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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 338849" data-attributes="member: 57984">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.</blockquote>