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KLXVER 1 day ago

Love blu-rays. So much more scratch resistant than DVDs.



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curl-6 21 hours ago

Yeah I still buy Blu rays to this day, as I prefer to own my movies rather than stream/rent them.
I don't have the same fondness for them (or own as many) as for VHS/DVD, but they do at least offer terrific audio-visual quality.
As long as physical media exists, I'll keep buying them.



Wman1996 21 hours ago
Soundwave said:

Ditching the pay-per-movie model that sustained VHS, DVD, and Blu-Ray and letting Netflix basically take over the distribution is the biggest mistake Hollywood ever made.

They should never have given Netflix shit to stream on their service and left them to die with no content.

What studios should have done 15 years ago is created a consortium with a unified store front where you could buy digital streaming versions of each movie for say $9.99 a pop (discounted down to $4-$5 for older titles and during sale periods). This would have allowed them to basically keep the same profit margin they were making off physical DVDs give or take.

Focusing on Blu-Ray instead of a digital distribution of movies was likely a mistake, but oh well. Can't do much about it now.

I do often like digital copies with my physical copies and buy digital movies sometimes too.

I will say that if streaming subscriptions were niche to nonexistent then I would want the storefronts to have limited DRM where you could download everything to keep offline in case you lose access to a title for any number of reasons. Like GOG for movies. 



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Mummelmann 15 hours ago

Happy birthday! I still buy movies and shows on disc, mostly 4K format for my favorites. It's still unbeaten in visual and audio quality - but there are certain issues; pricing, localization, hardware and compatibility issues with sound and HDR-formats, among others.