Path: ...!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,rec.arts.sf.tv Subject: Re: [OT] DVD is Dead. Long Live DVD. Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 11:00:05 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 90 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:00:06 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="57b2484f8046b245c03d87ce772f755a"; logging-data="2550410"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19AXXKp/6yuvIi0wCYbB3sd+0v5qYi2OKg=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jfy3NaEWFj1SEzcXENr3lCUgQfQ= Bytes: 5290 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 , The True Doctor >>>>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 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.