Movie hoarding documentary

Pretty interesting for us physical media fans.

This looks like fun. I am pretty sure I have this movie in one of my streaming watch lists, but haven't gotten around to it yet...which I guess is kind of ironic, considering the subject matter.

As a music collector and a movie buff I recognize and respect the mania/dedication seen here, even if I don't collect movies with the same fervor as I do music CDs.

Growing up in the 80s and 90s I had a pretty decent VHS collection, both store-bought and stuff I taped myself from HBO/Showtime/etc. I lost a bunch of them in a basement flooding incident in the late 90s, not long before I moved out of my parents' house.  I was pretty P.O.'d about it at the time but looking back I'd say Mother Nature did me a favor since VHS was on its way out in favor of DVDs anyway.

When Netflix and other streaming services came along, I jumped on that bandwagon right away. I still don't like the idea of streaming/digital music, but it fits my movie watching habits perfectly.

Unlike music CDs, which I can listen to over and over again, most movies are a "one and done" thing for me. I watch it, I move on to the next one on the list. Maybe I'll revisit it two, three, five, or more years down the line, but that doesn't mean I need to have a physical copy of it sitting on a shelf all that time collecting dust, waiting for me to be "in the mood" for it again. I have no desire to own every movie I've ever seen. Don't get me wrong, I still own a bunch of DVDs, but they're mostly stuff I've picked up super cheap, or they're copies of personal favorites that I know I will want to revisit from time to time.

You can have my CDs when you pry them from my cold dead fingers though

They talk about the convenience of streaming in the Documentary, but then they lament the obvious… what happens if a streaming service folds? Do you lose everything? Also the buffering can get interrupted (slow connection). A physical copy can never be taken away. The quality is always the same every time. Plus the cover artwork is usually cool and memorable.

I have a lot of movies, but nothing like that. Most of my physical store bought DVD and bluray are concert films, with a small percentage of them being just regular movies. I have burned quite a lot of movies on DVD-r. Lot if them are from when I had vhs tapes, I burned using one of those dvd/vhs combo deals. Then I have a lot I burned off my computer. I don't have space or the need to display movies that way. Most of them I buy I just take out of the case and put them in one of those cd/dvd case holders that hold about 500 movies. Stuff that in a corner and that's that. Making a display out of them would seriously get in the way of more important things, like my CD displays. Like Freddie, best not mess with that, or you die.

Does anyone on here still have a working VHS player? I do (a VHS/DVD combo player) and I have quite a few movies on VHS, which I should probably start going through my collection and weed out the bad/unplayable copies. A good plan to have since we're in the dead of winter now.

007 wrote:

Does anyone on here still have a working VHS player?

I had one of those DVD/VHS combo players in the early 00s (it was our first DVD player) but it crapped out seven or eight years ago. That was the end of the VHS era in my house. When the player went out to the trash, so did whatever remained of the VHS tapes, which by that point was mostly hand-me-down children's videos from when the kids were small.

Troublezone wrote:

They talk about the convenience of streaming in the Documentary, but then they lament the obvious… what happens if a streaming service folds? Do you lose everything? Also the buffering can get interrupted (slow connection). A physical copy can never be taken away. The quality is always the same every time. Plus the cover artwork is usually cool and memorable.

Those are all the exact reasons that I don't stream music.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

They talk about the convenience of streaming in the Documentary, but then they lament the obvious… what happens if a streaming service folds? Do you lose everything? Also the buffering can get interrupted (slow connection). A physical copy can never be taken away. The quality is always the same every time. Plus the cover artwork is usually cool and memorable.

Those are all the exact reasons that I don't stream music.

Anything I buy digitally, I always either end up buying a physical copy later, or burn it to CD. Just in case that does happen.

Started watching this doc last night on Tubi, but I dozed off about 30 mins in (not cuz it was boring, cuz it was late and I was tired), so I'll pick up where I left off sometime today. What little I saw was pretty interesting. Some of these guys have very impressive collections!

Someone needs to do a doc like this about CD collectors. VHS, 8 tracks, cassettes, and vinyl have all had their documentaries, where's ours??

I wouldn’t mind buying a dirt cheap VHS player for my small collection of video tapes. Some of them have never been converted to dvd format.

Troublezone wrote:

I wouldn’t mind buying a dirt cheap VHS player for my small collection of video tapes. Some of them have never been converted to dvd format.

If you've got a Goodwill or similar thrift shop near you, they usually have a couple of VCRs amongst their piles of cast-off electronics and appliances.

I watched the rest of this doc last night, by the way. It was fun for a while, but it dragged on WAY too long. Two plus hours (!) of the same bunch of goobers in front of their media collections, all saying basically the same things about their deep love for physical media and their "nostalgia" for VHS and Blockbuster Video got old pretty quick.

Don't get me wrong, some of these guys have amazing collections, but after a while I was focusing more on what was on the shelves behind them than listening to what they were saying ("Oh shit, that guy's got three copies of Cannibal Holocaust AND a clamshell case Savage Weekend!")

Also, one guy said he understands the vinyl LP revival but sez he doubts there will ever be a similar one for CDs because "CDs are not sexy" and "No one cares about the 3000 CDs you have on your shelf." To which my response was "Oh yeah? Chuck you, Farley."

Troublezone wrote:

I wouldn’t mind buying a dirt cheap VHS player for my small collection of video tapes. Some of them have never been converted to dvd format.

I need to pick one up too. I have a star wars box set on vhs, and I can't remember if it's a version before Lucas started changing it, or the altered version. I've asked people that know more than me, but I get conflicting answers all the time.

Wrecked Neck wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

I wouldn’t mind buying a dirt cheap VHS player for my small collection of video tapes. Some of them have never been converted to dvd format.

I need to pick one up too. I have a star wars box set on vhs, and I can't remember if it's a version before Lucas started changing it, or the altered version. I've asked people that know more than me, but I get conflicting answers all the time.

Try this place.
https://m.imdb.com/

They tend to have all kinds of info.