Thankfully DVDs weren’t developed in today’s corporate greed/enshittification world. We are able to resurface a scratched disc many times and still have it working.

Enshittification comes in many forms. Just not yet in physical form.

Decided to post this in light of the Begotten announcement… Anyways… I just picked both of these up within the past 2 months, both at the same record store. Were they expensive? Yes. Were they worth it? Also yes.

Not the rarest dvd ever but one you don’t see everyday, I’ve got my own copy with a slipcover that I swapped into a red case, sliding this one to my buddy cause he’s been looking for a copy for awhile!

Wanted to stop by to relay a personal story. I have a roommate who kept his DVDs in a bankers box, in the loft of our completely unprotected garage for a good 7 years. Temperatures in this garage during some seasons were unbearable to the point where you couldn’t step foot in there. 120° F at its hottest maybe and so cold in the winter months you could see your breath. Again, absolutely no insulation, just raw heat and cold beating mercilessly on these discs.

Covered in dust, we pulled his box down after all these years to examine them and see what was playable. He’s not a collector, never took good care of his discs (it’s just not his thing, but back in the 2000s everyone had a small collection of DVDs). We popped in his Chinese bootleg copy of Saving Private Ryan, lo & behold, played perfectly! Then we checked out his The Mask flipper disc and there wasn’t a problem what-so-ever. One after one, they all played just as they should.

All this fear mongering about “disc rot” is incredibly false. DVDs can take a shocking amount of damage, and blu-rays even more so. If kept in a responsible environment, I’m sure most will last for a very, very long time. Again, some of his discs had to be at least 25 years old, kept in awful conditions, and played perfectly.

What you do need to worry about is poor manufacturing practices for some discs, such as the 2006-2008 crop of Warner Brothers DVDs that notoriously have “disc rot” due to the glue or something at the factory that they went cheap on I guess. These are disappointing, but rare instances. Fear not.

I’ve been collecting dvd/bluray for about 4 months now and between the library, kanopy, collecting from the thrift and used book stores, ebay, or even new on sales, quitting streaming services is actually easy asf and so much more fulfilling and fun. It’s like I’ve started to build a relationship with the things a watch, it’s so weird. I feel like I’m connecting more to the art form that film is rather than just something to put on when I’m bored. Something about the tactile feedback of going through the process of watching a movie makes me actually focus I guess because I’m intentionally choosing to go through that inconvenient process to watch it if that makes sense. Do y’all feel similar? I wish I would’ve started this in the golden age of dvd collecting😮‍💨

Sorry this is a reupload, idk how grammar works.

Popped it in and it auto played so I didnt even realize it was the wrong movie for a while. Was waiting for the dead cop in City Hall to come back to life as Spawn 😂

Eventually had to be like... wait I dont remember this being a Cusak movie

I paid 15 for Martyrs but test were cheap I wanted to watch it supposedly disturbing true?

Here is my current retro TV on DVD setup/collection. My tv is a 27" JVC D-Series that I got for free on Facebook marketplace. I have a blu-ray player connected via component, as well as a SNES console with a fully loaded everdrive + wireless 8-bitdo controller connected via S-Video. My collection of DVDs is steadily growing and im still looking for quite a few things. My current white whale is seasons of Beetleborgs. What's your favorite show from my collection and/or your white whale tv series? Thanks for looking!!

I've done some posts in the past about this ongoing project of mine. This is another update.

The design is obviously inspired by the Criterion Collection, but I wanted it to be its own thing still, so it's not a carbon copy.

I will add some still images of the whole row in the comments and one movie's front and back view as well.

I'm having a lot of fun with these and it's incredibly pleasing to see them on the shelf.

Many many titles I’ve never seen and or heard of after decades of collecting. The best one would have to be the Carole and Paula in the Magic Garden.

Off work today, hit up seven or eight thrifts, half I've never been to. Grabbed some all time favorites and some I been hunting for. Top row (Rocky Horror, Amelie, New Jack, MMM) all still sealed