I have neither the bandwidth nor the iron to stream anything from home, and I don't pay for streaming services.
Have the streaming purges led you to buy more blu rays and dvds?
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I still pick up physical media when possible. For streaming I just get a prepaid card from Walmart or Target, binge what I want until the card expires.
Absolutely. Even thou I didn't buy much over the past few years. I brought some movies today, after buying something else recently.
On The Expanse - I've been waiting for season 4, 5 & 6 to be released here for ages. Sadly some companies shall be soon no longer selling dvds/blue-rays of their products. A very bad decision.
On The Expanse - I've been waiting for season 4, 5 & 6 to be released here for ages. Sadly some companies shall be soon no longer selling dvds/blue-rays of their products. A very bad decision.
I like the case for the complete series of Mad Men, where it's impossible to take the discs out (from the side) without smudging the disc, and at least in my case the disc then won't fully play properly until I clean it. I'm moving them to different storage and cleaning each disc right after I take it out of the case to clean up the smudges.
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At least two, possibly three of our supermarkets (brand rather than branch) seem to have given up on both dvd and blu.
Went in yesterday to the one that's still going and they seem to be trimming down on blu-ray more and more now, so I didn't get the one I wanted. I'm not sure if they're cutting down on dvd too (Always had more of those) but a chunk of what they have out is currently Christmas movies. Whether that'll change back in January or not, we'll see.
Looks like it'll either be online or one of the more specialist shops now.
Went in yesterday to the one that's still going and they seem to be trimming down on blu-ray more and more now, so I didn't get the one I wanted. I'm not sure if they're cutting down on dvd too (Always had more of those) but a chunk of what they have out is currently Christmas movies. Whether that'll change back in January or not, we'll see.
Looks like it'll either be online or one of the more specialist shops now.
The digital purges continue:
PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For
Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not
By Ethan Gach
Published Yesterday
https://kotaku.com/sony-ps4-ps5-discovery-mythbusters-tv-1851066164
PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For
Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not
By Ethan Gach
Published Yesterday
https://kotaku.com/sony-ps4-ps5-discovery-mythbusters-tv-1851066164
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Precisely why physical media is a better option.
I really hope the streaming purges go from strength to strength.
I hope they yank content that people have already paid for so many times that people start buying physical again in big enough numbers that "streaming only" releases start to die off due to all the potential money the studios can no longer ignore.
One can dream. Disney has seen the light (even if they're only putting a toe in the water so far), the others can too.
I hope they yank content that people have already paid for so many times that people start buying physical again in big enough numbers that "streaming only" releases start to die off due to all the potential money the studios can no longer ignore.
One can dream. Disney has seen the light (even if they're only putting a toe in the water so far), the others can too.
yeah, its one thing for a streamer to stop showing something, its quite another for someone to BUY it, and it gets deleted. That goes back to the VHS war with the studios. Ugh.. I don't have any dog in that particular fight as I don't buy any download and it stays on there servers. But thats a court case in the making, and hope they tell the studios to bugger off again, you bought it its yours period.
More on the Playstation story:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...s-of-discovery-shows-from-customer-libraries/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...s-of-discovery-shows-from-customer-libraries/
Reminds me of the good old days of DIVX.
For those too young to recall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
Every one of those broke or cracked, and I only watched the DVDs once!
There's a program called StreamFab, with which you can download shows from the streaming services you subscribe to. You have to buy an individual module for each service for about $40 each. You can only DL from a service you subscribe to. For Amazon, if it's a program you have to pay for, you have to pay for it. It's, at least, a kosher way to get digital copies of things they refuse to release on disk. You can save the files to a physical disk for storage, but I haven't had any luck burning a playable DVD from the files - the audio refuses to come thru. Probably a way to keep you from going into business selling them, which is fair. Or maybe I just have a really old version of Roxio 
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I see they now have separate releases for The Expanse seasons 5 and 6. Buying them together is not much less expensive than buying the full series box set, though.
Did they release it in 4K?
Blu-ray.com says all The Expanse blu ray releases are 2k, but customer comments sometimes reference 1080p. So, I assume either 1080p or 2k but not 4k.
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