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Subject: Re: [OT] DVD is Dead. Long Live DVD.
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On 2024-12-31 16:26:46 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:
> On 12/30/2024 12:24 PM, Your Name wrote:
>> On 2024-12-30 15:48:56 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:
>>> On 12/30/2024 1:27 AM, Daniel70 wrote:
>>>> The True Doctor wrote on 30/12/24 12:05 am:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> But, if the 'Studios' (e.g. BBC) know there IS a market for the 
>>>> physical product, maybe that'd give them reason to produce more Product 
>>>> which they could then sell on Media so they might produce more Product 
>>>> ......
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe!!
>>> 
>>> Nope.
>>> 
>>> The technology has advanced to where they can charge you every time you 
>>> view the product.  Why would they accept being paid only once when that 
>>> became a viable option?
>> 
>> They have ever been paid once though. They got paid every time they 
>> release the product on a new media format (VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, 4K, etc.) 
>> and every time they do a re-release (the Star Wars saga movies have 
>> been released at least half-a-dozen times on DVD alone, both 
>> individually and as box sets, all with different packaging and 
>> different "bonus extras").
>> 
>> Subscriptions for streaming puts dolar signs in teh eyes of greedy 
>> management and looks good on paper to the bean counters due to 
>> *supposedly* people continually paying a monthly fee ... but in reality 
>> it doesn't, hasn't, and can't work that way. Few people want to or have 
>> the money to keep paying out to all these silly subscription systems. 
>> They might pay for a month to watch a new season, and then move on to 
>> another service with the next new show. That's why quite a few 
>> subscription services have already gone bankrupt and/or been bought up 
>> by the big boys with deep pockets.
>> 
>> The big problem is more and more companies in various industries are 
>> jumping on the same idiotic subscription system ... even down to 
>> rumours of fools like BMW and Tesla thinking of charging a subscription 
>> fee to use the heated seats in your car!
> 
> Re: car subscriptions.  Not rumors.

Sort of. The subscriptions to use hardware-based things already built 
into the car have so far not eventuated. Subscriptions for 
software-based things do exist though.

BMW was thinking subscriptions for things like heated seats, but 
quickly dropped the idea when everyone complained how idiotic it was. 
BMW do still charge a subscription for their "Connected Drive" services 
though.

Tesla do charge a subscription for their "Premium Connectivity" package 
and (I think) their useless "full self-driving" feature that doesn't 
work properly anyway.