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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
valkyrie013

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So, this may be a bit of dubious sources, but it's a topic with discussing.
https://movieweb.com/warner-bros-phasing-out-dvds-blu-rays/
And let's not forget that when you "buy" a movie from amazon, it's actually a "lease" .. Lawsuit ensues.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/a...nt-actually-own-purchased-prime-video-content

So the discussion is.. Will physical media be phased out and what will take its place?

Far as I can tell from the article is dvd releases are a bit of chump change for the studios the years of Tv movies, straight to dvd, etc. Have been replaced by release on streaming platforms. That's where there money is. Probably will get to the point of theatrical releases being that way.. I don't see many in a hurry to get back to a theatre experience. (I am one that wants the theatre experance)

Now let's add the thing of creators, studios, etc. Changing there movies, like E.T. changing guns to walkie talkies or Lucas refining star wars for the 29th time, or just plain editing to please the PC police like what is being done to old WWE shows.

For me, I pretty much stream everything nowadays, haven't bought a dvd/blue ray in years. Have bought/downloaded a number of movies, series thats in my computer but it's not that big of a collection.

So what's y'all opinions? How do you get your media? Are you worried?
We can add books and there problems as well if you'd like.
 
Just like vinyl records, there will always be a market for movies and TV shows on physical media, but it'll continue to trend into being more of a niche thing. Labels that cater to cinephiles/telephiles will continue putting out content on disc — the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, Arrow Video, Shout! Factory — but even then, recent years have seen Criterion and Shout! Factory both start their own streaming services.

I use streaming services and eBooks, but I still buy books in print and movies/TV shows on Blu-ray/DVD. I'm less concerned with George Lucas' constant tinkering with Star Wars or warning messages being put up in front of Gone with the Wind (because god forbid we should stop and think for two seconds about how we're about to watch four hours of romanticized bullshit about the antebellum South), and more concerned with having to now add HBO Max to my roster of streaming services if I want to catch a rerun of West Wing. That's why I still buy physical media.
 
I do a fair amount of streaming, but for things I think I'll watch more often, it will be physical (if only because there are already shows that I was midwatch that have disappeared off Netflix).

For books though, nowadays it's primarily digital because the number of books I get through would just take up way too much space:D
 
John Clark said:
For books though, nowadays it's primarily digital because the number of books I get through would just take up way too much space:D
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That's the kicker, most of my movies and books are in storage (the movies are easily accessible, the books not so much), and I know that when I croak some day, my nephews are not going to want any of that shit.
 
I buy movies via DVD for the most part. I rarely stream them.

I could see this being a big issue for people who have limited bandwidth. Streaming adds up, QUICKLY.

If this is legit... I hate it.
 
Random_Spock said:
I buy movies via DVD for the most part. I rarely stream them.

I could see this being a big issue for people who have limited bandwidth. Streaming adds up, QUICKLY.

If this is legit... I hate it.
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Agreed.

Plus, it's going backwards. If we are returning to the days when we didn't have constant access to TV and movies, it'll be like the 1970s all over again (A good thing to be sure but not in this case). Progress is supposed to go forward, not back.

And I've said it before, and I'll say it again, One good hit to the world wide web, be it solar flare or whatever, and billions of records will be lost. For that alone, we need hard copies of everything.

Yeah, I hate it too.
 
Not to mention that streaming services are so hit-and-miss, depending on where one lives. If this year's Oscars have shown anything, it's that the how and the where all of these movies are being shown, it's that it's heavily fragmented. So many exclusives. To see all the contenders, you pretty much have to have a sub with each service, which I can't remember being the case with other Oscars. And some of these services may not even be available everywhere making it confusing to know where to watch. Some of these I might never see as a result.
 
Forgot about rural areas. My parents just got a satilite system, so there just now able to do Netflix etc. (At 500$ initial setup and way to much monthly)
Growing up I always recorded anything good on vhs .. Usually the tv edited version. (Watching tos in its full length was a bit jaring the first few times!)
But I agree .. It'll become more niche and maybe printed on demand like some books. Or like music, niche for records, and CDs.
 
I like owning the odd occasional bluray, but I'm fine if they want to move to streaming. Just provide a good product, with excellent picture quality and at a fair price. If I don't like what's offered and there are no alternatives, I'll just find another (very pocket friendly way) to watch what I want.
 
cardinal biggles said:
Good for them. They can have my movies when they pry them out of my cold, dead hands. :p
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Now I'm having a mental image, the movie studios' equivalent of the "firemen" from Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", goosestepping up to a person's house, demanding they relinquish their DVDs Blu-Rays and VHS and BetaMax tapes because the "end user licenses" have supposedly "expired".
 
I no longer blind buy movies left and right. If they're free to watch on a streaming service I have, I'll watch it that way. If it's a movie that's a big deal to me, or something collectable, I'll buy it physically.
 
It's going to come back better than ever thanks to censorship becoming popular. It will soon be the only way to get the true version of your favorite movie or show deemed problematic which of course will be all of them.
 
Jayson1 said:
It's going to come back better than ever thanks to censorship becoming popular. It will soon be the only way to get the true version of your favorite movie or show deemed problematic which of course will be all of them.
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Really? :rolleyes:

I could see companies stop making physical media, so that your only choices are cinema and streaming. Perhaps even include recording barriers, like how a computer gets a black screen when trying to screenshot Netflix.
 
I still use DVDs and blu rays just because a lot of the movies I want to see are old or foreign films that streaming services are less interested in. I only buy DVDs if the movie is good enough for me to be mad somebody took away my access to it.

I don't think you have to hold it in your hand to own it, but you have to have permanent access to it to own it, regardless of how rights change hands.

If they have a download option I can back up and store, that's a fine alternative to physical media, but I'm not going to keep spending money on things if they retain the rights to take it away from me or change it forever on a whim. Remember if it weren't for physical media, we'd probably have no way to see the original Star Wars trilogy cuts.
 
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