Guillermo del Toro Champions Physical Media

[lovelylaura23]

Guillermo del Toro joins Christopher Nolan in championing physical media.

“Physical media is almost a Fahrenheit 451 (where people memorized entire books and thus became the book they loved) level of responsibility. If you own a great 4K HD, Blu-ray, DVD etc etc of a film or… pic.twitter.com/IUR86HYEJu
- Variety (@Variety) November 20, 2023
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Comments

[ponyboy]

r/boutiquebluray is a good place to start. criterion is doing it's yearly half off sale at barnes and noble and labels like arrow and vinegar syndrome are currently having sales. getting a 4k player and region free Blu ray player is absolutely the way to go.

[theoryofwar]

Region free is so worth it. I got my latest VinSyn order the other day (and am currently wearing one of their shirts lol)

Talk dirty physical media to me!

[ponyboy]

it's soooo worth it. i got "snow white a tale of terror" and another region version of "the guest" (before i got the second sight release) and it was so handy. vinsyn is how i got "alphabet city", one of my new favorite movies!!

[theoryofwar]

I can't even remember the movie I got the region free blu-ray player for, but I have a ton now, so it's obviously worth it!

[theoryofwar]

Physical media is the fucking best! I'm currently running out of room on my shelves for all the movies I've bought lately. I've got a few movies that you can't get on physical media right now, only streaming. One of them is going for over 100 bucks on ebay last I checked. I won't be selling it tho! I think I even have a few editions that are worth money, especially MST3K!

Also, just have to point everyone to my favorite horror/sci-fi/cult/werido cinema shop Orbit DVD. Currently celebrating 20!! years! They're semi local (a few hours away) buy local and support small businesses!

[tanglespiders]

what i’m hearing is, you have a moral obligation to future humans to burn copies of movies and preserve our culture

[angebleu]

It's kind of funny because most have laptops without media runners and burners.

[sandstorm]

My laptop is from 2019 and I was surprised to see it had a disk drive.

[palmsread]

jealous

[cherhorowitz]

I regret selling the majority of my dvds like a decade ago 💔 but I’ve started collecting movies/tv I love that aren’t available anywhere to stream and ripping stuff just in case something happens to the disc and it becomes impossible to find later. I’ve kinda become a paranoid media hoarder lol

[sandstorm]

Sounds like a case for piracy. Sure digital hardware can degrade over time but that's what cloud backups are for and external Hard Drives.

I buy physical media occasionally (read: my favorite movie of the year will get a buy) but otherwise I don't want the clutter, because I will never open it and take it out. Though my favorite buy is when our Books a Million sold used phy.media for like 4 months and I found a DVD copy of Rocknrolla that still has the original sequel stinger at the end.

Now we're gonna have movies that get released on streaming services but never a physical release. Like can I buy Polite Society on Blu Ray? Oh apparently I can. Ok, nice.