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Since COVID Sanity Closed down, Kmart & Target Stopped selling DVD/Bluray's and Big W only sell a few, so thats leaves JB Hi Fi Left. Now Disney wants to pull the plug on Discs, to gain more online screening subscribers.
It’s a road a lot of media companies will follow. Why sell a product once which the seller then owns forever when you can get the consumer to rent the product and never own it so can be re rented over and over again.
The future is no one owns books , DVDs or Blu ray on an individual basis. The downside is certain films and artists will become forgotten or censored . Look at popularity dip of Laurel & Hardy once they stopped being shown on mainstream television. The Beatles held out on streaming via Apple and are virtually unknown to the under 40s. That’s actually true.
I’ve met people who have never heard of Alfred Hitchcock or any of his films.
Funny the appeal of super 8 package movies was that no one else had them and apart from live television or cinema there was no way of recording them or watching them in your home.
That is a shame. I have always liked physically owning something, such as an 8mm print, dvd or blu ray. On the plus side most Disney these days is garbage anyway. I have all the greatest films on dvd and blu ray, coupled with all the great 8mm cutdowns and Fantasia on 4 x 600 reels. Disney + is ok ish but is loaded with film by the numbers dreadful tv shows full of wannabe actors who are completely unmemorable. And despite stating that most of their films would be on there there are massive gaps. I love things like;
Donald in Mathmagic Land
Rascal
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Disneys Wonderful World of Colour.
etc
We have Disney + and hardly use it. It just isn’t that good. Long live Super 8, 9.5mm, 16mm and 35mm, Blu Ray and Dvd.
I watched this you tube video yesterday about Disney, his views I thought were spot on. One thing for sure Disney are not going to win friends down under with this move. I guess its there way to make folk go streaming, something I never do and have zero interest in doing. With Video projection only blu-ray and DVD can give me a picture quality I want to watch. In saying that, there really has been very little if any Disney product these days coming out that I would be interested in. "Imprint" in Australia have have doing really well "J.B Hi FI" have been strong in support of Imprint locally with blu-ray releases. So my focus has been with Imprint, Umbrella, and the like.
It would appear that the Disney move to stop distributing discs will result in a stampede to acquire the means to record streaming services. They tried to kill the VCR when Betamax was introduced. That did not work out as they intended either.
Yes, Disney wants to force everyone to use Disney+. But the fact is that the numbers of sold discs in Germany is shrinking every year. This started before Covid-19, but sales dwindled even more when the shops were closed.
Hence, also other companies are thinking about „streaming only“ - and the number of available BD-players online and in stores is also drastically reduced.
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