Physical media, DVDs and Blu-Rays. Its gotten worse.

TL;DR: Blu rays may have better picture and audio quality, but are much more vanilla, and simplistic than DVDs. Also both types of media are very difficult to get now. Like on amazon they often just offer the streaming/ cloud library version.

Sooo...

I dont know how many of you are collectors of physical media. I would guess many are, as who would be on a moviechat forum if they were just streaming movies from the last decade (arent most streaming services like that? Just offering us mostly movies from 2010+?).

Anyways, I have a DVD collection of a 150+ movies and TV shows. I am sure many of you have a much larger collection, but I bought only movies I love, or cared about it some way. Yes, there may have been the occasional bargain bin one too (like Doom (2005).) but mostly I bought selectively.

Then for a while I stopped buying DVDs. I think it was around the time Blu-Ray came. I didnt want to jump on a new medium, but also felt that I didnt want to invest in an obsolete one.

So for some year I just streamed, "sailed the high seas", and watched my old movies. I then bought an Xbox One and with that came a blu-ray player, so I finally decided to buy some blu-rays and I was amazed how little effort was put into each disc. DVDs came (usually) with lots of content. Audio commentary, behind the scenes, games, while the blu-rays was often extremely vanilla. They didnt even come with animated menus at times. And I am not that impressed with the picture/ audio quality either.

I was also amazed that blu-rays came with region/zones. How regressiv and non consumer friendly (I made a rant about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnWrBHiM8B4).

And worst of all, Blu-ray players did not come with REGION/ ZONE free players, as was the norm with DVD players towards the end of their run. So special editions just released in the USA I could not play in Norway. I have bought 2 blu-rays region locked to A by accident. I the pain to watch them is amazing.

And finally now that Blu-ray (much because sony has done some really shade practices) is dying out it really difficult to get any movie it seems. So in the future I guess we all have to watch the same movies from the last decade or so, and maybe a few highly edited "classics" with smoking removed from the scenes and that slur or un-PC portrayal removed.

Anyone else agree? Or disagree? Or have any thoughts on this?