News Disney just delivered potential death blow to DVDs and Blu-rays — here’s what’s happening

[admin]

Disney says it won’t be releasing any new DVDs and Blu-rays in parts of the Southern Hemisphere and will instead push its streaming service.

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[AKJagMan]

Don't forget the issues people can have with limited Internet. Until very recently, I couldn't stream with a darn, as my Internet was lucky to be 10mbits, and if I wanted to watch anything, it was choppy. Cell service wasn't good, either, so couldn't use that.

Who is going to help the people who are stuck like I used to be?

 

[FsS13]

Independent companies like via vision, umbrella and imprint are all releasing and selling physical media and Disney (a big monster of a company) is saying physical sales are declining? Other reasons exists and one is the fact that they want to push the inferior (in terms of visual quality) streaming platform Disney plus even further despite the fact that not all films are available on any streaming platform (smaller independent original and unique films suffer the most along with production of such great films and that’s besides the fact that a physical disc is much more better in visual quality than streaming. Plus the fact that you will always own what you paid for and own physically.

 

[dRaven43]

This is disheartening. I collect physical media and love that I definitely own the movie. I can watch them even if they are taken off streaming services, etc. I've read that media purchases on Amazon can be rescinded which is just nuts to me. I also like to take movies on trips and where the Internet access is limited. I started collecting DVDs when I was in the middle of watching a TV series and the provider pulled it from their service. I like to be able to watch my favorites when I want to watch them, not when someone else decides it's available.