Yeah, I’ve never understood the big deal with DVD’s. With storage being so damn cheap, I can easily store as many seasons of whatever the fuck I want and have it at my fingertips in a Plex server, OR I can spend thousands of dollars on DVD’s and have to dig through the boxes and switch disks if I want to watch something.
If you like collecting DVD’s/Blu Rays then it’s whatever, but I never understood the “muh media preservation” argument when it’s trivial to pirate and indefinitely store stuff nowadays.
I'd say there are fair arguments for keeping DVDs around, largely because they're full of supplemental material that that just can't be found elsewhere. Like, to this day it's still a toss-up as to whether or not a pirated movie will even have subtitles, and they almost never come with commentary tracks. Making-of featurettes and the like tend to get taken down on YouTube, and even a lot of rereleases, including Blu-Ray releases, tend to shun those. Streaming services never have them for anything older, either. It's not unheard of to have to buy multiple special editions of a movie to get every single extra, either. There was just a short, golden point in time where it'd be disappointing to look at the back of a DVD case and see that the only extras were trailers and
Interactive Menus as if that's a selling point, and the adoration for all that shit just kinda fell by the wayside over time and I never hear anyone talking about it anymore.
It's also nice that physical copies of movies now just straight up come with every single version you could possibly need, with some movies coming with I think like five versions of the film for whatever situation you're in: a 4K version, a 3D version, a standard 1080p Blu-ray version, a DVD version, and a streaming code. It's kind of like the opposite of video game collecting now: it's getting increasingly harder to justify buying games on discs, considering they'll be tied to one platform, with no guarantee they'll work on a future system that'll inevitably be out within a decade, no support for mods, no support for controllers not preapproved by the platform owner, and even the game's cases tend to be depressingly empty.
You spend $70, open it up, and all you see is this:
and you still more than likely have to update the game because so many have day one patches now, and if you only play online, the only benefit is resale value anyway. Of course, video games are much more popular to buy and resell physical copies of than movies, so I guess games are getting the bare minimum because they'll sell anyway, while movies have to bend over backwards to compete with streaming.
Of course, if you know of a big repo somewhere that hosts all the extras from tons of DVDs, let me know, because I've never heard of one before
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