The Physical Media Thread

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

I thought this would be a fun general thread

So what are some of your recent, classic, or just unusual purchases? Any new releases you’re excited about?

One thing I really love is those South Park 5 season Blu-ray sets. Since the series has no end in sight rather than hold off on putting together some gigantic set, they put out Blu-rays for 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, and 21-25.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

I'm starting to see the value in this after not being able to find 5 or 6 things in a row on streaming, mostly old video store finds or Sci Fi Channel movies growing up

The Storm Riders (1998 Hong Kong wuxia fantasy film)
Gall Force: Eternal Story
The Guyver
Strange Days
Castle of Cagliostro
Surf Ninjas
a few others I'm not remembering

Eventually settled on The Heroic Trio with Michelle Yeoh

Some weren't available at all, some were available only for purchase or with an added subscription like HIYAH! on Amazon for Storm Riders.

I actually do have Storm Riders and Strange Days on DVD, but they are in a pile of boxes in the basement somewhere. I had Gall Force taped off the Sci-Fi Channel on a VHS at one point but it degraded to the point of unplayable.

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

I had the first 10 seasons of Simpsons, loved them for years, everything from the commentaries, the features.

Then I got the 11-18 ones in the space of a couple of months.

Damn, literally everything about the show went down around then, even these! The boxes are smaller and cheaper, the commentaries more rambling and less entertaining, getting more guest stars they defer to.

It's weird how the DVD sets produced years later match up to the original product.

[Scoops]

I've been on a bit of a VHS kick recently. I finally set up an old dial tv and a tube tv to play my old game consoles a few months back and thought it would be cool to watch some older movies on the dial tv. I've bought a few random movies so far but my eventual plan is to just buy horror movies and maybe expand to sci-fi.

Latest buys:
Forbidden Planet
Happy Gilmore
Star Wars: A New Hope
Alien

[john84]

I recently got the complete box set of Doc Martin for myself and the complete box set of Legacies for my wife. Doc Martin is a lot of fun IMO.

Leanne WAS happy with Legacies until the final season since it didn't have an episode in the series that left her confused for a while, wasn't pleased with that shall we say.

[HMARK Center]

So, I just bought this: a blu-ray of the 1980s Dinosaur specials starring the late Gary Owens and Eric Boardman.

Seriously, these tapes were everything to me as a tiny little preschool dino-nut, and when the guys behind them at Midwich Entertainment did a Kickstarter over a decade ago to get them on DVD I was all over it, and even got things from them like the soundtrack of the shows (which is just pure 80s goodness and done by movie composer David Spears), a poster done by the Chiodo brothers (yes, the Killer Klown guys) that was autographed and personalized by Gary Owens, all kinds of stuff that just sent my nostalgic heart aflutter. Even ended up being how I learned one part of one of the specials had been cut from its airing on Disney Channel way back in the day - my parents had taped the Disney airing for me, but it turns out they'd cut the sequence of Gary and Eric riding the then-new dinosaur ride at Knott's Berry Farm in California, since that'd be hyping the theme park competition.

Well, now they're putting *all* of the specials, including the original TV-only "pilot" style one done for Disney Channel (even shot in part at the old EPCOT Center Universe of Energy) and one called Return of Dinosaurs that hadn't gotten onto DVD, on blu-ray and I'm really happy to get my hands on it. Heck, I hadn't even known they'd done called "The Volcano Show" or "Prehistoric World", which focused on the Ice Age...would've just been another thing that had me dying to visit the La Brea Tar Pits when I was a little kid, something it only took me about 32 years of my life to check off the list.

This was a reel for those shows back in the 80s, if anyone else remembers them:

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Here’s a random question: What was the latest physical media release to feel like an event?

Like when Batman (1989) came out on VHS it was an EVENT. Check out this YouTube video about it:



I don’t know if we really have events like that anymore or I’m just too far removed from it to be more aware. Like I know when I worked at Brooks Pharmacy and a new Harry Potter book got released people came in on the day it was released to buy it. And we were just a pharmacy, not a book store or anything.

The closest thing I can think of for this year was on March 12 when they did a triple James Cameron 4K release of Aliens, The Abyss, and True Lies. It might pale into comparison to some things, but for the 4K/Blu-ray boutique community, it definitely generated some interest.

[Celexa Bliss 54]

I still have DVD copies of every MCU film from Iron Man through Spider-Man Far From Home. I also have multiple dubbed Super Sentai series on DVD. A lot of old Chikara DVDs. South Park seasons 1-21, I think. Some other series I still have on DVD hidden away somewhere lol

[Limity (BLM)]

Apr 23, 2024 13:33:25 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

Here’s a random question: What was the latest physical media release to feel like an event?

Like when Batman (1989) came out on VHS it was an EVENT. Check out this YouTube video about it:



I don’t know if we really have events like that anymore or I’m just too far removed from it to be more aware. Like I know when I worked at Brooks Pharmacy and a new Harry Potter book got released people came in on the day it was released to buy it. And we were just a pharmacy, not a book store or anything.

The closest thing I can think of for this year was on March 12 when they did a triple James Cameron 4K release of Aliens, The Abyss, and True Lies. It might pale into comparison to some things, but for the 4K/Blu-ray boutique community, it definitely generated some interest.

Damn, that is a really good question. I can't think of anything like that. There were plenty of popular movies that made record sales, such as ET that is referenced in that video, but I can't think of any that made news like that.

The only thing I can think of is when Disney would advertise a certain movie that was "going back in the vault" and not available. And that didn't come close to your example.

[bob]

my most recent purchases were Criterion Collection editions Bull Durham and Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

[tirtefaa]

I hardly buy anything anymore, but was a proponent of physical media for years, at least as far as video games went.

With TV and movies, if I'm a massive fan I will buy them, but I'm incredibly picky on what deserves shelf space. I think the last movie I bought was Back to the Future...just the first one...the other two don't matter as much.

[DSR]

Rite Aid pharmacies are selling all of their DVDs, Blurays, and CDs on clearance, $1 each. I made a day of going to a bunch of those in my area to see what I could find. Nothing super-rare or anything, but I got:

Saw II
Cult of Chucky
Paranormal Activity 3-pack blu-ray
Charlie's Angels (the first one with Drew Barrymore)
Pretty In Pink
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Bourne Identity, Ultimatum, Legacy, and Jason Bourne
Lethal Weapon Season 1 (the show with Damon Wayans)
Annihilation (the Natalie Portman movie)
Stevie Wonder Greatest Hits CD

A few other things I can't remember right now. But yeah, I've got some stuff to check out for a while now.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Apr 23, 2024 11:51:45 GMT -5 Scoops said:

I've been on a bit of a VHS kick recently. I finally set up an old dial tv and a tube tv to play my old game consoles a few months back and thought it would be cool to watch some older movies on the dial tv. I've bought a few random movies so far but my eventual plan is to just buy horror movies and maybe expand to sci-fi.

Latest buys:
Forbidden Planet
Happy Gilmore
Star Wars: A New Hope
Alien

Till it died in 2021 I kept a TV/VCR combo out on the big pier. Would put on VHS to watch while out there all the time in 2020.

That is how I discovered for some reason I recorded and kept every episode of ECW on TNN from 2007 and 2008. Ads and evverything.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Most weeks I go out and hit up all the local stores I can buy used media at. This week was the first time in months I got NOTHING.

Locally 50 cents to a bck tops for dvds and buck to 3 tops for Blu rays means if it is something I want to see once I will pay maybe a buck watch it and then either pass it onto someone or donate it to the library.

Also I know not everyone has the space to store huge amounts of physical media. Or the Shelving needed to hold it.

[JIMBOB]

Disappointed with the recent news of the Disney Movie Club shutting down. Didn’t realize I’d been a member since 2005! Here’s a picture of my last purchases:

[cosmo]

I've got a CD/DVD "dual disc" of Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. One side of the disc is the DVD of the movie, the other side is a CD of the movie's original score plus a song or two from the soundtrack. It's the only DVD I've ever seen like that. And yeah, Blair Witch 2 sucks, but I keep the DVD mainly because I've never seen it released anywhere beyond its initial VHS and DVD releases in 2000. It's never been released on Blu-ray or streaming anywhere that I can tell, and even when Lionsgate puts out multi-pack releases of the Blair Witch movies, it's usually just the original and the third one.

I've also got a box set of the Sleepaway Camp movies released by Anchor Bay in 2002. The version I have came in a box made to look like a first aid kit with the Red Cross logo on it, and it was discontinued (and apparently actually even recalled, from what I've heard) after the Red Cross filed a complaint. It was re-released a few months later with altered box art. I found the Red Cross version at a local flea market for 20 bucks, which was an absolute steal because it currently goes from anywhere between $175 to $500 on eBay.

[agent817]

Apr 23, 2024 20:20:26 GMT -5 JIMBOB said:

Disappointed with the recent news of the Disney Movie Club shutting down. Didn’t realize I’d been a member since 2005! Here’s a picture of my last purchases:

"Rocketman" on Blu-ray?! Damn! I need to check eBay now.

Anyway, I went to a local indie show. Since it was one of the promotion's biggest shows, there was also an expo. I bought the following:
Royal Rumble 2009
Naughty By Nature's self-titled album
The soundtrack to "Who's The Man?"
A trade paperback of the "Code Red" comic book

[Jaws the Shark]

Apr 23, 2024 19:51:55 GMT -5 Ultimo Gallos said:

That is how I discovered for some reason I recorded and kept every episode of ECW on TNN from 2007 and 2008. Ads and evverything.

It's sort of great when ads are left in old recordings of media, I think because it really transports you back to when they were originally aired.

I recently bought some Shonen Knife vinyl that I don't already own. I actually preordered the long-awaited reissue of their first self-released record last June, and it still hasn't been releaesd. It seems that every online retailer has a different release date for it, so I'm not sure when or if I'll ever get that.

[James Fabiano]

Can we fit in vinyls?

Cause I've been on a kick with that.

My MO seems to be regaining records my family used to have (this would include Linda Ronstadt's Heart Like A Wheel, Let The Good Times Roll -- the concert/documentary, and the Disney picture-disc albums) and ones of personal interest (anything with my girls on them...Dusty, Petula, etc. etc.)

I did find the vinyl version of one of those Tee Vee Toons' Television's Greatest Hits collections this past weekend.

[DZ: WF Legacy]

Mega64 have been bringing it in regards to physical media for their big 20th Anniversary. They did pre-orders for their multiple disc Master Collection BR earlier this year that I'm waiting for the shipping on. It has all of their public experiment videos from the past 20 years, their old show, and tons of bonus stuff. They've also recently done a few BR collections of their more cinematic skits, In 5 Minutes (several DBZs, MGS1, Evangelon), their tours, etc. I'm so glad they made it this long and are able to still do blu-rays and stuff.

I sadly missed out on the Flame War Theater Season 1 set, but that was what got me back into them heavily in 2018. Dramatically reading ridiculous old Usenet/forum flame wars (with incorrect grammar and spelling faithfully reenacted) while dressed in Shakespearian garb is incredible. Here's my favorite one about finding a 'nude cheat' in DOA. I'll probably wind up picking it up second-hand eventually.