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Possible dvd/blue ray discontinued?

How do you consume your media?

  • DVD \ blue ray releases

    Votes: 30 83.3%

  • Buy and download

    Votes: 6 16.7%

  • Stream

    Votes: 22 61.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 11.1%
  • Total voters
    36
I still think of rural areas , and how they don't even have the option of streaming because they didnt have access to high speed internet .
So they wait for the DVD release. I mean they can create on demand for most stuff, so I would think that they would offer that service.
 
BillJ said:
I have so many Blu-ray players in my house, I doubt I will ever have to buy one again. PS3, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox Series X, Magnavox Profile 1.1 player from 2009 (still chugging along) and a LG UHD player. I was just watching Star Blazers 2199 on Blu-ray earlier today. I get a fair amount of entertainment via streaming, but still have the physical hardware and plenty of discs to keep me busy should the Apocalypse come. :rofl:
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I have a brand new Samsung BD-J5700 still in its box. I bought it to keep in reserve when Samsung announced they were ceasing production of Blu-ray players, because I love the BD-F5700 I have so much. Cost like 90 bucks, has been worked to death for years, and still keeps chugging along. Plus, very much in contrast to my old Panasonic DVD player, it will play ANYTHING flawlessly, even scratched-up "floater" discs.
 
valkyrie013 said:
I still think of rural areas , and how they don't even have the option of streaming because they didnt have access to high speed internet .
So they wait for the DVD release. I mean they can create on demand for most stuff, so I would think that they would offer that service.
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Yeah, I think that's more of a reality than most people realize. It sounds unbelievable, but there are many under-served areas that have a hard time getting good internet service. Most of the time because the cable companies don't deem them important enough to run lines through to them. That's not an issue that the general population has control over, but there seem to be government initiatives being worked on to provide incentives for these companies to give smaller communities high-speed internet. What I've heard happening in some parts of Canada, anyway.
 
^Expanding high-speed internet is part of Biden's American Jobs Plan (the infrastructure bill), but of course the Republicans want to narrowly define "infrastructure" as roads, bridges, trains, etc. If the past year of many folks working at home has proven anything, reliable internet is now as important a part of our national infrastructure as any highway. [/soapbox]
 
^Agreed. Although I guess I should point out that when I say Infrastructure, I mean internet infrastructure rather than as a general whole, as that's always been the way it's been referred to in Canada.
 
Internet infrastructure has been a thing for decades with the internet company's playing games with the system. Whichever president.
Mostly because its self reporting with no one looking in to it. Tis crap.
 
I’m still mad over CRTs not being made. I’ll take a snowy picture over digital artifacts. There oughta be a law...
 
I still say don't worry. The streaming fad will be ending pretty soon. Granted DVD is over as well. We are about to return to vcr.
 
A 4tb hard drive is half the size of a vhs tape.

If we could still put 23 thousand episodes of ER on one vhs cassette, that's one thing, but the fast forward function is balls. Trying to get to episode 9003 from the beginning of the tape, is going to take all night.
 
valkyrie013 said:
Internet infrastructure has been a thing for decades with the internet company's playing games with the system. Whichever president.
Mostly because its self reporting with no one looking in to it. Tis crap.
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If we left it up to private business, we'd still have people in Appalachia who were living by candlelight. Broadband internet service needs to be made a utility like electricity or water.
 
cardinal biggles said:
If we left it up to private business, we'd still have people in Appalachia who were living by candlelight. Broadband internet service needs to be made a utility like electricity or water.
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I lived by candle light for 2 weeks.

Asleep by nine and up by 5.

Time of my life.
 
For rural.. I mean what does it cost for a few people and a ditch witch? It's not rocket surgery..
And if the gov is giving out money to-do it.. Why isn't it done?
 
Because if it isn't written down in law that a service provider must reach everyone in their area, not just where it's profitable to run data lines, they won't do it. Remember how health insurance companies wouldn't cover people with pre-existing conditions prior to the passage of the ACA, which mandated that coverage? When it comes to reliable high-speed internet access, living in the sticks is a pre-existing condition.
 
valkyrie013 said:
Why isn't it done?
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Because, as mentioned before, the companies don't see them as priorities. The companies would rather serve big concrete jungles with large population centres. Low population centres aren't much of an incentive for them. For them, it's another line they've got to maintain with higher cost to profit margins.
 
So, I experienced the reason I prefer to have physical media over streaming this morning.

I've been watching NCIS: New Orleans in the mornings, about 3-4 episodes a week, streaming through Paramount+. I didn't watch it in first run, but I'm enjoying it. Yesterday, I watched my episode (I'm in the middle of the fourth season), but when I cued up the show today, my next episode was gone. Someone at Paramount+ gutted seasons 3-6. I'm...annoyed. :mad:
 
There should be a place for both, as others have mentioned certain areas have poor internet connections of which I was one up until a couple of years ago when fiber finally came to my area. The next issue is cost with more and more studios trying to get in on the streaming market by launching their own services, I can easily see a time when to see certain studios movies/shows you'll have to subscribe to their service as it'll be exclusive to that platform.
 
MacLeod said:
I can easily see a time when to see certain studios movies/shows you'll have to subscribe to their service as it'll be exclusive to that platform.
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You can see... the present? Uncanny! ;)

I feel your pain on the fibre. I'm still waiting for fibre to be available in my neighbourhood, and I live in a large city (by Canadian standards, anyway). Neighbourhoods less than five minutes travel from me have it, yet it's not available here, and they can't give me any estimate on when it will be available here.
 
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