Streaming platforms face backlash as analog nostalgia fuels slow media market

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News Summary

  • Analog media in demand at Hanmer, Ont., store serving fans of the pre-digital era.
  • Strickly Nostalgia sells collectibles, retro games and consoles, and physical media like CDs, cassette and VHS tapes, and vinyl records.
  • Gen Z in particular "has this appetite for analog technologies," says Louis-Paul Willis, a film studies professor and researcher at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
  • An incipient backlash against massive media conglomerates may also be fuelling the market for physical media.
A custom 3D printed sign in the style of old BlockBuster Video stores entices analogseeking patrons to Mike Stricklands shop in a mall in Hamner, Ont.

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