One of the Greatest Things About Hard Media is Their Packaging
I'm thinking mainly of entertaining advantages that the packaging of musical recordings have over their streaming counterparts, but I think the same is true for hard media for film and TV. For example, the first release of The Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" album had a real, working zipper glued into the cover photo of Mick Jagger's crotch. On the LP release of another Stones album, "Their Satanic Magesties' Request," there was a plastic prism-y slate glued to the cover, right over the photo of the band, making it look like their eyes were following you. The cover for the LP, "The Velvet Underground & Nico," was created by Andy Warhol, who discovered the Lou Reed-fronted band. The cover was all white, except for a big yellow banana right in the center. In small type next to the banana was written "Peel slowly and see." The banana peel was actually glued over Warhol's painting of the fruit beneath! (The album was released in a time people believed they could get high by smoking bananas.)
What are your examples? And has anybody noticed how much digital movie packaging has declined? DVDs were a big deal when they first appeared, with elaborate packaging including real booklets, quality artwork, and, rarely, secondary recordings related to the reason why you bought the movie. For example, the DVD release of "Forbidden Planet," which featured Robbie the Robet, included an hour-long recording of a network TV show in which Robbie was a guest star!