Few months ago, I decided to go fully physical for superior picture & audio quality. No more streams for me, no more subscriptions. Here's my little collection thus far. Rate & Hate. What else should I add?
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im actually about to sell all my physical media. its mostly comics manga games and music cds though. i think i have like 3 blu rays and thats it.
The screws serve no purpose. Why did you put them there?
huh lol?
That's sort of my reasoning, and at least this way I own the movie, a lot of the times comes with interesting special features and blooper reals or whatever, plus if you have a good sound system you're not going to have to deal with compressed sound quality from streaming.
looks great I want to start a collection too
I don't like streaming services censoring the movie and they just don't have lots of classics
>lots of classics
YouTube.
I second these dubs. I've found old movies on Youtube that my father had never heard of before and we watched them and enjoyed them.
>Blu-ray
Have fun buying a new player every couple years
DVD even VHS will always be supreme
>Have fun buying a new player every couple years
just buy whatever playstation is the current one
>all that shelf space taking up
That's why I use picture related
I got several with thousands of discs and only one and a half shelves taken up
Enjoy your disc rot loser
Add anything that might be appealing to you, check the release calendar on bluray.com every month or two and buy it when it's available. There are some box sets and occasional releases that have limited runs, so the secondary market can be brutal if you don't get some of it at release. Take the Columbia Classics Pictures Collection Volume 1, I didn't pre-order it and I managed to just barely get it brand new from an Ebay seller in Canada for $115 during the rona. It was a limited run of like 8k units and last I check it was over $800 for a pre-owned copy. The second volume I pre-ordered immediately and it followed a similar trend. So buy what you want, when you want, because the physical media sector is trending more toward the boutique side.
I like my boutique blurays more than the standard editions from the studios, the packaging is better and there are always more extras, the picture and audio quality is oftentimes better as well. Criterion has a reputation for a reason, but even they can only do so much, Arrow is probably my favorite though, they release a lot that appeals to me.
Yeah from my experience too Arrow do a really good job getting the best video and sound quality, packed with features, and they do obsure / underrated movies too. Wish everything was just thrown at them or Critereon. Or Eureka too actually, they're another good one similar to Arrow.
Sometimes when pre-ordering a release you get burned on the price, but more often I've found that the release goes out of print shortly after and the goes up 2x. Though sometimes there's a small window when you can acquire it used on ebay for a couple of days or weeks after.
But if you stay on top of releases you rarely look for anything, because you'll have anything that interests you, some months you'll buy 25-35 different releases, others maybe 2. Some times of the year are plentiful than others, late summer into Christmas is rife with releases, early springs the last few years have had less. Before you know it you'll be looking at adding shelving with 4x the capacity of that one.
Having said all that, I've been buying physical media since '02, but only really got into it as a hobby in '16, which nicely coincided with the launch of 4k bluray. As a result, I'm very much in favor of maximum picture quality, and my bluray have reduced considerably and I rarely buy DVD's.
>boutique blurays
Whoever coined that term should self immolate
Well, it describes a niche. What would you call what they do?
>I like my boutique blurays more than the standard editions from the studios
Yeah but there's still no reason to buy the limited editions. You pay at least twice the price of the standard version for the same discs for the priviledge of a cardboard slip case, a book of essays and maybe a poster. Insane that anyone still purchases them.
Still wish the BFI and Arrow weren't such gouging fricks about theirs. At least Second Sight and the like have the grace to release the standard edition alongside the limited instead of making you wait a year.
arrow editions go out of print, buying on ebay is even worse
>arrow editions go out of print
There's only a few that go fully out of print. They release standard editions of the majority of their discs after the original limited edition release.
i only go to the fancy small company releases for films that are a pain to find and those happen to also be the ones that go out of print
I can echo the sentiment on limited editions, for the most part. I've seen a number of releases over the years where the limited edition came with a different cut of the film, or even an earlier edition of that the film was based on, like Scarface.
>or even an earlier edition of that the film was based on, like Scarface.
As in a Blu Ray that had both Scarface (1983) and Scarface (1932)? Very based, both great movies.
Yeah the 4k release of Scarface came with a regular bluray for the 1932 version. One of the standalone releases of Star Trek: TMP came with a TV cut of the film that contained shots that weren't in the theatrical version or special editions.
Pretty good but leaning a bit too modern, you should continue to collect some older kinos.
Such as?
I thought it was a pretty good and underrated movie.
>I thought it was a pretty good and underrated movie
How did you even find it? You have 199 teenager movies and one CinemaScope flick with 13 reviews on IMDB.
Lmao, well I actually watched it with my mum years back as that's her sorta film, back on dvd. Then I just typed it in on ebay a while back and found it.
Based Mum. Ill recommend these to go along with Baby Driver and The Third Man because you have no Brit kino despite being a bong.
Ooh nice I forgot about Vanishing Point, I heard good things about Smokey and the Bandit too. Also I do have a brit kino, KILL LIST. That shit is a horror movie I wasn't expecting.
Vanishing Point is cringey 70s woke garbage masquerading as a rebel movie
They don't make kino anymore, though Leigh, Loach and Davies are better than anyone in Hollywood.
Shut it, homosexual.
These are all modern movies.
>50 year old movies are "modern"
But that's wrong.
Zoomer, anything with an MPAA rating is modern.
You're wrong. But I forgive you.
Boomer, you can frick off and take your talkies with you. If your dialogue isn't read on interstitional frames then your movie is "modern"
>These are all modern movies.
It's all comparative. Pretend it said "recent" if that cools your autism.
>Such as?
Some kinos
>carrie (de palma one)
>taxi driver
>the mad max movies
>aliens
>jaws
>gremlins
>possession
>who framed roger rabbit
>henry: portrait of a serial killer
>superman: the movie (1978)
Nice list, I am waiting for Aliens actually, the 4K version which I believe is out soon.
Are you blind? I have a ton of 4Ks. Also even 1080p Bluray is better than 4K streams, both in picture and sound.
>Nice list, I am waiting for Aliens actually, the 4K version which I believe is out soon.
Thanks, hope it inspired some future additions to the collection.
I bet that 4k of Aliens will look nice, beautiful movie.
>Nice list, I am waiting for Aliens actually, the 4K version which I believe is out soon.
It features heavy AI noise reduction, like all of Cameron's 4K releases. It's not quite as plastic as True Lies but it's not a good looking disc. The blu-ray features as extremely inaccurate colour grade (which the 4K corrects, at least) too. A film that hasn't had a half decent release since the DVD.
>It features heavy AI noise reduction, like all of Cameron's 4K releases
Ew why would they do that?
Cameron has overseen the disc releases of his films since the blu-ray days and is extremely revisionist. With Aliens he's on record of saying he hates how grainy it looks, it wasn't an artistic choice it was just the filmstock they had available that year had a particularly heavy grain pattern, so he's trying to make it look more like how he felt it 'should' have looked.
Guess he's changed his mind about how teal and orange it should be though, it's not nearly as blue on 4K as the blu-ray was. As in, Ripley's white tank top is no longer blue in multiple scenes because the grading is so aggressive.
heavy noise reduction on film scans should punishable by death
Oh ffs really?
Lmao it is annoying when I buy a few additions, but it just looks more tidy.
>Disturbia
Oh I remember that one, I actually really like that film, thanks, I'll check the others out too.
>Oh ffs really?
>Aliens is tricky. Of course it has detail. In close (and only in close), the amount of texture is incredible, surpassing the Blu-ray. However, that texture is inhibited by a near constant ringing that makes Alien look totally unnatural. Medium/long shots consistently show ringing artifacts that simply put, have no reason to be there. It’s unnecessary, it doesn’t look like film, and it makes Aliens visibly artificial.
>It’s like Cameron’s AI restoration tools learned how to remaster from Universal back in the early 2010s or so. Areas of the screen look sharper than others, like a person’s nose will have a visible ring around a nostril but not their face. Look at Bishop’s eyes around 1:21:00-ish (theatrical cut), as if his eyes are super sharp but the rest of his face is naturally out-of-focus because the algorithm couldn’t figure it out. It’s not even logical in how it applies the tech.
>Grain does weird things. The remaster struggles in haze, and that’s where the worst of the noise reduction is notable. The halos suck, but the smearing, waxy faces are worse (the tech has no idea what to do with or how to handle soft focus shots; those look abysmal). Grain does remain, but it’s slight, and the reduction is notable enough to smother anything not in close. Smearing in spots makes this look as if it’s viewed on an LCD screen circa 2006. Especially at distance, Aliens looks like an AI-created video. Something is just… wrong.
Same shit as True Lies, where the AI creates fake detail out of nowhere for things that SHOULD be blurry, bringing extras who were out of focus in the background into sharp detail in extremely unnatural ways.
Why can't they just leave the movie alone? So stupid.
One of these days a studio will advertise that their release was remastered "by hand", in that humans will be ones doing the digital clean up rather than an algorithm. I don't think they'll ever have an algorithm that won't piss people off.
I actually am blind
Why do you have The Brave One when everything else is modern slop?
That's fairly obscure despite winning an Oscar.
I simply never stopped. I got rid of most of my DVDs after switching over to blu-ray, and there's a handful I regret dumping, but other than that it's just been building for a couple of decades now.
Impressive; how old are you?
33.
just use a hard drive like a normal person
How many of these will you ever rewtatch?
This shit is going to end up in a landfill sooner than you think.
Nice collection. Keep adding. And also build yourself a little server from an old PC to rip and store digital copies. Here's a small slice of muh disc collection.
>Superior picture
>0 4ks
Yeah no streaming would have better picture solely due to hdr lmfao
sometimes the 4K version is worse
>alphabetical order
>have to shift everything around when adding to the collection
I hate alphabetical order but I also put my movies in an autistic kind of categorization. This is a few months old, some stuff has changed.
man likes his kino lorber western releases
I have like 30 more since this picture. I need an update.
>autistic kind of categorization
You're not kidding.
>Actor
>Director
>Blaxploitation
Also, you're missing missing Ride The High Country and The Wild Bunch.
The Wild Bunch is on top left shelf in a western 5 pack. I need to get Ride The High Country, it's in my Amazon cart I'm sure. Yeah I like to categorize shit like that. Because if i'm in a mood for a certain actor I can find it easier, or a certain genre.
Definitely get it, Randolph Scott is so fricking good in it. His last film and easily his best.
I just watch youtube now
nothing else
imagine people are wondering where I am for the last few weeks/months but I assume they're doing the same rn
Recs on taste
>Aliens
>Child's Play 1988
Gen Recs
>Disturbia
>The Time Machine
Recs to finish the alphabet
>Q 1982
>XXX 2002
>Yes Man
Overall good collection. Only a few I'd throw out.
I like physical media because it reminds me of the old Mom and Pop videostores that I rented Horror and Exploitation films. I miss those.
Rate my collection and keep in mind this only represents 1/10th of the movies I own!!!FACT!!!
they're all blu-ray which makes me sad, there's some decent films there ig. these pick seem pretty basic and sad
i haven't bought a movie in years but i have around 300 dvd/blu-rays at my dad's house in an old trunk of mine.
they will lie there forever probably
idk blu doesn't really feel nostalgic, i think you messed up. you should seek out vhs tapes and dvds
idek where all the vhs tapes my family used to have are. probably in a dump somewhere. we even had the two-tape titanic set, all the disney films
>superior picture & audio quality
remux does the same thing for free lol
>Nintendo switch games up top
gay.
Also let me give you some advice. Your media collection should be digital, rip this shit onto a home theater PC with 50+ terabytes of redundant file storage, and then you can losslessly "stream" it to your TV over your local network.
I don't actually disagree with this, part of the reason I have physical copies is having a physical back up. I wouldn't rip movies and then resell them (though I can respect that), but would keep them on hand.
Also, I encourage everyone to have an all-region bluray player.
This is what I do as well, with the consequence that I don't have to store my collection on the wall, it's in deep storage down in the basement.
The Switch is a nice console. I've got one but I don't have many games for it, if I was still super into vidya it would probably be great.
>-3 points for mostly BDs instead of 4K
>-2 points for regular boxes instead of steelbooks
>+1 point for nice storage shelves (you'll need more though)
>+1 point for generally good taste in titles and no capeshit
7/10, you're on the right track, keep it up!
>>-2 points for regular boxes instead of steelbooks
Abysmal taste. The narrower spines look ugly on a shelf and the cover art is usually the sort of gaudy shit you'd see on a 'clever' fan poster.
>steelbooks
I considered doing steelbooks for a while, but not every release gets one, some of them look dumber than uninspired standard release fair, they're full price pretty much always, and can even have multiple different coverarts, and exclusive retailers. Those retailers with exclusive deals are now dropping physical media so now you won't get them there anymore.
Don't know where you are, but in the UK steelbooks are basically just a Zavvi thing. They have an exclusive for virtually every release, which often ends up being a way to get cheap UHDs, because loads of them don't sell and end up in their outlet section for cheaper than the standard versions.
Just a quick glance now there's some Kingsman films, West Side Story, Cool Hand Luke, and loads of Marvel and Disney slop going for less than the standard editions cost. Probably more if you can be bothered scrolling through.
Target and Best Buy had/have a bunch of exclusive releases. I do most of my buying through Movies Unlimited, but they're owned by the same parent company that owns Deep Discount and several other online movie retailers. They even ship from the same warehouse. Anyway, they don't always have descriptions, and don't always include that you're buying a steelbook, which is how I've ended up with a few.
Steelbooks do look sharp, but I'm very much and all-or-nothing kind of person, so I never started collecting them.
>The narrower spines look ugly on a shelf
Bro how are steelbook spines narrower than the flimsy plastic shit amarays? Excuse my quick shitty pic.
>the cover art is usually the sort of gaudy shit you'd see on a 'clever' fan poster.
It usually is not. There are a very few stinkers, but you can ignore them or get a different version which is frequently available.
Pricing and availability can be a problem, yeah, I personally found it beneficial to keeping my hoarding under control though. Only Best Buy (who had a lot of exclusive steels) officially exited the market, but even Amazon has a ton, as well as Zavvi if you're willing to pay up a little.
Oh I'd forgotten US releases have the slim cases for regular blu-rays. Over here they're the same thickness as the steelbooks, but you don't lose a chunk of the spine at the top and bottom.
>It usually is not. There are a very few stinkers, but you can ignore them or get a different version which is frequently available.
I can see your Lawrence of Arabia right there. I had to buy it too because there's no non-steelbook release, but it's very ugly.
>Lawrence of Arabia
I have to share. I never would have thought the secondary market would insane for this.
Yeah, I imported a copy after it when OOP over here, and then it got a reprint announced like a month later. Still seething.
Those Columbia sets are the most cancerous things on the market right now, holding films hostage unless you buy a set that contains others you may or may not have any interest in, and so limited you have to order immediately or just get fricked. No guarantee of individual releases for any of the content, never mind a reasonable time scale. The absolute scummiest shit out there.
The 1st Volume was no question, worth the money, at least at release. $115, though some paid a little more, for Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Strangelove, and Mr Smith Goes to Washington? I would have paid that much for those three alone. The others were a nice bonus, but the 2nd and especially the 3rd Volumes have struggled to justify the cost. The second one I preordered, don't remember how much for, but it was less than $150, the third I wait and got at $78, all new. The fourth one they launch at $250 and last I looked, they were a little over half of that new, and still in stock everywhere. I may still get it, only to be a completionist.
But I don't mind the other movies in there, because I haven't seen them and they might be good.
>I can see your Lawrence of Arabia right there. I had to buy it too because there's no non-steelbook release, but it's very ugly.
This one? Eh, it's not great, not terrible, I don't mind it tbh
It's very "Barnes and Noble hardcover"-unfortunately. Standard edition is much cleaner.
lol thanks. I kind of avoid steelbooks though just so the look of my shelves have the same similar form factor though.
And I don't need EVERYTHING in 4K. I do generally check AVForums ratings to see if the 4K is worth it first and formost, as your average title is just an upscale from 2K, and of course for some movies 4K just isn't needed. When I first began I did try to stick to 4K only, but there's still a lot of good stuff that haven't got the 4K treatment yet.
where is the Arcane Blue Ray?
I've lived out in the boonies for most of my life so streaming wasn't an option because the internet was so shit. Having physical copies of stuff was always something I had to have. The internet and whatnot has improved but it's still hard for me to want to stream stuff. I have gotten rid of some but I still hold onto my favorites and I can't imagine getting rid of them.
What's on your preorder lists? I'm waiting on the new Columbo blu-ray set, the Arrow Withnail & I 4K, Criterion Dazed & Confused and Raging Bull 4Ks and the Andor 4K, and I think that's it. Lightest it's been in a while.
Covers aside just looking at a couple of parts of my own collection I think steelbooks look uglier on the shelf than standard editions. All Arrow releases for a fair comparison. Forgive the low res, I just cut chunks out of some wide shows, but you get the idea.
Convince me not to buy a third copy of Blow Out now that it's on 4K.
It’s a kino cover for one of De Palma’s best so I doubt anyone’s gonna stop you anon.
I wish arrow quit focusing so much on shitty extras that are just boring ass interviews and crappy YouTube videos and pump out more releases god damn.
My wish for all publishers (but especially Eureka) is less kung fu movies. Yes, they're cool, but it feels like every release schedule for the boutique publishers has been flooded with them for months. At little variety, please. Did some company's distribution rights only just come up for grabs or something?
Frick off homie
I have too many fricking laserdiscs
You are my favorite person ITT rn.
It really is a dedication to inconvenience. It's hard to remember a time when home video consisted of shitty looking VHS tapes that degraded after each viewing or these giant heavy platters that could really do anything a DVD can do.
Bit they're analog video, that still blows my mind. Sometimes I wish I had lived through that era as an adult. It was like living on another planet, people around you still had black and white TV's, but you would have been rocking last years blockbusters with a fast forward feature that still hasn't been beat. With that AC3 surround sound codec no less.
No such thing.
Someone should make a website where you can search a film and it tells you “What’s the best physical release currently for this film”, with details about resolution, color correction and DNR
Currently I just use DVDBeaver and make my own comparisons
My collection of over 11500 films, 5000+ of them 7.1 Atmos 4k Remux rips
Holy frick.
all paid for by idiots like you that bought movies literally from a dumpster on ebay, at least 2500$ just in hard drives
13 16tb
3 10 tb
1 4tb SSD
1 2tb NVME
No worries about the HDD suddenly dying on you? I’ve had a 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB just stop spinning with no warning or reason. Only use SSD now
not too worried they are all nas drives and i can easily replace anything lost
How big are the drives?
That looks dumb as frick
This is the most basic b***h shit “collection” I have ever seen on here and that’s including the morons who post their own collection that’s just literally every movie ever that you just know they’ve seen less than half of.
I hate how the first 3 transformers look in 4K. Fricked up all the colors and brightness and contrast and shit. They shouldn't touch these things unless the cinematographer allows it.
Are you moronic?
Serious question.
it's overflow
From your toilet? Who the frick buys a Steven Seagull box set?
love Seagal movies up to Fire Down Below, don't care what anyone thinks. great action
was heavily discounted since Best Buy was getting out of physical, couldn't pass it up
i buy movies i enjoy watching since the collection is for me, it is not a collection to look for your approval
are you too goyish for books?
I have close to 400 blu-rays and I wish I was more careful about what I bought. There is maybe one dozen kinos I actually needed a physical copy of. I keep rewatching shit like Aliens and Robocop. I have four fricking copies of Aliens. I already had it on DvD, then I bought a standalone blu-ray when I was starting my collection. Later I found a four pack with all of the original films and finally I bought it in 4k.
Having copies is the perfect excuse to start rewatching other things.
I don't want to watch anything other than the same couple films. I have a lot of great movies, but they have no rewatch value compared to Predator or The Thing. Why would I ever pick Casablanca or The Godfather over Predator?
What about Robocop 2 or Mad Max? Have you rewatched those? Those are fun ones.
Yeah, I like the first two Mad Max films. Not a fan of Robocop 2. There's other stuff too like Dawn and Day of the Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Fly, etc.
>I like the first two Mad Max films.
Based.
>Not a fan of Robocop 2
Maybe you'll like it more on a rewatch. It's better if you view it as a pulpy cartoony "adventures of Robocop" type movie instead of comparing it to the more serious kino of the first film.
>I like the first two Mad Max films.
first mad max was the weakest of the og trilogy by far, the one with the children also sucked ass. only good one was Road Warrior
Mad Max 1 is kino.
Good Goy
When y'all have enough, it's time to make a "Anon Chud's Closet" walkthrough vid. I respect it.
nice little korean kino collection.
why not just buy a fat 10tb hdd and fill it up with bluray rips though?
Black person b***h how the frick is the rock and Armageddon not on 4K
FRICK DISNEY
r8 my recent purchases teevee
Decent coomer shit
I saw that lesbian one in the cinema. Don't think I'd sit through those 3 hours again just to watch some French dykes get it on, though.
wish the director would release all the footage he says he has, hours worth of lesbian scene
Why didn't you pick up Barbarella on 4k? I bought the limited edition set and it's amazing. Also you should have grabbed the 4k of All Ladies do it.
I don't yet have a 4k player or 4k tv, only reason I got Undefeatable in 4k is vecause it's the only edition for sale. Right now I'm satisfied with 1080p
You're missing out. 1080p is nice but it's made even better on a 4k TV with a nice standalone 4k player upscaling it. If you're going to collect you may as well go all out, plus you're buying stuff that already has 4k transfers on disc. Buy releases that have both blu ray and 4k discs so when you upgrade you'll already have it.
>No VHS tapes
Bunch’s slack jawed homosexuals round these parts
Movies or more switch boxes
I only buy DVDs, never blu ray or 4K. It's unironically just because I like DVD cases better. Anyone else do this?