Re: PSA: no more Doctor Who will be released on DVD

On 2025-02-10 05:01:30 +0000, Woozy Song said:

The Doctor wrote:

In article <BRydnVYc3Iwg8DT6nZ2dnZfqn_GdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
%  <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote:

Nomen Nescio wrote:

DVDs have been around for 27 years. Few were aware that the DVD
license agreements expired on 31-1-2025, and now the DVD consortium
is shutting up shop, as it is not worthwhile floggin the dying horse.
So no DVD players will be made again, and no new DVD masters can
be manufactured.
IT IS NOT THE BEEB'S FAULT.
 

there goes all your porn disks

 :-)

 Seems to be a mis-interpretation going around various social medias. The patent for DVD-video actually expired last year. And the DVD Forum has placed the Red Book of specifications in the Japanese National library (it was previously secret men's business only given to companies signing an NDA). So DVD is sort of open-source now. Though streaming has killed it off, and doubtful it will be profitable even without royalties.

Yep, it's just more nonsense misinformation masquerading as "news". :-(
There are still lots of DVDs, Blu-rays, and 4K/UHD discs still being released and purchased. Doctor Who is no different - depending on where you live, there are at least four DVDs and three Blu-ray release planned for 2025/2026 (https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_future_releases), and that doesn't include the Season Collection sets (Jon Pertwee's 'Season 7' Blu-ray is due for release this month).
EzyDVD in Australia has lists for "New Releases" (50 DVD and 49 Blu-ray) and "Coming Soon" (119 DVD, 87 Blu-ray).
Despite the doomsayer fools liek to continually say, disc formats aren't going away any time soon. They said the same for vinyl releases, yet those never fully disappeared either and are making a steady come-back. Printed newspapers and magazines were said to be ending decades ago, yet are still around. Cassette tapes are also slowly making somewhat of a come-back. Even ye olde VHS tape releases show up ("Alien: Romulus" was due to have a limited edition VHS release on December 3, 2024, but I'm not interested enough to check to see if it did happen).