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For the yearly cost of a single streaming service I could buy more DVDs than I could ever watch.
Did you know you can borrow DVDs from the library ... for free.
I would never waste another cent on streaming, the value proposition got flushed down the toilet when every single studio got into the game.
They will eventually stop to release physical media unfortunately.
they will eventually stop getting my money then.
I have a lot of straight to DVD B movies but I also have a lot of 4k steel books. Collectors are worth significantly more to the studios than they seem to realise. people who want the quality of physical media aren't going to settle for streaming over the internet.
I wonder what the quarterly earning reports are from stores that have exited the physical media market by now. Like Best Buy has now gone a whole year without selling physical media.
Borrow movie, rip it, return it. I'm sure people who rent from RedBox did the same thing or those who rented movies in the past.
I still have VHS copies of rental DVDs
and a good chunk of my early MP3 collection was from my hometown library.
What? Did you record the rented DVDs on blank tapes or am I misunderstanding?
That does seem to be what they're implying, yes.
I watch around 200 movies a year, I don't think I could buy that many DVDs for the same money I pay for streaming. I also pirate but mostly movies that are not on my streaming services.
ironic you choose almost the exact number you could buy with the lowest tier of netflix
and that's before multi disc sets and resale value.
and libraries not only lend movies but more than likely also have a streaming service too.
paying the mega corps for their slop is a choice.
Can I buy 200 GOOD movies for around $1 each?
I highly doubt you could find 200 ~~good~~ movies on any streaming services at this point.
and it all depends what you think good means doesn't it, I enjoy objectively bad films like Laser Mission or The secret agent club
but of the roughly 800,000 movies ever released about 300,000 are on DVD, I'm sure you could find a couple of good titles in all that.
Where are you finding DVDs in 2025?
Thrift stores for less than a dollar each usually in 10 for $5 type deals. multi disc sets are your friend and sometimes they don't differentiate between DVD and blue ray either, I've got quite a few blu rays this way.
DVDs are where VHS was about a decade ago, get what you can while it's cheap. I even got a pile for free when a pawn shop was dumping stock to get out of the market.
Also DVDs are still being pressed because there's no licensing fee on the format so it's still profitable to make new ones.
Very True at my thrift store i work at all media; books, cd, dvd, blue-ray are all 50¢, unless priced (Very Rare)
Fair enough, but you're talking about replacing streaming services with DVDs, and unless you're relegating yourself to SD content made over a decade ago and prior, you're going to have a rough time.
There are much better ways, and that involves the high seas.
I have a lot of DVDs that are not currently to be found on the high seas, there are certain things I would upgrade to blu ray at the right price but for the most part you have different masters or cuts or colour grading and there are certainly things recorded in SD that are never getting a blu ray release, like concerts or other live events, because there is no high def master. I even buy concerts on VHS when I find them.
I'm a firm believer in physical media even if that media is a spinning disk in my NAS.
My physical media collection isn't replacing streaming, jellyfin is.
🤔 I can not believe that those DVD are not in the seas..
Have you some examples I could check?
most of the stuff I would point to is surprisingly up just with zero seeds, so they are probably out there on private trackers.
Was not expecting an Anthony Hopkins movie to give a null result thought Blunt the fourth man
Not even on his IMDB page which is strange.
I feel like throwing golden age musicals at you would be cheating because no one actually cares about musicals :P
Have you ever considered uploading some of this? The original Beavis and Butthead was patched back together using a combination of sources including VHS and DVD releases and uploaded to the high seas as the "King Turd Collection." This stuff could be valuable to others.
Yeah I've read about that collection. Because the officially released versions were either missing content or were inferior.
The official release was missing all or most of the music video segments, which constituted a large part of the show. They also tended to be the most entertaining part IMO.
Yeah that was the content I was vaguely referring to.
And kind of agree, a lot of the show's actual episodic structure outside of the music video part, is shoddy at best. It was car crash television from the 90s, what did anyone expect?
That's a great way to describe the show. I can't believe so many people desire to go back and watch it. Fun fact, I only know what was missing because my little brother bought me the original collection for Xmas when it came out, but he forgot to give it to me until the following Xmas so that he could watch them all.
Nostalgia.
It has tried to return in the early 2010s and again in the 2020s. It has not aged well and didn't really feel like it belonged anywhere within any culture of what was going on for shows around those points in time.
Yea, private tracker for torrent or private indexer for usenet are a must.
Edit: But even with those, I was not able to find the fourth man from 1986..
This is on the way to get lost media 🫢 anyone who seeds this, or uploads it to usenet is a true hero
We can not loose more media, it is our culture, we gotta fight for it, for our children, please 🙏🏻