I've ripped all of my physical media and now host it on a Plex server, but it remains boxed-up and stored away. I wouldn't DREAM of purging the physical copies. Ever.

In my opinion physical media will never die just being niche I see an interest in it

Before Beta/VHS hifi stereo was created by adding a second tinny track at the edge of the tape, which was prone to curling and damage, resulting in dim sound with drop outs galore. I remember watching the Star Wars video at a department store, where the sound kept dropping out. Hi-Fi embedded sound within the video image, which was a spectacular improvement.

Physical came and went and came back! Never found physical was/is dead, it just was pushed to the background a lil while.. vinyl went almost fully away yet came back in sucha fashion to a certain degree. Great interesting video! Cheers

Honestly one of the best resources for physical media are thrift stores. All the classic dvds get cycled through there regularly and there's usually a good amount of blurays as well. Only painful part is finding the perfect movie only to discover it's been scratched to oblivion 😂😭

Even if it’s never died, definitely diminished. I feel encouraged to pick up a couple dozen DVD’s for archival reasons.

14:55 The cassette ad is magnifique.

Great video on the history of different models for video distribution. I remember the VHS era as a kid and while i did like physical media, i also like streaming movies/shows.

Great and very important video!!! Hope you do more like this.

My fav back in the day was a UK company Hong Kong Legends who did a lot of the classic kung fu movies

By the way...George Atkinson was already up and running with a film and video rental business before Magnetic Video's 50 titles. Yes, there was Cartrivision and 16mm films, but there was a huge amount of pirated and adult titles; both of which were part and parcel to the home video business in these very early days.

the people saying physical media is dead is just marketing for all the streaming platforms, real facts are DVDs are still made today , blue rays outsell most theater sales and older movies are hotter now then they have ever been , all streaming platforms outside of netflix are failing and have lost money and never turned a profit there all in the negative - streaming has failed physical media is due for a major come back just like vynal

It never stops funny how some clowns said that the homemade format was going to die now things have changed hehehehe 😂

Great video! Very well done! Hope you make more videos like these.

i believe physical media is dying. but with everyone talking about it, more and more people are opening their eyes and seeing there's more than just streaming. i hope to see more in the near future, like how vinyl had a resurgence. it's very important that we keep it alive, and support these labels. eventually, more and more people will come around.

If they only would add a maximum of foreign subtitles to those discs...

They can take my physical media when they pry it from my cold dead fingers..

I'm surprised Troma never came up.

Nice piece! Enjoyed the broad overview & great use/editing of clips. Subbed.

Oooooooh! Physical media!

Does anyone else have this problem of not being able to buy countless movies/shows because of cropping/the aspect ratio being wrong? if so how do you guys deal with it?

Where's Anchor Bay? You missed the big one of boutique labels.

I buy blu ray and DVD because I own it and it won't be taken down

Physical media lives on & will never die!!! While, I'm not really a streamer, it has the right to exist, but definitely should not be the only option. Hell, I'd argue that physical media has the edge over streaming, as those who choose to only stream are denied the option to view certain films & tv series, due to rights issues & other issues. Whereas, many of those same films & series, that were released on some physical format, can usually be found somewhere online.

When the pornography industry embraced VHS, it was the death kneel of Beta.

Any chance of some tall xl t shirt options in your merch store? Great video as well thanks 👍🏻

I wont support netflix, amazon etc. I like the hard copies . If they stop making disks then guess ill just rewatch what i have in stock lol.

DVD did not come out in 1995 - it was certainly being worked on then, but the specs weren't finalized until late 1996, with the first movies available to buy coming out in 1997. I was a bit annoyed that you ignored laserdisc, though you did kinda backpedal to it. Laserdisc came out right after VHS did (late 1978) under the name DiscoVision - but the reason it was only embraced by cinephiles is because it was a read-only format. Same reason VHS won over Betamax (it wasn't because of porn, that's a myth) - the recording time. Criterion may have been the first boutique label during the laserdisc period, but almost every major movie studio released their films on the format too, with most not stopping until sometime in the 90s. Disney continued to make laserdiscs right up until the new millennium, too - with the last US release in 1999. Also, you can absolutely recreate the analog tape effects digitally. Adobe Audition has a filter that makes your recording sound like a cassette player with dying batteries, for example, and you can easily make video look like garbage too, loads of KZfaqrs do it. I honestly don't understand the resurgence of low quality formats - vinyl never really went away, but cassette tapes and VHS died, we should let them stay dead.

we need to really stop using the term "content" when referring to any kind of media like film, tv, music, etc. It diminishes the work that was put into making it

Since the Climate Crisis is getting worse, I think there should be a new, plastic free physical video format! Since vinyl record-based video formats have been attempted before and there have before been records made of materials other than vinyl, why not an 8K Video Record made of bamboo? Probably not the most practical solution, so I'd love to hear from you if you have an idea for a new plastic-free physical video format!

Internet needs to be regulated to government usage only. Make the rest of the world live without the internet, watch jobs come back and physical media be king again.

Great video! But it does sadly remind me of how many times I've purchase titles over the many ever changing formats. 📼📀💽💿💻🎭