When the home video industry was birthed in the late 1970s, Carroll says, he began buying VHS tapes and recording movies from TV. Subscribe HERE to the FREE Media Play News Daily Newsletter! “Owning a piece of Star Wars, even if it was silent and in black-and-white, was a big deal,” he says. “I’ve been collecting movies since I was a boy, starting with small Super 8mm films - usually five to 15 minutes of a popular film,” says Carroll, who works for a Manhattan post-production company as in-house producer and project manager. Scott Carroll, a 53-year-old resident of upstate New York, has more than 8,000 DVDs and Blu-ray Discs in his collection and continues to buy discs on a weekly basis. We even heard from a fellow who lives in a rural part of the country and says he prefers to rent physical discs from Redbox and Netflix.

We heard from collectors from across the country, as well as Canada, Australia and France. Instead of a handful of responses, we received more than 100 replies - all of them with passionate and convincing stories to tell. Or is it, simply, a love of collecting, that inherent drive many of us have to own things - intensified by the belief that even a digital purchase lacks the permanence of owning something on physical media.īoy, did we get an earful. Is it their love of new theatrical films that simply aren’t available on Netflix or the other subscription streaming services? Is it a quality issue? After all, everyone agrees that Blu-ray Disc, especially the new breed of 4K Ultra HD discs, remains the optimum way to watch movies in the home. We wanted to hear their stories, their rationale, for maintaining - and still building - home disc libraries. We issued a call through one of our favorite consumer sites, Bill Hunt’s The Digital Bits, for people who are sticking by the trusty DVD and Blu-ray Disc in a world gone streaming. (Photo by Bobby Quillard) In Defense of the Disc: DVD, Blu-ray Disc Collectors Speak Out Shant Istamboulian shows off his collection of more than 10,000 discs.

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