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From: The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: [OT] DVD is Dead. Long Live DVD.
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:05:32 +0000
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On 29/12/2024 09:40, Daniel70 wrote:
> The Doctor wrote on 29/12/24 7:17 am:
>> In article <vkphtp$etin$1@dont-email.me>,
>> The True Doctor  <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
>>> On 28/12/2024 09:11, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>> "Tech's takeover of show business has turned everything into
>>>> streaming."
>>>>
>>>> This is the landscape in which the sad state of home video
>>>> continued deteriorating in 2024. Best Buy ceased carrying DVDs
>>>> this year. Target followed suit. Redbox rented its final Liam
>>>> Neeson movie and shuttered its kiosks in July. Finally, LG
>>>> announced just last week that it would discontinue all its UHD
>>>> Blu-ray and Blu-ray players, joining Samsung and Sony in
>>>> ditching the optical drive.
> 
> <Snip>
> 
>>>> https://www.avclub.com/death-of-dvd-death-of-streaming-physical-media
>>>>
>>>> I copied this from another newsgroup as some here might find the
>>>> article of interest.
>>
>> Physical Media will not die.
> Depends what YOU mean by "Physical Media", Gobble-de-gook.
> 
> I mean Computer/PVR Hard-drives ARE 'Physical Media', aren't they?? 
> Perhaps YOU, Gobble-de-gook, meant *Removable* 'Physical Media'!!

I don't see anyone selling those pre-recorded with TV shows and movies 
in the shops, or even SDXD cards which are now cheaper per GB than those 
stupid Blu-ray things. All the more reason to torrent stuff you've 
already paid for if the studios won't replace your legacy media with new 
media which you can still play.

-- 
The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

"To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it 
stands for." -William Shatner