Many thanks to Joseph, Ken and Jennifer! 💿 The quality of physical media tends to be higher. And it sure is nice to have them if the services aren't available.
@karmentaylorkt
3 ай бұрын
Great discussion, a lot to think about!
@jeanniefromtahini5197
3 ай бұрын
I often think about the streaming vs what I call "old school halt and watch" methods of consuming movies and shows. I think about how people who are super critical of a show are only this way because they could pause, rewind, zoom in, and obsess over details they may have otherwise missed if they could not do any of that. Catching a movie halfway through on a Sunday afternoon on WPIX forces you to step back and pick up on broader themes to enjoy it. You may catch a little thing here or there, but it is more of a reward than a detail to be critical over.
@gsarngad
3 ай бұрын
Joseph's story is reminding me of the time it popped into my head that I hadn't seen 2 Days in the Valley in a long time so I actually did walk over to my shelf and pick up the DVD that I must have had for 20 years and when I put it on the disc was not anamorphic (with the widescreen picture hard coded into a 4:3 box in the middle of my tv). So I ended up buying it to stream from Amazon anyway.
@jeyfromnowhere
3 ай бұрын
Like in most things true peace lies between extremes. Streaming music is great for work and exercise, vinyl records for a Sunday night experience with the candles and incense burning.
@akenawell
2 ай бұрын
Great discussion! Digital vs physical is a huge thing in the video game community too
@jmorgan3977
3 ай бұрын
I love my discs. I have a large blu-ray and DVD collection of my favorite movies, and a CD collection of my favorite music. Though, I do like the convenience of streaming a movie on my laptop while I cook dinner or move around the house doing chores. And of course, I use Spotify when I'm out and about and away from a CD player. There's no one way. In this age, I use both.
@TullyQuinn
3 ай бұрын
I'm very staunch for physical media. If I see a streaming show and love it, I want it. If Disney+ folds or some streaming rights expire, I want to know that a piece of art like WandaVision or Andor is still accessible to me.
@alfje5492
3 ай бұрын
Been collecting DVDs for 25 years now and with a house move on the horizon, I will finally have to get rid of hundreds of discs and scale things down to a manageable amount. Streaming is convenient, but I will always prefer to have a fysical copy of the things I really want to keep.
@phoenixr6811
3 ай бұрын
I’m team physical media but love the convenience of streaming 😊
@general_cameroni
3 ай бұрын
For me i totally get having the choice taken from you. Sometimes im too worried i will have picked the wrong thing out of my thousands of options and have wasted my time! Just throwing on a tv channel and watching whats there takes that stress away because im already wasting my time watching tv and now if its good or bad i have no stake in that.
@Blinkptx
3 ай бұрын
We took my best friends kid to see a new Spider-Man movie when he was 10 a couple years ago. He made in 30 minutes in before complaining about being bored. He couldn't sit still the whole time. In the car he said "Idk how old people can watch such long videos." To this day he won't watch movie. Video games and KZitem are the only media he interacts with. Kid barely even listens to music. Nothing beats physical media. My Blu Ray and CD collection will always be there, and I still add to them. Wish streaming wasn't a thing sometimes, but that's the world we're in. Can't fight it. It just isn't the same though. I miss when a new album came out and the excitement I felt on the way to get it, buying it, opening it up waiting to see what the disc art looks like, and sitting down to listen from start to finish while looking through the little booklet that came with it.
@jmorgan3977
3 ай бұрын
That's crushing. My future children will absolutely watch movies and listen to music.
@douglasdubois7985
3 ай бұрын
This was a captivating discussion and one that had me oscillating, but ultimately landing where I started. #TeamPhysical
@amaranthpaean
3 ай бұрын
I am a consumer of both, but primarily digital media. I really like the convenience; I subscribe to a music streaming service as part of a family plan, which also includes streaming movies and shows. But as someone with hearing and (more recently) vision issues, I love the accessibility of digital media. I can read the lyrics of my favorite songs, turn on closed captions for movies, and even turn on descriptive audio for episodes that take place in dark settings. When I check out a book from the library, I try to get it in both ebook and audiobook formats; I can bump up the text size to read on my device, and I don’t have to stop reading when my good eye gets tired or I need to do the dishes.
@amaranthpaean
3 ай бұрын
But increased access doesn’t transfer to all ability levels, as you hinted at in your discussion of small children. My brother has intellectual disabilities and has difficulty browsing a service for content, but he can use positional and photographic cues to assist in selecting from his extensive collection of CDs and DVDs. I think that libraries are a bit farther ahead than streaming services in this regard; online catalogs have accessibility baked in, but the best ones also attempt to replicate the discovery that would happen when flipping through cards or browsing shelves. I also have a respect for objects as art and artifact; when I purged my collections of cassettes and CDs, I kept any favorites, deep cuts, and rarities (like the aforementioned soundtracks, many of which aren’t available on streaming because they couldn’t get the rights to one or more songs). I hope to do the same for my books someday soon!
@Elias_tomodachi
3 ай бұрын
This is a tough one because I prefer the experience of physical media but it’s really hard to keep up with it as formats change and technologies become forced into obsolescence. So I lean towards digital media. But when it comes to music, I buy albums or songs on ITunes because I can’t abide by streaming. It’s way too ephemeral for me, and I want to still have my own music collection rather than a subscription to a tech overlord. I also want to support the artists as much as one can these days.
@Vulcanerd
2 ай бұрын
I feel like I was M Night Sham-lama-ding-dong (thanks Shannon Sharpe)ed at Jen and Ken’s twist at the end there 😝
@matthewmacdonald6090
3 ай бұрын
Day to day - streaming Long term future after the apocalypse - physical
@Vulcanerd
2 ай бұрын
Speak for yourself, Ken! I’m an crusty, old angry person yelling at the moon! 😂
@gary24fan
3 ай бұрын
I'm a big physical media guy for movies and music. I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all, but mine is that there is a plot afoot by foreign countries to bring down our internet infrastructure and it will be down for months. People who got rid of all their discs because "ooooo I have streaming now" are going to rue that day, and I'll be sitting pretty watching my discs. LOL Now if they also hack our power grid, I'm screwed! 🤣
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