Re: [OT] DVD is Dead. Long Live DVD.

On 2024-12-30 15:48:56 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:

On 12/30/2024 1:27 AM, Daniel70 wrote:

The True Doctor wrote on 30/12/24 12:05 am:

On 29/12/2024 09:40, Daniel70 wrote:

The Doctor wrote on 29/12/24 7:17 am:

In article <vkphtp$etin$1@dont-email.me>, The True Doctor
<agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:

On 28/12/2024 09:11, Blueshirt wrote:

"Tech's takeover of show business has turned everything into streaming."
 This is the landscape in which the sad state of home video continued deteriorating in 2024. Best Buy ceased carrying
DVDs this year. Target followed suit. Redbox rented its final
Liam Neeson movie and shuttered its kiosks in July. Finally,
LG announced just last week that it would discontinue all its
UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players, joining Samsung and Sony in ditching the optical drive.

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https://www.avclub.com/death-of-dvd-death-of-streaming-physical-media
 I copied this from another newsgroup as some here might find the
article of interest.

 Physical Media will not die.

Depends what YOU mean by "Physical Media", Gobble-de-gook.
 I mean Computer/PVR Hard-drives ARE 'Physical Media', aren't they??
Perhaps YOU, Gobble-de-gook, meant *Removable* 'Physical Media'!!

 I don't see anyone selling those pre-recorded with TV shows and
movies in the shops, or even SDXD cards which are now cheaper per GB
than those stupid Blu-ray things. All the more reason to torrent
stuff you've already paid for if the studios won't replace your
legacy media with new media which you can still play.

 But, if the 'Studios' (e.g. BBC) know there IS a market for the physical product, maybe that'd give them reason to produce more Product which they could then sell on Media so they might produce more Product ......
 Maybe!!

 Nope.
 The technology has advanced to where they can charge you every time you view the product.  Why would they accept being paid only once when that became a viable option?

They have ever been paid once though. They got paid every time they release the product on a new media format (VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, 4K, etc.) and every time they do a re-release (the Star Wars saga movies have been released at least half-a-dozen times on DVD alone, both individually and as box sets, all with different packaging and different "bonus extras").
Subscriptions for streaming puts dolar signs in teh eyes of greedy management and looks good on paper to the bean counters due to *supposedly* people continually paying a monthly fee ... but in reality it doesn't, hasn't, and can't work that way. Few people want to or have the money to keep paying out to all these silly subscription systems. They might pay for a month to watch a new season, and then move on to another service with the next new show. That's why quite a few subscription services have already gone bankrupt and/or been bought up by the big boys with deep pockets.
The big problem is more and more companies in various industries are jumping on the same idiotic subscription system ... even down to rumours of fools like BMW and Tesla thinking of charging a subscription fee to use the heated seats in your car!