This is why I prefer physical media.

[JoeG]

Only if they're plugged in, right? I keep backup units of all my electronics mint-in-box inside my cement walled bunker.

Yeah, but how are you going to power your electronics? Any EMP powerful enough to destroy electronics is going to destroy the power grid, too. We'll all be back to sitting around campfires telling stories with shadow puppets until the power gets restored. Hopefully society hasn't turned into Mad Max by then.

 

[Paul Andrew]

Yeah, but how are you going to power your electronics? Any EMP powerful enough to destroy electronics is going to destroy the power grid, too. We'll all be back to sitting around campfires telling stories with shadow puppets until the power gets restored. Hopefully society hasn't turned into Mad Max by then.

My fictional cement bunker also has a bicycle powered generator

 

[JoeG]

You're going to have the buffest legs ever!

 

[dascoyne]

If an EMP event happens, any device capable of playing your media will be useless. Have fun with your collection of coasters.

Then I will have a great collection of box artwork. The peasants will have only their memories.

Or I'll go hang out with Paul Andrew.

 

[dascoyne]

Yeah, but how are you going to power your electronics? Any EMP powerful enough to destroy electronics is going to destroy the power grid, too. We'll all be back to sitting around campfires telling stories with shadow puppets until the power gets restored. Hopefully society hasn't turned into Mad Max by then.

My family actually just purchased a piece of land with a hydroelectric power plant. We're good.

 

[PantheraGem]

Anything I even remotely care about, I buy a physical copy. It's probably been brought up, but Vudu often has an option to buy the disc, and have access to streaming version immediately. You just get the disc in the mail when it's released. Besides, I watch on a projector and having 24fps always working right is important to me. Disc always works as far as that goes. Streaming? Not always.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Yeah, but how are you going to power your electronics? Any EMP powerful enough to destroy electronics is going to destroy the power grid, too. We'll all be back to sitting around campfires telling stories with shadow puppets until the power gets restored. Hopefully society hasn't turned into Mad Max by then.

You have a Faraday cage in your bunker with your stuff inside, along with a generator. Then have an ample amount of fuel to power that generator. Because movies are the most important thing in the apocalypse!

 

[PantheraGem]

Remember that scene in "Reign of Fire" where Christian Bale and Gerard Butler are reenacting the duel from "The Empire Strikes Back" for an audience....

 

[vader45]

I just switched from a Blu Ray to Netflix. What a huge difference in quality. Netflix looks really compressed.

 

[Clutch]

Pay extra to stream it in 4k and it tell us how it compares then.

 

[CT1138]

If an EMP event happens, any device capable of playing your media will be useless. Have fun with your collection of coasters.

But wouldn't that also...

I just switched from a Blu Ray to Netflix. What a huge difference in quality. Netflix looks really compressed.

I've not met a single streaming site yet that compares in video quality to a good old fashioned physical Blu-ray disc.

 

[CB2001]

Apparently, Universal and Warner Brothers have paired up to continue physical media production and distribution up until the 2030s. Found out about it via this video. Sounds like good news to me.

 

[vader45]

It's so true that Blu Ray sales are not very high. I run into people who don't even own a Blu Ray player let alone a DVD player. And the Blu Ray selection is like half at any store that sells physical copies such as Walmart and The Exchange.

Big part of the problem is cost. Blu rays are double the price. At the Exchange majority of their DVDs are typically 2-3 dollars a piece. Blu Ray is 5 and up and some reach $25-30 a piece. And lesser known releases such as Criterion is $40 a piece. I tried selling all of my DVDs there once and they only took 1/4th of the collection and said they have an abundance of the rest. Despite sales being up DVD has no collector's or return/investment value. They are only worth the viewing of the film itself.

One trip to the exchange ran me over $100 for like 5-6(can't remember the exact number) Blu rays.

 

[CB2001]

I'm sorry to necro-post, but Doomcock has made another video in regards to the HBO Max streaming service removing Gone With The Wind from their selection. I personally haven't seen GWTW, but I am aware that the film's content and story (and I get why someone would remove it). But this video is a followup to the above mentioned video that inspired this post, and serves as a bit of a reminder of why I am glad to own movies in a physical format (I don't own GWTW, but I have considered it because I have heard both the good and the bad about it). Whether you agree or not to how Doomcock presents himself with a funny mask and costume, or may even disagree with his view about GWTW, but you can agree that he is right about the issue of physical media and how things can just evaporate at the push of a button if/when physical media stops.

 

[PantheraGem]

I just bought Star Wars 1-6, and Rogue One on the new 4K discs. I didn't really want to as I'm still on a pretty rad Sony 1080 projector, but I'm worried this will be the last time we see Star Wars released in a physical format.

 

[cboath]

From what i heard they weren't going to change GWTW, they were going to add a discussion to point out that slavery is bad and it was a depiction of the 30's, not reality of the day type stuff.

 

[Cephus]

From what i heard they weren't going to change GWTW, they were going to add a discussion to point out that slavery is bad and it was a depiction of the 30's, not reality of the day type stuff.

Anyone who can't figure out that a movie made in the 30s is a depiction of the attitudes of the 30s on their own without having to have it explained is too stupid to live anyhow.

 

[Caveneau]

What's next, chastising your parents for having used a slide rule instead of a scientific calculator? It never ends.

 

[Halliwax]

It just gets worst and worst

 

[anamorphicWayne]

It just gets worst and worst

Yeah, like covering up Darryl Hannah's butt.