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Dallas To Get Remastered In HD
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Rove
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Superb!
Rove
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The big reveal in glorious HD.... 
Jock's Ghost
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Its not dying... streaming sucks and not everyone has it or can get it.
Matthew Blaisdel
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Oh yes it is, denial doesn't change that!
Sad but it's true, the disc market is on it's last legs already. All mayors are drastically reducing their phisical catalog of titles as of right now, and in a few years time it will be gone. Old stock DVD and Bluray prices will then skyrocket, they will become unaffordable.
Sony announced to reduce their Bluray catalog last year already to just 500 titles, and that's just the beginning. It will be over soon for physical media, as sad as that is.
The best bluray-player-manufacturers like Pioneer and even Oppo don't even produce new bluray players anymore, the others will follow soon. There will just be no new discs coming and no more new hardware to play them on available in future. Even the gaming consoles like PS5 are available without intigrated discplayer, as digital only console, the next gen in a few years will be released with no more disc drive at all.
Here's an article about that sad development with more details:
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Mustard
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I had better buy several DVD players while I still can then. Predictions of physical media going extinct are not new. It will be nothing like VHS in 2003-2004, that quickly went from being more popular than DVD as late as the end of 2001 and then basically gone from shop shelves less than 2 years later.
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Matthew Blaisdel
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Apart from my parents and I, i don't even know any person, that is still actively using a bluray player or DVD player. Almost noone collects discs anymore, on the contrary, they throw them out in boxes on the street here, for anyone free to take, but noone even wants them. Just last week i took "The great Gatsby" with Leonardo DiCaprio on Bluray from one of those boxes with me, there were many more inside, but the others didn't interest me. People just don't want them anymore.
Disc players are already a niche product. Everyone else i know uses streaming platforms. The big electronic markets that once had tons of movies and TV shows on disc available don't even offer 10% of that amount anymore, all that space is now taken by mobile phone accessories and other technical stuff, but no more discs.
Thats the reality, at least where i live. And i live in one of the biggest cities of the country.
Disc players are already a niche product. Everyone else i know uses streaming platforms. The big electronic markets that once had tons of movies and TV shows on disc available don't even offer 10% of that amount anymore, all that space is now taken by mobile phone accessories and other technical stuff, but no more discs.
Thats the reality, at least where i live. And i live in one of the biggest cities of the country.
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Mustard
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Physical media means that you own whatever film or TV series you buy. Digital is merely "access" to those films and TV series. And whatever is going on in city areas tends to be much further ahead compared to what's going on in suburban and rural areas. In my town, there's still plenty of DVDs and Blu-ray discs available, as much as ever, despite online buying and the likes having surged over time. There's no hint of them slowly fading away or disappearing like VHS in 2003. That could change, but it hasn't yet.
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Rove
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I'm thinking the same. I love my DVD/Blu-Ray collection and to access these movies on a streaming service I'd have to subscribe to several which is not economical viable. My library is not in its hundreds as I'm now picky what I purchase but I stress that a collection I've spent possibly a couple of thousand dollars on will simply become dust collectors...or worse...coasters.
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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I've just purchased a 4k Blu-ray player to go along with my 4k TV.
I want to get the 4k Blu-ray version of Lord of the Rings. I also want to get the 4k versions of the two Aaru Peter Cushing Dalek films too.
I want to get the 4k Blu-ray version of Lord of the Rings. I also want to get the 4k versions of the two Aaru Peter Cushing Dalek films too.
Rove
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This was on my Christmas Wish list until the dreaded washing machine had other ideas. While perusing the store checking out washing machines I wandered into the television section. The 4K range is stunning. One display was showcasing some exotic Greek Island with those stunning blue waters. I just wanted to dive right in.
Miss Texas 1967
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I wonder if the streaming vs physical media thing is a US vs the world thing.
I own loads of DVDs and continue to buy them because things simply aren't available on streaming here.
For example Dallas, it says it's streaming on Apple TV but when you click it, it's not actually available.
A show from a few years back I watch again and again on DVD is The OC, unavailable for streaming.
It's not just older shows but modern ones too. Things on streaming services come and go, but a DVD is more permanent and it's a one off purchase.
I own loads of DVDs and continue to buy them because things simply aren't available on streaming here.
For example Dallas, it says it's streaming on Apple TV but when you click it, it's not actually available.
A show from a few years back I watch again and again on DVD is The OC, unavailable for streaming.
It's not just older shows but modern ones too. Things on streaming services come and go, but a DVD is more permanent and it's a one off purchase.
Snarky Oracle!
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Pam and Cliff are in Dealey Plaza!
pete lashmar
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Millions of people still buy dics, collector editions, 4K and steel books etc are BIG business now, They are not going away anytime soon folks.
Snarky Oracle!
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The industry right now wants DVDs to go away, because streaming allows you to pay the product forever, while purchasing a hard copy of a movie is a one-time purchase... DVD releases were a boon to the industry -- the studios, the filmmakers -- and were quite lucrative. Supposedly, streaming is less profitable to the filmmakers and more so for the streaming services themselves (which is probably why they now produce so much of their own stuff.
The profits for DVDs were once great but streaming wanted to re-route that to themselves, and that requires killing DVDs.
bmasters9
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And worse, if you live somewhere that doesn't have good service/reception (like in the boonies or the mountains), you won't be able to see any streaming shows no matter how much you pay the service.
darkshadows38
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in the 80's i dunno if anyone remembers this when VHS was really starting to became a thing even though it came out in the 70's i forget which studio it was that refused to for ages to let their movies go to VHS and the reason? he believed you had to pay each time you watched a film he saw no future in it at all and that's how we got many of the low budget movies in really any Genre that made a shit ton of money back than. streaming is pretty much the same thinking, what made me laugh my ass off though many were no doubt pissed was Sony a month or two ago maybe longer? at some point this year lost the rights to a ton of their movies on the P4/PS5. so anyone who bought any of the films/tv shows etc.. were screwed yet if i want to watch say Dallas or my Dark Shadows i have the entire series on Dark Shadows on dvd i can go to my shelf and put it in. yeah i do watch movies on you tube sometimes that i want to see if i don't own them but watching movies and if i fall in love with them makes me want to buy them and i do.
i will never stop buying physical medium, i still buy cd's sometimes, books, video games as well. i buy movies on 4K, bluray sometimes and dvd. the dvd is mainly for my tv shows, or i get them on bluray. i dunno there are people who still buy them, i do not want physical media to ever go away, but who knows maybe it won't, they've been making LP's for years long before i was even born and they really never stopped you had to go to certain places or order them but i never would have thought those would have come back in style. so who knows maybe cd's or really any physical medium might, sure i download some books to read on my tablet but i still buy plenty of books in fact i bought some just this past wed. yes i'm optimistic i do not want streaming to take over we should always have a choice, in the past couple years they were putting new movies on streaming over the big stream cuz of covid well i'm not even sure if they are still doing it but if they have i think it's not as much cause they maybe realized i dunno that if they are gonna spend however much money on films the big money isn't just in streaming but in the theaters.
so who knows i dunno?
i will never stop buying physical medium, i still buy cd's sometimes, books, video games as well. i buy movies on 4K, bluray sometimes and dvd. the dvd is mainly for my tv shows, or i get them on bluray. i dunno there are people who still buy them, i do not want physical media to ever go away, but who knows maybe it won't, they've been making LP's for years long before i was even born and they really never stopped you had to go to certain places or order them but i never would have thought those would have come back in style. so who knows maybe cd's or really any physical medium might, sure i download some books to read on my tablet but i still buy plenty of books in fact i bought some just this past wed. yes i'm optimistic i do not want streaming to take over we should always have a choice, in the past couple years they were putting new movies on streaming over the big stream cuz of covid well i'm not even sure if they are still doing it but if they have i think it's not as much cause they maybe realized i dunno that if they are gonna spend however much money on films the big money isn't just in streaming but in the theaters.
so who knows i dunno?