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Join the boycott of "Discovery" blu-rays until we get our beloved DS9 and Voyager Blu-Rays!
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Classic example of Poe's Law. The Internet is great.
Forget the Blu-ray of Star Trek: Discovery, I wouldn't even buy the DVD!!!! 
JB
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Too late. I brought it a few days ago. As much as I would like DS9 and Voyager in HD - can't see CBS doing it.
Blurays are on their way out (theoretically) so you shouldn't upgrade to Bluray, when it's very superior replacement is just around the corner.
But if Bluray sales are poor on any one series, then the next physical medium won't carry that series.
But if Bluray sales are poor on any one series, then the next physical medium won't carry that series.
The sort of person who pays a subscription, and even multiple subscriptions to keep up with a few TV Shows is going to be buying BLUray boxsets for full price, the day they come out.
US $80 for 26 episodes of Blue Bloods.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Blue-Bloods-Five-Season-Pack-DVD/45531345
Although the $80 box set for Blue Bloods season 5 is out of stock, so the website redirected me to a different Boxset of Blue Bloods season 5 for 15 dollars...
Which is either the "good stuff" marked down for being shit, or it's cheap cut quality out of region Box Sets imported from Malaysia?
US $80 for 26 episodes of Blue Bloods.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Blue-Bloods-Five-Season-Pack-DVD/45531345
Although the $80 box set for Blue Bloods season 5 is out of stock, so the website redirected me to a different Boxset of Blue Bloods season 5 for 15 dollars...
Which is either the "good stuff" marked down for being shit, or it's cheap cut quality out of region Box Sets imported from Malaysia?
I’m not buying any of them.
If I were going to buy any Trek series on disc, it would be TOS and TNG, in that order, and that’s it.
If I were going to buy any Trek series on disc, it would be TOS and TNG, in that order, and that’s it.
What even if the older series are quite good and the new one is rubbish, Greg?
JB
That has nothing do with the practical realities of the situation. We're not debating the relative virtues of the different series. It's a business decision, not an artistic one.
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What superior replacement is that?
And while I get that Jayson is being facetious, I feel the urge to point out that the term “boycott” tends to usually be just a buzzword for “I personally am not going to watch the show; therefore CBS will automatically fall to its knees and repent for their sins because I have godlike powers over them. Woe to anyone who produces a show that I don’t like!” (Insert thunder and lightning effects here)
http://www.kurzweilai.net/next-gen-optical-disc-has-10tb-capacity-and-six-century-lifespan
A single coated dvd is 4 gb.
A single coated bluray is 25 gb.
If you want to go mental, and get a special reader, you can read a quadruple coated Bluray optical disk, reaching a storage capacity of 2 to 3 hundred gb.
A year ago when I looked this up, they were talking about a single coated next gen Optical disk that was 125 gb as the next wave... But it seems that science has marched on, and ten terabytes is now the new optical gold standard (for now).
Although, it's not commercially viable to replace Bluray, when there's still frakks out there using DVD and VHS, if the plan is to sell filmophiles the same movies they already have in a new medium, when they are already paying ten dollars a month to a streaming subscription.
Ten TB of licensed material, even if it's ten tb of hundred gb movies, or multiple complete seasons of a TV show, would be detrimentally cost prohibitive, because even though it's one disk, the amount of material involved would make your purchase the equivalence of buying 400 Bluray disks unless there is a swift uptick in resolution to 20,000k, which is probably impossible unless a new type of camera is invented.
A single coated dvd is 4 gb.
A single coated bluray is 25 gb.
If you want to go mental, and get a special reader, you can read a quadruple coated Bluray optical disk, reaching a storage capacity of 2 to 3 hundred gb.
A year ago when I looked this up, they were talking about a single coated next gen Optical disk that was 125 gb as the next wave... But it seems that science has marched on, and ten terabytes is now the new optical gold standard (for now).
Although, it's not commercially viable to replace Bluray, when there's still frakks out there using DVD and VHS, if the plan is to sell filmophiles the same movies they already have in a new medium, when they are already paying ten dollars a month to a streaming subscription.
Ten TB of licensed material, even if it's ten tb of hundred gb movies, or multiple complete seasons of a TV show, would be detrimentally cost prohibitive, because even though it's one disk, the amount of material involved would make your purchase the equivalence of buying 400 Bluray disks unless there is a swift uptick in resolution to 20,000k, which is probably impossible unless a new type of camera is invented.
So your plan to show CBS we want someone is by showing CBS we're not willing to invest in Star Trek??
Clever plan, that's totally gonna work.
Okay time for backup plan. Instead of boycott "Discovery" Blu-Rays everyone go buy them even if you don't like the show. Make sure you keep your recipe though. We will march towards CBS's main place of business with our Blu-Ray in one hand and recipe in the other. We will demand they give us our "DS9" and "Voyager" Blu-Rays or else they all will be returned to the store for cash. To keep the fire to their feet we will once in awhile have to return them of course and re-buy them so the time limit on the recipe won't run out but it should be enough to prevent any tricks like stopping the process of them being made soon as we can't return our "Discovery" Blu-Rays. I guess I don't need to remind everyone to not open them or else you might only get store credit and then I think CBS gets a win on that.
Jason
I'll join you in that.
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