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Ron Howard’s Cocoon and Why You Should Always Keep Your Blu-rays and DVDs
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Did this need to be a video instead of a sentence or two?
“Because it’ll never die and it’ll never grow old” – Diabetis
Oh noo… Not cocoon… /s
This was SLC Punk for a while.
“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem” – Gabe Newell
Backup your NAS, people!
Summary for [Ron Howard’s Cocoon and Why You Should Always Keep Your Blu-rays and DVDs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-h8rN6WhN4)
Title: The Disappearance of Cocoon: Why Physical Media Ownership is Essential
[00:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-h8rN6WhN4&t=3) Cocoon is difficult to find and not available on modern platforms
– The movie Cocoon was a popular hit in the 1980s, directed by Ron Howard and starring well-known actors.
– Despite its popularity, it is nearly impossible to find on modern platforms such as Blu-ray, streaming services, or digital purchase.
[00:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-h8rN6WhN4&t=54) Physical media like Blu-rays and DVDs are valuable to keep.
– The pandemic caused a shift towards building digital libraries instead of buying physical media.
– Original films like Cocoon may disappear, making it important to keep physical copies.
[01:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-h8rN6WhN4&t=101) Nolan recommends buying physical media for long-term ownership of movies.
– Digital copies are like long-term rentals and can vanish from your library without warning.
– Rights ownership changes and different movie cuts may disappear from digital libraries.
[02:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-h8rN6WhN4&t=144) Preserve original theatrical cuts
– Directors often release altered versions
– Original theatrical cuts are difficult to find legitimately
[03:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-h8rN6WhN4&t=190) Physical media is important for preserving original versions of movies.
– Directors sometimes release censored versions digitally, making the original cuts only available on DVD or Blu-ray.
– Owning a Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray allows you to become a custodian of the film and preserve its original version.
[03:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-h8rN6WhN4&t=232) Physical media like Blu-rays are more durable than DVDs.
– Disney likely has a 4K Master of the movie ‘Cocoon’ in their vaults, but it’s not publicly available.
– Speculation about Disney’s reasons for not making the movie available or restoring it.
[04:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-h8rN6WhN4&t=270) Challenges in finding certain movies on physical media
– Difficulties in finding movies due to rights issues and delayed re-releases
– Some movies are still unavailable on physical media despite digital availability
[05:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-h8rN6WhN4&t=312) Physical copies of movies still matter in the niche market
– Unearthed films recently released Martin Campbell’s No Escape, which was previously unavailable for many years
– Collecting Blu-rays and DVDs is important as they are making a comeback despite digital versions
Concepts of ownership CAN CHANGE. 😄👍
But will they?
🌹💯
The writing was in the wall when Lucas started altering the Star Wars original trilogy.
If humanity didn’t get the memo about physical media then, when will they ever listen?
So if you’ve got digital copies you’ve bought, what’s the best software for ripping those copies to a form that you yourself can persist?
I tried to find Spice World on streaming/digital for years until I broke down and bought a DVD copy on eBay. Had to reconnect the blu-ray player for the first time in years to watch the Spice Girls in glorious SD. Before you make fun, have you seen this “masterpiece” of 90’s English pop culture comedy?
If you buy a digital film on some media, you can download the film and keep a copy on your own hard drive.
Noo now where else am i gona see horny old people!
Naw I ain’t hording dvd and 1080p bluray disc like trailer park trash. If I can’t stream
🦜 it then fuck it.
The auto replacement of digital versions with “the latest version” annoys the fuck out of me.
It’s the same with music files. I ripped and uploaded the original CD, but now my library is the latest remastered version. Motherfucker, if I wanted the latest remastered version, I’d have *bought* the latest remastered version.
Pirate
Mans picked the wrong movie to start on. It’s available to stream, for free, on Sling TV. It also got a blu-ray release in, I believe, Germany but it has the english audio track. Can buy this on Amazon.
The sentiment is fine, just… not the best movie to use as an example.
Ray ‘Lee Outta’?
Had a huge dvd collection that I’ve cut down a lot. A. I just didn’t watch them B. They take up a ton of space.
I did do some research and see if any were rare (some are especially random TV series) so kept a small selection. But I’m not sad to see them go. One less thing to collect as I get older and need less “stuff”.
Cocoon and a bunch of other very hard to find movies are all on this web site (I won’t link to it, but just type it in)
swatchseries dot mx
He shows a bookshelf that fits in a nice house, but would be a problem in a small apartment.
“You can’t find this movie” –> really? … going to my go to piracy streaming platform … nope, it’s there. Pointless video.
If you owned it before the licensing non-sense then you are grandfathered in on ownership.
Not the point of the post, but 12 year old me loooved that scene when the girl gets in the pool for little alien [hanky panky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZt9b1VVUlM) with Steve Gutenberg… I remember my buddy examining the TV screen with a magnifying glass like it would reveal more detail, lol
Another movie I can not find for the life of me is
“Who’s the man?”
I need that movie so bad…
I was really disappointed the other day when I couldn’t find a simple clip of the line “YOU GOT A BONER TOO?!” anywhere.
The aspect of this that troubles me is that, essentially, the copies of media we own (whether that’s physical or just a local file) are in effect the public record of our cultural history.
Or put it this way – if there’s no version of The French Connection that contain the N-word, how can anyone prove that it ever happened? It’ll just come down to people’s flawed memories. For high profile movies like that enough people will remember, but if there aren’t enough people that remember those people will be dismissed.
We’re letting corporations re-write our cultural history at their whim. Yes, media has always been lost and forgotten, but the difference is that now there’s no practical reason why it has to happen, but we’re just letting it happen anyway.
What movies are and are not available on streaming is just bizarre to me. I know some of them aren’t available because the film makers paid for some popular music to be played for the theatrical and dvd release, but not for streaming so there’s a rights issue. But cocoon has an entirely original sound track. I have started collecting DVDs for this reason.
It is available on Archive dot org.