‘There’s something comforting about it’: the collectors who won’t let go of their DVDs and videos

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‘There’s something comforting about it’: the collectors who won’t let go of their DVDs and videos
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For some of Australia’s most hardcore film buffs, streaming will never match the tactile, finite and nostalgic lure of the hard copy

Olivia Bennett’s VHS collection started at a charity stall.

“My mum and I would take trolleys … each time we were going in. And we’d go several times a day [a day] and sort through.” Nostalgia is a primary force driving collectors of physical film media, whose titles sometimes predate them. Bennett’s VHS tapes, she says, are a lens to experience “the 90s … a period of time that I was born in but didn’t necessarily get to grow up in”.

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