Collecting and Watching

[joonskeezle]

Originally Posted by Deezer1986

I completely get FOMO. That’s why I usually prioritize the stuff from the boutiques first.

The last couple years have made this mindset a bit more difficult though. Between COVID messing with manufacturing, and the ever-expanding streaming market and general cratering of blu ray sales causing major studios to increasingly abandon the blu ray format entirely, there's much more of a feeling that ANYTHING can become unavailable if we wait even a little too long.

Just in recent months there's been a bit of a collective panic around a number of Universal and Fox titles which appeared to go out of print, or did go out of print, and then were suddenly available again, and then not, and that uncertainty has definitely made FOMO much worse and made it feel much more ridiculous. (And don't get me started on Warner Bros and Fox.)

I mean people were buying Bowfinger for $40-50 on ebay just in the last couple months; now it's everywhere for $10 again.