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After Dark: Why Jeff Doesn't Have a Blu-Ray Collection, Researching Purchases, Molli and Max in the Future

🕑 Added 2024-04-04 13:00:09 +0000 UTC

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Claire Baxter

So many missed opportunities for “that’s rough Jeff” or whatever the coined phrase was

This

Do you own multiple copies of the same film in your collection? What happens when they stop making them and your new 24k tv won't play them? It seems to have happened with VHS and DVD and seems to be inevitable for Blu-Ray.

Steven Kennick

A few years back, during the Black Lives Matter movement, when streaming services started heavily censoring their content, the only way I was able to watch the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons episode of Community was because I own the Blu-ray collection of the series. Every streaming service which carried Community removed the episode.

Tim Langford

Also a key detail - Jeff doesn’t rewatch things. That’s the culprit imo.

Ben A

Great discussion about the merits of physical media. I am a member of the David & Devindra cult, and am fortunate enough to own a modest wall of discs. During the darkest days of the pandemic my wife and I decided to start watching from the beginning of the alphabet of movies. A few of these we had not gotten around to seeing, but in most cases one of us had never seen the film, and there were a number one or both of us had not seen in years, sometimes decades. It was a joy to share those experiences together, and to revisit films of our youth again as adults (we’re the same age as Jeff). I am posting this here because it isn’t about with whom you share the filmic experience, but that you get to share it with someone else. And there is an experience that having the wall of physical discs provided no streaming service could have matched. After all, on what streaming service would you encounter a sequence like Broadcast News, The Brothers Bloom, The ‘Burbs, Burn After Reading, and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid? Such eclectic series have made us more engaged viewers, and given us more choice than we have on any of the streaming services to which we subscribe.

David Nedde

One other advantage of physical media: I keep unwatched discs in a stack and that is like a physical watch list. Unlike the watch lists we have for each service plus letterbox and the lists in my notes app.

Steven Kennick

Even interacting with the physical media isn’t going to do anything. This next generation is completely used to streaming. It would be very difficult to go back. Jeff’s generation only had physical media, so of course those experiences with his dad were going to happen.

Tim Langford

As a physical media guy, Dave and Devindra are working so hard to make us seem annoying. Cool your jets, guys! With love.

Maxaveli

I try to daily but obviously don’t always have the time. It’s really the quality improvement aspect rather than the actual collecting that I like. But it’s also cool to own something physically with art and such.

This

Is the "collecting" part of your blu-ray obsessions?

Maxaveli

Biggest advantage for physical media for me personally is the improved bit rate. The quality of video and audio is vastly better than any streaming service. It’s not really a doomsday prep or social look at me thing.

Mountain of Conflict

Thanks for answering my question. But I think was already answered when Dave showed his collection or talked about it and said "I haven't even removed the shrink wrap and I've had that movie for years" 😁 Don't you still have Devindra's Firefly disc??