The Ultimate Blu-ray Buying Guide You Can't Miss! (2025)

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Links For everything we covered

Boutique labels
Kino Lorber
Vinegar Syndrome
Imprint Films
Warner Archive
Nova Media
Shout Factory/Shout Select/Scream Factory
Arrow Video
Indicator Films
Criterion
Umbrella Entertainment

There are many more Boutique Labels that we didn't cover, however this is a great starting point.

[MoviesDonuts]

Thanks for this I've been needing a video like this for a long time, keep up the good work.

[RobertHarbitzII]

I am subscribed to so many physical media channels it’s stupid. But you are the most informative of them all, and you seem to be a really cool guy so bless you.

[DarkTidez]

I just recently discovered your channel and subscribed. I really enjoy this content and seeing how I am new to this scene I especially appreciate this video. I started collecting last November and I am hooked. I really want to increase my knowledge of all the aspects of this industry. It definitely is overwhelming, talking about boutique labels, directors, film used, formats, aspect ratios, color grading and on and on. Keep up the good work because it is very helpful to people like me.
Thanks!

[TorontoJon]

18:35 I have a couple hundred to a few hundred Kino Lorber movies too and I make a point of NOT creating an exclusive Kino Lorber section on my shelves due to the boring black uniform spines (other than the slipcovers) because it would be so tedious to search through those black spines with white lettering to pick out a particular title, so I generally organize my movies by genre and then alphabetically which helps to spread out my Kino Lorber movies among other movies from different companies. :)

[brockmckraken]

Man, I really enjoy and appreciate your style of vids, include content for everyone from average Joe second hand collectors to the Boutique obsessed like myself. We have many collector habits in common. A long video about my favorite hobby is relaxing and I look forward to more. Always let us in on all your secrets! I've been ordering from Shout for years and never knew they had a membership program!

[marty]

🎉 Thanks so much for this vid! Great job; I appreciate it! Really helpful.

[williamdriver]

My favorite is orbit. No one does it better.

[DareDevil]

Good video maybe you can do a video on how to tell if a bluray player is region free or not because any time I try to look one up it's always either a super expensive player or no info on if it is or not and I mainly use my Xbox Series X for blurays and so far a lot of the importe I have work fine but in the future I'd like to have a region free player at preferably $150

[tattooedbikerunexplained]

Whooohoooo! First! An hour long and Im here for it... great to see you brother

Edit... just got to the premium Barbarella from arrow.. lets go!!! That looks awesome!!!!

[TonyThompson]

On the topic of premium editions being "unnecessary" or "over priced", I don't understand those complaints from people. If the standard edition is available, why would it bother someone that a premium edition is available? I don't have a lot of premium editions, but I love the few I have.

[vanstraelend]

I buy almost everything secondhand, buying new is a money pit in the long run.Just my opinion, collecting is always changing of course, but that's the challenge and fun of it.

[RobertHarbitzII]

I will say upfront I only have two releases from umbrella entertainment. One is night 90 and the other is martyrs. Neither one looks very good.

[Dcarter]

My personal favorite so far has been eBay but you have to pay attention to who you’re buying from.