Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

Just enjoy what you have now. I mean 2012 is coming you know. :gah:

re: Will our collecting come to an end? [merged]
 

Eventually it will end.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

This is true... Yea... What am I worried about? Guess there will be more to be concerned with living in a post-apocalyptic world. Hmmm... "DVD Of Eli"? :lol:

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

Youre the on'y one posting about it.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

Again... Typo on the "only". And yea I see that. Saddens me to think that in a community of collectors I'm the only one who cares that we wont be able to collect eventually.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

Umm...just because the discs may go away doesn't mean there won't be anything to collect. For all we know, these things will take the form of digital files, much like music. You'll simply be collecting digital files at that point, but still collecting.

Maybe it's because some of us have been around longer and doing it longer, but there will always be something to "collect". It's not worth getting into a panic over.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

I will never pay for a non-physical copy of any form of media.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

My theory on digital downloading is this, we all have hundreds of titles some of us thousands. A computer or even a special type of device made specifically for digital downloads can only hold so much stuff before it is full. In order for this to really take off they would need to come up with some way to hold hundreds or thousands of movies. Digital downloading is great but there are tons of people out there that wish to OWN movies and there's just not the space for it on a computer or a hard drive.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

But its not collecting when there is no ownership. My concern is that streaming and DRM coded downloads are more like long term rentals. If it were to be like iTunes music downloads where you can make a coded free CD then it would be fine. But as of today all streamed and downloadable titles are heavily coded and you are unable to make a standard DVD from them. So at any time the provider of these titles can stop providing them. And they would do if they were to go out of business or more likely change formats and as I'm sure we are all aware streaming/downloading wont be the last format we see.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

exactly why we'll never see downloading as the new main format. it will be streaming.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

You're the on'y one that thinks that we wont be able to collect eventually.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

A shelf, a room, a house, etc. can only hold so much stuff before it is full.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

Guess it all depends on your definition of "collecting". To me, buy a large quantity of something that you knowingly will not be able to own for as long as you like is not collecting.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

I'm more concerned that, in the kind of world you're talking about, any massive brownouts or power failures (like that one in the mid '90s that left a good chuck of the western U.S. without power for hours and days.. all due to a tree branch falling on a power line) will have resulting power surges that will decimate significant numbers of digital collections.

It's possible then that consumers will finally begin to get a clue about the wool that's been pulled over their eyes by the collusion between the media and CE industries that there may be enough of a political hue and cry that there will a backlash that will regain some of our fair-use rights.

Now that I think about it, I take it back... I'm not concerned about that at all.

I hope it happens.

Maybe it will wake up the sheeple.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

HAHAHA! :clap:

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

This is silly. I own 1500 DVDs/HD-DVDs/ Blu-Rays. They are mine; they belong to me. The streaming media police are not going to confiscate my movies or yours.

I also own several movies as digital media. They are non-DRM'ed, so I don't have to worry about losing access to them if a distributor like Apple goes bust. I also have them backed up on an external drive, so I never need fear losing them if my computer craps out.

In short, you are worrying about nothing. And if you are fearful that the current DVD/BR medium may someday be superseded by a future technology that will render them obsolete, well, that's inevitable.

Enjoy what you have and let the future take care of itself.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

I agree with this point of view to a degree....I have purchased a few random AUDIO tracks here and there from iTunes & Amazon (typically because they were only available digitally, or I only wanted a bonus track not on the actual album, etc.)...but I would NEVER buy a non-physical copy of a movie....

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

No, what you said was silly. Of course your current media is safe. This entire topic has nothing to do with you current collection. Really... That just made no sense. And where did you get your non DRM media? Is it legal? I've only downloaded from iTunes (they are all DRMed)and the other major studios I have left alone because their downloads are all DRM coded as well.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

And you can make a non-DRM coded copy of music in the form of an Audio CD. Thus having a legitimate backup that you can always use till the day you die. Unlike DRM coded movies that you can only own for as long as the provider allows. If movie downloads were not coded and we could make a legitimate DVD copy of them then I would be 100% ok with downloading. But all in all. The next dominate media after Blu will NEVER be downloading. It will surly be streaming and you can't back that up.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

Mark my words. As catalog title dvds are phased out, slowing but surely going out of print, stuff like Midnight Movies will be going for $200 a piece. 20 years from now there will be plenty of film fans not even born yet paying to get this stuff on the only existing physical release.

Each of us is sitting on a pile of mint condition silver age comic books. It wouldn't suprise me to eventually see a DVD Price Guide published with cover art, specs, ISBNs, versions, and other identifying info.

Re: Am I The Only One Who Is Worried?
 

I am worried about your <s>hoarding</s> collecting as well. Now show us some pics of your collection!!!!!

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

Once upon a time, the only way I could get to see movies was to watch them on TV when they came on and go to theaters when my parents or older siblings took me. As I got older, I could go to theaters on my own as long as I had 50 cents to pay the price for a child's ticket. When we didn't have a working TV in the house (for most of the '60s), the only place I could see movies was in theaters or on TV at a friend's house. When I got my own TV (after working the summer after my senior year in HS), I could watch movies when they came on TV and I would stay up late and watch lots of movies, since each of the six commercial channels showed lots of movies late at night. Old ones. Good ones. PBS even showed foreign classics, like SEVEN SAMURAI.

Plus, there were lots of neighborhood theaters showing a mix of current movies and "sub-run" titles (i.e. movies that had already played out their runs, so I was able to catch up on interesting lesser-known movies, e.g. Mario Bava's PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES and Henri Verneuil's THE SICILIAN CLAN). And there were lots of downtown theaters showing old movies, so I could catch up on lots of stuff.

The only way to own copies of films was to buy the silent Super 8 or 8mm editions or to buy actual 16mm prints from collectors. Too expensive for a young person.

But I had so many opportunities to see films on TV and in theaters back then that I never missed not owning them.

Gradually, of course, those theaters shut down. And gradually, of course, commercial channels stopped showing old movies. So I had to tape them off TV when I could and purchase them on tape when I could.

Now it's TCM or nothing. I've got thousands of old movies on tape and another thousand or so on DVD. Plus dozens of anime series of varying lengths (average: 26 episodes). Enough to last me the rest of my life.

When I was sick and took a week off recently, I did nothing but watch stuff I've taped over the years, including five movies on one tape from 20 years ago and another one I taped 23 years ago. 14 movies during sick week. Great stuff. Better than anything in theaters now.

I've bought new VCRs and DVD players and keep them in storage for when the current ones break and in case they stop selling new ones. I'm prepared.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

People said the same thing about books over a decade ago. Last time I checked, they coexist just fine with their digital counterparts.

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

Sony Pictures laid off 450 people in it's home entertainment and info-tech divisions today, almost entirely because of declining DVD sales. We could place bets on which companies will follow suit.

Just more writing on the wall, as if there wasn't enough there already.

I doubt possible future brownouts will suddenly make the masses rise up and demand the return of physical media! :lol:

I'll be content to keep a physical library of core titles for a time, though I won't be adding much to it from this point forward. The concept of streaming holds great potential to see movies we might not have bought on DVD just for the privilege, and which most of us could never have rented in video stores. A rental at iTunes is, what, $3, a bit more in Canada? I'd happily pay that to view dozens and dozens of movies in, say, the Warner or Universal Archives, or the countless small boutique labels, were they to one day move their content online (which is entirely likely, and more studios will follow; they've got little choice now).

DVD will be around for a little while longer, though certainly not the full decade I've heard predicted here and there. There will be a need (however decreasing) for physical formats during the transition.


This sounds like a lot of DVD collections these days. ;)

Re: Am I The On'y One Who Is Worried?
 

LOL! I love it! DVD Collectors... The Next Gen Comic Book Geeks! I'll totally be opening my own strip mall store!