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You can also buy some very cheap DVDs here for $2-$3
So I see you all are exhausted by streaming services effectively recreating cable. I see you’re all tired of ads. Pirating is a great alternative, but I have another fantastic option for you all!
I live in Seattle. And in Seattle we have America’s largest physical media store, Scarecrow Video. They are a non-profit that has pretty much any film or tv show you can imagine. Like, everything. So much so that one of our local cinemas does a program with them called “Unstreamable” where they show a film from Scarecrow’a archive that you can’t access anywhere online. It’s a bit overwhelming to go to their store, which is two levels of every program under the sun.
ANYWAY, I bring this up because they recently started a Rent-by-Mail program. It’s pretty similar to what Netflix used to do. You can rent up to six titles (barring their super rare stuff and pornos) and they will ship it to you, then you return it in the included pre-paid envelope.
Why does this rock? Sure, you still have to pay money, BUT you are supporting a non-profit that is dedicated to preserving media instead of some corporation looking for endless profit. They can also expand your palette with their vast selection. And if you have a favorite piece of media, you never have to worry about it disappearing! All their stuff is there in perpetuity.
So this is all to say, now that Scarecrow has expanded their reach beyond the Greater Seattle Area, I implore you to check them out. If you don’t want to rent right now, the could always use donations to keep them afloat.
You can check out their catalogue HERE!
Said it a year ago and I’ll say it again.
Pirate all your favorite shows, movies and games while you still have the chance.
Oh, and never stop supporting physical media.
Love that Matrix is in the VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K commercials!
Share your streaming site passwords! You are building community/chosen family for yourself with a service you have already paid for. You are not stealing from these corporations. If you can't find something on streaming, we'll help you find it in physical media form.
May 2022: #LoveAAPI Movies Too
May is Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and we're celebrating with a film you can get through us made by folks from every Asian country. Huge thanks to Sophie and Harry for refining this excellent list! If you'd like more films from each of these countries and/or more info about these movies, subscribe to our Patreon!
Afghanistan: Osama (2003, Drama, PG-13)
Armenia: The Color of Pomegranates (1969, Biographical Drama/Music, Unrated)
Azerbaijan: Burnt by the Sun (1994, Drama/War, R)
Bahrain: The Barrier (1990, Drama, Unrated)
Bangladesh: Sincerely Yours, Dhaka (2018, Anthology/Drama, Unrated)
Bhutan: Travelers and Magicians (2003, Drama/Adventure, Unrated)
Brunei: Yasmine (2014, Teen Drama/Martial Arts, Unrated)
Cambodia: Rice People (1994, Drama, Unrated)
China: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, Action, R)
Cyprus: Boy on the Bridge (2016, Drama, Unrated)
East Timor: Beatriz’s War (2013, Historical Drama, Unrated)
Georgia: In Bloom (2013, Drama/Coming-Of-Age, Unrated)
India: Lootera (2013, Romance/Drama, Unrated)
Indonesia: Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts (2017, Thriller, Unrated)
Iran: The Wind Will Carry Us (1999, Drama, Unrated)
Iraq: Son of Babylon (2009, Drama, Unrated)
Israel: The Syrian Bride (2004, Drama, Unrated)
Japan: Departures (2008, Drama/Music, PG-13)
Jordan: Theeb (2014, Drama/Historical, Unrated)
Kazakhstan: Kaïrat (1992, Drama, Unrated)
Kuwait: The Message (1976, Drama/Epic, PG)
Kyrgyzstan: The Adopted Son (1998, Drama, Unrated)
Laos: The Long Walk (2019, Drama/Sci-fi, Unrated)
Lebanon: The Insult (2017, Drama, R)
Malaysia: I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone (2006, Drama/Romance, Unrated)
Maldives: Faree (2021, Drama, Unrated)
Mongolia: The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005, Drama/Family, G)
Myanmar: The Road to Mandalay (2016, Drama/Romance, Unrated)
Nepal: White Sun (2016, Drama/Adventure, Unrated)
North Korea: The Other Side of the Mountain (2012, War Drama/Romance, Unrated)
Oman: The Dawn (Al-Boom) (2006, Drama, Unrated)
Pakistan: Moor (2015, Drama, Unrated)
Palestine: Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996, Drama/Experimental, Unrated)
The Philippines: Barber’s Tales (2013, Historical Drama, Unrated)
Qatar: Clockwise (2010, Adventure/Drama, Unrated)
Russia: Dersu Uzala (1975, Adventure/Drama, G)
Saudi Arabia: Wadjda (2012, Drama/Coming-Of-Age, PG)
Singapore: Shirkers (2018, Documentary, Unrated)
South Korea: The Host (2006, Horror/Drama, R)
Sri Lanka: Death on a Full Moon Day (1997, Drama, Unrated)
Syria: For Sama (2019, Documentary, Unrated)
Taiwan: A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Drama/Romance, Unrated)
Tajikistan: Luna Papa (1999, Comedy/Drama, Unrated)
Thailand: Cemetery of Splendor (2015, Drama/Fantasy, Unrated)
Turkey: Mustang (2015, Drama, PG-13)
Turkmenistan: The Daughter-in-Law (1972, Drama, Unrated)
United Arab Emirates: 10 Days Before the Wedding (2018, Drama/Romance, Unrated)
Uzbekistan: 2000 Songs of Farida (2020, Drama, Unrated)
Vietnam: Goodbye Mother (2019, Romance/Drama, Unrated)
Yemen: 10 Days Before the Wedding (2018, Drama, Unrated)
This is why we need DVDs people!!!
She-Ra potentially being delisted.
Just a heads up of some news I heard today. Apparently, the deal between Netflix and Dreamworks is gonna be expiring very soon... which means there's a good chance She-Ra might get delisted from Netflix. If this does happen, it might be good to like, back up the episodes.
Considering it was a coproduction between two companies who clearly don't like each other AND the rights issues regarding the larger he-man franchise... idk if its gonna come back anywhere on another streaming service. It MIGHT, but a part of me doubts it.
EDIT: Don't worry, there's plenty of time to prepare for this. The deal for She-Ra in particular expires in April 2026. So we got three years... Yeah I probs shouldn't have left this part in the comments lol
i love physical media. i love dvds and cds. i love the cover art on the boxes and the way they look organised on a shelf.
i love owning a piece of media that will have to be pried from my cold dead hands to take it from me, instead of being wiped off the face of the earth with the click of a button the moment it stops being profitable.
i love the little manuals that came with video games. i love the design and effort and care put into the little details. i love it all, and we should appreciate it more as a society.
iamx cds
They actually make physical media for a much larger percentage of movies than they ever did in the past. Often with a lot more care than any small release was treated in the early dvd days. Its just if you only watch streaming stuff or the big new recent box office hits you won't see that. It is so ridiculously easy to get physical media for movies that even 5 years ago you couldn't even find. Like yes Netflix is a stingy bastard but so many things are available on disc WITH special features than ever before
you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this
watercolor painting of jinkx as a tarot card !!!
i haven’t done any traditional painting in years so this was a challenge but i’m so happy with how it came out! i’m going to give it to her tomorrow at the stage door after little shop 🤭💕🤸♀️🫧✨
My cds + stereo (there's another cd pile on the floor)
Always always always support physical media and film preservation.
They actually make physical media for a much larger percentage of movies than they ever did in the past. Often with a lot more care than any small release was treated in the early dvd days. Its just if you only watch streaming stuff or the big new recent box office hits you won't see that. It is so ridiculously easy to get physical media for movies that even 5 years ago you couldn't even find. Like yes Netflix is a stingy bastard but so many things are available on disc WITH special features than ever before
i love you physical media ❤️ i love you cds ❤️ i love you vinyl ❤️ i love you cassettes ❤️ i love you dvds ❤️ i love you blurays ❤️ i love you paperback books ❤️ i love you comics ❤️
if physical media ever gets discontinued we will lose hundreds of thousands of games, films, tv shows everything.
media preservation is probably one of the most important ways of keeping history.
even if you don't care about history think about that honestly mediocre film/game/TV show you like that no one else really does. if a company like amazon or PlayStation ot whatever decides they don't want people to play the game/watch the show they can take it away and you can never play it again.
think about P.T. if we let companies take away physical media anything can end up like P.T.
hmm, what to watch...what to watch?
i need everyone to know that i love physical media
i have an interesting little piece of Star Trek TNG media to share today, it's pretty obscure and i've seen literally no discussion of it online at all. my dad is a really big fan of Star Trek, especially Star Trek TNG, and he has this DVD box set of season 1 of the show. it was released around 2002-2003 and it's this big bulky gray capsule box that contains a foldable disc sleeve thing, and most importantly, a little pamphlet that holds descriptions for the main characters of the series. it's a really neat little piece of media, but what i want to focus on is how it describes Data, because i think it's very interesting.
(apologies for the glare)
"Data - A unique and super-intelligent android, Data was created by the genius Dr Noonien Soong to be as human as possible. However, powerful though as his positronic brain might be, Data is unable to comprehend emotion."
the language it uses to describe Data and his relationship with emotions is really intriguing to me. it doesn't say he cannot feel emotions, but rather than he can't comprehend them. it's pretty commonly agreed on in the Star Trek fandom that Data can absolutely feel emotions, but he just can't process or express them in a human-like way. the show is not very good at convincing people that Data is an unfeeling automaton, lol. he definitely feels things, but he's convinced that he can't because he doesn't feel things like a human does. i feel like this pamphlet corroborates that in a way. just,, the language of "unable to comprehend" rather then "unable to feel" comes off as a very deliberate choice with this in mind. characters in the show, including Data himself, will always say that he cannot feel emotions first and foremost, and it feels significant to me that a piece of official media would instead focus more on Data having trouble comprehending emotion. comprehending something and feeling something are two very different things. i feel like this is important.
i'll try to see if i can get the whole pamphlet scanned and uploaded online. again, it's quite an obscure piece of media and i can't seem to find it anywhere. i don't know if i'll be able to account for pamphlets that were released with dvds of the later seasons as i think we only have the season 1 box from this set. i hope they all get found and scanned someday!!