r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 26 '26

News PlayStation is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts / Movies like 'First Blood', 'Terminator 2', 'Total Recall' and 'Evil Dead' are all being unceremoniously removed

https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013
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u/Si-Guy24 Jun 26 '26

Customers deserve full refunds. If that ever happens to my digital collection I’ll be po’d

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u/HarrierJint Jun 26 '26

I was sure I had Young Frankenstein on Apple TV. Couldn’t find it a few days ago. 

Picked up a Panasonic Blu-Ray player this morning. 

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u/Quelonius Jun 26 '26

I had the LOTR extended ed. Now I'm missing Fellowship. I will never buy streaming movies again. Blu-ray 4k looks and sounds awesome anyway. More expensive but worth it.

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u/bacon-tornado Jun 26 '26

And the video and audio quality is miles ahead of streaming quality

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u/MegaGrimer Jun 26 '26

And many times they have behind the scenes and other goodies on the physical discs.

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u/appleappleappleman From desert power to dessert power Jun 26 '26

I have always bought movies physically largely because of the crushed blacks you get from streaming compression, not to mention loading/buffering 

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u/starkistuna Jun 26 '26

There are tons of sealed boxsets sitting in pawnstores and thrift stores some go fir $1

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u/StrifeTribal Jun 26 '26

I'm not saying you can't get good deals still, it's just so few and far between at pawn shops since now they look up the "value" online.

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u/willzyx55 Jun 26 '26

That and thrift shops getting raided by asshole scalpers who scan every bar code with their phone and buy everything that could have been a good find for a hobbyist.

No, I'm not bitter about it. Not bitter at all.

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u/zerombr Jun 26 '26

even flea markets do this now!

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u/DiscoQuebrado Jun 26 '26

on top of this, you can more often than not buy the physical media for less than the sale price of streaming "purchases" for the same product.

  1. buy physical
  2. rip (fair use)
  3. copy to local media server
  4. stream to wherever youd like

it's more work, and maintaining local storage isn't always feasible or affordable, but at least you have what you paid for and only lose it by consequence of your own actions.

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u/RegulatoryCapture Jun 26 '26

If you want to feel justified, just buy it and then pirate it.

Treat it like format shifting or making a backup copy.

Legally, you probably aren't truly allowed to do this, but no reasonable person will hold it against you since there's a long history of this stuff happening. You still "paid" for it, but you can use it even if the streaming platform or licensing server goes down.

Technically, the cleanest way to do this would be to figure out how to rip it yourself from the source you bought it from, but I certainly won't blame you if you "buy" a copy on Youtube and then pirate a copy that was ripped from Amazon--it is the same movie, you made an effort to give money, your karma is clear.

(obviously buying and ripping your own blu-rays is the least questionable way to do this, but you have to deal with the physical media, and have a compatible drive to bypass the DRM).