media, whether it's DVDs, Blu-Rays, books, music CDs etc.. I've always held the opinion that if you can't hold the thing you purchased in your hands, you don't truly own it. I've been collecting since I was a teenager and not planning to stop any time soon, especially considering the state of modern world and streaming services.

In addition to having the physical media, you will also need to make sure that your media player, the physical or digital reader of that media will continue to function without the internet. Over the years, I've seen these players get more and more neutered by needing to update their digital rights protection. More than once, when I was using a blu-ray built into my PC did I have to buy a new and updated piece of player software because the older one was unable to verify that I had the right to watch my own discs. The update process is usually an internet based approach, so a player that doesn't need that would be ideal...

Don’t worry, episodes of Jim’ll Fix It will always be available for the children!!!!

ABSOLUTELY AGREE!! Ive been trying to tell people this for years....its very relevant in the "video game" space. Keeping people from realizing how serious an issue "not owning" your media is -- has become part of the scam. Keep speaking the truth Dave!

It's funny that you are mentioning this now as I was just recently explaining this to my nephew on why I still collect DVD's. I showed him movies in my personal collection that can't even be found anymore. I'm glad now that I started my collecting over 22 years ago before I needed people in Hollywood deciding what's too "problematic" for me to watch.

I've been borrowing DVDs from the library.

I wonder if the used DVD/Blu Ray market will skyrocket….🤔 Better get your favorite shows and movies right now, people!

I've been buying my favorite movies and shows on Blu-Ray for years now. Not only do I have the advantages talked about here, but it has the cool side effect of making for a nice display :) I don't want my house to be bare and minimalist. I like showing my character throughout the house, and my favorite media and artwork is definite a big part of that.

One could feel it in the air. I'm still buying LaserDiscs. The sound on them is absolutely magnificent. On the main, if you can hold it and store it... you own it. It's yours.

Physical media won't go away. People are starting to wake up to the dangers of this.

I'll be totally honest - I am still kind of living in 2013, which is why I still buy DVDs, books, and such. I don't have any streaming services (my sister does), and I just like the idea of having hard copies available. But recently, what you said about the possibility of censoring, editing, or even outright banning many so-called "problematic" shows and books has been on my mind. I've been thinking about this over the last three or so years, long before Biden (peace be upon his holy and righteous name) ascended to his glorious throne. What you said has pretty much cemented it for me- while I have zero problem right now with streaming, I will do all I can to never rely on it. And they can't change it if I have the hard copy. Thanks for the reminder, sir. I wish you well.

I'm already Streets Ahead by collecting Physical games,movies,and tv shows.

I never stream or buy digital content. Everything I watch or listen to for entertainment purposes (movies, games, music) is on either a Blu-ray or a DVD/CD. Everything. I’ve got a vast range of physical media, and it means I’ve always got something to show for my money. It’s there in front of me as opposed to, “I have bought a digital license to play it.” It’s almost like they want us to own nothing and be happy about it. The worst argument that I’ve heard for pro digital content is that you have to get out of your chair to swap the disc over if it’s physical media!

I went back to physical books, music, and videos 2 years ago when I saw what was happening. Personally, I think books and music deserve their physical space.

They should keep both open for digitalists and physicalists alike.

Another reason to own physical media is that it is a one-time cost. Perfectly for me who doesn't very often watch movies, but have my favorites. If it was on a subscription service i would probably pay for months when i didn't even watched it, just to have access to it.

I work in the Blu-Ray industry (appearing in bonus content for discs -- clips on my YT), and this has been my busiest year yet. I'm very encouraged. If you had told me, when I started this work eight years ago, that '22 would be a stronger time for Blu than '14, I would've called you a crackpot. But turns out, the format just had to find its raison d'etre as a *collector's* format instead of a *mainstream* format.

Yes! I want to own things and be happy.

💯 I prize my physical media. I have an enormous collection of DVD's, CD's and books. When we have guests people always end up exploring them. A 8'x14' wall of movies makes for a great conversation piece.

My partner and I went through a renaissance over the last year because we kept finding our favourite films and TV shows being edited on subscription platforms. Whole episodes would be missing and in films many of our favourite scenes and lines were just gone. We cancelled all our subscriptions and started buying our favourites one by one.

I love physical media and treasure my massive collection of CDs, DVDs, and Blu Rays. I just hope someone keeps manufacturing the players! Already, low-cost CD players are pretty much gone.

I have never stopped buying DVD's and CD's. In fact, now that Netflix killed their DVD Mail Service, I'm buying more DVD's than ever before. There is no way for the internet to transfer the number of bits, to create the quality, that is available on the Blu-Ray discs. And, like you said, I don't have to worry about the content disappearing from the subscription.

True! Last week they dug in a glassfiber tv cable in the street, but ripped my telephone line, who is used for internet and tv. So there you are with nothing, but i still have my HD drives filled with movies, so that day wasno problem. To be short, you are completly correct!

I can never go all digital. As a gamer when I say how Ubisoft exposed that any of your games can be instantly pull from your STEAM library at any time I had to draw a line in the sand.

You forgot one key element: Data Harvesting! By constantly using their services, they collect a lot of data from you: places, hours, devices, genres, gender, age and a lot more! They could make a list of who watches certain movies that may be considered bad for the ideas they portray! Nuff Said!

I’ve been building my library more intensely lately between buying Blu-ray’s and other resources with the way Disney and other companies have been acting. I mean if they don’t want my money I’ll just catalogue it myself but it’s their loss

I have a large collection of DVDs, but got tired of the space they took up so I transferred them all to binders and got rid of the boxes. Now they just take up a shelf instead of an entire bookcase.

100% agreed. I used to have a good-sized collection, and I look forward to rebuilding my personal library.

I've been trying to tell people for years to buy physical copies of their media. Its amazing how much push back I get on this. The state we are in now and where we are going in the future has been so incredibly obvious from the outset. I still get in arguments with people who are dumb enough to "rent" a copy of Die Hard for 5.99 every time they want to watch it. When streaming first became a big thing with Netflix I tried to tell people that eventually it would be nothing but trash when the company decided it didn't want to pay to have all these different licenses or whenever those companies decided to stream their movies themselves. And now here we are, where people are spending hundreds of dollars a month to subscribe to 10 different streaming services and they still end up paying an extra 5.99 to rent a new release. All because they thought it was dumb to pay $10-$15 for a blu ray.

In Australia, one department store chain is "dumping" stock. Box sets of 10+ old movies going for $10. I don't buy more than a couple at a time to leave something for others to enjoy.

Providing physical returns soon enough, before all the good movies have been banned or corrupted....

You left out some things… 1) Amazon sold the “e-book” of Animal Farm. When the estate of the writer sued, saying that permission for digital distribution was never given… Amazon simply deleted the e-book from everyone’s Kindle (yes, they provided a “store credit” refund). This would be the same as someone coming to your house and saying “We’re from Disney and it’s been decided that The Lion King movie was never meant to be sold direct to consumers… here’s $22 in Disney Store Credit. We’ll be taking that DVD now.” 2) A small comic book company once created a digital archive of all the comics they ever published. They offered 2 versions of this archive… a CD or a paid fee (NOT a subscription, and slightly more expensive than the CD) to browse the archive on-line. The on-line was touted as being better, because the archive would be updated with new comics one month after physical publication. Then the company went bankrupt and the on-line archive was shut down. So much for everyone’s access.

I've been having this argument with a roommate lately, he's about ten years younger than I am, so, when I started picking up DVDs of movies and series I wanted to watch, he would ask why I don't just stream it. My usual response goes: "If I end up liking it, I have a copy I can go to even when the streaming service goes down, plus, these have already been released, there's no way for the streaming service to edit parts of it out as the culture changes. Oh, and hey, it actually supports the creators!"

I, for one, welcome the Return of Video rental stores. What I observed: Nearly all Video rental shops in Sweden disappeared, not long after when Digital film streaming became mainstream.

Never stopped buying DVD and bluray, 99% of them from charity shops, recently bought 10 DVDs for £1. Easy to amass a large collection

I concur with the "been saying this for years" sentiment echoed by several others, but the thing is... the sort of people who mindlessly go through life not questioning anything and who have zero concern about being victims of a system that can't wait to throw them under the bus are also not going to have any concern about being in a situation where their entire consumer existence revolves around subscription models of heavily curated content. The same kind of people who can't wait to "own nothing and be happy" are the same sort of semi-functional automatons who are content to let their shiny new thing tell them what to watch, and there's not likely to be a second thought going on in their heads about it.

I still have a huge DVD and CD collection. I considered getting rid of it once or twice but I came to the conclusion that I much prefer having physical, hard copies. I do not subscribe to any streaming service any longer (I have Amazon Prime, but do not use the streaming service, plus I am trying to find a way out of Amazon itself since I hate that it has such a monopoly) as I deleted my Netflix over the Cuties controversy...as well as '13 reasons why' (the most despicable TV show I think I have ever seen). I'm glad I listened to my instincts and held on to my collections.

Retail stores are planning to stop selling DVD+Bluray in 2024, the decision to buy physical will be more difficult soon

Whenever I hear about a banning for some stupid reason, I try to obtain whatever it is before it's gone.

God I certainly hope so! I'm getting seriously annoyed once I figured out how lucky I am I kept my Babylon 5 dvd set and the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition even going so far as to pick up a blu ray copy. After the mess with Disney + and Amazon Prime's mishandling of the Tolkien IP I'm not sure I want to resubscribe to any streaming service!

Far as I am concerned physical media has always been the way to go, never stopped buying them.

Yes, their teeth and ambitions are bared. Be prepared!

Do not purchase movies off of KZfaq! A friend of mine had his old KZfaq account deleted and the dozens of movies he purchased through them vanished. They would not give him a refund either. If you purchase a movie through KZfaq or Amazon and they delete your account then you can say goodbye to all those films. Buy only physical media. That way you truly own it.

I have my discs and my digital back ups too .

I've been championing owning your physical media for years and the more censorship and edits on digital happens more and more people are agreeing

WAAAY ahead of you, Dave.

The more they tells us what to do, the more we need to push back.

*looks at ever-increasing physical media archive with smug satisfaction* Also, be wary of Blu-Rays. Thanks to their automatic licensing renewal, they might very well be disabled in the future. I only purchase them if I have no other alternative.

Bring it in on our Dave! Buying second hand CDs and DVDs and waiting for them to be delivered by post was something for me to look forward to during the world’s longest lockdown.

Absolutely agree! For all the reasons you have stated. I have kept and continue to add to my dvd and cd library!! How infuriating is it to "buy" something and then get a message saying, sorry you can't view this right now!!!

If only if people knew what I know and it’s horrible they would grab anything and everything physically and hold on it for dear life

I knew there was a reason I kept all my old DVDs! It makes perfect sense, thanks Dave!

Back in 1997 I sold my music collection of about 200 CDs at the urging of my ex-wife who was anxious about a bill being paid on time. It was a total waste because I wound up having the money just before the bill had to be paid. I have regretted this decision for 25 years. I saw those CDs as the Story of My Life since I had been collecting them since like 1989. When I started collecting DVDs in 1999 I said I don't give a damn if I'm broke hungry or homeless I will never sell my DVD collection. I have kept to that promise and now I have over 3,000 titles. I have about 500 PS2 PS3 and PS4 titles as well. When I first subscribed to a streaming service back in 2011 I thought it was fascinating because I finally got to watch Lost for the first time. I have traveled for business for 20 years and I totally missed the Lost phenomenon. I had been saying since then that one day everyone was going to have a streaming service and they we're going to start pulling their media off certain platforms and you were going to have to pay for several of them if you were going to continue to watch your favorite shows. It didn't happen to me until I tried to watch Person of Interest about a year ago. It is good to hear other commenters have done what I said I was going to do years ago and digitize my entire collection and buy a NAS so I could access it on any device. That is an absolutely fascinating solution to a coming problem. At this point when I want to watch my shows I have to take the dusty cases out of storage and put it in DVD player. Everyone should be concerned about this coming digital dystopia. It will be just like George Orwell said when the political winds blow you will be told 180° opposite of what you were told the day before. We are already at the point where the word truth has no meaning and telling it is a revolutionary Act. I do not want endless streams of government propaganda coming through my telescreen. None of us should want that

Agree 100%. I don't do streaming at all. I have my DVD collection which I keep adding to. I can watch what I want, when I want.

When the publisher to the Dr. Suess books decided a while back to no longer publish 5 of his books because they were "problematic" I reversed course on physical media. I started buying books and old movies, in case they were deemed inappropriate for some stupid reason. I still stream a lot, and will continue to do so for things that I don't care much if they disappear, but for the classics and music and books, I will always have hard copies of the things I care about.

Vinyl Records came back, and now CD's have been riding a wave. The physical media wave is still going. And it's likely to get stronger now

It's interesting to note that those most able to afford "all" the streaming services to access the collective content they want (in the absense of physical media) are probably too busy working for the money to pay for it all to actually be able to watch it. Meanwhile... got my physical media collection on a low budget and enjoying it all just fine! ;-)

I kept all my physical DVDs boxed sets I can see the internet coming down very soon

I couldn't agree more. I've never stopped buying physical media and I actually love to collect it and physically own it. I even still collect VHS to watch things in their original glory

Digital Only is like owning someone else's copy, because they are actually streamed on a server owned by a company.

It never went away for me mate. Charity shops, eBay, carboot sales are great places to find great media for ridiculous prices - and you will own it and be happy.

Right on. Renting everything means you ultimately have nothing of your own. Having nothing of your own is not good -- for you, that is; not for those wanting to rent to you!

I’ve always been more happy holding the physical thing than having it digital unless I don’t have another choice

I've never subscribed to Netflix & Amazon Prime etc as I knew (for the longest time) that they had little that interests me. My Blu Ray collection was continually growing while most people were singing the praises of such services. I suppose I'm fortunate in that I've not cared about American/British films for about 25 years. When I viewed their collection of titles which I may be interested in, I laughed and continued with my life as before :) This so-called Physical Media Renaissance started at least 10 years ago for a considerable number of people.

I always liked them for the directors cuts and extra bonus content. Sure they take up space but if you organize it right they aren't that bad. Same with games I like old and new games and prefer physical copies over digital.

I’ve been a huge fan of physical media movement. I’m glad to see a video by you on it.