As streaming continues to dominate the film and TV industry, many Gen Z movie watchers are opting out and choosing physical formats instead.
  • LittleBorat3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    20 minutes ago

    Its Blu-ray not DVD right? DVD was an impossibly low resolution, that really isn’t fun to watch today.

    Blu ray works perfectly on today’s hardware

  • pfr@piefed.socialEnglish
    20·
    7 hours ago

    The future is self-hosted digital media. I’ve got no qualms with pirating media. But I am an advocate for buying digital media from artists directly.

  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    7 hours ago

    I like to think that if streaming didn’t take over, the industry would have shifted to selling USB sticks with the media/game. Even if they did something goofy to “lock” it, at least being on a thumb drive would be more durable, compact, and have faster read time.

    Imagine a nicely organized self of DvDs turned into nighmare pile of flash drives of different shapes and sizes as each movie tries to make theirs stand out to make up the lack of a cover.

    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      We have this audiobook player for children in my country. That works by buying those little figures and if you place them on the player, the audiobook plays. I think that a system like that for “adult music” would be awesome. Buy some little figures and art pieces by your favorite band, display them on a shelf and use them to play music? Yeah, that would be awesome

    • acantharea@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 hours ago

      Nintendo sells essentially a SD card variant in a case for the swtich. So you’re not far off :)

    • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      Realistically the connector would have been proprietary, but I can see a world where we got cartridges that came in little cases like the games for nintendo ds or switch.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      A system of organization would be invented. Idk maybe a wooden stepped board with USB sized holes that you store/display your collection in, just to use the first idea I pull directly from ass. Actually make it silicone for the grippy, already improving it, then sell the wood as a fancier looking one, and inlay a few with idk brass or something for a “pro” version, boom, marketing.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    8 hours ago

    My wife is “xennial” and her music tastes skew younger. Lots of younger artists are selling cassettes and CDs at their merch tables. We have more tapes and discs in our house than I ever had in the 90s.

    • LittleBorat3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 minutes ago

      How do you even play them? I could only see myself taking these media, ripping them and putting them back on the shelf.

      Which is a nostalgic hobby

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    9 hours ago

    I wish blue ray 50 GB discs were more used.

    They have really good shelf life and it would be awesome for things like yearly backup of your photos or some shit like that.

    • Tilgare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 hours ago

      I have bad news for you - Panasonic, Sony, and Samsung have all stopped production on BR-R discs.

      • michaelalf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Verbatim still manufactures their DataLifePlus series of BD-Rs, and they are excellent. The market otherwise is pretty bleak… Ritek offers nothing that compares to the DLP discs.

        Also, side note, Pioneer (once a leading manufacturer of BD burners), no longer makes them. LG is the lone surviving manufacturer I believe.

        • Tilgare@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          23 minutes ago

          Yeah, Verbatim still remains… For now.

          Oh that’s right - I forgot that the drives were slowly going disco too. Bleak indeed.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 hours ago

    Not to ruin people getting off of streaming, but the biggest bang for buck in storage will be regular old hard drives unless you need to backup like >500Tb of storage (then tape drives).

    DVDs are cool but they only have a 4/8Gb capacity.

    BluRay pushes it to 70/100/120gb which is great for one 4K movie lol.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      7 hours ago

      Yeah, my vinyl collection is a decoration. The 20TB of storage connected to my PC is where the magic happens.

  • Octagon9561@lemmy.mlEnglish
    241·
    12 hours ago

    Blu-rays are great, DVDs not so much unless it’s an old title that was never released in 1080p

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      DVDs are fine, but the subtitles look god-awful - and they’re bitmaps so there is no easy way to make them not suck

    • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      11 hours ago

      even then, many bluerays are just cheap upscales with no other changes. I made that mistake once with a boxset only to find that it was a very obvious DVD. this after I was roasted on reddit for complaining about that being a possibility and everyone angrily promised me that it was not that. it was that. I’m still bitter

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    9 hours ago

    … No they aren’t. Way more are just keeping their own digital media on their own storage. Even more are still just streaming. The least are watching DVD and Blu Ray.

    • super_user_do@feddit.itEnglish
      4·
      8 hours ago

      Most people are braindead and mindless consumers across all generations, but there’s a really large portion of people who are more conscious about the value of personal property. Weird that most of them are the communists and socialists while liberals and right wingers in general basically all want big corpos to violate our anuses with as much brutality as possible

    • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      FR, people are also using digital media way more than they’re popping on a vinyl. It’s okay that these are niche subcultures. Not sure why everything has to be framed like it’s a cultural or political revolution.

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      My Matrix DVD I bought brand new still works just fine.

      But rot is real, but also highly situational

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    13 hours ago

    probably the same reason I refused to leg it go.

    I actually own it, control it, and can use it at my wimsy.

    vs streaming, which I could buy it and still have it taken away from me cause you never own anything when its streaming/digital download.

  • Art3mis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    14 hours ago

    Its not just DVDs. I switched to all local mp3s for music and i get a lot of them by scoring cds from second hand stores.

    • LittleBorat3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 minutes ago

      Never started streaming music, makes no sense music is so collectible on HDD. I have 25 year old files, 128kb sucks lol but survived very easily.

    • vvvvan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      251·
      16 hours ago

      And decent resolution: DVD is forever stuck at SD (480p MPEG). While Blu-ray can be UHD (4K HEVC).

      • Octagon9561@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        It’s not even 480p, it’s 480i with a resolution of 720x480 regardless of whether the content is 4:3 or 16:9, the pixels get stretched one way or the other. That’s for NTSC discs, PAL discs have a higher 576i (720x576) resolution but the movie is sped up 4% cause it forces 25fps when it should be 24.

        • vvvvan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 hours ago

          This is a good point. Even worse! Weird anamorphic? pixel aspect ratios (or maybe pan-and-scan crops? or hopefully that’s just VHS). With a bonus of interlacing! “The horror!” I haven’t ripped a DVD in ages due to video quality issues.

      • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        12·
        16 hours ago

        I’ve always kinda thought about implementing a software and standard for 1080p av1 on DVD. Would be neat as a project, obviously no commercial use would exist.

        Either way you can get some really impressive encodes out of av1, really neat tech.

          • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            10 hours ago

            No that’s the idea, it would be to make a piece of software which if thrown on a sbc with a DVD drive becomes a player.

            Which really isn’t too far off of DVD and most bluray players.

            Though I wouldn’t be shocked if the super cheap DVD players have some sorta all-in-one integrated asic for most of the job.

            Would mostly be used by hobbiest making their own burned discs and small artists releasing stuff.

        • vvvvan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          15 hours ago

          That sounds interesting! I’ve been using AV1 more and more (thanks to SVT-AV1-PSY/-HDR and devs pushing improvements to main). Also enjoying FHD animated AVIF (vs ancient GIF, although gif.ski helps). AV1 video is not as soft as it once was (esp at high bitrates with synthetic film grain), and combined with OPUS audio, it’s all wonderful.

      • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        If you ever wanna play 4K BDs on PC, you’ll need a 4K-compatible drive that’s been hacked with LibreDrive though, otherwise you’re stuck using a dedicated set-top player for those.

        1080p discs can at least be handled by libaacs and libbdplus /w the necessary files, and don’t necessarily need a hacked drive to play back.

    • kratoz29@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      We are forever fucked over lots of TV shows/movies that are caged within the stream services realm :/

    • lance20000@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      17 hours ago

      It’s both for me. Some things are either not on BluRay, too rare and expensive, or the transfer on BluRay is actually worse. And besides, any BluRay player is a dvd player too.

      Anyway, any physical collecting or pirating needs to encouraged because streaming is such a stupid model now.

    • detren@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      14 hours ago

      I think part of it might be that DVDs are easier to find used or just cheaper new. GenZ isn’t really rolling in cash and in my area for example used stores rarely if ever carry Blu-ray.

  • eli@lemmy.worldEnglish
    265·
    15 hours ago

    This has been the biggest and dumbest take I’ve seen come from the GenZ/GenA crowd. Polaroids were a big hit a few years ago and I can’t help but wince at this stuff. Yeah it’s cute or whatever to hold it in your hand, but in 1, 5, 10, 30 years…when that photo or DVD is bent/scratched/lost, you’ll be kicking yourself in the ass for even bothering with it.

    Just pirate your content, take photos with your $1000 phones and print the photos out, and learn to backup your own shit. Buy a 2 bay NAS and backup your shit to it. And then backup your NAS to a cloud like backblaze.

    My dad has been doing this since the early 2000s. We have our family photos AND videos from 1990-2026 all backed up on a NAS, which syncs to backblaze. ~600GBs of data. And the cloud backup on backblaze is $7.25 a month for that data.

    Literally anyone can go buy a a $200 2-bay NAS, then grab two 1TB hard drives for $40 each. $280 for a NAS that will last you YEARS. And then figure out whatever service you want to backup to for a cloud backup.