Is there any hope for physical media?

[MessiahDecoy123]

I think having 200 of your favorite movies in a binder is reasonable.

That doesn't take up too much room.

 

[Kane52630]

For big franchise stuff, I usually just wait until they're all in one collection... that's why I haven't bought any Alien movies just yet. I just know there will be a 4K collection soon.

 

[CB Fan]

I still buy physical and will likely never stop. It’s annoying that Disney 4k for animated movies has gotten very hard to get and very expensive. Inside out 2 4k was like $50 at Walmart week of release and they only received one copy to sell. It now goes for near $60 on amazon.

 

[psylockolussus]

Oh I have a Disney collection from Snow White to Zootopia. I still keep them. Pixar too, from Toy Story until their mid 2010 movies.

I missed collecting all of them, going to the store to get the latest one and then seeing them side by side. I don't know if the standard edition for newer movies look good or if they have enough bonus content, or if they just save those extras for the steelbox edition (which I never got when they first arrived in late 2000s because steelboxes can rust).

 

[Sawyer]

Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore; UPDATED with response from WB

Due to the way WB manufactured their DVDs, virtually all discs pressed between 2006-8 are unplayable now.

www.joblo.com

Fortunately I’ve since upgraded on a lot of the stuff I would’ve gotten in that time (lot of the DCAU stuff, The Dark Knight Trilogy). Might be the push I need to get the Smallville complete series set, though.

And then there’s the Harry Potter movies released in that time, but ehhhhh…

 

[Drizzle]

That might affect my Superman DVDs - the 2006 Special editions of the first movie and II, plus the Richard Donner cut of II and Superman Returns. I haven't upgraded any of them to Blu-ray.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Just tried my DVDs of The Batman/Superman Movie (2006), BTAS (2006), and The Dark Knight (2008). They all played fine on my Blu-ray player.

 

[donuts]

There is hope for physical media... if people buy it.


So no, because we're living in the age of people wanting everything to just pop up on their screen magically.

Film culture is dying, a sad symptom of the dumbing down on society, destined by become a full time culture-less phone zombie population.

By 2040 people won't even know what movies are anymore. It's all just content to them.

Was this depressing enough?

I'll keep buying, like the hopeless romantic that I am.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I sincerely hope so. I am very much an advocate of purchasing and watching physical media, I don't stream at all, and my film collection is my most treasured physical 'object' and don't have access to 4K.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I do subscribe to some streaming services but nothing will ever beat physical media for me. I subscribe to Disney + every year but still have just bought the Ashoka and Mandalorian steelbook 4Ks because I want to own them and have them in my collection. Bought Obi-Wan and Andor also.

 

[psylockolussus]

Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore; UPDATED with response from WB

Due to the way WB manufactured their DVDs, virtually all discs pressed between 2006-8 are unplayable now.

www.joblo.com

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Fortunately I’ve since upgraded on a lot of the stuff I would’ve gotten in that time (lot of the DCAU stuff, The Dark Knight Trilogy). Might be the push I need to get the Smallville complete series set, though.

And then there’s the Harry Potter movies released in that time, but ehhhhh…

Saw this in my google feed...

I have DVDs of all eight Harry Potter movies...

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may “simply not get made”

Analysts also warn that tariffs could increase prices for game software and hardware.

arstechnica.com

 

[:eek:]

4K Blu-ray fans rejoice – Sony has finally launched a "new" Blu-ray player

We're digging a nail out of 4K Blu-ray's coffin to celebrate

www.whathifi.com

 

[:eek:]

Blu-rays have started to suffer from disc rot, with more than 600 titles being reported

Every collector's worst nightmare reminds us yet again to back up our media.

www.gamereactor.eu

 

[:eek:]

The future of physical discs just suffered another blow courtesy of Pioneer

Stop all the clocks, cut off the Blu-ray player?

www.whathifi.com

 

[NHawk19]

The streaming services themselves will drive physical media to be a thing again if they're not careful. A few weeks ago I tried finding 1 service that has all the Jurassic Park movies. It didn't exist. I'm sure this will change, but unless you rent/buy them all on Amazon you can't get them in one place. I was trying to watch them all in order and I had to jump around a bunch of services and couldn't even find Fallen Kingdom.

Same thing happened with Snoopy and Apple. Glad we had the DVD's for the holiday specials rather than have to buy another service just to watch them.

Its always easier to have physical media for the stuff you really like because the rest just gets shifted around to much.