I called it in 2025, physical media is back
Here's a video for physical media advocates.
Videos that predicted the resurgence of old technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mg7fwT4-JI&t=78s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hS0wD64fM8&t=315s
Relevant links:
https://tech.yahoo.com/home-entertainment/articles/4k-blu-ray-strikes-back-141814166.html
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/taylor-swift-vinyl-sales-rose-19th-consecutive-year-2025-luminate-year-end-report-1236630636/
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/cassette-tape-sales-cds-streaming-taylor-swift-b2878215.html
https://www.quantumrun.com/consulting/board-game-popularity-statistics/
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/billiards-accessories-market-report
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/02/u-s-book-sales-finished-2025-with-a-strong-december-adult-trade-finishes-down-slightly-for-the-year/
https://www.ajc.com/business/2025/08/ajc-to-move-to-fully-digital-publication-phase-out-print-dec-31/s
https://tapeheadcity.com/
Videos that predicted the resurgence of old technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mg7fwT4-JI&t=78s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hS0wD64fM8&t=315s
Relevant links:
https://tech.yahoo.com/home-entertainment/articles/4k-blu-ray-strikes-back-141814166.html
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/taylor-swift-vinyl-sales-rose-19th-consecutive-year-2025-luminate-year-end-report-1236630636/
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/cassette-tape-sales-cds-streaming-taylor-swift-b2878215.html
https://www.quantumrun.com/consulting/board-game-popularity-statistics/
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/billiards-accessories-market-report
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/02/u-s-book-sales-finished-2025-with-a-strong-december-adult-trade-finishes-down-slightly-for-the-year/
https://www.ajc.com/business/2025/08/ajc-to-move-to-fully-digital-publication-phase-out-print-dec-31/s
https://tapeheadcity.com/
Category:
More From: edray1416
![In Response to Just A Robot; In Regards to Joshua [Part two]](/usfi/thmp/Pi6CZA8B5pI.jpg "In Response to Just A Robot; In Regards to Joshua [Part two]")
![In Response to Just A Robot; In Regards to Joshua [Part 1]](/usfi/thmp/-hpuEZv6RUZ.jpg "In Response to Just A Robot; In Regards to Joshua [Part 1]")
![To Josh a Josher- Pity Party of One [Mal reupload]](/usfi/thmp/a_g8yaq1EXO.jpg "To Josh a Josher- Pity Party of One [Mal reupload]")
Related Videos
0:11
![[REMAKE] HIT Entertainment - (2007)](/usfi/thmp/1HsGQ0zKjAV.jpg "[REMAKE] HIT Entertainment - (2007)")
0:09
1:05
0:14
0:16
6:20
![CS:S | Killing Entertainment by k1u [HD]](/usfi/thmp/L3cDNAW3AjZ.jpg "CS:S | Killing Entertainment by k1u [HD]")
0:06
0:13
0:12
0:05
0:14
0:17
31 ratings
838 views
Want to add this video to your favorites?
Sign in to VidLii now!
Sign in to VidLii now!
Want to add this video to your playlists?
Sign in to VidLii now!
Sign in to VidLii now!
Great job playstation you killed physical media.
(edited)
As much as some people want it to come back, it's never coming back. The average person likes convenience too much to want to deal with physical media, and rightly so. Physical media is a pain in the ass compared to streaming.
@edray1416 Torrenting is more popular than ever, and if people don't want to deal with having to store all of that themselves, pirate streaming sites aren't going anywhere. From a convenience standpoint, waiting 20 minutes for a movie to download is preferable to buying a DVD online and then waiting for it to arrive. You COULD burn movies to a disc, but they have limited space, which means worse quality. Also, not all disc readers can read burnt discs, especially not older ones, so you're going to have to drop money on that too, when you can just torrent/stream a movie for free. Mind you I'm talking about watching something you already have in mind, if you're just watching whatever you can get your hands on second hand then yes it's somewhat convenient, though in my experience, second hand DVDs have the tendency to be filthy. I found a dead spider in a Peep Show box set once lol.
@gourmandises
"From a convenience standpoint, waiting 20 minutes for a movie to download is preferable to buying a DVD online and then waiting for it arrive."
Counterpoint, what if the movie constantly buffers due to internet issues? Not everyone has quality broadband due to regulations of broadband from internet companies. Not everyone can afford major broadband services. Also, people are tired of constant ad breaks.
"If you're just watching whatever you can get your hands on secondhand, then yes, it's somewhat convenient. Though in my experience, secondhand DVDs have the tendency to be filthy."
So what? If the disc barely has scratches and does not have disc rot, get it. As for finding a spider, complain to the employees if you find something insane in the box set. It's their job to make sure the cases are clean.
"From a convenience standpoint, waiting 20 minutes for a movie to download is preferable to buying a DVD online and then waiting for it arrive."
Counterpoint, what if the movie constantly buffers due to internet issues? Not everyone has quality broadband due to regulations of broadband from internet companies. Not everyone can afford major broadband services. Also, people are tired of constant ad breaks.
"If you're just watching whatever you can get your hands on secondhand, then yes, it's somewhat convenient. Though in my experience, secondhand DVDs have the tendency to be filthy."
So what? If the disc barely has scratches and does not have disc rot, get it. As for finding a spider, complain to the employees if you find something insane in the box set. It's their job to make sure the cases are clean.
I just started recollecting physical DVDs recently, got a few 2000s classics and some TV shows
@Drumlord200
The bulk of my collection is Blu Ray. Some DVDs are hard to upgrade to Blu Rays due to the Blu Rays being out-of-print. Trying to upgrade "Gone in 60 Seconds" from 1974 could cost me $40. The DVD of the original cost me $20, but that's in print.
The bulk of my collection is Blu Ray. Some DVDs are hard to upgrade to Blu Rays due to the Blu Rays being out-of-print. Trying to upgrade "Gone in 60 Seconds" from 1974 could cost me $40. The DVD of the original cost me $20, but that's in print.
RIP physical media
@MemeCircuit
Don't buy into the nonsense. Video games are dead, but not music, movies, nor TV. Boutique labels will save physical media. Same with books.
Don't buy into the nonsense. Video games are dead, but not music, movies, nor TV. Boutique labels will save physical media. Same with books.
@edray1416 Not dead i got an entire backlog spanning older consoles im filling up with media aswell as a computer my videogames are doing fine, Its the new physical games you should be worried about and yeah i agree older games was betyer, Newer games just focus on woke while older focus on entertaining the customer.
its just a fade for faggots who want to larp nostalgia. it will pass in a few months to a year and these ppl will go back to using their phones and netflix
@CowzRLolz I hate to say it, but I think this is true for a lot of people. Most people see media as a way to pass time, be a part of the current zeitgeist, or do what their friends are doing, and want the easiest way possible to get it. The resurgence will likely stick for a moderately sized niche of geeks and members of some sub-cultures, but most people like convenience too much.
@edray1416 Even using a smartphone isn't that expensive if you aren't buying $1000 phone on a contract. Decent phones for texting and social media can be had new for $100-$200 and you can then get a prepaid plan for $20-50 a month depending on how much data you need. If you need a nice phone for the camera, you can get an iPhone that's a few years old for $300 with a camera only marginally worse than the newest model, then use a prepaid plan with it. Either way, the phone will likely last a few years if you don't install every bloatware app imaginable.
@edray1416 Even using a smartphone isn't that expensive if you aren't buying $1000 phone on a contract. Decent phones for texting and social media can be had new for $100-$200 and you can then get a prepaid plan for $20-50 a month depending on how much data you need. If you need a nice phone for the camera, you can get an iPhone that's a few years old for $300 with a camera only marginally worse than the newest model, then use a prepaid plan with it. Either way, the phone will likely last a few years if you don't install every bloatware app imaginable.
(edited)
@edray1416 the average normie is lazy to a subhuman degree. Everyone complains about social media and discord but they literally REFUSE to stop doing either of those, and switching off those is 100% free and takes like, maybe 10 minutes max. If they wont eve ndo that, no chance they will switch to owning media because that requires either downloading your media from torrenting sites (they are too lazy to even browse around to find the good sites) or getting and organizing physical media, and they will be too lazy 2 do that when in their eyes they can just pay a gorbillion dollars a month and get it all in a click with netflix. The few normies who do actually buy physical media and stuff, will turn it into a consumerist collection for aesthetics to post on social media. This is what has happened with the "analog" movement, which partially includes physical media, so the odds are this is what will happen to this to. There will obviously be SOME who stick with it, but most wont.
Sony just announced that they will discontinue physical games beginning January 2028 for future PlayStation consoles. We really need to keep physical media alive.
@Orwellian1984
Books, home video, and physical games will always be there. Just because retail stores won't have physical media don't mean that we can't order through catalog. Keep that in mind.
Books, home video, and physical games will always be there. Just because retail stores won't have physical media don't mean that we can't order through catalog. Keep that in mind.
@Orwellian1984 Sadly you haven't truly owned modern physical console games for years now. Most of them are useless without a day one patch from a server that could cut off access to the update at any time. This is partially why I modded my PS4. That said, outright no longer selling disks, even if they're just glorified DRM keys, kills the used market, which really sucks for gamers on a budget.
(edited)
Why Does That Man Not Have A Face?
this is very true! im hoping to start burning CDs and i already have a large collection of DVDs and Blu-Ray(plus my library has a bunch of DVDs you can borrow)
@irrelev4nt Still kept the DVD burner from my old computer and put it in my current PC. I love cases with 5.25 inch bays.
(edited)
Youtube is ass.
Well i've had a CD player for 10 months and... it just stopped working. :(
Physical media is comforting in the face of late-stage capitalism
yeah physical media is cool when you don't want the big streaming companys controlling what you can and can't watch. i have a small physical media collection of blu-rays and dvds. also self hosting media with jellyfin is pretty cool to.
I have been buying CDs since year 2000 and I did not stop in the 2010s when most people jumped on the streaming trend.
Or is it?
| Date: |
Views: 838 | Ratings: 31 |
| Time: | Comments: 65 | Favorites: 15 |
As much as I like physical media, it's not a perfect solution to preservation and accessibility. Disc rot and failing hardware will take everything eventually, not everyone has the extra space, and buying each thing you want to watch can still be more expensive than a monthly subscription. The only way to ensure preservation is to circulate DRM free media as far and wide as possible, store it in as many places as possible, and develop emulators and other tech to replicate old functionality long after the last NES and CRT television has crapped out.