Soundwave said:
Unfortunately that ship has sailed probably, Blu-Ray buyers are a niche. The play for the movie studios in the long term likely was always to just offer movies digitally but control all the profit, instead they let Netflix change the entire equation using their own content to devalue their own bottom line (lol). If they had set up a system around 2010 where say you could pay $24.99 for first run movies (that eventually get discounted to $14.99) and you had a system where like $12/month allowed you to "rent" 3-4 movies a month ($3/rental for older films, $4/for new releases), that could've been a decent system that made them a lot of money while still being better for the consumer than the standard "Blockbuster Video for rentals + buying physical media" media of the 2000s. |
Then Streaming services need to quit removing things we want to watch. Looking at you, Disney+.
