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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

So reverse the trend. Stop licensing your catalog for streaming and sell physical media.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

However, De Luca and Adby said the loss of the revenue stream that came from DVDs has pushed them to make better movies.

Personally I think it translates to taking fewer risks.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Agreed. There just isn't the variety of films anymore and so much stuff (even the poorly written shows) has to have a "premium" streaming show/film budget. It's all about franchises, reboots and sequels to decades-old-films.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

What's a guy gotta do to get a commentary track nowadays?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Invite the guy who read every interview about the movie

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Honestly not a bad strat

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Warner Bros, the same ones who made the DVDs that rotted on the shelf? That Warner Bros?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

WB clearly cut corners and deserves critique, but it's important to know that no digital storage is eternal - it will all go bad at some point. The only practical solution atm is to routinely transfer the data to fresh storage.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

That's true, and you're completely right. It's also 100% an argument against DRM, but also: https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-replacing-disc-rot-dvd

I mean, that's still pretty awful :D

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I also miss the days where I bought physical media. These days, it's hard to find something new that interests me, is actually available for purchase, and/or isn't a super limited collectors set with steelbook etc that needlessly inflates the price. Good thing I have decades of physical media to, um... sit on a shelf unwatched, mostly. >_>

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I buy physical media frequently, but the quality of it in the video sector has really dropped. Musicians are over here constantly stepping up their game, but hollywood has so over-consolidated and accomplished so much regulatory capture of their remaining competition that they just serve slop.

Great example is a recent It DVD that I bought, which was so perfunctory and so poorly made, it's hard to believe it even exists.

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