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The thing that breaks my heart is that there are absolutely beautiful HD transfers of The Virginian, Laramie, Death Valley Days, and Tales of Wells Fargo. Just stunning. Not available to buy digitally, and I have to rely on subscribing to Starz app to watch, and while I appreciate them being...

It is more likely the BD players will be the thorn in the side for disc collectors, as there are all kinds of issues regarding how specific discs are read from one player to the next. Some may freeze for a moment on one BD player, and play flawlessly on another. It is a real problem, and has...

Exactly. The error rate is miniscule for those that store their discs with care. Even those that don't store their discs with care are likely to have a good playing movie as long as they don't go out of their way to damage them. I have had exactly 3 discs go bad out of hundreds of movie I...

I once looked into a disc machine that removes scratches. $4,000. No thank you.

Movies tend to have a lot less urgency in owning, because I know that is some way, shape, or form, I will be able to view it. When my DVD copy of "Ordinary People" went bad, well it was a minor disappointment but no big deal. I can rent it digitally, or stream it from one of the major streaming...

I'm walking a tightrope without a net when it comes to my discs. I don't back anything up, so if they fail (and some have) that is it for that specific title. I don't even have the desire to rebuy another copy. I do however buy doubles sometimes triples (borderline OCD, I know) of content I...

Something that bothers me is the inaccurate info about archival life of discs. I read somewhere once that a burned DVD-R has a shelf life of 5 years. Of course when I read it I thought that was absurd. I recently watched 12 discs I burned on a cheap Panasonic recorder in 2004. All the discs...

I don't understand. Wouldn't you have to have a 4K player that is always online for the disc to be bricked? My player is not, and never will be online.

But I guess it works both ways as well. I bought "Time flies when you're alive" digitally. I dare you to hunt down a physical copy of that. Bottom line it is the perfect time to be a home video enthusiast. Digital, and physical is the best of both worlds.

Mostly kid stiff from the 70's---The live action Filmation titles like The Secret of Isis, Space Academy, Ark II, and shows like Here's Boomer, Pink Lady and Jeff, Land of the Lost, Ultraman etc. I checked a few weeks ago and none were available to purchase from iTunes. And you are right the...

Well they won't, especially if it is SD content that never made the grade to HD. I have three streaming services, and I will say that many of TV on DVD titles I have are not available to stream on any of them, And most of those are not available to purchase digitally. I understand your point...

I still get enjoyment out of BD, I also use streaming an awful lot so I'm part of the problem why Digital is taking over.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/movies/article/Houston-s-Movie-Exchange-survives-streaming-13555407.php “The digital thing is killing us,” he concedes. “I don’t know how much longer we can survive.” This kills me. A store like this getting everything right, yet still in...

A lot of goading with a bit of snark. What is it with you and physical media?

Why do you say this? My nephews(14, and 15) both wanted BD of movies they like for Christmas(and video games in physical form). And I for one never had a "must collect" mentality. I buy movies I like or am curious about, and usually enjoy watching them. I'm not hanging onto the past, I'm...

Exactly. I don't understand why some members here are so puzzled by those that choose physical media over the more convenient streaming method. I feel bad enough about my disc collection from family members, I sure hate to read about it on a site dedicated to this hobby.

There are so many music recordings, tv shows, and movies not available to stream/buy digitally it isn't even funny. In the millions combined. This is the real reason physical is vastly superior concerning myself.

Yes it is. Crazy to me that high end CD players are still being made currently by Sony, Yamaha, Onkyo etc.

5, or 6 is overkill. I was thinking 1....maybe 2. That should be more than sufficient.

That has not been my experience. Cheap players(I had a Daewoo go bad less that a year in) are prone to failure. I have a Toshiba DVD player from 1998, and a Samsung BD player from 2009 that both play flawlessly. And both are heavily used units. My PS3(2008) was most heavily used for...

And there are about a billion PS4's, and Xbox One consoles that all play BD. Personally, "future proof" is where I am with this hobby. I'll buy couple dedicated UHD players before the end of physical media.

Laserdisc is really dead, and to be fair it was never even close to mainstream. Very niche.

And I would agree with you wholeheartedly....If HD content both movies,and TV shows I bought(to own) circa 2006 through Microsoft(XboX 360) hadn't disappeared. unretrievable. Gone. Experiencing this first hand was a wake up call to stick to physical medai as long as possible.

I know this sounds stupid but the holy grails of mine(mainly tv on dvd shows) I've been buying backup sealed copies. As if my original copies fail I'll dig into the sealed copy for backup. But wouldn't those discs be problematic too? I'm not sure but I just don't trust the future of home...

It is scary josh. A handful of DVD's I bought mainly from Universal, and Paramount (full retail $20 or more) in the late 90's are now nothing more than coasters. Flawless but unplayable. That is why I have been upgrading to Blu-Ray if given the choice for such movies(The Apostle from...

It is more convenient for sure, and more reliable. Discs are yours forever though, with no fear of them disappearing. Discs aren't just long term rentals, they are yours forever.

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/is-the-sound-on-vinyl-records-better-than-on-cds-or-dvds.htm Yes, but I got rid of my records, and invested in CD's, and I'm not going back. Even if vinyl is superior.

I'm sure it will at some point. I think it was the musical score(not soundtrack) for Guardians of the Galaxy 2 that was missing a CD release also. If that is the case, it is odd because my friend told both Black Panther and GOTG. 2 are available digitally and on vinyl, but not CD. I guess...

I don't remember both examples(he sampled about twenty different movie soundtracks for me) but one of them I remember was the Black Panther score. He said it was digital only(which he did buy) and was pretty upset about it.

Best Buy, less than 5 years. Count on it.