 Hello and welcome to another edition of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies, before we get going. What are we drinking? We're drinking and gonna feel this one. It's Carfax Abbey Belgian Ale with English Hops. Percentage? Eight and a half percent. There we go. Today we're gonna be talking about kind of a topic that's been floating around quite a bit on the internet. The importance of having and collecting physical media. It's a good idea to have at least some in your possession. Recently Netflix has just introduced that tier system and all that shit. Now the lowest cheapest cost is gonna have commercials in it. And then you have to pay more to get the higher tiers where they don't have commercials and they have more content etc etc. It just sort of sparked it in us that you know we have vast libraries of physical media. That's kind of what we like. That's what we're into. So here's 10 reasons why it's good to have physical media. And the first one jumps right off that. Is you don't have to rely on your internet connection being stable. Going down on you. And you don't have to rely on a streaming service to have the things that you want to watch on it. Yeah you're not at their mercy right. And that's the thing is you're very much at the mercy of these streaming companies. They keep upping the prices on you every year. So they get you that way. Your favorite shows can like just disappear for no fucking reason. And pop up on another platform. Well I gotta go pay for this now because I want to watch this over here. And again the cost that keeps going up because of that. Yeah it's like that problem that you ran into when we were going to watch. We're supposed to watch one of those movies for a review. Baby blood was wonderful. Baby blood yeah and so you already had the one streaming site but then the movie was actually running from another site through the one you had. So you had to get the other one. Like what the fuck bastards like they got you. They got you by the balls. They got you by the balls. As opposed to if you own a physical copy of the movie you can just fucking watch it whenever you want. Exactly as long as you give it back. Put that beard down. You know your internet goes down. You know it doesn't happen often these days. Grab a DVD, a Blu-ray, 4K, VHS whatever you want. An album. Put it on and that's your entertainment for the night if you need to be entertained by something. Star Trek is another like good example of this where we're lucky in Canada here we still have Star Trek on Netflix. Our American friends it was on Netflix it got pulled so now if you want to watch Star Trek you got to go pay for another fucking streaming service. You know for me personally like if once Star Trek leaves Canadian Netflix I may not keep it because that's one of the only things I watch on Netflix anymore. Point number two the fact that you can borrow and share your media with people that you know friends right. It's a good chance if you're a collector you're friends with collectors. Yeah exactly like I have Quantum Leap and I remember like a long time ago me and Adam did this thing where we would buy each other a season I'd buy Adam a season of Kung Fu and he'd buy me a season of Quantum Leap for a birthday. Yeah the only one I'm missing is the fourth one actually the fourth season. But anyways I have the Quantum Leaps if Adam wants to watch him. Which I do. Which I do. I messaged him like a week ago saying can I borrow Quantum Leap I have a hankering for it. I said yeah come on over and get him. And it's that simple you know I don't have any streaming services that have Quantum Leap on it so. Yeah. But I got my best friend right here who could lend it to me you know. That's right. Same thing goes for me I got some things that you don't have of TV shows movies you don't have to hunt for it and to try to download it or buy it yourself you borrow it from me. Exactly. You might have an investment on your hands. That's right. Case in point I remember buying some of these records Prince albums for example 4 bucks 4.99 for a Prince record when I bought it. Yeah. You can't find Prince records for 4.99 anymore man. As soon as Prince died at least 30 bucks sometimes 50 bucks for records for deceased artists you know. Same thing goes with like Bowie man like I got a bunch of Bowie albums 4 bucks for Bowie's Lo. You're not going to find this for 4 bucks anymore. Yeah. I basically have an investment on my hands because I bought them when the media was considered dead. Yeah. Right you know. That's right. I got a bunch too. I got a bunch of AC-DC albums that you you simply can't even find anymore because nobody's fucking like giving them up. Partying with them yeah. And then if you do they're worth a fortune now. Yeah. Why I don't know like especially for AC-DC but. I think it's because trends happen right. Yeah. Like when CDs came out and everyone got rid of their vinyl fuck you you buy vinyl at a used record store for you know a couple of bucks. Yeah. You can't buy vinyl for a couple of bucks anymore man because the demand right. Exactly. Blind demand. Yeah. Well and. They're not being manufactured anymore so there's no supply and now it's a trendy thing so there's demand so price goes up. That's right. And with VHS too right. VHS has recently been spiking. It's gotten back into the mainstream again. It was dead. Yeah. Like after when they stopped making VCRs around what 0506 or something like that. Yeah they made their last VCR around 07 or something like that. Yeah. And like and then you know VHS sort of tanked and then 10-15 years later starting to come back. It's hot again right and you know and we do because we bought a lot of our VHS when they were cheap. We have a lot of investments because now that stuff is worth money. That's right. The nostalgia factor of it right. I mean there's nothing better than putting in an old VHS tape from our childhood. Yeah. You know and you see those old trailers start to play and it just takes you back. It makes you warm and fuzzy inside. It's watching it the way you remembered it. I always remember when Labyrinth came out on DVD. Yeah. And I got the DVD put it in and it was like it's not the same because the trailers before the movie is not the same. It wasn't the same viewing experience because those things were part of the viewing experience. You know and case in point this exact this edition of Labyrinth specifically the Embassy Home Entertainment one is only edition it has the trailers that I remember as a kid. Yeah. So if you want to relive your past you need this exact one right. And it's a good trailer in the beginning is it's the trailer for the name of the rose and it's all scary and everything too right. The three amigos on VHS like me and this was one of the very first movies that me and Adam bonded over when we were four or five years old when we first met. Yeah. I mean this goes back a movie like that goes back to our roots the very beginning. Yeah. And that fucking movie has the sports illustrated beginning the trailer for it. Yeah. With the bat and everything making Mr. Right. The trailer. Yeah. It's like yeah you see that and it's like yeah and if it's not there you know it. Yeah. And you feel it. The three me goes is a movie that I refuse to watch in any format besides VHS because I want that experience. Yeah. I don't want the other experience of not viewing it without those trailers. Yeah. You need that. People don't want to let go of their childhood you know and it's good to revisit it every once in a while. Yeah. Reason number five to collect physical media is there's a lot of stuff that's lost to old formats of media. That's right. Movies for example there's a lot of movies lost to VHS. If you don't have that version like you may be able to find it on YouTube or whatever but like you have a piece of lost media. Like that's pretty fucking cool like just for example I always remembered seeing this movie sitting in the movie store as a kid. Never rented it. I always wanted to because I was a big John Belushi fan as a kid. Never rented it and I found it like a couple weeks ago at a thrift store I bought it. I've always kind of been curious about this. It took it home, looked it up. It's lost to VHS. Right. It's never had a digital release. Yeah. So you know the only way to watch it is on VHS. Now I can finally watch it. It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. And apparently it's kind of a bad taste. A bad done and bad taste. I tried watching it. It kind of doesn't depict John Belushi very well. It's like no wonder it was panned but I have a piece of lost media. Yeah. And that goes like for a lot of stuff we have like a lot of the VHS tapes and everything when you look it up there's like lists on the internet you can find. And it's like we have lots of stuff actually that you can you would never be able to find on DVD or anything that's come out in recent history. Which is awesome. Another example actually is this movie, very cool interesting movie called Jack B. Nimble which it's now available on I think Blu-ray through vinegar syndrome but when I bought it, when I found it it was not available. This is the only way you can watch the movie when I actually found it. So it was like yeah awesome. It's a little piece of history. And there are the odd movies it's actually kind of rare but there are the odd movies that have never even been put to digital format at all. You can't even stream them. Right. And so that's the only way to own them. In music too like think of all the weird underground one-off bands that released a record. One record on vinyl or something that was never on like a main label that's lost to vinyl. Yeah. Go to your local thrift store and look through it and you see all those fucking you know ma and pa like poke-a-boke poke-a-band like that will never be released digitally. The only way you can have that shitty ma and pa poke-a-band is by buying that vinyl. That's right. So there's a lot of cool vinyl. It may not be great but it's lost to that medium. Point number six you gotta make is that you can find a lot of unaltered versions or also watch or listen to a lot of the media as it was intended to when it was originally released. Right. Exactly. I think one of the biggest biggest things we can mention here and I know a lot of people know what we're thinking Star Wars. Yeah. You can't stream or even buy digitally on Blu-ray, DVD, whatever the unaltered versions of Star Wars. Yeah. That's probably one of the hallmarks. Yeah. Like if you want to watch Star Wars the way it was originally released you have to have either the laser disc if you want the best looking version or the VHS. You know, in case and point the widescreen edition. Yeah. If you want to see Star Wars not, you know, in full screen but widescreen well I happen to have the widescreen versions of relatively unaltered. Yeah. There's always going to be a little bit of, you know tweaking here and there on each release but that doesn't have all the bullshit CGI jab of the hut bullshit, you know changing the whole ending of Return of the Jedi where it's like different actors as the ghost. Yeah, like fuck off. You know, you change the whole song the jump jump song or whatever it is supposed to be like Yeah. If you want to watch that you have to have the fucking VHS. It's funny. Remember that article that I sent you of that just, I forget the guys I don't know what the guy's name was it's just a random article I read where the title of it was in search of the original release of such and such and then I sent that to you. It was an interesting read and in that article that guy basically just shit all over VHS he's like, well you can it was interesting because it was like his whole thing was that he was in search of the originals but yet all he did was downgrade VHS. He was like because it's old and Yeah, I remember that. It was like in search of the originals but I won't look even consider VHS. Well then you're not going to find it. Yeah and it's like you're an idiot. If you want to look for it and find it, that's how you're going to find it. That's the only way you're going to find it. Or laserdisc. In the case of Star Wars right that's the best version for unaltered Star Wars is laserdisc. Reason number seven you should have some physical media in your possession is special features. Streaming a movie you can't get the director-actor commentary you can't get the making of vignettes, deleted scenes, alternate scenes that you'll get in DVDs and Blu-rays. All that stuff has a lot of value to it. Especially if you're a fan. And it gives you a different viewing experience. I remember this past Halloween I was like I've seen all these movies so many times I made it my mission to finally watch all these movies that I have on DVD with the commentary. Cause why not? Yeah just to learn more. You bought the DVD with the commentary put that to use and you'll learn so much more. Records like LPs vital with liner notes and the big artwork and all that stuff. You don't get that with a digital copy you don't get all the fun stuff when you open up the record and read the liner notes read all the lyrics all that stuff it's something you can hold and have an experience with. It's a piece of artwork a lot of times a lot of times the artists or the studios or whatever have released these things to make them look a certain way make them look captivating. One thing I gotta mention is this who CD that I got I spent 25 fucking dollars on this. Yeah CDs were expensive back in the day. Especially at HMV and apparently they're coming back. Why? Is anybody asking for HMV to come back? I'm not they're fucking overpriced shit. But anyways this was a special edition and it had it actually had a whole fucking booklet in here. Read this fucking thing and you can learn so much about the who. You don't get that with anything online right? You fucking buy something you're not gonna get a booklet attached to it. Yeah and same thing like when when Gary Newman had all of his albums re-released by Beggar's Banquet there were special edition albums and each one of the booklet sleeves had a whole right up many pages of the making of the album. I remember buying the albums putting them on my headphones and my disc man at the time. But on the bus ride home from the store, reading about the making of the album through the booklet. Right. Point number eight it's a fun hobby and it also equates to the thrill of the hunt too when you're looking at thrift stores and trying to find you know that little gem, that diamond in the rough somewhere all the fucking shit that's there. Yeah it is a fun fucking hobby. Speaking of thrill of the hunt diamond in the rough you brought it up already this labyrinth VHS for example I've been a hunt for this for ages yeah and it was available on eBay to buy and I remember looking at it a bunch almost clicking on it and buying it but like no it's something I want to find in the wild saying I found this. I didn't just go online and bought it I found it. It's like finding treasure it's like it's something it's to be proud of I found it. That's right and not just this too but any like nowadays especially horror movies on VHS format seem to be all the rage so now it's like you get excited when you find the one one horror VHS tape at a thrift store it's like whoa okay even if you have it you still buy it. Forget it. Just cause. But like man there was that like when you get a good haul like not just a single but when you come home with a good haul your knapsack is full of shit. Yeah. And you laid out on the couch or on the floor feeling like that. No it's great it's like ah look at all the shit I found right this stuff is awesome. It's like a high yeah you know it's like a high for collectors at least yeah and for me I like a good deal. I'll give you a 30 cents for them sealed VHS tapes. I'll take 50. 50 my ass. I like a good deal I like to bargain too right and so there's that on top of it especially at the fucking flea markets with these fucking guys who charge a fortune. Especially see that people like that I don't mind trying to knock down. Yeah. Because I think they deserve it. They do. Like they shouldn't be asking $20 for a some generic VHS tape. What are you doing? Yeah. That's ridiculous like I'll give you 30 cents. Reason number 9 you should have some physical media on your hands is if you don't have a whole bunch of streaming services that you want to pay for and you just get the free ones like Tubi and you know like YouTube for example while there's commercials there. If you have the movie in your possession you can pop it in and be guaranteed there's no commercials on that movie. Yeah. You put in the album there's no commercials going to happen in between the songs on that album right you listen to it the way we're supposed to listen to no interruptions put in the album. Yeah exactly put in the goddamn album point number 10 they're a talking piece of a conversational item right Yeah. And not just not even the media itself I even go a step further the player. Yeah. I've been on the hunt for a Betamax for years now actually like out of five years or whatever and every so often want to come up and then I'll then I'll be unloading on Adam right now this person wants hundreds of dollars for this beta man what the fuck they're not crazy but it's a talking piece. Yeah right it is and like people when people walk into our houses yeah and they come into our rooms and they see what's in here and it's like wow and then like every single piece in this room is a talking piece. Yeah. When we have parties and our friends come over we hang out in this room and we just stand here and like oh this movie and we'll pull it out and we'll talk about this. I remember when and then oh this movie and it's literally me and you and Carl can stand in this room for hours and just like talk about things that are on the shelves. Yeah. Just like even people who aren't into this stuff right. It's a talking piece even for them because it's shit that even they remember but they may not be into collecting or owning it. And they haven't seen it for years. That's right. They walk in they're like look at this I remember this. That's right. And it's you know it's fun to show off and say look what I did I did this you know you came over when you know we had a blast when I moved into this house and I had to set all this shit up you came over and help me set it up. That's right. Hey man come inside help me set up the nerd room. Top 10 reasons to own physical media whether you want to be VHS CDs vinyl DVDs 4K whatever your jam is it doesn't matter there's a piece that is lost when it gets turned into a digital format right. You can't touch. Yeah. When it gets put up into a cloud that you can't you don't have ownership of it. I think of Frankenstein or the original Frankenstein when the monster adheres the music and he's trying to touch it. Yeah. It's like that. Yeah. It's there but it's never in your hands. It's not there. Yeah. And the sad thing about it is that you pay for it right. People pay for it and it's never. Yeah. It's never there until next time happy hunting for your physical media whatever that may be. And until next time keep drinking.