The Disney owns Fox thread

[Blitzkrieg]

Resistance is futile. O_O

 

[Iceman]

I don't. People at home will just start conversations regardless if you're watching the movie and care to pay attention. Plus people will call/text you, if you have pets they will seek attention or want to go outside, maybe a pizza guy comes, etc. Then there is pausing the movie and taking you out of the immersion, etc. If people are talking in the theater, that is annoying. But I can ask them to shut up or ignore it. At home, it just is not the same. Too many potential interruptions.

You have pizza guys come when you haven’t ordered? This sounds amazing!

 

[Dr. Evil]

This makes Mr. Burns a Disney villain!

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[DarkKnight88]

Why physical media is still king.

Disney will censor Dumbo on their streaming service. Don’t even know how the ending of the film will work with it gone.

'Song of the South,' 'Dumbo's' Jim Crow Scene Will Not Be on Disney+

 

[terry78]

Are they for real? Why even have the movie on there then? Granted I don't disagree the crows are pretty bad, but they are part of the arc.

 

[Abudefduf]

I have no idea how the movie will work without the crows. Then again, I'm not planning to subscribe to Disney+, so what do I care.

 

[Teelie]

Why physical media is still king.

Disney will censor Dumbo on their streaming service. Don’t even know how the ending of the film will work with it gone.

'Song of the South,' 'Dumbo's' Jim Crow Scene Will Not Be on Disney+

I get why Song of the South is on their ban list but the crows being excised from the movie is maybe a little too much censorship. Given the context we see them in, maybe they could be edited or dubbed in such a way as to not be offensive.

 

[Abudefduf]

Or they could add a disclaimer at the beginning of the movie. That's what WB did with some of their old cartoons.

 

[sueb1863]

Why physical media is still king.

Disney will censor Dumbo on their streaming service. Don’t even know how the ending of the film will work with it gone.

'Song of the South,' 'Dumbo's' Jim Crow Scene Will Not Be on Disney+

Pretty pointless unless they're also going to censor all the DVDs and Blu-Rays they sell from here on out.

 

[Teelie]

Disney's plan seems to be no more DVD or Blu-Ray releases though.

 

[Zarex]

Why physical media is still king.

Disney will censor Dumbo on their streaming service. Don’t even know how the ending of the film will work with it gone.

'Song of the South,' 'Dumbo's' Jim Crow Scene Will Not Be on Disney+

Forget about Dumbo, Lion King and Aladdin. Song of the South is the movie Disney should absolutely be remaking. The arguments against it make perfect sense, but the film has a lot going for it, and I remember child me absolutely loving it when I saw it during one of SOTS's cinematic re-releases.

Give a top notch director of African descent a big budget and the freedom to show the awfulness of the Reconstruction era south along with extremely catchy tunes and CGI cartoon characters involved in classic folk tales. It would be extraordinarily difficult to pull off, and probably wouldn't be worth the controversy for Disney Mega Corp. But the troublesome films are the ones the Mouse should be remaking, and I think it would be worth it.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Disney's future tagline: "What we don't own is not worth owning"

200 years from now they’ll change their name to “The Company” and fund deep space missions for the perfect xenomorph

 

[terry78]

You really think they don't have their hands in that right now?

 

[terry78]

Disney takes over Hulu from Comcast, setting up future combos with Disney Plus

 

[psylockolussus]

Disney's plan seems to be no more DVD or Blu-Ray releases though.

I don't even get the latest Disney/mCU/Star Wars movies in physical format here in my country. Its kinda sad.

 

[Darkprime]

I've been reading the last few pages. Its Interesting to see different perspectives on the whole theater vs streaming argument. I will say I've only been going to the movies for the big Marvel,Star Wars and the odd DC,WB and Fast and Furious movie for a while now. Everything else I just stream. Movie tickets aren't cheap at $20 a pop. I remember when they used to be $10 then it was $12 then $15 (Which used to be a bit easier to swallow) now $20+. Makes Netflix look like pretty good value the price of a single movie ticket each month.

Not only that but 65 inch + tv's are getting so cheap now. Earlier in the week I saw a 75 inch 4k for $2,000. Thats crazy cheap. A year ago they used to be $3k+ it doesn't cost a fortune to get a decent home theater anymore.I feel like movie theaters will always be there but we are getting to the point where its only for big event movies. Its getting harder and harder to justify the trip out to the theater instead of waiting another 90 days for the digital release. Captain Marvel just came out in March and the digital release is May 28. EndGame April 26 and the Digital release is expected at the end of July etc The home release is getting quicker and quicker.

Once Disney+ launches that will be when the game changes. Then well see how much Disney really cares about the theatrical release window. They honour the 90 day window for now but only because they have to. They need the theaters. But once Disney+ launches thats their own distribution channel right there. EndGame is coming on the service a month after launch. (All though it will be available elsewhere by then) Captain Marvel and other mcu movies will be their day 1. I think we're gonna see some major changes in how we watch movies in 2020 onward.

 

[Teelie]

My main problem with streaming is you only get to watch what they allow you to watch whenever they want. If they decide to remove all the Star Wars or MCU or anything else, there is no alternative to go watch it somewhere else. You won't be able to hop onto Netflix or Hulu or Amazon, there won't be a physical disc or even a downloaded copy on your computer or media server to view. It's just gone.

This is why I rebel against streaming only services. You aren't even guaranteed that the main reason you signed up will stay there indefinitely. Imagine even 10 years from now when this is all there is. No more physical media, only a thousand or so streaming services that add and remove content at a whim. Want to watch Star Wars? Sign up for Disney+. If you want to watch a DCU movie? Sign up for WB's service. If you want to watch Star Trek? CBS' service. Anything you want to watch might be on there, somewhere but good luck finding it, then having to spend $10 a month every time you want to just watch one or two things on one service. Then rinse and repeat.

It is inevitable but that doesn't mean it is something to like either.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I’m in the camp that doesn’t think physical media will completely go away. Unless they really get to work on better broadband everywhere, or the fiber internet stuff, I think they’ll probably have to support some releases. Has Disney claimed they’re stopping physical releases once the service launches?

 

[psylockolussus]

Physical media won't go away (at least in America) as the bigger movies/franchises have a markethat will buy them in Blu-ray or as collector's items. But I live in a country where I didn't even get Infinity War on DVD or Blu-ray (a movie that was screened in theaters a week/days before Endgame's release) and thats probably the case for the other countries as well. Its quite alarming.

 

[Teelie]

Physical media is going away in the U.S. too. There are only one or two companies who still make Blu-ray players now. 4k isn't taking off (because their greed is keeping prices inflated) and a lot of people see DVD as "good enough" so whenver 8k or 16k or whatever the new iteration is, it won't have a physical component.

And people won't care because they can get it on streaming. Until it's not. Or they go over their bandwidth cap (another problem with streaming) or their download speed isn't high enough (yep, another problem thanks to ISP's monopoly) but there won't be any physical media...

 

[MadVillainy]

Disney have always been buttholes about physical media with that Disney vault stuff and keeping their prices inflated. So them being worse about it in the future wouldn't surprised me,

I still buy physical media even CDs, but I get why it's fading
1) More money to produce discs and cases then just throwing it on a streaming service
2) People don't buy that much physical media. As someone pointed out only 2 companies still make blu ray players.

I think it'll largely go away when Sony stops putting disc drives on their Playstations. I feel like that's the last big hold out. Even a lot of laptops have gotten rid of disc drives.

 

[terry78]

Everything is in the cloud. I hear gamers talking about how they will never give up their physical copies but.... it's coming.

 

[-JKR-]

The disappearance of physical media... sucks.
I don't want to rely on external servers and Internet access to watch and own a movie. Physical media SHOULD NOT disappear, just like books printed on paper should not disappear just because of kindles and ebooks.
It's sickening.

 

[NotNickFury]

Heck, I still have physical copies for a lot of my games from the PS2/Xbox/GameCube era and backwards. Given the price a lot of those games can go for nowadays, I'll hold onto them.