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I'm a big advocate for physical media in general
because of being able to just revisit
old classics in the highest quality.
There's so many definitive editions, and I really love that.
From companies like Vinegar Syndrome,
Blue Underground, Severin, of course.
Arrow.
They might find actors that haven't even
talked about this movie in 20 years,
and you get a new perspective on how something
might have changed their lives.
Of course, with the boost in quality, that's always a perk.
And so that's why I'm a big fan of Blu-ray.
- I guess when it comes to physical media,
what I do enjoy the most is the actual ownership of this.
The fact that a studio isn't going
to take anything away from you.
They're not going to, again, they're not gonna
come to your house, they're not gonna
knock on your door and say,
you know we want The Lady and the Highway Man back.
They're not going to-
Why do I own that movie?
They're not going to say that to you.
I actually own movies in my collection
that were recalled for one reason or another,
that I was lucky enough to get on DVD or get on a Blu-ray.
Either a studio was supposed to put something out
and then they weren't allowed to do it,
Or there was an issue with a movie or something like that.
For whatever reason, stuff got recalled.
I do have some of those in here.
If I had digital copies of that,
they would have just been completely pulled
or they'd be gone forever or in the case of Disney,
they may have, you know, edited some stuff that,
that I own now.
So again, when it comes to physical media,
the reason why I love collecting it so much
is just because again, ownership.
I have these movies, these movies are mine,
nobody's going to change them,
nobody's going to alter them,
nobody's going to take them away.
A streaming service is not going to just
randomly one day disappear.
Movies aren't just going to randomly one day
disappear because, again, a streaming service
lost the rights to stream those movies.
I don't take it for granted that I could hold up
physical media for all of these things that I've
been lucky enough to be involved in.
And, you know, we had an MTV version of Warren the Ape.
There is no Blu-ray or DVD available.
MTV didn't want to it.
And that's sad, you know, because...
Everything's streaming now, and that could be great,
and that could be really convenient,
but there's just something about physical media
that I will be with until the day they stop making it.
I mean, if you like a particular film,
if you're a fan and you have passion and a film
is more than a film to you and a film is part of your life,
I mean, you want to represent that on a shelf.
You can't do that with streaming.
I mean, look at this.
I love Tron. I love Tron legacy.
When Tron Legacy came out in 2010, that was a dream.
I never thought there would be a sequel to Tron,
and then look at this.
You can't tell me that streaming
has anything on something like this.
This sits on my shelf.
And every time I look at it, I'm just happy.
When I'm out hunting for physical media,
and I see something that I want,
it's like a little jolt of electricity hits me
and I just get very excited and I grab it
and I don't even think about money,
I just need to have this stuff.
There's other people, the complete opposite.
They don't want any possessions in their life,
and I accept that and it's just not for me.
I'm a person who wants to have a lot of stuff.
But the more you collect, the longer it goes on,
the more stuff accumulates, the more space it takes up.
So you get a problem after a while
where you just run out of space.
There's just nowhere left to keep any more stuff,
and it starts to get disorganized.
And that's where I am in my life now,
where I really just don't have any organization.
And that's a dream of mine to one day
have everything put in perfect order.
It's going to be a lot of fun doing that one day.
But my thing I always loved, like, about physical media
is it's like making it still alive out there,
showing you can still collect really cool things
if you can find them,
especially like with tapes and that kind of thing.
I even like retro toys, 'cause I have Boglins up over there.
And like old school posters, you know.
But, yeah, I think with physical media it's just great.
I just love the whole thing,
the whole nostalgia vibe of it.
For me going into like a video store, you know,
and going there as a kid to an early teenager,
you know, looking for like horror tapes
in the horror section
and see what kind of cool stuff is there to get
and having that kind of fun vibe.
So I'll get that in my home
and I like to portray it out there in my videos,
and what I like to promote on my Instagrams
and things and Facebook and stuff of just like
showing and connecting to all this cool stuff.
And with my channel too, I get stuff from PR companies
to review like Blu-rays and 4Ks and DVDs
and that kind of thing, which I like to show people
out there you can still buy this stuff.
I think it's just better to get it,
have it physically, instead of to depend on digital format,
and like, you know, the streaming services
that are out there, which are cool,
but a lot of them, a lot of that stuff can be edited down
or they can take the movies away
without you even knowing about it.
I like to have it physically on hand,
so I know I always own it and I always have it,
and it's like in my collection.
Plus you get the great cover art
and all that cool stuff it could be unedited,
like, you know, uncut versions of it,
and you get the cool, raw form of it,
which I love, too.
'Cause like the trailers the trailers they show
at the beginning of VHS tapes 'cause it' like
that going back in time, you know,
and especially with tapes.
You get that, it's like stuck during that time period.
You get all kinds of cool stuff you might get
in those trailers before the movie starts,
which is just kinda really cool.
There was In Cold Blood,
The Boston Strangler, Helter Skelter,
and now Savage Weekend.
Savage Weekend is not a film for the whole family.
It's only for those who can stand to be terrified.
Savage Weeekend.
A way look at it also is streaming is a format.
A lot of people don't realize that.
Streaming is just, you know, DVDs of like, the next DVD.
And what I mean by that is give it, you know, 10,
20 years, however many years from now,
streaming, the way we think of it today,
will not be a thing.
That'll be something different.
Streaming will be something completely different
than we even imagine right now.
Again, just like a couple of years ago,
we were downloading movies.
We needed room on our computer to download a digital copy
from Warner Brothers or from iTunes.
We needed to, like, download them and store them.
Now, of course, that is all in the um, in the Cloud.
It's all in some magical place out there
in the land of the internet.
So, you know, that's the way it is now.
Again, what's it gonna be like in 10, 20 years?
What are we going to be looking at?
So my question is all these streaming services,
will they still be around?
Are they still gonna be a thing?
If a streaming service that you buy into goes away,
what happens to those movies?
Do they transfer over to some other streaming service?
Are they just gone forever?
Who knows?
Or, let's say, you know the way Disney
streams stuff right now, let's say, in 20 years from now,
they stream stuff differently.
Are you still gonna have that stuff?
Are they going to transfer all the movies over?
Are they going to say, okay, you have a thousand movies
in our streaming service,
but now we're not going to stream this way,
we're going to stream this way now.
It's going to be something completely different,
it's something that we're not even thinking of
at this moment.
I mean, think, think outside the box.
It could be anything.
Maybe it's implanted into your brain.
Maybe it's holographic.
Who knows what it might be.
I think physical media, the nostalgia of it,
was a big thing for me.
I grew up in a house full of VHS tapes,
cabinets full of movies, whether they be Disney movies,
or my parents had, you know, more PG-13, R-rated stuff.
But I was always surrounded by movies.
I always loved movies, since a young age.
Toxy, you bad boy, come, get outta there.
Shawn C. Phillips and Tony Newton,
you want to know why?
Why hard media is important?
It's certainly important to Troma Entertainment,
47-year-old, oldest independent studio in the world,
because how many cinephiles would never
have discovered our movies, right?
And in fact, many movies that nobody knows about
are in the Roan Collection, R-O-A-N.
Wonderful, wonderful movies.
Beautifully restored by us for the Roan Collection.
And then of course, if it wasn't for this, VHS,
we would probably have long gone
because Troma was perhaps the first movie studio
to embrace this wonderful new form,
and it put us on the map because we had a big library
of company produced movies,
and we got in ahead of the studios
and the public began to know us.
And then finally here, the beautiful,
beautiful DVDs, Blu-rays, and the point is that
the first amendment is very important,
and due to the consolidation of media,
the public has been denied a free, diverse
and democratic variety of voices.
And thanks to hard media, the Troma team
gets to get out there and have millions of fans,
that were it not for hard media,
Troma would be long gone,
and I'd be pushing a plow somewhere.
Thank you.
- When you think about physical media for me, obviously,
we're going back to the time
of the VHS originally and then on to DVD.
But I always loved owning physical copies of things.
You know, when I grew up as a boy,
if you saw something on TV you didn't get to see it again
until it came on television again
and the same in the cinema.
If you want to see a movie in the cinema,
you didn't get to see that again until it appeared on TV.
And if it did appear on TV, then, you know,
you'd wonder if it was going to appear
on one of the other channels if you were really excited
about seeing the particular movie
or the particular TV show.
But then of course, with the advent of VHS,
we had a VHS player, not a Betamax.
We always joked about the Betamax,
like you know, you had to pour water into them,
you know, and that'd heat it up and steam would rise
and eventually it would work.
That, which of course, is a joke,
but they were very big, cumbersome machines
and we got one of the latest kind of streamlined
VHS players, and that was always exciting
because you never knew what was going to come out.
And of course, you know, this is during the time
of the video nasties, and so you get a lot
of the Italian genre pictures coming out.
Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, Bava.
And, you know, it was a very exciting time,
especially if you're interested in horror
or the supernatural.
So my brothers and I always kind of ate that up.
But a very interesting thing happened
in the very early 80s was a friend
of the family turned up and he was a little bit
of a shady character, you know, and he was kind of going,
oh, I could get you this movie or that movie,
and we were kind of joking going, oh yeah,
could you get us ET, or Poltergeist?
And of course, neither of these films
had come out in the cinema.
And then very strangely, a week later,
he turned up with two VHS tapes and they were blank,
and he said, okay, let's watch these.
And it was Poltergeist and ET,
and neither of which had appeared in the cinema yet.
And I never got to the bottom of how he did this
or who his contacts were, but when you're a boy,
you don't really think about that.
All you're thinking is, you know,
I'm getting to see ET and Poltergeist before anybody else.
You know, and to this day, I have no idea how he did it.
It turned out, he was a criminal.
He disappeared out of our lives pretty quickly, thank God.
But you know, it was very exciting
to be able to watch these films.
And like I said, we never thought about the,
you know, the legal implications
or how he came across them.
But um, you know, so things like that were very exciting.
You got to see these movies, and then you got to see
all the movies that were kind of illicit, you know,
shouldn't really be watching these, really,
you know, hardcore horror movies.
But they were usually very atmospheric films, you know,
again like Suspiria and Inferno,
and even early pictures by Argento,
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,
Four Flies on Grey Velvet, et cetera.
So, you know, it was a great education
for Italian cinema and British horror cinema
and American cinema.
I collect pretty much just DVD,
because that's kind of the one...
I didn't grow up on DVD.
I grew up on VHS, but like on the tail end
of it was obviously DVD because I'm not that old,
I'm only 27.
And so DVD was like huge on the come up
whenever I was growing up.
This is DVD.
And this...
Is what happens...
When you watch DVD.
It's a movie on a disc the size of a CD.
The picture is twice as sharp as VHS.
The sound is infinitely clearer.
It looks and sounds like you're at the movies,
but you can experience it at home.
Not to mention, you can watch it in wide screen,
listen to audio commentary, choose from features
like directors notes, behind the scenes footage,
trailers, and more.
Watch a movie right on your computer.
And rent or buy DVDs from these great Hollywood studios.
DVD.
See how good a movie at home can be.
And so, you know, we would go to the movie stores
and whatnot and it would be kind of a mixture of the two,
VHS and DVD, but VHS started to kind of fall out
and DVD stuck around.
So I pretty much, when I started collecting really,
it was DVD that was mostly out there, so I picked up on DVD.
Blu-ray not so much.
I don't really care about the Blu-ray thing
because I care so much about VHS tapes
and I'm not really into like the whole quality thing,
like picture quality and sound quality.
I like a lot of like shot on video DVDs and whatnot.
And yeah, so Blu-ray really didn't really do it for me,
but DVD was the one that I've stuck with and really enjoyed.
I wish I could have more VHS tapes,
but it's just a little bit, you know, pricey
and I don't have enough room for that,
but I do like VHS a lot.
And then of course, DVDs arrived,
and then suddenly you've got,
not only do you have this array
of fantastic materials coming out,
but you have the special features,
which was incredibly exciting.
You kind of go, oh, here's a documentary
on how they made this particular film.
Here's the interviews with the cast and crew.
Here are, you know, insights into the filmmaking
and the structure and production
with key figures within the production
that you never would have heard of before
unless it was a very specific documentary made,
you know by the BBC or ITV at the time.
So, you know, that was another very exciting
advance that emerged with DVD, and then Blu-ray of course.
But owning physical media, I think,
has always been a very exciting thing.
It's one thing to view something or to have it,
you know, digitally there and you can download it,
but to actually have a physical copy that you can hold,
and open, there's a booklet in it
and, you know look at the artwork and put it
on your shelf and kind of go, yeah,
I'll take that title down and I'll revisit that again.
It's not quite the same with digital download,
video on demand, even though that's the way it's all moving,
and I think it's really going to become
a collector's paradise for people
who want to own physical media going forward.
But I think it's very important.
With DVDs and Blu-rays, you got the cool commentary,
behind the scenes footage, things like that.
But yeah, I was kind of going through some
of my stuff right now in my collection.
But I just love to portray, like,
to get the physical media out there, collect it, get it.
I like to inspire people to get it and that kind of thing.
But let's go look at my collection.
I'll talk a little bit more while I'll do that,
but let's go check out some of my stuff right now.
Here we go, my living room.
You know, I got my posters up there.
Original Popcorn poster.
And we'll start my favorite stuff I like to collect,
which is my VHS video tapes,
and move on to my DVDs and Blu-rays, which I love, too.
But this is my definitely my favorite stuff to collect,
is my, you know, videotapes, my VHS's,
which I've been collecting a long time,
like since I was a kid, you know, and things like that.
One of my first ones I ever got was a kid was Scream Greats.
I bought this one later one,
but I bought this originally at a, going out of-
It wasn't going out of business,
but it was at like a Sears outlet center,
I bought it for like a few bucks with like, grandma,
about learning how to do makeup effects.
That's what I thought this was,
and I realized that this guy, Tom Savini,
did all these amazing effects and so I learned from him
about movie effects and things like that,
and all that kind of deal.
This is a cool one too, speaking of makeup effects,
this is Dick Smith's How-To.
And what was cool, there's like a makeup booklet
that's like attached to it up there.
It's attached to the tape, is this makeup booklet,
so it's really, really neat.
But it's like collecting tapes.
This is a really cool one
with the embossed cover art of Black Roses.
Clamshells up over here.
There's pretty, a couple of rare ones.
The first shot on video movie, Sledgehammer.
I got two of these for an amazing, cheap price.
One, I think for only five bucks,
the other one was like for free, so those are real rare.
And this is a good one up here,
is the Werewolves on Wheels, unicorn video.
It has amazing cover art.
That's a unicorn.
I got another unicorn one up here.
Grave of the Vampire, look at that art.
That's so amazing.
It's all about, you know, getting the physical stuff,
'cause you get the great artwork with it.
But you know, video tapes, you get the really cool artwork.
And I got you know, some things up over here.
Something Weird videos, Prisms.
Kind of everywhere. Old media.
The original media right here, before they meta.
These are some pretty rare ones
up over there like that one.
Albino's a pretty cool, weird flick.
And then up over here,
some other kind of neat stuff,
you know, some Vestrons, that kind of thing.
There's like unicorn slip cases.
This is one of those one tapes where it's like
the cover looks amazing, but the movie's kind of crappy.
That's what that is.
And you got the classic shot on video one.
Video Violence.
Look at that cover art.
Amazing.
And real quick, before I forget,
let's go look above my shelves.
I've got an old school, original Addams family cereal box.
I always like weird nostalgia stuff like that, you know?
Silent Night, Deadly Night figure.
Original Boglins toy.
I had one of those as a kid,
but I got this one later on, you know, a few years back
all complete in the box.
And this is another rare, cool tape, Blood Frenzy.
Look at that cover art.
Really cool, rare one.
And this is kind of a cool game,
Shrieks and Creaks, the talking game.
It was like a cassette back in the 80s.
Has that since I was a kid and that kind of thing.
You know, it's just my tapes.
This is my favorite things I like to collect is the tapes.
And there's some stuff in the bottom over there.
A little Freddy glove, you know,
Friday the 13th type stuff.
And these are some pretty cool ones, like AIP,
a really great, low budget, bad company.
And there's like some, these ones are pretty cool, too.
A company called City Lights had a lot
of cool, weird ones, like, you know,
sort of shot on video type stuff.
This is a rare, cool one, Hollow Gate,
and this is a pretty cool company.
If you're finding the stuff, get these.
These are pretty hard to find. LA Crack Down.
They got a lot of neat, weird action horror flicks.
This is my collection of what I have currently
as far as big box horror movies go,
including a custom Death Doll,
which has never been released in America.
Of course, I got my autographed copy of Hard to Die,
autographed by Deborah Dutch, who I've worked with
in quite a few of my films, actually.
Make Them Die Slowly, Mondo Magic.
Rabid.
My autographed double feature by Fred Olen Ray
of Scalps and The Slayer.
We got Shocking Asia.
We have an import version from the UK actually,
of Slumber Party Massacre.
Two Faces of Evil which is one,
not only of the first horror movies I ever bought,
but the first big box horror movie I ever bought.
I bought it at a pawn shop, actually,
in Falls City, Nebraska.
And then this is actually one of those reissues
from Full Moon that I bought
at San Diego Comic Con last year.
It's White Slave.
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th.
It's still sealed.
I can watch it on a bunch of other formats,
but it's just nice having, like, the air from when
this was produced just in there.
It's like if you open it, it completely loses that value.
Um...
I don't know, it's just something about that is fun
that it's like, it's like a treasure.
So this is the bulk of my collection.
I find it weird that collectors don't really agree,
necessarily, on a uniform standard for how
you organize your movies.
And when you have a couple of hundred movies,
you know, people will organize them lots of different ways,
by actors, by genres.
But I feel like once you get to that 500-plus,
you gotta start doing alphabetical.
So all my movies are alphabetical.
We start over here.
We have TV series and then 4K,
Blu-ray,
and then DVD.
Welcome to my physical media collection,
my movie room, as I like to call it.
So you can see there, it says Ryan's Movies,
'cause this is kind of my getaway with
all of my physical media, things for me to watch.
So I'll just give you a quick overview
of the kind of things that I collect as a movie collector.
I collect a bit of everything.
We can start off right here.
As you can see, I love VHS tapes.
I don't have too many anymore, but I still have quite a few.
This wall right here is dedicated to my love
for Universal monsters.
And when I was a kid,
I used to mow lawns and I would save up my money each week
to buy a videotape and most of these types here
are my original ones from when I was a kid.
And back then you'd have to go somewhere like Suncoast Video
or something like that to get a tape like this,
and you'd pay $20 or $25 for it.
So kinda some prized pieces in my collection right there.
Not that they're worth money,
but to me they're important, just because, yeah,
I love them so much.
So love that display.
And I even have a closet here that houses a bunch
of my DVDs.
And I have everything kind of sorted,
and you can see in here, this is a kind of drama
and action films, go into sci-fi.
We have some TV series over here,
and then we step in and we have
some comedy films over there.
So yeah, it's kind of just my overflow closet
of movies there, and the main genre that
I probably have the most love for,
definitely have the most love for is horror.
And this whole wall here are horror DVDs
and Blu-rays and they are by...
I kinda categorize things in strange ways.
Just, it's just how I like to do it.
So as you can see here, I've got some tabs,
like little monsters movies,
crocs and gators, or maybe lycanthropes,
like werewolf films.
And you can see up here I've got vampires and yeah,
different things like that.
Snakes, I love.
And we have robots down here, and creepy dolls.
Gotta have creepy dolls in your collection.
So I organize things like that.
I also organize things by company, like Full Moon,
which is right here.
So I like organizing things that way, as well.
Moving on over to this wall,
you can see, big fan of Arrow Video and Scream Factory,
which I really think these boutique titles
are what keep physical media collecting alive,
especially for us horror fans.
You can see, we go down into Scream Factory there.
And then yeah, just some other shots here.
Love Steven Spielberg, have all his things separated.
Superhero stuff.
And then some more stuff over here by company,
like Wild Eye Releasing and things like that.
So yeah, I take a lot of pride in how I organize things.
And the cool thing is is it's organized
kind of how I like it.
You know, it's when I come in here
and try to find something, I know exactly where it is,
and you can see some more shelves back here.
Big Godzilla fan. Have all my Godzilla films there.
So here I got the TV series.
It's kind of a ridiculous amount of TV series,
but I feel like, you know, a lot of people
like to stream their shows, but with the explosion
of streaming services, and you never know what show's
going to be on what service,
or it's going to be available.
If you have a show you love, you gotta own 'em.
- So basically we collect a lot of movies.
Basically DVDs, Blu-rays 4K, TV shows, movies.
Basically just- - Anything.
All physical media of any kind, you know.
We even collect CDs and comic books.
- And vinyls, still. - Vinyls, yeah.
But our main thing is definitely Blu-rays and DVDs.
You didn't think we were done, did you?
This is the rest of the 4,000 movie collection.
I think most people, you know,
could store 1,000 to 2,000 movies in their house.
When you get to the 4,000 mark, you gotta have some space.
So this is the movie room.
I got DVDs on both walls.
This one and that one.
This is obviously the bigger side,
but this was the original casing that I had for this.
In about 2011, I got this from my grandparents,
and it was only filled up to about halfway.
And now over the about 10 year period,
I've accumulated all this stuff.
It's not a ton, but it's got some gems in there,
so that's what I'm proud of.
I'll go through a couple of titles with you.
This movie right here, first and foremost,
The Evil Dead is the one that started it all.
This is the, this is the one that got me
into the collecting and I wouldn't be here with all this
if it wasn't for this movie.
It's the best movie ever made.
And then eh, I'll just go through.
I usually like the lower budget stuff,
like Death Metal Zombies.
It's not something you see very often.
I'm really excited about that one.
Like having that in the collection.
That's a cool one.
I got a bunch of 'em, especially like when it comes
to Troma, I have a ton of those.
Brain Damage Films, stuff like that.
That's all the good stuff.
Here, get out of here.
And then, yeah, just like this one right here.
This is a really good one. Bone Sickness.
Gotta love that flick, for like gory.
Fun movie.
Blown, about a killer sex doll.
Stuff like this is why I'm in this business.
You know, things like Death Row Diner.
That's a really cool one.
That's actually a boot, but that's okay.
And then one of my favorites that I think
should be in every horror collection,
but it doesn't seem to be talked about enough.
Is Skinned Deep.
This movie right here is one of
the best movies I've ever seen.
Yeah, dude.
It's a crazy one about this guy with
a bear trap for a mouth that's killing this family.
It's pretty sick.
But yeah, this is pretty much what it is.
This is my manhood right here.
- There was something of having physical releases for movies
like Scary Movie or Shriek If You Know What I Did
Last Friday the 13th that made me
want to spoof the spoofs, so at 12 years old
I was making movies like Sunday the 15th,
and A Nightmare On My Street.
Hand drew the covers for the VHS's
and then poorly designed the DVD covers as well.
But there was something about
the movie not being complete until
it was put in a physical form.
Something like a VHS or a DVD transfer.
Being able to throw that on the shelf was almost like,
okay, it's complete, it's done.
- I think physical media will always be around.
There will always be people who want to own something
that they can hold and they can touch
and they can play this movie whenever they want,
and there's no rental of it.
And that's the way I am.
I just feel like, you know, if I wake up
at three in the morning and I want to watch
some Italian cannibal movie, I know I've got 'em all
and I can watch whatever I want.
And some of this stuff is not available on streaming.
So there's really no other choice but to own it
if you want to watch it.
And that goes for all the other things that I collect.
It's just kind of putting all these pieces
of a puzzle together for me.
I just want to have complete collections of things.
So I love early 80s horror movies,
and so I want every one of them in my collection
and then I want the soundtrack to them
and then I want the movie poster for them.
So it just kind of really goes back to just
this love of horror that I have,
and by collecting it somehow
is like a little bit of a,
like almost my friends or family to me.
So I will continue doing that.
When it comes to physical media, like what do I collect,
I pretty much mainly focus on DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K.
I'm very much into collecting different types
of cinematic media.
I'm big into the history of different types
of cinematic media.
Anything that a studio put their property on
to release it to public, whether it was in like a,
kind of more of a toys sort of form,
like the Fisher-Price movie viewer,
or something like that,
or, you know something like 4K or Blu-ray
or something like that.
So I'm very much into collecting that kind of stuff.
In fact, I'm so much into collecting that kind of stuff
that I built myself kind of a little museum down here,
three display cases full of I believe,
there are 41 different types of cinematic media in here,
ranging from, you know, again,
the typical stuff, DVDs, Blu-rays, 4Ks, LaserDiscs,
to things like Video 8,
VCC, which was like a German type of format.
Betam, HD DVDs.
I don't even know what else is in here.
PVD.
UMD.
There is CBHD, which was China's, like, answer to Blu-ray
in the beginning of the whole format war.
There is HD VMD, which was another sort of
competitor between Blu-ray and HD DVD
that never actually, really technically got a release,
but I have some of those.
So that, again, that's something I'm very much into,
is just the history of cinematic media.
I love all these different formats.
Some of them, you know, were very successful.
Some of them were obviously complete failures,
and some of them like things, for instance,
like super bit DVDs kind of were precursors to Blu-rays
and even 3D DVDs were precursors to 3D Blu-rays.
So all kinds of cool stuff like that.
So, again, that's something I'm very much,
very much into is just the, the collecting
of cinematic medias.
- I've been collecting physical media since I was a kid.
Little Mermaid was one of my first VHS's,
and the box had a hidden little penis on it.
I hadn't noticed that until I was an adult.
And Home Alone, my VHS's, god,
they've got so much wear and tear.
I collected every Disney movie in the clam shell cases,
so those were really cool.
I loved having those.
And when DVDs came out, I started getting everything.
I re-bought everything I already had on VHS.
It was so fun when they would put seasons of TV shows out,
like shows that I missed,
and it was such a great way to catch up.
I like to collect a bunch of different media,
including VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, HD DVD, UMD,
VCD, movie CD, then Blu-ray, 4K,
I even have some 16 millimeter, 35 millimeter,
as you can see behind-
Oh my God! There's more?
There's a lot of stuff.
My earliest recollection, as far as starting
to buy physical media was back in 2008
when I first started working at Blockbuster.
I remember there was like the popular movies
they would get in stacks.
And once a movie was not as popular anymore,
they would make like a big,
like a bin in the middle of the store
with like a bunch of movies in there
that were either I think three for $15 for the popular ones,
and I think five for $25, I think,
for the less popular ones.
Maybe the pricing is probably way off, but I remember that,
and I first watched Repo! The Genetic Opera
for the first time and it blew my mind
and I saw it in that stack of, I think three for $15,
or whatever, however much it was.
And I was like, I need to own this
because I want to be able to revisit this movie
whenever I want.
So getting that meant I have to get two other ones,
and I honestly don't remember what the other two were,
but that's my earliest recollection of buying DVDs
and starting a collection.
As you can see behind me, I have quite a few VHS
and then over here on my left, I have quite a few DVDs.
Upstairs I also have, you know, quite the assortment
of Blue-rays, too.
Over here, off screen, you can't see,
but I do have a bunch of, a bunch of LaserDiscs.
- Physical media that I collect,
mostly Blu-rays and DVDs.
But if they don't have on Blu-rays,
then I got to just buy on DVDs.
But I also have some VHS and I also have 4K.
So I pretty much collect Blu-rays, DVDs, 4K and VHS.
VHS will always be my favorite format,
my favorite physical media.
Don't get me wrong, I love Blu-rays,
I adore Blue-rays and DVDs because of the special features.
They're amazing.
But I mean, with me, I'll try and get film on every format.
So if I, you know, I'll get it on VHS,
I'll get it on Blu-ray, I'll get it on DVD, even 4K,
you know, because you love that film so much.
You want every edition.
And nowadays with slip covers
and holographic covers and SteelBooks,
you know, I think collectors like myself,
just want every available format of their favorite films.
Obviously I'm kind of also going for
like a video store set up with the Blu-ray marques,
which I got from a MovieStop
that was closing down in Orlando.
As well as some security cases,
just in case those pesky teens want to try
and steal run, run past my metal detector.
Not this time.
So this is the collection.
I pretty much collect DVDs, Blu-rays,
4Ks, 3D Blu-rays.
I have a couple of the LaserDiscs,
VHS and Beta as well.
And I've always been a huge collector of physical media.
It's always been something that I've been into.
And I started, you know, I saw someone on YouTube, though,
showing a video of just showing like their collection.
Their movies were all throughout their house
and their drawers and everything.
And that's what kind of inspired me
to show my collection online.
I do a weekly video series
on the YouTube channel, coolduder,
and I basically go out every Tuesday to, you know,
Target, Best Buy, Walmart, the main stores
and go around and show the new releases.
And then in my video as well, I, you know,
review and talk about the titles that have come out
and I give my opinions on them.
I'll talk about the Blu-rays and all that kind of stuff.
But I actually started doing YouTube video reviews
I think around 2006, when, I think 2006, 2007,
I believe it was 2007 when I first started.
And I started posting though, you know,
videos showing my collection.
I did a whole video just going around my whole collection
showing all the things that I had.
And it started getting a lot of attention online
and everybody seemed to really like it.
And, you know, and I realized
that there was a huge community of DVD
and collectors out there that wanted to
see people's collection.
So then from there I started doing videos called
My DVD Collection Update,
and I basically was doing those every single two weeks.
And it was me going and, you know, showing, you know,
the new movies that I picked up over the last two weeks.
And I would just basically hold the movies up,
I would talk a little bit about them,
say if I thought they were good or worth picking up
and what I thought about them and all that kind of stuff.
And I, you know, continued on doing those until today
and I'm still doing them now.
Doing videos every single Tuesday,
going and showing the new releases that came out,
going to the stores, you know,
showing the, you know, exclusive additions.
'Cause that's the one thing that I really feel like
really keeps physical media alive.
- I promised myself when Blue-ray came out,
that I wouldn't buy every single horror movie on Blue-ray,
but unfortunately, I am falling victim
because there's so much cool stuff coming out on Blu-ray.
They're just falling everywhere.
And I got hundreds more upstairs.
Savage Streets.
You guys know this is Linda Blair movie, from Code Red.
It's out of print, with slip cover,
and she signed it.
So this is pretty cool.
I flipped it, I flipped the cover.
But this is pretty cool, she signed it,
so the prices went up.
Right now, rent any movie from Blockbuster
and you get a kid's film absolutely free.
Great news for grown-ups.
Make it a Blockbuster night.
I want to talk about a couple of releases, you know,
while we, you know, while I have the platform.
First one here, Weekend of Horror
is the Fangoria horror convention.
You know, being someone that, you know,
occasionally does attend horror conventions,
This is just so, this is the epitome of nostalgia.
This is, I'm very happy to have this in my collection,
but this was only released on VHS,
beautiful, beautiful cover art.
You know, it's just, it's just something
that I really, really enjoy, you know, having,
owning and put out by Media,
distributed in 1986, you know,
it's just one of those really cool pieces.
This is kind of interesting.
I found this at a Goodwill.
This is a edited version of Moral Combat.
There's a couple of other films like this
that are edited versions of, you know,
films that could easily, you know,
be PG if like, you know, one curse word was taken out
or, you know, like I dunno,
a scene with a scantily clad lady was edited out,
but I thought that this was really neat.
The idea of seeing a family version of Mortal Kombat
kind of struck me as funny.
I mentioned that I liked to collect cartoons.
Mighty Max is something I grew up watching,
and I have a couple different episodes of Mighty Max on VHS,
but it's never been released to DVD,
I rarely ever see these tapes,
and that's just something I really enjoy,
you know, watching.
I collected the toys, you know, watched the show.
I believe it was on UPN.
Pretty nostalgia.
Pretty nostalgic.
Another one that I grew up watching
that I had a really hard time finding.
Found this in a Facebook group.
This is a Masked Rider.
This is a failed Power Rangers spinoff.
This was supposed to be basically
America's version of Common Rider.
And this is actually sealed.
I haven't watched it yet,
but this was a special two part mini series
that I remember thinking as a kid,
that this was so cool because, you know,
Power Rangers are cool, therefore anything
that's similar to Power Rangers is cool.
So of course Saban's Masked Rider, you know,
is definitely cool.
And then last but not least,
whenever I first got into collecting,
this was one of my holy grails,
and I just randomly found it at Goodwill one day.
This is a cartoon.
It's called Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue,
and what this is is basically a PSA
with all of your favorite cartoon characters,
telling you not to do drugs.
So basically it's just a huge, like DARE video
put out by McDonald's and Disney.
It's funny 'cause it says Buena Vista rather than Disney.
Primarily Blu-ray, 4K in SteelBook form,
if it's available.
And now I'm starting to get into media books, so,
look out bank account.
SteelBooks are my favorite physical media of all time,
especially the ones with lenticular.
I like lenticular SteelBooks.
You can't pass up on the linticularness
on a still book.
That is my ultimate combination right there.
Just combine both of them together, equals heaven.
It's heaven for me. I absolutely love it.
So Blu-rays and SteelBooks,
4K SteelBooks, lenticular SteelBooks, it doesn't matter.
Just give me a SteelBook
because most of the time I just love their cover artwork.
I love the feel of them.
They're very different.
So I collect LaserDiscs.
LaserDiscs are a optical video format
that was primarily popular in Asia.
It was introduced in the 70s and it lasted way up until
the early 2000s was when the last disc was produced.
So in some arguments you could make a strong argument
to say that LaserDisc has been the longest
lived media format of all time.
Like what, what has lasted longer than 30 years?
I don't know.
But it looks like this.
Let's take a look, let's pull it out of here.
We got a little LA Story with Steve Martin, great movie.
It looks a lot like a record,
and that's kinda what drew me to it
because I have sort of a fascination with 12 inch discs.
I'm also a DJ, and so I have a large record collection
and these, and I'm also, you know,
really into movies, and this seemed
like a natural progression.
Now, most folks, when they get into collecting LaserDiscs,
they do out of motivation to acquire one of two things:
one, the original Star Wars trilogy.
The original Star Wars trilogy,
without any of the special edition,
stepping on Jabba's tail
or the Cantina singing monster lady,
all of that stuff that Lucas did to it
to like sort of put some,
put some extra sauce on the movie.
It's the only way you can get that
without those additions and in the highest possible quality.
All right guys, so this is my physical media collection.
It begins with my 4K UHDs,
which I own approximately 150 titles on right now.
It's the newest format,
the smallest format in my collection.
Most of what's here are either SteelBooks or upgrades
I was able to get for a really good price
to upgrade my Blu-ray or DVD.
Like I said, all sorts of SteelBooks.
And then on the bottom, we have DVDs.
There's spillover from my other shelf
as well as some video games.
And you guys can tell by the top shelf,
I am a bit of a Back to the Future fan.
Probably one of my top five movies of all time,
so I have some back to the future pieces in my collection.
Then we move on to the Blue-rays,
and if you guys couldn't tell by the shirt,
I am a Blu-ray snob.
It is my favorite format.
Superior sound and picture in my opinion,
over DVD, over VHS.
So I have approximately 1,950 Blu-rays in my collection.
All sorts of stuff.
I have DigiBooks, Streetcar Named Desire.
A lot of SteelBooks, probably a couple hundred
at this point.
This is La La Land, my Manta Lab SteelBook, numbered to 700.
One of my favorites in my collection.
Freaks and Geeks, I have numerous TV series,
this probably being one of my favorite I own.
Mini SteelBooks. There's Hobbs and Shaw.
I have a few other mini SteelBooks on the top here,
along with a DVD screener of La La Land,
VHS screener copy of Rounders
and a DIVX copy of Rounders.
Rounders is my favorite movie of all time.
And then some other collectors editions here.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
Goonies, The Planet of the Apes head,
the Home Alone tin, Big Labowski,
the bowling ball, all sorts of stuff.
A UK Back to the Future VHS.
And then last but not least is the DVDs.
Approximately 350 DVDs in my collection.
A lot of what's here is stuff
that was never released to Blu-ray,
or stuff that is out of print,
extremely expensive on Blu-ray
that I would like to upgrade to at some point,
but at least I own it physically
on some format so I can watch it at any point in time.
And that's it for the media collection, guys.
My collection is maybe 1100 discs,
or 1100 movies, Rather.
I probably watch one a week,
I would say is kind of what the average is.
I haven't watched them all.
I don't think I ever will because there's a bunch of crap,
but there's also some amazing stuff.
- Some of the physical media that I collect includes vinyls.
Most of them that I love are soundtrack vinyls.
Some of my favorites, Romeo and Juliet,
Baz Luhrmann, love this one.
Lots of Radiohead.
We have, this is controversial,
31, Rob Zombie.
Great film and a lot of them I think
have like a nostalgia vibe like physical media does.
Batman which is pretty telling.
Vinyls are a little bit different
in why people actually collect them,
unlike VHS and like DVDs and things like that.
It's not like the quality is kept in that product
or that piece of media, but vinyls have superior quality
to CDs or, you know, streaming music online
on Spotify or Pandora.
So I feel like this is really justified
and I feel like people have to collect
these kinds of things, and they're such treasures.
I love when they do limited edition vinyls.
I have a great one on Us,
which I'll pull out in a sec, which is beautiful.
And it's, it's just such a cool thing
to have in your house.
Something that you can actually chuck on
and have that whole experience with.
I love my Alien films as well, so I've got this one.
And then you've got the classics,
like you know, Rosemary's Baby,
which are very much all about that signature score,
which I love this one for.
And I also have Elephant Man,
which I bought this one secondhand.
I think secondhand media is really cool.
The fact that you can,
the fact that people are recycling and reusing media
and it just goes to a new, loving home is really cool,
and I love this film.
As mentioned, one of my favorite of vinyls is Us.
I loved this original score, and it really shows.
Even though it isn't a nostalgia factor
to have physical media, this is new.
Yeah, it went through a little bit
of a rough and tumble, but it's new.
And it's something that I treasure so much
just to have in my possession, just to put on the shelf
and look at, let alone listen to,
but what I really love about this
is it's a limited edition release
and they just go through so much work
to make it so beautiful and it put so much effort into it.
So owning something like this just adds
to the whole experience of the film,
which you don't think that anything can add to it,
but owning stuff sometimes does.
Some of the movie vinyls that I absolutely love
include Phantom of the Opera, which I'm obsessed with.
And another one is The Babadook, which I love so much
and you should see the actual vinyl.
How insane is that?
And if that wasn't enough,
it's also a pop-up book, which I love.
They put so much love and care into this,
and it's just going so great that the fans can hold onto.
Some of my earliest memories of being a kid
was going into a VHS store and actually seeing the posters
of the films and not being able to read the blurbs
on the back and choosing films like that.
And I think it made me a very visual person.
And now sometimes I'll see a cover,
which I remember from when I was a kid
and going to the video store
and like the goddess of Stigmata,
I always remembered that
and how creepy it was when I was a kid.
And it's so interesting how that can stick in your head
and it's such a different attachment you have to films.
I mean, I do miss it.
I don't think anyone,
I don't think anyone doesn't miss going to the video store
and picking out a movie that way.
It was such a ritual going in there with your friends
on a Friday night and kind of fussing over
what you wanted to watch.
It's so different now when everything is just so easily
and readily available for you to just press play.
You don't have that moment of getting back into the car,
driving home, finally getting home, putting on some popcorn
and eating at the same time.
It was such a ritual.
Now I can go through four, five movies a day
just watching them on my computer.
It's crazy. It's a big difference.
So if you think about vinyl records
that is a relic of the past to most people my age.
If you went back 10 years, most of us had never even
seen a vinyl record or played one.
And now I know personally I've started
to collect vinyl records.
I love having movie soundtracks and old classic albums
on vinyl because audio files and people who really
love the music have this feeling that vinyl
sounds better than a CD, it sounds better
than a compressed audio stream
from something like Spotify or iTunes or Apple music,
and that's the highest quality and you own it.
You physically own it, and nobody can take that away.
Nobody can remove it from a service,
remove it from your library.
You own that music.
And there's something nostalgic about that as well.
I collect horror movies on both DVD and Blu-ray,
but mostly Blu-ray simply because
you usually find more special features.
And with a lot of like Blu-ray companies
re-releasing certain movies,
it's almost the only way to get some movies.
Some of these go from VHS, skip DVD.
Sometimes you can find some VOD options,
but the Blu-ray, that's the good stuff,
because that's where you can get
all these behind the scenes, these little featurettes,
director's commentary with casts,
just like retrospectives and deeper dives
into the movies that we love.
And that's one of the reasons why I collect Blu-rays
and DVDs in general, simply because of nostalgia.
There's some kind of nostalgia attached, in most cases.
Obviously with new releases,
I go for the Blu-ray regardless,
but for the older releases that are being restored,
put onto Blu-ray with new special features,
I just like having stuff that I used to like as a kid
and even finding 80s and 90s horror flicks that
maybe I never even heard of,
but still capture that same quality that I enjoy
that is somewhat nostalgic,
even if I haven't even seen the films, you know?
There's some old school practical effects,
there's different movie-making tricks that are kind of lost
in some of the new modern movies that we watched today.
Nostalgia absolutely does play a point to this.
You know, I think anybody born in the 80s
or even probably the 70s,
any kid that grew up in a video store,
I think that that's part of this.
I think that collecting is part of the video store,
you know, experience.
Creating your own video store within your house.
People tell you all the time,
you're not going to be able to watch all that.
Why do you buy all that?
You're wasting your money, yada, yada, yada.
But there's kind of something special about walking
into your own room and having your own video store
and tons of titles that you can
just grab off the shelf at any time.
So there's definitely a nostalgia factor.
You know, this sounds kind of weird,
but some of the best memories I have are, you know,
being a little kid and riding up on the bike
to the video store with your friends
or having your mom go, convincing your mom
to drive you to a video store that was halfway across town
so you could look for some crummy B-movie, you know,
that no one else knew about.
So those are kind of fond experiences.
It's definitely a nostalgia.
And it's also not just nostalgia,
it's obsessive compulsiveness all at the same time.
- I'm a huge fan of VHS.
I think it was VHS, it was back in the early 80s, you know.
It was back going to the video shop on a Friday night
with all the family and you were renting these titles.
I remember walking in and we got our card, video card,
and it was like a portal to another world.
Do you know what I mean?
It's like, literally,
you had access to these films that you couldn't get.
You couldn't have access to these on terrestrial TV
'cause they weren't on there.
Films that were coming out in the cinema.
You know, you wouldn't have access to these films.
And it was like a different world and VHS,
I just love everything about VHS.
I love the magnetic tape,
I love everything about this.
I love the whole action of grabbing it off the shelf,
you know, grabbing this right off the shelf, get this,
put it in the video.
Cha-ching-ching.
You know, pressing play.
There's this connection when you own physical media,
when you actually own physical media,
and you know, it's just a, it's something else.
It's a connection when you own physical media.
It's having that connection with it.
People ask me all the time,
why do you need all this stuff?
And I think part of it is that feeling of nostalgia,
that feeling when you were a kid and you were scared
but fascinated with the horror movies.
And by the mid 80s, I started working
in a video rental store and that's where I got
my collection started.
I would bring home movies that were ex-rentals,
and by the late 80s, I had a pretty large collection
of VHS tapes, but of course LaserDisc came out,
and then I switched to LaserDisc
and I started buying hundreds of LaserDiscs.
They were very expensive and heavy,
but it felt like a big upgrade.
And you know, when DVD hit, I thought this is it.
Nothing will ever get better than DVD.
So I bought thousands of DVDs, thousands.
But I love the feeling of being able to hold a VHS
or hold a DVD and be able to put it in your player
and it's on your shelf and you can look at the artwork.
You can look at the packaging.
It feels like it's really right there.
And I never get that feeling
when it comes to streaming movies.
I always feel like I'm watching somebody else's collection
instead of mine.
So I watch streaming video
for like mainstream Hollywood films,
something I want to watch once but not watch again.
Most of the movies that I love and that I collect
aren't even on any streaming service,
so there's really no other way to see them.
- In the early days of DVD, too,
they had all these kind of promotions
when you would buy a player,
they'd be like, oh when you get this player,
sign up for this and you'll get like seven free movies.
And it was like, some of the big studios would do it.
And it would be like movies like Michael
and the Lost in Space remake
and a whole bunch of different things,
and I always remember those and they took for ever to come.
I remember 'cause that was when
I first started really collecting.
'Cause I had VHS, but I never collected like crazy.
I had a decent amount, but the real collecting craziness
came with me with DVD.
So like anytime I could get a lot of movies,
I'd be like, oh, I gotta get them.
So like that, you know I would love to like
just build the collection up.
So the fact that, oh, you buy a player,
you get like seven or eight free movies with it?
I'm like, oh I can't, I can't believe.
I might have seven or eight free ones, put on my shelf.
Even if they were not the greatest stuff,
I was excited about it.
But it took so many weeks upon weeks upon weeks
for the things to come and I kept on waiting
and I was like, oh, these aren't going to ever come.
And I remember like, I was just like trying to get
as many movies as I could on DVD just so I could watch them.
But you know...
But I started out with VHS.
You know, VHS was the first format that I ever had
and I always really liked getting stuff.
I used to get like you know, since I was a kid,
you know, and I was getting VHS,
I was getting like a lot of like TV shows
and like stuff like Denver the Last Dinosaur
and Popples and Care Bears and all that kind of stuff.
So I didn't really have tons of movies.
I had stuff like, you know,
Peewee and all those kind of things.
And a lot of people say that they like Blockbuster,
they miss Blockbuster.
Well, Blockbuster was one that put a lot
of the mom and pop shops out of business,
so I wasn't really a fan of Blockbuster,
but I can see where they're going.
And it was very important and a lot of people's youth
and I went there as well,
but I stuck to more of the mom and pop shops.
There's more of an experience there.
Just everything really, even down to the smell,
and they all had this sort of like a musty smell to them
and going through all the aisles
of all the different movies.
I remember earliest memories of watching every weekend,
watching a VHS, putting it into the rewinder,
And I even remember- I still have a rewinder.
Very early memories of like going
to like the grocery store or like convenience stores
and getting excited when they had a movie.
- Yeah.
- Like the one that comes to mind is I found
Walk the Line at a grocery store and I went,
I know we don't own this.
- I'm gonna buy this real quick. - Yeah.
- And I was like seven. - The thrill of the hunt.
Yeah, yeah,
When you own physical media,
you've got that connection to it, you know?
It's in your collection
and there's that kind of connection with you
and that's like I own that film, you know?
I love the film that much that I own you
and I can watch that whenever I want.
And that is the beauty. That's why I collect.
That I can get ahold of a film.
On the shelf they look amazing as well.
I mean, these covers.
These cover art.
Do you know what I mean? These are just amazing.
Look at this one, look.
They're just heaven. These covers are amazing.
I'm drawn to VHS I think more than, you know, than anything.
But it's the covers that sell it for me,
it's the art work.
It's the big boxes, you know?
It's the smell.
I'm struck back to the 1980s when, you know,
you're breathing that smell in.
But I started out with VHS
and VHS was the first format that I ever had.
And I collected a lot with VHS and I had a decent amount
but I never had that many because you know,
DVD came out when I was in middle school.
And that was kind of, you know, when I was kind of going out
and we'd go out with my friend and we would,
friends and stuff like that,
and we would go places and you know, and that kind of thing.
And I feel like that was like, when I, 'cause I was able to
start to walk to the mall and there was
a Suncoast Motion Pictures in the mall.
So then I could go and like buy stuff then
and that was kind of like me going out more myself
when DVD was around and DVD first came out,
so I was kind of able to go out and buy stuff.
And like any time I got any money,
if my parents ever gave me any money
or I earned any money or anything like that,
the first thing I would do was buy a DVD.
Nostalgia plays a huge part in a lot of my media.
For example...
This Terminator 2 VHS tape, that's extremely beat up,
my mom got for me.
This was, this came out in '91 or '92.
If my memory serves me correctly, is '92,
so I eight years old when I saw this in movie theaters.
But she did check with my aunts and uncles
and they all told her, they gave her the thumbs up
to take me to see it.
And this movie actually changed my life
and turned me on to movies because of all the movie magic
we see in Terminator 2: Judgment Day
made me fall in love with movies and
the way my life, my life trajectory changed
when I saw Terminator 2: Judgment Day,
and my mom knew it.
And this was during the time,
she got this from me during the time
when movies weren't releasing.
They would release at Blockbuster
and you couldn't like rent for what?
Six months before they released on physical media.
And she managed to get this
from the Blockbuster right by our house.
She had to pay $100.
I think nostalgia plays a big part
- in physical media. - Yeah.
I think it's being a nerd in general.
I always say like I'm a movie nerd
because just being a nerd to me is not afraid
to just show that you love things.
And I love movies and I collect movies,
and like half of, I would say like half of me buying movies
is things I remember as a kid and being like,
oh this one movie I saw as a kid where this scene happened
and then hunting down what that is.
You even have a fun story of a movie you remember
as a kid and then hunting it down
and someone from Facebook being like,
- oh, what's this. - Oh, I do have that story.
Yeah.
I watched a movie as a kid just before school one day
and I never knew the name of it for years and years
and I posted it on Facebook.
I posted everything about the plot that I remembered,
and within eight minutes I got a reply.
It was Little Manhattan starring Josh Hutcherson.
But another big nostalgia one for me that I thought of
and I know you had an example, too...
A big one for me is Hoodwinked,
when we got this on Blu-ray because I love,
this was my favorite movie growing up,
and I had this in like a little case
that I just found the disk somewhere
and all I could keep it in was a little case
and I watched it so much that I scraped it,
like unwatchable.
And so the fact that like this is re-released,
like this was a big one.
I know you had an example.
Yeah even just recently, like movies that
I loved as a kid, a good example being...
Wild America is one of my most rented,
I used to rent this from Blockbuster
every night as a kid, or every week,
And would watch it endlessly on VHS,
and this just came out on Blu-ray just this year,
and I was so happy 'cause I was like
this is my childhood and I have it on Blu-ray now.
I really think nostalgia has a huge part
of the idea of me collecting physical media.
Because I feel like a lot of people
who are younger these days, they don't have the interest
in collecting if they didn't grow up
in the idea of going to video rental stores.
Because I feel like going to video rental stores
was really what got me into the whole idea
of having a collection.
I remember some of my favorite memories
were going to Blockbuster Video as a kid.
I, you know, I would go on Fridays after school.
That'd be like the big thing I would be like,
oh I'm gonna go to Blockbuster Video
and see what new stuff is out to rent.
And, and a lot of times, if I had a friend come over,
we would go to Blockbuster Video.
Nostalgia is definitely part of it
where things that really meant something to you
that are in your heart, you know, can be represented
in a physical, tangible thing that you can pick up and hold.
And I just, I don't know if looking at the little,
you know, image of a poster,
usually not even the original poster,
on Netflix has that same effect.
There'll be something, it may not be a great movie,
but I'm just like, you know what?
I remember growing up with that and I'll just
collect another copy of that film because I simply love it.
Yes. Nostalgia is big.
I love it, because it just embraces your childhood,
and all the things that you simply love.
Especially my number one favorite movie
of all time is Predator because I absolutely
loved growing up, watching Predator,
watching Arnold Schwarzenegger,
who is my favorite actor of all time.
And even the Terminator series.
And I have multiple copies of those movies,
like Terminator, Terminator 2, Predator, all sorts of kinds.
Like I have a VHS, SteelBooks, DVDs,
regular Blu-rays, 4Ks, you name it.
It's all because of nostalgia.
It's all because of that because you just simply love it
and you, like I said, you embrace it.
It's awesome.
It's yeah, it definitely plays a huge role for sure.
Because it's like, do you need it?
Yes. Yes, you do need it.
You need to collect it, Dave.
Go grab it, that's part of your childhood,
and it brings back good memories.
That's the number one thing,
it just makes you feel good inside
and what you're doing with your life.
And what more could you possibly ask from that, right?
Nostalgia does take a huge part in my collection,
like in my physical media.
I remember the first time I ever bought
was Back to the Future on VHS.
Yeah, I would say nostalgia does play
a huge part into my collecting.
I'm self-diagnosed OCD.
Everything in here is alphabetized.
Everything in here is, you know, organized by genre as well.
I like to be able to find, you know, what I have,
keeping that in mind, if I'm able to display it,
it's not necessarily hoarding.
But you know, I do kind of tend to pick things
that are nostalgic to me.
So when I say that, what I mean is that
like anything that kind of frightened me as a child,
like whenever I went to the video store,
I seek out those titles.
Being younger, going to the video stores
and seeing all the different artworks and everything.
I actually like holding it in my hand.
I like looking at the artwork and all the different-
- Like a tangible movie. - Yeah.
And looking at all the different, you know, variations.
You know, it's enjoyable to me.
So yeah, that does play a little bit of a part.
I got to say, it's nice to come in here
and like just stand here and look around
and you know kind of like window shop, if you will,
what we're gonna watch.
- Yeah.
It kind of reminds me of when I was a kid
going to Blockbuster and all the mom and pop stores.
Yup, every Friday night,
we would go down to the rental store
and pick out a couple of movies.
- Definitely nostalgia.
Growing up, I loved movies.
I didn't really uh, my family kind of moved around
like every four years due to my dad's job.
So, you know, it was, being young like that,
it was kinda, it was hard to make friends
because you kinda, you kinda knew
you were going to be gone soon.
You never knew if it was down the road
or on the other side of the state.
I never knew, so movies were something
for me to get lost in.
Nostalgia definitely plays a big part
in physical media collecting for me.
Every Friday my dad and I used to go
to this video store called Video View
in Palm Harbor, Florida, and we would do
48 hour rentals every Friday.
I mean, that was a ritual that was like church to me.
Rent Halloween H2O tonight
and go home happy.
The face of good and the face of evil
meet one last time in a fight to the finish.
Halloween H20, rated R restricted,
guaranteed to be there at Blockbuster Video.
I would go through and kind of stare at box art for hours.
I mean, I think anybody can kind of relate to going to
you know, Suncoast Video, Blockbuster,
Hollywood Video, FYE, and just staring at cover art,
features and all that stuff.
You could drop me off there as a kid
and you wouldn't need to hire a nanny.
Like that did it for me.
And there were all these movies
that I wasn't allowed to rent.
Like I would just fall in love
with the cover art for Friday the 13th, Hellraiser.
Leprechaun, Nightmare on Elm Street,
and I always thought that was,
I always thought the box art was like the best part
'cause I wasn't allowed to rent the movies
and it wasn't until years later that I like conned
my grandparents into buying them for me,
little did they know that they shouldn't have.
But it actually is the probably one
of the reasons why I ended up becoming a filmmaker,
because those movies actually inspired me
to want to make my own.
And so when I rediscovered VHS as an adult
I got that rush of, oh my god,
that's the box art that I was obsessed with.
And I'd already seen these movies like hundreds of times,
but there was something about owning that cover,
that artwork in my house and kind of like
front face displaying that
that really kind of got me reinvigorated again,
like felt like a kid again.
And so as an adult, I was like, I'll show you, parents.
I've got adult money now.
So I re-bought like,
every movie I ever thought was cool as a kid,
whether I'd seen it or not,
I went and and re-bought as an adult.
And yeah, I don't know.
There's something special about like analog video.
It looks alive and it's something
that digital can't recreate,
especially with horror movies.
There's something about low quality video
and sound that doesn't hurt the movie experience,
it actually helps it.
It's harder to see the killer and you know,
you hear like the warping sometimes of the music
and that's, you know, it's almost like when you play music
on like a record player.
It just has a completely different vibe,
and I'm really glad that VHS is making a comeback now
and new releases are getting done on VHS.
It's pretty sweet.
I grew up in the age of Blockbuster, Hollywood video,
mom and pop rental stores,
when you could just go and get something.
I always loved that feeling, going into the rental store,
they have those shelves, all the VHS are facing artwork out,
and especially if it was a new release,
just looking to see if there was that VHS
in that plastic case behind the original VHS case.
And you get to that one and it's, there it is,
out of this whole rows of dozens of the same movie,
there's that one.
I always love that feeling of being able to find that.
This Halloween, Blockbuster Video has
a special treat for your whole family.
You can take home any of these great Halloween classics
for just $7.99, or rent two movies
and get them for free-99.
Now if that's not a reason to scream...
What is?
Make it a Blockbuster fright.
I think some there's some nostalgia to it.
But it's mostly a simple philosophy that I have
as a filmmaker, which is it's simply this,
you know, if you are a writer, you know,
like a novelist or something,
then you need to have a robust book collection,
and every minute that you're not writing something,
you need to be reading.
You know, you need to know what all is out there,
and thus, you know how you can do something different.
Same thing goes with filmmaking.
If you want to be good, then, you know,
you need to have a robust movie collection
and you know, have a wide film repertoire.
And then when you're not writing a script,
or you're not shooting something,
you need to be watching something,
so that way you can get inspired
and keep yourself in that good head space at all times.
I think that's very, very important.
I would say the VHS is where a product is nostalgia
because that's what I used to rent at the video store.
Most stuff I've got, though, they just sit on the shelf
and they collect dust because I usually just
use whatever's the top format I have the movie on.
So if it's Blu-ray, it's going to be Blu-ray.
VHS is usually there just to look nice,
and if I've got something on VHS
I don't actually have on DVD or Blu-ray,
I'll just watch VHS then, but it's pretty rare.
Nostalgia is part of it.
It's not all of it, but it's part of it.
When I was growing up, I would, I would save up my money,
whether it was mowing lawns or doing odd jobs,
especially when I was younger,
before I could actually get an actual job
and I would save up as much money as I could
to go buy a tape.
And I would go buy an old monster movie
from the 50s or 60s, you know,
Universal monsters or old sci-fi film,
you know, or the the big releases that would come out.
And I remember back then you could even
pick them up in the grocery store,
something like Jurassic Park or something like that.
I'd go and, you know, snatch up that tape and bring it home,
and you could have that experience of watching that movie
that you saw in the theater, you know, in your own home.
And also there was a lot of films, you know,
that obviously you couldn't see
unless they were just replaying them
on TV and things like that.
So being able to get a physical copy
of that movie was just awesome back then, you know,
so I really think for me, it is a very nostalgic thing.
I love walking in here and having that feeling of,
you know, a video store almost.
And that was a big part of my childhood, as well,
going to the video store on Friday nights.
You know, everybody's worked all week,
been at school all week, so the family can go.
We'd pick out a movie or several movies,
and bring them home and pop popcorn and watch 'em.
And I feel like that's something that's like lost today,
you know, on the generation that we're in.
You know, a lot of people just will sit in their bed
and stream movies.
There's nothing wrong with that,
but there was something about that just active
as a family going out together and picking a movie out.
It was just spending time together.
I'm very nostalgic as far as
my music collection is concerned.
Again, as far as video games are concerned as well.
One of the main reasons why I collect
for the Game Boy is not only because
just the convenience of being able to take it on the go,
but also the fact that I grew up with a Game Boy.
So there's a lot of great games in there
I grew up with a lot, a lot of games
that are very nostalgic for me.
And also when it comes to, again,
not so much the Game Boy Color,
but there are some good nostalgic games on there as well.
But when it comes to the Game Boy Advance,
there's just a ton of awesome, like 16 bit games
that I've imported over that were out
for the SNES and Genesis that I also grew up with.
So definitely nostalgic there.
And of course, I mean, to an extent,
nostalgia does play a part in the collecting
of cinematic media.
A lot of movies that I grew up with as a kid
and TV shows that I grew up with and whatnot
I have in my collection, of course.
And I guess really when it comes down to it,
I kinda got into collecting cinematic media
because of nostalgia.
Back when I first started collecting all this stuff,
it was really just because I had sold off a big collection
of something else I used to collect for,
and when I did that,
I had a, I think a few hundred dollars in my pockets,
and I was able to go out at the time
and buy myself a DVD player and some DVDs.
I grew up in the 90s and, you know,
I distinctly remember going to Blockbuster
and going to video stores and renting movies
and how big a deal it was to even have HBO
or watch the movie of the week on TV and, you know,
put a VHS in the recorder and try to record that movie
so you could watch it again later,
which probably was illegal at the time,
but like nobody was really paying attention to that stuff.
When a movie went on HBO, you popped it in,
you recorded it, and you know,
you added it to your collection.
- Nostalgia plays a huge part in my collecting,
probably the biggest part of my collecting really,
because, you know, back in the day
we would always go to, well ours was Movie Gallery,
which is where we would rent stuff,
and my family would always go out there.
My brother would usually pick up the video games,
but I was always in the horror section,
even though I was really scared of horror movies
for a big part of my life.
When I was a kid, I didn't watch horror movies at all.
But somehow that, like, that me being scared,
kind of like flowed into me being interested
into me loving it.
And so even when I was really afraid of it,
I would always go down that horror movie section
and just, you know, look at the covers, flip it to the back
and like, I would never read the part,
but I would always just look at the pictures
and if the pictures looked scary, I wanted to watch it,
even though I was scared of it.
So yeah, nostalgia is a huge part of it.
I would go to my grandma's house.
I remember I went to my grandma's house
and she had a Phantasm one and two,
and I would watch those all the time.
Even though I was terrified of them,
I would always watch them.
And then one time my brother had his
Peewee football team over for his birthday
and my mom bought us Evil Dead to watch,
and I've never been more terrified of a movie,
and now it's my favorite movie of all time.
It was really scary, and the scene where
the tree raped the girl, my mom was trying to jump
in the way the TV and all the kids, like, tackled her,
getting her away from the TV,
just so they could see the the tree
getting all over that girl, man,
which is really weird when you think about it.
But yeah, that, that happened. That's a true story.
- And as a kid, I love going to the video store
and just discovering a new movie based on the box art,
the artwork, you know?
Sure, you could see the artwork, whatever,
on Netflix or whatever.
It's not the same.
There was something nice picking something up
and you know it catching your attention
and looking at the back of it.
Looking back at when DVDs came out,
looking back at the Blockbusters and browsing the shelves
and wanting to have that experience again,
which just, unfortunately doesn't exist.
What I wanted to do really is create a library of movies
and TV shows where if somebody comes into this room,
they can go through the library
and really look and maybe pick out a movie
that they had forgotten about,
or pick something new off the shelf
or something really rare that maybe has gone out of print
a long time ago, and isn't on streaming services,
and I have it in my collection.
And so looking down the road 10, 20 years from now,
that's what I really hope to have and hope to deliver
is sort of this archive of physical media.
I would say that nostalgia
plays a huge factor in what I do.
I actually have an ultimate goal of
making a place look like a video store,
I guess, just to kind of remind me
of the good old days, as you will.
And I think that it's just very important
to keep physical media alive today,
just for the fact that it was something
that was part of our past,
something that we grew up on that was so important to us.
Like going to the video stores back in the day.
In my family, we didn't really own VHS.
I mean, there was always, you know, you had like Star Wars
and Indiana Jones and you had a couple of VHS
in your collection, but I think my family,
like most families, they just rented them.
They were kind of narrow, but they were thick,
and were like this cheap plastic,
and you had to deal with the VCRs and rewinding them.
Obviously no special features, not a lot going on for sound.
There just wasn't a lot to these.
You just put it in and you press play,
and, you know, the VCRs could eat the tapes
and the tapes could get damaged.
And it, just, to me it was never something
I was interested in collecting.
And I...
This is the only VHS I have, Bumblebee.
- I think that nostalgia plays a really big part
in collecting because especially for horror fans,
you know, we grew up watching movies
in the 70s, 80s, and 90s when physical media
was really the only option.
So you had to buy the movie, essentially,
if you wanted to own it.
And so for a lot of us we just
never really stopped collecting.
And part of, you know, still obtaining those obscure VHS's
at thrift shops and flea markets
sort of like brings back a warm, fuzzy feeling
from when you were a kid and would see those
freaky covers at the video store.
You know it's a little bit of the slice
is still kind of keeping that alive.
So I think that nostalgia is probably
the essential reason why a lot of us still collect.
I collect physical media
'cause it is just so much fun, you know.
You get to go out and you get to find these movies,
you know, either you've never seen them,
you're excited to watch them,
they have an actor you like, a director you like.
They're part of a long running series
and you get them and it's weird,
but it's kind of an addiction.
Like people get addicted to new movie releases
and you know, people get it a day early and they're excited.
Everybody doesn't have this, tomorrow.
I have it today, and you're like in this elite status
and you know they're just so much fun to collect.
Have that artwork in your hand,
have that disc in your hand.
If you have something like this, you know,
you have extra extra stuff in it.
And it's just, it gives you a good feeling just to have it.
I don't feel like digital media,
even with its added convenience,
you know, I can go on my computer
and I can watch it almost anywhere, anytime.
I don't have to store 4,000 discs.
They're all just kind of floating out there on the internet.
But I feel like that also has a lot of drawbacks,
and even with having a good high-speed internet,
I feel like a lot of times you have trouble with connections
and buffering and downgrading.
When I put this Blu-ray in my Blu-ray player
on my TV, I'm going to get
the same exact quality every time.
When it comes to why do I collect physical media,
I've always been the kind of person that loves the idea
that if there's something that I really want to watch,
I'm like, okay, I love that movie,
I saw that movie in theaters and I'm like, okay,
I want to watch that thing.
I can just grab it off the shelf and watch it.
The idea of not being able to do that
with some of my favorite movies and being like,
oh, I have to search through streaming
and hopefully I can find it or, oh, can I buy it digitally?
And like all that kind of stuff, that's never been my thing.
I've always been the kind of person who just liked the idea
that if it's something that I really like,
I like to have the film and like to be able to...
And I'm one of those kind of people too, who, you know,
as strange as it is,
and I'm sure other people who are collectors,
sometimes they just like to go and look at their collection.
They just take out the movies, look at them
and kind of like, you know how people are
who are like scholar types with their books,
they go look at their old books,
and like to me, I'm like that with the movies.
- I collect physical media because it's just,
I always, going to those movie stores,
I always wanted it myself,
like I wanted that movie store in my house.
It's always great to collect
and get the stuff and have it, you know.
I think it's just a cool thing with the artwork,
to know that you have it, the history behind it
and the cool extras that those things come with.
Like all around, that's why I love physical media
and always will.
I always like to promote that
and portray that in my videos when I can.
And I like to tell people and hopefully inspire them
to like get stuff and to keep their collection,
don't sell their stuff, you know, keep it.
This stuff is great, especially with the tapes.
I love my tapes.
My favorite thing is probably tapes.
You know, just like the whole artwork and the whole thing
of it, you know?
I love it all, though.
Love it all. It's all fantastic.
Blu-ray, DVD, 4K, all that stuff is amazing and so cool.
I collect physical media,
I actually wrote an article about this,
for one, I love the tangible experience of it.
Being able to have it
for some reason makes me...
It gives me a better watching experience
versus just a digital copy of it.
Why do I collect physical media?
Because here's the thing:
with physical media like Blu-rays, DVDs,
they have a lot, a lot of a nice box arts,
nice cases, such as SteelBook,
MediaBook, or box set limited edition three discs
or something like that.
They're beautiful.
As for collecting them as opposed to streaming them,
I prefer that because certain things that you could get.
I mean, like the ones that I showed you before,
and it's just cool artwork.
Very cool artwork.
And those that stream it, you're missing out on
little things like that.
Plus actually being able to hold it
in your hands is very important.
And it's a shame that a lot of people
with the streaming age, they don't appreciate that
that I think that they're really missing out.
- I also collect physical media
because I want to be able to watch
the entire movie without it buffering.
With, you know, digital movies, streaming services...
There's no guarantee.
If there's a storm outside or you have terrible internet,
you're not going to get the true 4K UHD
or Dolby Vision format.
The companies today that are putting out physical media
are doing such a great job.
They're finding lost treasures
and they're cleaning them and restoring them
and putting them out with bonus features
and beautiful packaging, sometimes bundled with t-shirts,
and just making it so much fun for the collector,
and I think that's great.
And it's a better time for collecting now
than it was 15 years ago or 20 years ago.
So I'm really happy what I'm seeing out there.
And, you know, I do my part to buy from all the companies
that I like the product from
and do my best to support them,
and even if you bought one Blu-ray or one record
or one DVD, you're helping,
and I really appreciate the effort that
a lot of the companies are putting in
and I'm seeing incredible product now.
- My style as far as collecting is concerned
has changed a lot.
I only buy Blu-rays now and I've been throwing away,
not throwing away, giving away some of the DVDs
that I own to people and replacing them with Blu-rays.
Of course the ones that I really care about,
I've been replacing them with Blu-rays,
again, to get that picture quality,
to get that sound quality.
So for me owning those Blu-rays,
it's kind of a passion thing.
And again, to maintain my bank account at a certain level
and be able to still do that, I limit myself a lot.
Of course, I would love to have a huge collection
wall to wall, ceiling to floor Blu-rays,
but it's a slow process for me.
So right now my collection is by no means big
or impressive or anything, but it's my collection,
and it's movies that I absolutely love in there,
so it makes me appreciate it that much more.
And I do look forward to growing it
and having that wall to wall,
ceiling to floor look eventually,
but it's a slow process for me
and it's, you know, I am limiting myself
to strictly movies that I either really love,
I really see myself watching it over and over again
and movies that I would be like find myself dying
to show it to other people
to share that experience with them.
Those are the Blu-rays I gravitate towards buying now.
I like that the, you know, the tangible experience.
Physically having the movie for me,
just, it makes it a better viewing experience.
I actually collect physical media
because I'm a collector, first and foremost.
You know, it's just in your nature.
I do like watching them though, too.
It's not like I collect and leave it on the shelves.
I love watching movies.
I watch a lot of movies.
So I love watching them and I collect because a lot
of the movies I buy and I'm interested in,
you really just don't find other places.
Just randomly looking over at the shelf,
a lot of these things aren't streaming.
Like um, is this movie ever going to be streaming?
Maybe it is on Amazon Prime,
the Class of Nuke 'Em High II: The Substitute.
That's just something random on the shelf, you know,
or a lot of this stuff doesn't stream.
Now, people would say you could download it illegally,
but then the filmmakers or whoever
don't really get the money or the companies, you know,
there's an argument there to be made.
But still, I like to have all these movies at my fingertips.
The reason why, I guess, I collect physical media
is because I love having all this stuff
that I love actually in my hands.
I love owning all this stuff.
Up until a couple years ago,
you know that wasn't necessarily something
people really thought about was ownership
of movies or of video games or of music or stuff like that.
It just seemed like the norm.
Nowadays that has completely changed.
A lot of people have things digitally.
They'll just digitally buy a movie
or they'll digitally download a video game
or they'll digitally download a new album
from some band they like, and for me,
I don't, um, I don't necessarily get that.
It doesn't really work for me,
mainly because also nowadays when you download stuff,
a lot of it isn't like you download some file
and you get to like, you know, burn a CD
or burn it onto a an SD card or something like that
and you actually kind of sort of have a copy of that.
Now it's all just like in the Cloud
and it's stored somewhere else.
And the main issue is at any moment
that stuff can be taken from you or altered or changed.
Like just video games nowadays.
I hear so much about video games
and how basically they're released broken.
Like these studios know that the game
they're putting out isn't complete,
it isn't finished, there's stuff they want to do,
so they have to release all these patches for it
and stuff like that.
When I grew up a video game was what it was.
If there was an issue with the video game,
it's just, that's how it was.
But I don't think there was a lot
of issues with video games.
I mean, occasionally sure.
I'm not saying every game that ever came out was perfect
and there was never any issues or mistakes
or are bugs in them, but I feel like
the companies really did put a lot of time and effort
to make sure their games were perfect,
and not releasing them broken
and then just figuring, oh, we'll just,
we'll just patch it later.
'Cause that's, that just doesn't seem to make
much of any any sense to me.
I like having something that I own,
you know, physically own.
Even now, you know, you can order movies online,
you can stream Netflix, Hulu,
Amazon Prime, you have all that.
You can download the movies and even on the internet,
but it just does not feel the same.
You have it, but it's on the TV, but it's just there.
It's just there.
And also I go back to borrowing things.
I remember growing up and someone was like,
hey Dave I have this, do you want to borrow it?
It just wouldn't feel the same.
It would not feel the same.
I would take it, and I'd be like, yeah, sure.
Like, let me watch it.
But deep down inside, you know it's not yours
at all because you want it for yourself.
You want it to hold it.
You want to put in your collection on your shelf,
you know, you can pop it in wherever you want it.
And I feel like that's what it is with streaming.
It's there, you know, you can pop it in whenever you want,
you can watch it, but you don't hold it.
You don't hold it.
And I'll even 'till this day, watch a movie,
and I'll take that SteelBook and I'll hold it in my hands
or like in a chair next to me,
and I'll just stare into it, like the SteelBook.
For example, it would be like a SteelBook,
and I'll just look at the cover art
while I watch the movie.
Not the whole entire time, of course,
but I'll just like it because I like having it there,
I like taking it out, opening it up,
putting the disc in.
It just, it's not the same.
It's not the same at all when you do it online
or even borrowing it.
Why physical media is important to me
is because I can remember a time when, you know,
it's Friday night and you know my dad came home from work
and we have nothing to do,
and you know, of course, you know, where are we going to go?
We're going to go to the video store.
We're going to load up on five movies
that we're only going to watch three of them
and, you know, new releases,
and it's such a cool feeling to,
to do that as a, as like a father-son unit,
or even, you know, a family unit,
and just go and experience making
a selection together as a family.
I mean, my dad would pick some,
my mom would pick some, I'd pick some,
that's probably why we had five choices,
but you know, to physically go somewhere as a family
and, you know, rent something.
I mean, you could, you could buy something now,
but I think that physical media always needs
to have some sort of place in our hearts
and a place in our lives.
The reason I collect physical media is
I like to have the title in my hand
for the movie I wanna watch.
I don't want to deal with online services.
Not every movie I have in this collection
you're ever going to find online.
I like looking at the artwork.
I like reading the special features.
A lot of that stuff, you're never going to see.
The special features, you're never gonna find them online.
I gotta say, it's a nice perk to come in here
and walk in the room and like pick it and look at it.
You can get, you know, watch alternate cuts of the film.
You can watch, of course, a whole host of special features
and generally the video and audio quality's better.
And you just, you have more control over everything.
And plus, you know, the packaging,
they can give you all kinds of great extras
that streaming can't give you.
One of the biggest selling points for physical media
to this day for me, is going to the store,
flip to the back cover,
and see if there's a commentary track.
When I was a kid, the first one I ever got into
was Jason Goes to Hell,
when Freddy's glove comes out of the ground
and grabs Jason's mask in.
I was like, I need to know more about that.
So I flipped it on and it was actually hilarious,
like the stories they told about young kids
out of film school getting the reins to a franchise
and being able to do what they did was really informative
and just got me into wanting to make movies.
So I jumped into Kevin Smith's after that,
and that all became my film school before film school.
You have them on the shelf, you can grab them,
and for the most part they're movies
that you can't necessarily fi-
At least the ones I get,
you can't necessarily find them
on your favorite streaming service.
Now, a lot of people for them, you know,
their streaming services, that's all that they need.
But what I've found with streaming is that
for the most part, what I'm looking for
will not be on there, and if it is,
then it won't necessarily be on there for all that long.
You know, it can be on there
for as long as the license runs.
I collect because I like, you know, the actual thing.
I'm a collector, so I like the editions
of things they put out.
So they'll put out, you know, Arrow Video, for example,
puts out some amazing special editions.
There's Scream Factory.
You know, as a horror fan, I think that, you know,
when I look at it, you know,
I watch a lot of YouTube videos
and know a lot of other collectors,
and when I see their collections,
a lot of them are horror fans.
So I think horror fans play a big part
in keeping physical media alive
because there are movies that know were shot
on video or something like that from the 80s.
Obscure movies from the 60s or 70s that, you know,
whoever thought would have a release,
this royal treatment on Blu-ray,
and there are a lot of movies, you know,
that have gotten that
and it's because of the demand from collectors.
- If you're trusting a company,
a streaming service, to give you something to watch,
then you're putting a lot of power into their hands.
And, you know, you're sacrificing the ability
to watch something that you want to watch
when you want to watch it.
You know, streaming's been out for a while now,
and there are obviously pluses to streaming.
It's very easy to go on your TV, but I don't know.
There's just something about putting that disc
or that tape or whatever into that player
and playing it, you know.
And there are a lot of things, you know,
on some of these streaming sites that the movies there
and then it's gone and it's like,
hey, I wanted to watch that movie,
but it's not there anymore because maybe
they've lost the rights or something like that.
And I can come in here and pull a movie off of my shelf
and I own it, you know, that's not going anywhere,
and I think that that's a huge plus to physical media.
When it comes to physical media,
I'm a big fan of just owning something,
having something tangible in my hand,
with or without new artwork.
Of course, that's always fun,
getting the slip covers and all,
but just knowing that this content isn't changing.
The biggest thing that I see happening with streaming sites
and VOD, especially with VOD on Amazon,
you see people having to bend to the criticisms
and chop out some pieces of the movie
and you have all these different versions floating around
when it comes to different streaming sites.
Maybe in one country it has an unrated version.
Over here they've cut it a couple scenes
or had to alter the time just a little bit
to fit some standards, and I'm not a big fan of that.
- The main reason that I collect physical media
is just because I've never really stopped.
As a kid, I always spent my allowance
and all the money I had on horror movies that I didn't have,
and throughout my life, it grew into this obsession
of basically buying any horror movie
that I didn't already own.
And then about four years ago, actually,
I used my collection to open up my own video store
called Old School Video back in Nebraska,
and so my collection had served
as the entire inventory for the store.
And then basically when I moved to California
to pursue my filmmaking career,
I had to give up most of my collection
and only take really the essentials,
the ones I just couldn't live without.
And so since then I've sort of had
to start rebuilding my collection again,
but I have made a point to not go back
and like re-buy the same VHS tapes I already had.
If I'm going to re-buy a movie now,
I try and make a point to make it like an upscale
or a remaster, like a new collectors Blu-ray
or something like that.
But I definitely think I'll never be able to like
fully stop collecting, and still if there's like
an old horror movie on VHS I don't have, and I want,
I'm definitely gonna buy it.
But I think that I'm a little bit past
buying the collector's prices.
A lot of the best horror movies go for,
you know, two, $300 on eBay,
and for me, that's just ridiculous,
because I'm a fan and it really boils down
to just watching the movie for me.
So I'll pay a fair price for a movie that I really want,
but I think that paying those types
of basically scalper prices
really takes the fun out of it
because then really it's almost just like
you're doing it for bragging rights versus being a true fan.
And I think that us fans will never
be able to stop collecting.
And I think that it shows, you know,
every time I do a new interview,
my collection is different or bigger,
and so it's definitely something
that is fulfilling for me as a fan
and is relatable amongst other fans, you know.
We can talk about our collections,
there's Facebook groups that people share their collections
and photos and videos and stuff like that.
So in a sense today, it's become like a form of unity
for horror fans as a whole.
- But I also collect because I firmly believe
that physical media is just the best way to watch a movie.
It's honestly, in some cases, even better than going
to the movie theater, in my opinion,
because you're in the comfort of your own home,
you have a very high quality HD or 4K transfer.
You have excellent surround sound quality.
I mean, most of what they put out now
on discs rivals that of most theaters.
- Well, how do I think physical media can survive today
with all of the things going streaming
and all that kind of stuff and video on demand?
I feel like really what keeps DVDs and Blu-rays around now
and keeps people buying them is having really
special collector's additions of things.
For example, you know, there's always like
for the big studio films, like the superhero films,
they have a number of different editions.
Like they have a SteelBook edition of the film,
then they have a DigiBook edition.
Then they sometimes have one that has
an exclusive slip cover.
Or sometimes they have one that has an exclusive bonus disc
which has an exclusive, like, making of or deleted scenes
or things like that that are only available on that edition,
as well as I feel like the the smaller labels,
like the labels, like, you know,
like the independent labels, like Shout Factory,
you know, with their Scream Factory line and, you know
Arrow video and Vinegar Syndrome.
A lot of these smaller companies
are releasing lesser known horror films
and more obscure films.
I feel like that's really what keeps collecting around
is that the fact that you're getting much more
lesser known movies.
Not the kind of stuff whee you could go
and find these things on streaming.
I don't really trust the online streaming services
because even if they say that it's yours,
I feel like maybe they could take it away at any time.
And if I've got it on a physical format,
at least I know when someone steals it or the house burns,
it's not going anywhere.
There's going to be a day where that Cloud
is going to go away.
Something is gonna fail.
Someone's going to buy it out.
The company's going to go under.
There's no security with having a digital library.
I mean, just imagine all these movies behind me.
If this wall was empty and all of this was on my phone,
and I was so excited, I could show my friends,
look at all these, we can watch any
of these movies right now, I could throw it up on my TV.
And then one day I wake up and I hit that app
and it doesn't open,
or I hit that app and it says failed.
All my stuff is gone.
As much as I hate to say it, because you know it kind of
hurts people's wallet when you do it this way,
I think the more limited edition stuff
and the stuff with the limited edition slip cases
and all that is probably the main thing
that's going to sell in the future
because the product's already kind of a niche product,
and I feel as time goes on,
it's becoming more and more niche.
So you might have to sweeten the pot a little bit
to keep people buying it,
like limited numbered stuff and all that.
I don't really know because it's getting
kind of harder to sell movies these days.
So it's whatever, you know, you can do to
kind of spice it up.
Maybe it's the little extras that come with it.
Maybe it's a slip case.
Maybe it's, I don't know, alternate artwork,
but you're going to have to do something to spice it up
because as the numbers say, most people's not buying stuff
just for the sake of buying it anymore.
- Physical media is always going to survive
in a world overrun by VOD platforms.
Fans of movies are always gonna want to hold something
in their hands, own the movie themselves,
watch the special features, not be told when
the rights exist on what platform and whatnot.
Like if you want to watch Kevin Smith's Dogma right now,
there's no streaming rights to it.
So if you got it when you did,
that's the only way you're going to watch it
or you get it marked up from eBay.
So yeah, you're going to have to pick and choose
which streaming platforms you want to pay for,
'cause there's hundreds out there now
or deciding, you know, how many exes
you want to break up with to keep their logins.
Don't log out. You know who you are.
- Basically with VOD taking over,
the only way that physical media
is going to be able to really be a viable medium
is going to be the collectors editions.
Companies like Vinegar Syndrome
and Shout Factory that put out, you know,
the super remaster versions of movies
with all the special features and deleted scenes
and stuff that we haven't seen before.
And especially for horror fans, it's going to
be the attraction to keep buying those things.
'Cause a lot of that stuff you can't get when you just
download the movie or you're streaming it.
Especially for older movies, you know,
like they're exclusive to Blu-ray.
Like, I know for example, The Legend of Boggy Creek
just came out and it's only available on Blu-ray,
it's the only way you can see it remastered.
So things like that I think are going to keep fans
wanting to always purchase and collect physical media.
- Because when Cyberdyne takes over, okay,
and all the net goes down, I'm going to be sitting on top
of all the bones with my collection.
Jokes on them.
And you could argue, you can argue about power,
them shutting the power down,
but I will still be throwing box art
of heavy Titanic VHS tapes at robot heads.
I am the John Connor of this world.
They can survive and are thriving
thanks to boutique labels like Criterion Collection,
Scream and Shout Factory, Vinegar Syndrome, 88 films.
There's so many boutique labels out there
and they spend a lot of time with the packaging.
They give you really great artwork.
They give you tons of extra features,
which is actually scarce.
If you look at a lot of main studio titles
that release on home video today,
the extra features have gone, you know, very sparse.
But these boutique labels, they pack them out tight.
I think there'll always be a place for physical media.
You know, it's something that like,
who would have thought that vinyl would make
this glorious comeback or you know,
there's even like a VHS come back
and there's, you know, some audio cassette comebacks,
although that one's a little less than the other two.
But vinyl records, especially.
Part of that is because, well it's an analog format
and no matter how good digital recording is,
vinyl still does sound better.
It just sounds more organic,
and they haven't really been able to fully replicate it yet.
And I think with physical media,
it is a digital format, but still you do not have to worry
about internet outages or, you know,
poor quality or whatever.
I got a job at Blockbuster Video
while they were still around.
And there was nothing like going into Blockbuster Video
to work on a Friday or Saturday
and just having a store full of physical media
surrounding you, having people ask you like,
what movie do you recommend?
Do you have the new Adam Sandler movie?
Like, do you have this movie?
It was just an excellent experience to be surrounded
in a store with physical media.
You would have a family make a trip out to the store
on a Friday, have everybody pick out a movie to rent,
and hopefully the box was behind the artwork,
which meant we had it available.
That is, you know, that was physical media to me.
- You know, when it's physical, it's archived, you know.
Your hard drive can crash, right?
You could have all these, you know, digital codes loaded
and then your hard drive crashes and they're gone.
You know, with physical media, you have that
piece of history, so to speak,
that you own, and it's actually there, you know.
It's not air, right?
And you can keep it and, and go back to it
anytime you want to.
Video on demand, you're still paying the same price-
- Yeah.
For a movie.
And I think a lot of people are starting to realize,
you know, with digital codes being so prevalent
is if you buy a digital movie,
you're still paying $20 for it.
Where as if you buy a movie on Blu-ray, you know,
it could be $20, you're paying the same price,
and then also come once with the digital.
- Yeah.
So you're getting physical and digital
- to the same price. - Same price for one.
So I think that's why, you know,
I don't think physical will ever leave for that reason.
But you can kind of, you get a context
about a person by what they keep around them, right?
And what makes the cut, so to speak.
We only have so much square footage in our house.
We only have so much time we can dedicate
to our hobbies and our collections,
and what survives is kind of like building a definition
about you as a person.
And...
So that's, you know, that's why I think
physical media should survive.
There's, there's actually been a couple of court cases
about this regarding an iTunes media library,
and it has wonderful advantages.
I use it myself. I stream music, absolutely.
But you can't, when you die,
the music you buy on your account does not exist anymore.
You can't gift that to the next generation, right?
There's no method to do that because they are,
in essence, they are just on loan.
You can lease the right to listen
or watch or what have you.
That's what you're paying for in these services.
Well, I think the biggest reason that physical media
that it should continue to be produced is the censoring
of movies on streaming services.
And then also with the fact that there's so many
streaming services that it's just so costly per month.
Like, you know, if you have Netflix, Disney, HBO,
Shudder, DC Universe, Prime Video, Hulu, you know,
that could potentially like $70 right there,
if they're all $10 a piece, you know.
Physical media to me is an escape.
Movies and TV, I've always been in love with.
Ever since I was a young kid,
I loved movies, I loved watching movies,
I loved watching Saturday cartoons,
and then stuff like Doogie Howser
and the Wonder Years when I was a younger kid.
I just always loved the idea of film and television,
and it became my escape.
So physical media, to physically own a copy of something,
to be able to watch my favorite movie
at any point in time, to watch the same movie over and over,
to own it, to not have to wait until it came on TV,
hoping that it would be on HBO or Prism that month
and to pay the extra money.
That wasn't the case.
I had started collecting physical media,
this way, I could watch that stuff at point in time,
which is a big thing to me.
Splash is streaming, it's on Disney+, but it's censored.
It is censored.
Now, does it change the whole movie? No.
But if you want to see her butt, you need the DVD.
You know, I'm not a horny creep that I'm like,
ooh, I want to watch the version where I see her butt.
No, but that's the original movie.
And you know, with movies that you either buy on iTunes
or Amazon, or that are streaming, you don't really own them.
They could constantly change them.
Is it easier to just do the streaming than turning
on the player, opening this up, putting in the disc?
Yeah, but this is the actual version.
This is unchanged, so that's why this is important,
and I am glad to have this.
Digital versus physical media is, you know, digital,
you see what you will, it's all fine,
it's convenient to just throw it on there,
but how are you going to have the digital copy signed?
Sometimes it's just nice to geek out
and get your favorite films signed by the creators.
I mean, how's Peewee going to sign
your digital streaming copy?
So I hope that physical media stays around forever.
As you could see, I'm a big fan of having tangible products
surrounding me, it stimulates my brain, so,
long live physical media.
Let's get a special edition of Howard the Duck.
Recently, there was an altered version
of Back to the Future part two on Netflix.
Now they've since changed it,
but let's talk about Star Wars.
I mean, they're constantly changing it.
I mean, with movies, they're a part of history.
And if you have the love for it,
then all of this, you know, it's,
nobody can take it away from you.
I never knew until I started YouTube
how many people actually did collect.
I thought I was, you know, one of the rarities and stuff.
I always knew I had more movies than most
because that's what I spent most of my money on,
but I didn't realize how many people there are
actually still continuing to collect and stuff,
and one of those deals, you know, me, myself,
I find a movie and it's just,
I guess this goes back to the nostalgia factor,
but it's one of those deals where you pick up a movie,
you get to look at it, you look at the cover art
and all this stuff you look at, you know,
just everything, you can read about it.
You don't really get that same deal.
I mean, they give you somewhat of a description on,
you know, streaming platforms like Netflix or Vudu
or something like that, but it's not,
it's just not the same being able
to pick up a physical copy.
But I'm one of those kinds of people out there
who absolutely loves physical media.
And I wanna encourage you guys, if you guys are fans
of physical media, don't sell your collections.
Don't get rid of everything and go
it's all on streaming because remember, it's not.
It can be taken down and removed at any moment from there.
If you guys are a fan of physical media,
please keep collecting.
Please keep going out there, supporting the film,
support the indie films,
and just kind of keep the whole thing alive
because I just hate the idea
of thinking that there could be a time in this world
that we will never see a physical disk again,
and the fact that you could go in a store
and never see something like this again.
To me, that's like, that's true sadness.
I just, I don't want to see that happen.
I want to see the format continue to survive
and be around and be around for years to come.
Yeah, I think it's just something that
if you want things that are off the beaten track,
if you want more for what you pay
and you want to make sure that you're in control
of your viewing experience,
then physical media is the way to go.
And you know, if you're like me, it's like,
it can be kind of a source of comfort to know that
you know, the films that inspired you,
the things that matter the most to you,
they're right there with you all the time
and always will be it's.
It's...
It's important.
I'm never going to stop collecting.
I love collecting and I just hope they keep cranking out
these titles and I'll be buying them,
and I know a lot of other people will.
So yeah, I think that physical media is going
to be alive for a long time.
- I think physical media needs to continue
because there's always going to be people
like myself who want to own the movies
and have them on my shelf.
- So when I started working at Blockbuster,
of course there was no Netflix,
there was no Amazon Prime,
there was no Shudder, Hulu, Vudu, any of that.
You know, people did solely rely
on physical media to watch movies.
And, you know, I think that's what sparked the joy
in most people, as far as owning VHS, DVDs, Blu-rays,
but as those streaming sites get bigger and bigger,
and especially right now I feel like
those streaming websites are dying to acquire
like big name movies for people to subscribe to them.
I feel like the joy in owning a physical copy
has kind of faded in most people.
But I think what we don't realize is how much work
goes into making a movie and buying that DVD,
buying that Blu-ray, buying that 4K
really helps those people behind the movie scene,
you know, and I don't think we realize that.
And you know, some of these movies
are very low budget movies and they rely on physical media
to kind of get that income back into their pocket.
So I think giving support to the directors, producers,
actors, it feels great.
And you know, honestly, like I said,
this is kind of a thing that brought people together.
And if physical media dies, I'm not going to lie,
it's going to be kind of weird because it'll be part
of the 80s, 90s, early 2000s and on erased
and I don't want to see that happening.
We already lost Blockbuster, that was enough.
I've never actually even redeemed
one digital code in my life,
and I probably have over a thousand.
Call it a waste.
I call it loyalty.
Bing.
Some of the big reasons why physical media continues
are so we don't have movies disappear,
because if you ask anybody in the carry over days
from VHS to DVD, tons of movies disappeared.
A lot of them, people don't talk about,
and then DVD to Blu-ray, a lot of people don't talk about,
and Blu-ray and all that stuff to streaming even more.
How many times have you heard people complain
that this was not streaming,
so it's basically impossible to watch?
I don't have that problem.
If I love a movie, I get it on a hard format,
and I can watch it whenever I want.
And also I can browse in my own room.
You know, I can walk around and find
a bunch of titles that I forgot I had
and stuff that I wouldn't see on a streaming service.
That's why physical media is important,
because you know for film obsessed people, for cinephiles,
they're not just into the mainstream stuff,
they're just not into the stuff that's streaming.
You know, that kind of dictates a lot of things,
what people, you know, the big trending things
are the stuff that's streaming,
but a lot of times there's so many movies that are obscure.
And with a lot of these companies out nowadays,
like Arrow or Vinegar Syndrome,
or there there's tons of these companies out nowadays
that are taking a lot of the really more obscure titles
that had previously only been on VHS,
and they're bringing them to the masses
with all kinds of extras,
with like different aspect ratios to them
and restored, fully restored.
And I highly suggest supporting these businesses
and checking them out and don't let streaming
get in the way of this,
because if you don't support these companies,
they're going to go the way of Blockbuster
or the mom and pop video shop.
I think that it is important that physical media
continues to be produced because it's sort of like
the last thing we have from the old era, you know.
Movie theaters are dying with VOD coming out,
just as much as physical media sales are.
And there's a whole new generation that doesn't
understand the thrill of going to a store
and digging through all the titles
and trying to find that one
that you couldn't find anywhere else.
You know, things weren't just at your fingertips then.
And I think that it's like a pastime that is sort of
being kept alive right now.
And I don't necessarily think that for society as a whole
it's extremely important to keep physical media,
but I think for the wellbeing of the fans
and for nostalgic purposes and just tradition,
I think that as a whole keeping physical media around
is something that brings happiness to a lot of people.
And again, something I had mentioned before
is like with the special features, you know,
that's going to be lost.
You're not gonna be able to get like uber director's cuts
or deleted scenes or stuff like that
when you do streaming purchases.
So I think that it's really, really important
to keep that stuff available for the fans
that are willing to pay for it.
I mean, it really, it's only in the best interest
of the companies to have their films available
in all mediums possible, including physical media,
for as long as possible moving forward.
I would argue that physical media is more important today
than it almost has ever been simply because of censorship.
Like on streaming services and VOD,
there's so many different cuts
of different movies floating around that, you know,
I just want what was intended.
Maybe Blu-rays have multiple versions
and you can watch the theatrical,
you can watch the unrated, you can watch the rated,
there's all types of different options,
where as streaming services,
you never know what you're going to get.
They could chop something out completely
because maybe it's not PC enough for today's audience.
You know, censorship isn't something
that the horror community really wants.
I'm gonna be honest.
You know, you have all of these up and coming filmmakers
that are pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable,
and you see a lot of these smaller films
just not making it to certain platforms
because Amazon won't accept them
or Vimeo shuts them down or something like that.
You'll see a lot of indie filmmakers
and distribution companies doing more
like hand to hand sales and going to conventions
than they will online simply because their films
aren't being accepted everywhere,
or at least in the deliverable that they wanted
to give it to the audience.
And that's the biggest issue is again, the censorship.
So physical media is just as important
as it was back in the day, if not more important.
So I genuinely can't see me stopping
collecting DVDs or Blu-rays anytime soon.
I think physical media is going to always be around
the same way that movie theaters will always be around.
There's this ceremonial ritual to going out on Friday night,
buying popcorn, sitting down in front of 120 foot screen
and just forgetting about all your problems
and just being entertained, jumping into another world.
That same thing comes with physical media.
You go out and you buy a movie, you bring it back.
You're excited to watch it that night.
You know, you throw it on, you make popcorn,
and you make a night of it.
I think we've kind of taken the convenience for granted
to oh, I've got nothing to do, on my phone, sitting in bed,
pop on a movie for 20 minutes.
All right, I'll watch the rest of it later.
Just that easy access has almost kind of ruined
the commitment that we make
when we go into watching a movie.
And I think that that physical element gives us
that physical connection to the entertainment.
You should be the one to decide what you want to watch
and when you want to watch it and in what quality.
So, you know, it's just, it's more power
to the people basically.
So obviously I have really strong feelings
on why physical media is king and why this should just
continue to go on and why streaming
just isn't going to work and why someday
there are going to be a lot of very upset people
when they realize that everything they paid for is gone
or not what they used to have or has been altered
or for some reason they can't watch it anymore.
I feel that's going to happen someday.
Maybe not now, you know, maybe not today,
maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life,
you're going to one day regret
buying all this stuff digitally.
- Like to me, the idea of never having physical media again,
I just, I can't see myself doing that.
I just see myself as somebody that,
oh, if I want to watch something, I go oh,
well I can watch it anytime I want.
Where otherwise if I didn't have it physically,
I'd be like, oh, well is it on streaming?
Can I find that somewhere?
And then like, you may have to buy it again.
So like, I just never see myself going,
oh I'm done with DVDs, I'm done with Blu-rays,
I'm done with all this.
I feel like it's kind of like
this is going to be, you know,
I'll be a real old man with my collection
and everyone will be like, what is all this stuff?
What is, what are these discs?
What is this shiny metallic thing?
And I'll be like, oh, that's a DVD.
You know, I mean, I just, I see myself
as that kind of person that will have physical media
until the end of time for me.
I just, I never see myself going I'm done with this,
I'm going to be fully digital and that's it.
I'm going to convert all my collection to digital.
That's not me.
And I know some people are into that idea,
but for me, I just, I'll die with this stuff, honestly.
You know, I collect weird, obscure horror films,
and for that reason, it's amazing.
You're getting, you know, companies like Arrow and stuff
putting out these really obscure horror titles
that aren't so obscure now.
They're kind of in the mainstream.
Like they're thrust into mainstream because of that.
I think physical media will continue.
It will live because of these niche companies
putting out these films.
It will live, you know. It's going to be here forever.
I'm never going to get rid of my collection.
You know, my biggest worry, I think with physical media,
which is really weird, like I said,
I'll always keep it.
Always keep my physical media, you know?
But my biggest worry, I think it's like the VHS.
I've got so many VHS tapes.
So many tapes.
I have now probably about 10 VCR players, you know,
because I don't want them to run out.
They're not making them anymore.
So I buy and buy, I think,
'cause I don't want there to be a time
where I cannot watch a VHS,
when I can't pick up the video then and think you know what?
I'm going to watch this on VHS.
I don't want that to happen.
So I think with even DVD and Blu-ray,
what I'm doing now, I'm buying up DVD players,
I'm buying up Blu-ray players,
because I don't ever want there to be a time
that I can not play my physical media
and I can see that happening in the future.
So I think if you are a fan,
if you've got a lot of physical media,
you know, buy out these players.
Have a few backup just in case anything goes wrong,
because we want to watch these forever.
- All of these, all these right here, I own all of these.
These are mine.
These will be mine until the end of time,
'till the day I die, I'll still be watching all
my Blu-rays and 4Ks and DVDs and LaserDiscs and whatnot.
But who knows, if everyone else out there
will be watching the titles they bought
on their streaming service
Memories of video shops.
I mean, God, when I was a kid, I used to go there
all the time and try to pick out these horror movies,
mainly horror.
I mean I'm into all kinds of different movies,
but a lot of it was horror,
and it was always tough to pick out
because I would see like,
I would judge it by the cover, too.
I would see Frankenhooker, Basket Case,
and there were so many great movies.
I'd be in there for hours.
And I really miss those days.
Now it's just streaming and ordering online.
So memories of the video shop, I'm really gonna miss.
I wish they can come back.
Those days are long gone, but you know,
you could still get your hard copy of the videos.
I am a huge big time collector of physical media.
I enjoy collecting VHS tapes, DVDs, and Blu-rays.
Come on, let me show you my collection.
Within these collections,
I have all genres of physical media.
I love collecting because it brings me lots of joy
and entertainment.
I know that at any moment I could pop in a DVD
or a VHS and escape from reality.
You know, I'm a movie buff, so I always want it,
but how many times have you heard people say
that might not be into movies as much as you are,
they miss the old Blockbuster days,
they miss the old, you know,
going into a video store on a Friday night or weekend
or whenever you used to go in there.
Being able to walk in there,
look at all the movies that are there,
look at one, like I said,
find something that has an interesting, you know, cover art,
pick it up and being, you know,
maybe you read the description and you're like eh,
that's not for me kind of deal or anything like that.
You don't get the same feeling.
And at that point in time, my whole generation,
I think, is lost to what that was.
That's how I got into this community
because I'm one of you guys.
We're all together. We're one big family.
We're one big, happy family, and I love physical media,
you guys love physical media and that's why we're close.
That's why we're...
It's wonderful.