You really think the elites would do that? Announce their plan and then make good on it. Almost as if they were mocking the public and daring anyone to stop them, while wearing silly outfits.
That's the coat of arms of the Kaunas University of Technology, in Lithuania >The upper left field of the shield – Kaunas city coat of arms – indicates the place of the establishment of the University. The upper right field – the gold symbol of matter on a blue background – embodies the light of science. The bottom part of the shield contains an open book with the University slogan “Scientia, ingenium, virtus!” (EN “Science, creativity, virtue!”) in Latin.
Objects only makes one desire more objects which leads to sorrow. Become a Buddhist and you will no longer need physical goods. Of course you also wouldn't be on this internet either.
Chinese movies are more popular than ever, what are you crying about?
Die lol
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/chinese-films-dominate-global-cinema-box-office-revenues-1235915972/
>They'll have to force their population to have sex at gunpoint if they want to make it to the end of this century.
The thing is that China is crazy enough that they would do that if it became necessary. Most other modern countries also have declining birth rates but are unwilling to do anything.
Population decline is a meme.
The only thing that's going to happen is that everybody is going to suddenly find that there is more than enough space and resources to have a family and then families will explode with more people that want families and so on.
That's why you also have to constantly import foreign invaders to take up space if you want to kill your host population. They'll bounce right back if you do nothing. They need to be actively killed.
>This
People only stop having kids when there's not enough space and resources to have them.
>WW2 creates the largest death toll in human history >the largest generation to date was born immediately after (boomers) >too many people >They have a tiny inconsequential generation (gen x) >decade of prosperity >a new largest generation in history is born (millennials) >too many people >Another tiny generation (gen z)
I stopped buying Criterions and sold them on eBay when I realized 1/3 of those movies are literally on YouTube right now for free, and have been for years.
They're still slowly trickling out 4k releases of old movies every year. But if every retailer stops selling them, they'll probably stop since there will no longer be a market for it.
I don't care about physical media dying since I'm not a discsucker. Movies are dying because the filmmakers and studios and actors and writers are shit.
>I don't care about physical media dying since I'm not a discsucker.
No, you don't care about it because you're a moron. Historical revisionism is a whole lot easier if no one has physical media.
I know this is gonna enrage the autists but owning media doesn’t really make sense unless you’re an idiot who only likes to watch the same x movies over and over again. And honestly I wouldn’t really respect someone who keeps watching the same thing, regardless of how good it is
the nice thing about streaming services is the ability to find new (new as in previously unseen/undiscovered, not released recently) films and to watch an enormous range of films. You think I would ever own a physical copy of A Separation? No. But thankfully I’ve been able to see it on a streaming service
I guess you could argue that torrenting is better than streaming and I’d agree with that because torrenting is much easier and cheaper than actually buying shit. But it’s not really a thing for the average person to do
This is why you have physical media. Enjoy your heavily censored streaming slop which will constantly change soviet style as modern sensibilities get worse
>Enjoy your decaying plastic
What living conditions do you think people live in? I have never once popped in one of my discs and had an issue with it playing.
Plastic doesn't decay. If anything, the laser diodes in the dvd players will die before any of the discs do. Hopefully someone will continue manufacturing them even after they stop making players and disc drives a few years from now.
Oxidation of the reflective layer, reactions with contaminants, ultra-violet light damage, and de-bonding of the adhesive used to adhere the layers of the disc together can and do result in "disc rot".
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None of these things happen if you keep your discs inside a house in normal living conditions. Those discs will last at least 100 years.
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That's incorrect. I've experienced disc rot on archived disks stored in binders in cool, dry, dark lockers. It took roughly 15 years for discs to start failing.
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>stored in binders >binders
What in the
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Why are you storing discs in binders you fricking moron
What's wrong with storing discs in binders? Binders made for storing discs, of course. Nothing, that's what.
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They're ugly and make you look like you don't care about your collection.
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If I didn't care about my collection, I wouldn't have bothered to purchase lockers, binders, and Lotus 1-2-3.
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Why are you storing discs in binders you fricking moron
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They're either DVD/CD/BR-Rs or he lives in a hobbit home and he can't afford the space for the cases they came in.
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Cases and inserts go in separate (respective) binders.
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The cases the discs came in are the best places to store them outside of a cold vault with no air suspended by a steel rod.
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You seem to be suggesting that the binders themselves, as opposed to oxidation of the reflective layer, reactions with contaminants, ultra-violet light damage, and de-bonding of the adhesive used to adhere the layers of the disc together, caused the disc rot? It isn't as if the discs have suffered damage from being stored in binders in cool, dark, dry lockers.
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The binders are made out of materials that can cause or accelerate such interactions and with binders the discs are in closer contact with such materials than in cases.
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These binders were custom-made to protect discs, not to destroy them. Unless you have specific information proving this claim, I'm going to have to express a little skepticism.
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What binders are you speaking of then?
Plastic sleeves were advertised to "protect" vinyl records and they were actually proven to destroy them
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Keep telling yourself that. Most "disc rot" is caused by defects at the time of manufacturing. Even Criterion has had to recall discs in the past that decayed unusually quickly. Storage conditions have little to no impact on it without being taken to extremes.
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Then that's a specific problem with a small number of discs. The vast majority of optical media will never have that problem.
I like having a collection that I can share with friends. It's also comforting to own something that could potentially disappear or get altered digitally one day due to some nonsense. Some movies I do watch more than once. I also like the idea of showing my collection to people or having really obscure or fricking weird movies that interest others. Keep coping about how you like to not actually own what you're passionate about.
>the nice thing about streaming services is the ability to find new (new as in previously unseen/undiscovered, not released recently) films and to watch an enormous range of films.
This would be true if the algorithms didn't just drop the same fricking movies over and over on everyone's suggestions. It's crazy how fricking awful it is to navigate any popular streaming sites when it comes to finding stuff to watch.
I watch the same movies a bunch of times though, and I suspect that's typical.
You think some woman binging a series on a streaming service is always watching a new one and not just rewatching Friends or something like that?
Who even uses DVDs any more? Everything is on Blu-ray. If you wanted DVDs maybe you should have bought them 15 years ago when they were still a relevant media type.
>DVD dics makes up still nearly 60% of physical media sales of everything >Physical media as a whole makes up over 85% of sales of anything >HAHAHA Y-YEAH DIGITAL MAKES LIKE 87% OF SALES BROS D-DON'T LOOK AT THE ACTUAL NUMBERS!
Predictable
I remember when special editions were the standard form you bought movies in and they came with hours upon hours of bonus material and cost less than $20 new. What went wrong?
> What went wrong?
Enshittification.
Low effort releases are cheaper than caring. Licensing bonus material and paying for commentary tracks was ok when DVD sales were rocketing and people cared about that. As sales flagged they put in less and less effort. Customers cared less and less. It’s a feedback loop.
Consider 3d movies. Movies actually made for 3d were few. Most were made 3d post production and had a couple of gimmick “aaah straight into the camera” shots and that was it. Give us 2x ticket price please.
People catch on to 3d being worthless because most don’t make any effort. The movies that did care got sucked under. Entire tech branch dies even though “glasses free” 3d existed.
My guess is 3d will have some moment like this. Big upswing, next big thing, the shittiest possible vr experiences, kills the tech.
Oh and before you say that already happened this shit goes in waves. 3d movies was a thing back in the 70s. Red/blue glasses kind. Same shit with gimmicks. Died.
Read about AI winters. Realize we’ve already had 3 versions of “AI is the next big thing bro” and collapses.
You won't like the answer, but it's piracy. Smart people pirate. Dump people pay for streaming services. Coincidently this is also the reason for all the sjw stuff on streaming services. It's sjw are the ones that are funding streaming services, so the content is made with them in mind.
Lotr was distributed by Warners which had based Warren Lieberfarb running the show. People forget that 25 years ago the studios were already trying to prevent people from owning movies, and believed that the real money was in rentals. Lieberfarb rightly believed the issue was that DVDs had to be priced lower so people would be more incentivized to buy them. His theory proved profitable, and that snowballed into DVD releases being an event with bonus discs.
special features for The Two Towers >here's footage of us making one set of armor for an extra
special features for most blockbusters now >so we pay these people in India and Thailand and they work on our movie between shifts on Baby Shark and Finger Family videos >and here's our creative lead going to get a coffee
I haven't bought a DVD in like 10 years. I refuse to believe anyone is still buying DVDs. If you want an archive just pirate copies and store them on a HDD.
Target is the store with enormous images of unattractive fat underwear models plastered high on the ceiling so everyone in the store has to see them. DVDs were probably selling like hotcakes. They just got orders to pull them, for some sinister purpose
The death of DVD sales and rise of streaming websites is the reason why movies are all the same slop now.
Back when movies were good, if a movie performed poorly at the box office, the company could recover their losses in DVD sales. Now if a movie does poorly, it goes straight to the streaming websites and the movie companies don't get a sniff of that money on the back end.
If a director/actor wants to do a passion project with their own money, they have to pray their movie is a smash success at the box office or risk bankruptcy. Why should anyone bother using their money trying to make something different when generating the same slop that goes through 15 different focus groups with Netflix financial backing gets the job done? To make you feel good?
>streaming gives me shit quality even with high tier subscriptions and gigabit internet >blu rays/4k cost 30-40 dollars for one movie >torrents, even when labeled as 4k or super high quality, look like dogshit because they're made by thirdworlders who watch them on 480p monitors
Is there really no reasonable way to see actual quality?
Conan the Barbarian finally got a good remaster, on 4k this year (the blu ray version sucks).
Will be buying it when the standard edition of it releases next week.
Do you want a real answer? I'll answer but you'll think I'm wrong. You'll dig your heels in, put your palm out and shout "NO! That's not true!"
Nobody cares about 4k, or really any definition above the highest a DVD can muster.
What do you mean you don't believe me?
Do you have instantaneous recall of every single pixels you've ever seen? I use to watch movies AND TV on a black and white 10-channel RCA, and do you know what happens? YOU REMEMBER THE MOVIE. In your childhood when you were pirating camrips that were the size of postage stamps, do you... recall the smudges and blurriness? Or, rather, do you recall the plot? The characters? The events?
I want you to tell me about the time you walked into your own bathroom, on April 23rd, in the year 2013. You, can recall that right? You know the exact moment, the exact hour, exactly what was on the counter and what was directly left of what was directly left of the tooth paste, right? You DID use your own bathroom on April 23rd in the year 2013, right? You certainly must have. You can recall it, yeah?
Movies are like that. After you've seen it, absorbed it, where does that data go? Into your mind? Is your mind doing a pixel-count? Can you instantly recall and recreate every frame of every film you've ever seen?
That is why it never "caught on." It's the same reason Greyhound Buses exist in a world where air travel is a thing. And if you plan according, the plane ticket can be the same price as the bus ticket. The trip is incidental. Once the plot, characters and events are inside your head, it doesn't matter what they looked like going in. They're all the same regardless.
The only thing BRD has over DVD is storage size; Putting a whole season of a 90's cartoon on one disc instead of a 10 disc set.
Why are 4k tvs the standard now then? Is it because it's forced upon the public? If that's what it takes then why not just artificially force out DVDs by not making them anymore and only sell 4kDiscs?
4K discs are more work to master, you can put out shit garbage quality with tearing, chromatic aberration and color bleed on DVD and if it's the absolute only way to own the show (Family Guy, Simpsons, King of the Hill, Spongebob) the only complaints you'll get is a dozen users on a small DVD nerd forum. Blu ray and up consumers get fussier, b***hing about the disney Blu-ray releases of there old films is basically a mainstream talking point.
>movies
owning a physical copy is dying. This is actually bad, you won't be able to own it unless you torrented it since everything is shifting to streaming - watch without ownership.
Nothing made since 2014 is worth owning. It's a quality issue, not a format issue.
They already made some old boomer re-buy his favorite movie on Betmax, VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, DVD special edition, Bluray, Bluray special edition, and now, UHD.
Even old crusty boomers eventually wise up to the grift, and he's knows he's just going to have to buy it again in 8k next year, so frick it.
First music and now movies. We truly are collapsing and entering a dark age. There isn't a single good zoomer musician, and 20+ year old music has been outselling new music for the past 3 years. I think movies are headed in the same direction.
Catfish is frying. Who’s hungry?
You really think the elites would do that? Announce their plan and then make good on it. Almost as if they were mocking the public and daring anyone to stop them, while wearing silly outfits.
>golden calf
>star of Ishtar
That's the coat of arms of the Kaunas University of Technology, in Lithuania
>The upper left field of the shield – Kaunas city coat of arms – indicates the place of the establishment of the University. The upper right field – the gold symbol of matter on a blue background – embodies the light of science. The bottom part of the shield contains an open book with the University slogan “Scientia, ingenium, virtus!” (EN “Science, creativity, virtue!”) in Latin.
How can I be happy if I don't own my own happiness? Silly israelites.
Objects only makes one desire more objects which leads to sorrow. Become a Buddhist and you will no longer need physical goods. Of course you also wouldn't be on this internet either.
>implying happiness is an object
You should easily be able to prove it.
I implied the opposite. Objects only cause sorrow.
>Become a Buddhist
Or just go full ted kaczyncki innawoods.
Richs richer and the poor poorer. God i love capitalism.
Chinese movies are more popular than ever, what are you crying about?
Die lol
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/chinese-films-dominate-global-cinema-box-office-revenues-1235915972/
if it's not hong kong film it's straight garbage
Everything your nation makes is garbage
Let's not conflate box office with quality, the average person is disgustingly unsophisticated and their opinion doesnt matter
China is a dying society. They'll have to force their population to have sex at gunpoint if they want to make it to the end of this century.
Only Africa and India are expanding societies.
declining birth rates is worldwide phenomenon
>They'll have to force their population to have sex at gunpoint if they want to make it to the end of this century.
The thing is that China is crazy enough that they would do that if it became necessary. Most other modern countries also have declining birth rates but are unwilling to do anything.
They'll just import shitskins from the 3rd world like everyone else.
Nah, China is way too racist to do that, realistically they'll be the first nation to grow large numbers of babies in test tubes.
>but are unwilling to do anything.
what do you mean, Canada is importing several million Indians a year to shit all over the country
Please don't remind me, I try very hard not to think about it
all aboard the poop train to Brampton
must suck being a racist and seething every day. Sad!
God, it's a pity to see the indigenous white peeple of Canada crowded out.
>Europeans colonizing Canada was a bad thing
>importing ceasless millions of third-worlders will fix this
I... see.
Population decline is a meme.
The only thing that's going to happen is that everybody is going to suddenly find that there is more than enough space and resources to have a family and then families will explode with more people that want families and so on.
That's why you also have to constantly import foreign invaders to take up space if you want to kill your host population. They'll bounce right back if you do nothing. They need to be actively killed.
>This
People only stop having kids when there's not enough space and resources to have them.
>WW2 creates the largest death toll in human history
>the largest generation to date was born immediately after (boomers)
>too many people
>They have a tiny inconsequential generation (gen x)
>decade of prosperity
>a new largest generation in history is born (millennials)
>too many people
>Another tiny generation (gen z)
im going to kiss and caress my hard drive which is loaded with high quality movies
>*clicks*
I sure hope you’ve got it backed up anon. Wouldn’t want anything….untoward….to happen.
>go to barnes & noble
>all the criterion blu rays are $40 each, no exceptions
frick that
I stopped buying Criterions and sold them on eBay when I realized 1/3 of those movies are literally on YouTube right now for free, and have been for years.
Oh I know. Even the most obscure movies I can possibly think of have been uploaded on Russian sites. I just like the bonus features and commentary
>sold them on eBay
at $20 a pop? what a waste...
Barnes and Nobles is trash anyways
You should wait until they have them on sale (but even then you can still get them on Amazon for the same price).
>all but completely ditching them
>now target is ditching them too
???????????????
Nothing of quality is made anymore. I already own all the decent movies.
They're still slowly trickling out 4k releases of old movies every year. But if every retailer stops selling them, they'll probably stop since there will no longer be a market for it.
those are blu-rays, not dvds
The point is that they're no longer selling any kind of physical media.
then the article headline should say that. not my fault the article headline didn't say that!!!!!
I don't care about physical media dying since I'm not a discsucker. Movies are dying because the filmmakers and studios and actors and writers are shit.
>I don't care about physical media dying since I'm not a discsucker.
No, you don't care about it because you're a moron. Historical revisionism is a whole lot easier if no one has physical media.
I know this is gonna enrage the autists but owning media doesn’t really make sense unless you’re an idiot who only likes to watch the same x movies over and over again. And honestly I wouldn’t really respect someone who keeps watching the same thing, regardless of how good it is
the nice thing about streaming services is the ability to find new (new as in previously unseen/undiscovered, not released recently) films and to watch an enormous range of films. You think I would ever own a physical copy of A Separation? No. But thankfully I’ve been able to see it on a streaming service
I guess you could argue that torrenting is better than streaming and I’d agree with that because torrenting is much easier and cheaper than actually buying shit. But it’s not really a thing for the average person to do
*discreetly censors your kino*
nothin personal, kid
>never trust everybody
I don't even see why they censored it
This is why you have physical media. Enjoy your heavily censored streaming slop which will constantly change soviet style as modern sensibilities get worse
No, this is why I have private torrent sites. Enjoy your decaying plastic and inconvenience.
>Enjoy your decaying plastic
What living conditions do you think people live in? I have never once popped in one of my discs and had an issue with it playing.
Normal people don't have to pop in a disc since the movie is already on their media server or streaming service of choice.
Normal people do not have their own media server set up lmao. And enjoy movies and shows deleted and censored on the whims of the streaming service
Plex is very popular even among normies. I also included the "streaming service of choice" specifically to preempt dumb fricks like you.
>Plex is very popular even among normies
no
Hasn't happened to me = doesn't happen. That's how I know cancer is a israeli scam.
My digital media has multiple backups.
Your digital media is also stored on ever decaying plastic and deteriorating metal
Wow, real genius here guys
Plastic doesn't decay. If anything, the laser diodes in the dvd players will die before any of the discs do. Hopefully someone will continue manufacturing them even after they stop making players and disc drives a few years from now.
Oxidation of the reflective layer, reactions with contaminants, ultra-violet light damage, and de-bonding of the adhesive used to adhere the layers of the disc together can and do result in "disc rot".
None of these things happen if you keep your discs inside a house in normal living conditions. Those discs will last at least 100 years.
That's incorrect. I've experienced disc rot on archived disks stored in binders in cool, dry, dark lockers. It took roughly 15 years for discs to start failing.
>stored in binders
>binders
What in the
What's wrong with storing discs in binders? Binders made for storing discs, of course. Nothing, that's what.
They're ugly and make you look like you don't care about your collection.
If I didn't care about my collection, I wouldn't have bothered to purchase lockers, binders, and Lotus 1-2-3.
Why are you storing discs in binders you fricking moron
They're either DVD/CD/BR-Rs or he lives in a hobbit home and he can't afford the space for the cases they came in.
Cases and inserts go in separate (respective) binders.
The cases the discs came in are the best places to store them outside of a cold vault with no air suspended by a steel rod.
You seem to be suggesting that the binders themselves, as opposed to oxidation of the reflective layer, reactions with contaminants, ultra-violet light damage, and de-bonding of the adhesive used to adhere the layers of the disc together, caused the disc rot? It isn't as if the discs have suffered damage from being stored in binders in cool, dark, dry lockers.
The binders are made out of materials that can cause or accelerate such interactions and with binders the discs are in closer contact with such materials than in cases.
These binders were custom-made to protect discs, not to destroy them. Unless you have specific information proving this claim, I'm going to have to express a little skepticism.
What binders are you speaking of then?
Plastic sleeves were advertised to "protect" vinyl records and they were actually proven to destroy them
Keep telling yourself that. Most "disc rot" is caused by defects at the time of manufacturing. Even Criterion has had to recall discs in the past that decayed unusually quickly. Storage conditions have little to no impact on it without being taken to extremes.
Then that's a specific problem with a small number of discs. The vast majority of optical media will never have that problem.
*personnel*
watching the same thing over and over and getting a feel for how it works is how you make something good yourself
I like having a collection that I can share with friends. It's also comforting to own something that could potentially disappear or get altered digitally one day due to some nonsense. Some movies I do watch more than once. I also like the idea of showing my collection to people or having really obscure or fricking weird movies that interest others. Keep coping about how you like to not actually own what you're passionate about.
Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle.
Your physical library is wide as a puddle, deep as a puddle
Yea, I'm sure you only watch a movie or show once and then never again. God he's so cool and different.
Congrats on being human cattle you moron
some people like to collect shit, moron
>the nice thing about streaming services is the ability to find new (new as in previously unseen/undiscovered, not released recently) films and to watch an enormous range of films.
This would be true if the algorithms didn't just drop the same fricking movies over and over on everyone's suggestions. It's crazy how fricking awful it is to navigate any popular streaming sites when it comes to finding stuff to watch.
Bro hasn't seen Heat
I watch the same movies a bunch of times though, and I suspect that's typical.
You think some woman binging a series on a streaming service is always watching a new one and not just rewatching Friends or something like that?
who buys DVDs except for oscure movies?
How do you gift movies anymore? Ask the recipient which streaming service they use? That seems gauche.
>gifting movies
People still do this?
I do. I gift my family movies every Christmas
Who even uses DVDs any more? Everything is on Blu-ray. If you wanted DVDs maybe you should have bought them 15 years ago when they were still a relevant media type.
>mfw I buy physical bootlegs of obscure/hard to find movies for cheap
This. I just got a Fight Club blu ray for $3 at a record store
>DVD dics makes up still nearly 60% of physical media sales of everything
>Physical media as a whole makes up over 85% of sales of anything
>HAHAHA Y-YEAH DIGITAL MAKES LIKE 87% OF SALES BROS D-DON'T LOOK AT THE ACTUAL NUMBERS!
Predictable
media as a whole makes up over 85% of sales of anything
I do not believe this for one second.
Physical media is all boutique brands selling overpriced special editions to enthusiasts these days, and they don't buy them from stores like this.
America is dead.
I remember when special editions were the standard form you bought movies in and they came with hours upon hours of bonus material and cost less than $20 new. What went wrong?
Liberals destroyed the economy and DEI destroyed all creative output.
the average human voted with their wallet
> What went wrong?
Enshittification.
Low effort releases are cheaper than caring. Licensing bonus material and paying for commentary tracks was ok when DVD sales were rocketing and people cared about that. As sales flagged they put in less and less effort. Customers cared less and less. It’s a feedback loop.
Consider 3d movies. Movies actually made for 3d were few. Most were made 3d post production and had a couple of gimmick “aaah straight into the camera” shots and that was it. Give us 2x ticket price please.
People catch on to 3d being worthless because most don’t make any effort. The movies that did care got sucked under. Entire tech branch dies even though “glasses free” 3d existed.
My guess is 3d will have some moment like this. Big upswing, next big thing, the shittiest possible vr experiences, kills the tech.
Oh and before you say that already happened this shit goes in waves. 3d movies was a thing back in the 70s. Red/blue glasses kind. Same shit with gimmicks. Died.
Read about AI winters. Realize we’ve already had 3 versions of “AI is the next big thing bro” and collapses.
You won't like the answer, but it's piracy. Smart people pirate. Dump people pay for streaming services. Coincidently this is also the reason for all the sjw stuff on streaming services. It's sjw are the ones that are funding streaming services, so the content is made with them in mind.
The vast majority of people are dumb and just pay for streaming.
Lotr was distributed by Warners which had based Warren Lieberfarb running the show. People forget that 25 years ago the studios were already trying to prevent people from owning movies, and believed that the real money was in rentals. Lieberfarb rightly believed the issue was that DVDs had to be priced lower so people would be more incentivized to buy them. His theory proved profitable, and that snowballed into DVD releases being an event with bonus discs.
My childhood was combing through the special features and behind the scenes stuff for hours on end.
look up the m2 money supply
special features for The Two Towers
>here's footage of us making one set of armor for an extra
special features for most blockbusters now
>so we pay these people in India and Thailand and they work on our movie between shifts on Baby Shark and Finger Family videos
>and here's our creative lead going to get a coffee
Is their whole thing supposed to be extended special features?
Their main thing is being those collectors' leather Barnes and Nobles books that no one reads but for movies
Time to hoard, bros. The future is dire.
GVD TO THE RESCUE!
I get absolutely nothing about DVDs when trying to search for this.
once they start doing this with video games, i will kys myself
I haven't bought a DVD in like 10 years. I refuse to believe anyone is still buying DVDs. If you want an archive just pirate copies and store them on a HDD.
I buy blu-rays, myself.
Damn dvds are no more? What's next? Vhs tapes are obsolete now?
Target is the store with enormous images of unattractive fat underwear models plastered high on the ceiling so everyone in the store has to see them. DVDs were probably selling like hotcakes. They just got orders to pull them, for some sinister purpose
You already know the reason physical media is being phased out.
Don’t care, I already have the Lord of Rings extended version. Don’t need anything else.
physical media is dying, look at declining toy sales and arts and crafts
Why? Normies don't think about tomorrow, just the next 5 minutes at most?
Think the last time I bought a dvd at target was Titan AE because it was like 5 bucks.
Wtf! How dare they! DVD is just 30 years old! It’s got plenty of life left!
The death of DVD sales and rise of streaming websites is the reason why movies are all the same slop now.
Back when movies were good, if a movie performed poorly at the box office, the company could recover their losses in DVD sales. Now if a movie does poorly, it goes straight to the streaming websites and the movie companies don't get a sniff of that money on the back end.
If a director/actor wants to do a passion project with their own money, they have to pray their movie is a smash success at the box office or risk bankruptcy. Why should anyone bother using their money trying to make something different when generating the same slop that goes through 15 different focus groups with Netflix financial backing gets the job done? To make you feel good?
>streaming gives me shit quality even with high tier subscriptions and gigabit internet
>blu rays/4k cost 30-40 dollars for one movie
>torrents, even when labeled as 4k or super high quality, look like dogshit because they're made by thirdworlders who watch them on 480p monitors
Is there really no reasonable way to see actual quality?
Be rich and buy 4k/BR. The rich will always have it better than the poor.
As long as it's at least a 15gb file and encoded in x265 for a 2 hour movie it will look basically indistinguishable from the 4k blu-ray.
this also means Hollywood is at the point of no return. Streaming or bust.
What's the movie equivalent of the vinyl record? Something that hipsters and autists can unite over to save movies in physical media form.
Laserdisc
>DVDs
>no mention of BluRays
Do you b***hes cry over the lack of VHS tapes, too?
soon as this thread archives im printing it out and storing this bad boy in a binder
Conan the Barbarian finally got a good remaster, on 4k this year (the blu ray version sucks).
Will be buying it when the standard edition of it releases next week.
Ive never used physical media for movies since like 2006. I dont know why its such a big deal for Cinemaphile
Some of us own high quality televisions and want to watch high quality video on them.
watch them from your hard drive
Personally I hope that Indians pursue and colonize every nation that worships the British Royalty.
Because frick them. You get what you deserve.
>t.
How is this news? I noticed the DVDs all disappeared like a year ago. Were there still Target stores still carrying them?
>DVDs
so is this actually only fricking DVDs which are 480p shit or also bluray which is 4k shit
They do not have BRDs either.
The area in your local Target where you might have seen movies you now see printers, game consoles and books.
I hate Walmart but some of the nicer ones can actually have a pretty sweet movie/TV selection
Buy physical online like everybody else
american movie industry is satan. bad people.
Name related
Ghetto gas stations will always have a fine selection of DVDs.
Why is there more black porn than anything else?
>Atlanta
who do you think are the biggest porn addicts?
> 3 white
> 1 Asian
> 1 Latina
> 1 interracial
Must be customer demographics
theyre hard marked clearance items, you can tell by the price sticker color. the black ones didn't sell
The price of DVDs is insane.
>4K
>DVD
moron.
dvds were selling half price within the same time 4k has been out now. What the frick is taking so long for 4k to catch on?
Do you want a real answer? I'll answer but you'll think I'm wrong. You'll dig your heels in, put your palm out and shout "NO! That's not true!"
Nobody cares about 4k, or really any definition above the highest a DVD can muster.
What do you mean you don't believe me?
Do you have instantaneous recall of every single pixels you've ever seen? I use to watch movies AND TV on a black and white 10-channel RCA, and do you know what happens? YOU REMEMBER THE MOVIE. In your childhood when you were pirating camrips that were the size of postage stamps, do you... recall the smudges and blurriness? Or, rather, do you recall the plot? The characters? The events?
I want you to tell me about the time you walked into your own bathroom, on April 23rd, in the year 2013. You, can recall that right? You know the exact moment, the exact hour, exactly what was on the counter and what was directly left of what was directly left of the tooth paste, right? You DID use your own bathroom on April 23rd in the year 2013, right? You certainly must have. You can recall it, yeah?
Movies are like that. After you've seen it, absorbed it, where does that data go? Into your mind? Is your mind doing a pixel-count? Can you instantly recall and recreate every frame of every film you've ever seen?
That is why it never "caught on." It's the same reason Greyhound Buses exist in a world where air travel is a thing. And if you plan according, the plane ticket can be the same price as the bus ticket. The trip is incidental. Once the plot, characters and events are inside your head, it doesn't matter what they looked like going in. They're all the same regardless.
The only thing BRD has over DVD is storage size; Putting a whole season of a 90's cartoon on one disc instead of a 10 disc set.
Why are 4k tvs the standard now then? Is it because it's forced upon the public? If that's what it takes then why not just artificially force out DVDs by not making them anymore and only sell 4kDiscs?
Because old people command markets
The oldest the most powerful
4K discs are more work to master, you can put out shit garbage quality with tearing, chromatic aberration and color bleed on DVD and if it's the absolute only way to own the show (Family Guy, Simpsons, King of the Hill, Spongebob) the only complaints you'll get is a dozen users on a small DVD nerd forum. Blu ray and up consumers get fussier, b***hing about the disney Blu-ray releases of there old films is basically a mainstream talking point.
>Is it because it's forced upon the public?
That's honestly why DVDs were made the standard.
>movies
owning a physical copy is dying. This is actually bad, you won't be able to own it unless you torrented it since everything is shifting to streaming - watch without ownership.
selling my collection as we speak. going all digital jellyfin here i come
Nothing made since 2014 is worth owning. It's a quality issue, not a format issue.
They already made some old boomer re-buy his favorite movie on Betmax, VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, DVD special edition, Bluray, Bluray special edition, and now, UHD.
Even old crusty boomers eventually wise up to the grift, and he's knows he's just going to have to buy it again in 8k next year, so frick it.
>DVD is still king
When was the last time you guys watched a regular old dvd?
First music and now movies. We truly are collapsing and entering a dark age. There isn't a single good zoomer musician, and 20+ year old music has been outselling new music for the past 3 years. I think movies are headed in the same direction.
Yeah, you guys are gonna argue like morons, but when is the last fricking time you bought a DVD?
I'd rather watch a golden-era Simpsons episode I've seen 200 times before than anything new.
what the frick does that have to do with my question? i can watch any simpsons episode right now without a dvd
A few weeks ago? I bought Nothing But Trouble.