Is physical media coming to an end brehs?

[MenacingMonk]

. You can keep that bullshyt.

Just came home with 50 back issues in the dollar bin.

 

[Geek Nasty]

I said this 10 years ago and people used to ridicule me. The content providers have been conspiring to cut off your ownership of content. Everything is streaming when you want access to something you already bought. And every step of the process is encrypted to keep you from making your own copies. That's their end goal.

Corporate America works with the government on long game ways to fukk people out of money we never even see coming; like "automated cars." Consumer navigation I'm starting to understand is just a byproduct of this effort.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

I have a bunch of blurays and DVDs that I haven't watched in years. Haven't bought one in probably at least 5 years as well. My brother and dad are hardcore physical media, especially my dad. Each have hundreds. Makes sense with my dad, he has a lot of older stuff that isn't on streaming. But what I don't get is why because I can probably count on one hand the # of them they have watched multiple times. Why not digitally rent the ones you can when that's just a few bucks instead of $10-20 per movie?

 

[King Frost]

So I heard Samsung stopped production on blu ray players.

The writings on the wall brehs. In a few years everything is streaming sucks cause I like to actually own a copy. And picture/audio quality is unmatched if your playing straight from the source.

Equipment & content will be available long after manufacturers have gone.

I wrote this post 4 times then I realised that true fans of a particular format don't worry about things like these.

also bluray content is compressed
if you want the "source" you're gonna have to convince the studio to give you a DCP

The content providers have been conspiring to cut off your ownership of content.

no, no conspiracy. you never owned the content, just the format.
which is why you have to repurchase the same movie on a different format or the same format if it gets destroyed. The studios own the movie not you, you're just leasing to view it in your home. Hence the term "copyright", you don't have the "right" to "copy" works owned by others.

Everything is streaming when you want access to something you already bought. And every step of the process is encrypted to keep you from making your own copies. That's their end goal.

not everything is streaming
some movies never got on vhs much less dvd
majority of movies that stream is available and will continue to be available on physical
a good business gets sales from everywhere
encryption has been on vhs, dvd, bluray
everytime it has been cracked, it's then time to move to another tech
vhs had macrovision
dvd had macrovison/css
bluray had aacs
uhd bluray has aacs 2.0
streaming has AES, widevine, playready, fairplay etc.

all this is to protect the content because copyright........the "right" to "copy"
the owner of the copyright wants you to watch their content on this device at this bitrate for this amount of time.

 

[OmegaK2099]

Hell no what the hell else am I going to collect?