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Even regular Blu-Rays are better quality than streaming.
4K-blurays are the definitive way to see movies at home.
This is truly disappointing. The end of a physical media era and nothing on the horizon to replace it.
But this move to streaming libraries, where there is no ownership and the movies and shows you watch could simply disappear without warning, reminds us how fleeting life can be.
No, it reminds me our corporate overlords will continue to take away things that don’t make them a continuous stream of free money.
Jellyfin/Plex + Sonarr/Radarr + Usenet + HDDs/SSDs
HDDs/SSDs are a form of physical recordable media with FAR more capacity and speed than any optical medium
If there are no more discs to rip how will people get the movies and shows in the first place?
For all their efforts in DRM, Netflix et al have thus far failed to prevent people from ripping their highest quality streams and torrenting them
My setup has had 0 issues grabbing the latest "streaming only" content very quickly after release
There's always an analog hole.
Webrips mate.
There is the Ultra HD Blu-ray. The problem is that not enough people are buying it.
I wish there was an easy answer. However, I can't think of one.
This is about recordable BD-R's, this doesn't affect Blu-ray movies.
At least, I hope not...
this doesn’t affect Blu-ray movies.
Yet.
Article says it started as removing BD-R and they'd keep operating for corporate customers (studios) but that appears to have collapsed quickly. I'm interpreting it as the end of Blu-ray production entirely.
Commercial sales have quickly become insufficient to sustain Sony’s optical media business.
Didn't Sony recently take over Blu-ray production for Disney? And don't they also have Blu-ray titles scheduled for release in the next few months? This doesn't make sense to me.
Yes and yes, but looking at BR releases, they seem to drop off hard around the month of May.
This lines up pretty close to 3 months after close, I think that could be a reasonable lead time if production ends next month. They are probably printing April releases right now.
But I'm speculating and toms hardware seems to be waiting for clarification from Sony themselves, perhaps there is still some hope.
You never know, maybe they just didn't announce new titles yet.
Or maybe I'm just coping.
I did a really quick search and a mechanical hard drive costs around 1$ for 50gb of storage while a blank Blu-ray was closer to 1$ for 25gb of storage. That would suggest a drive is more effective at storing data from a cost perspective, so there just needs to be a service that sells movies in a digital format.
"Sell" and "digital format" are not something that media companies like. More like long term rent on very specific locked down hardware and software.
"Best we can do is an overpackaged, encrypted, read-only microSD for $49.99. It requires a dedicated proprietary media player and if you're lucky, it won't fail in a year."
"Why won't anyone buy our movies :("
It’s what happened with music eventually, but so far I have not seen that with mainstream video releases, only some independent things
I survived the DVD-Blueray era, having successfully never bought a DVD or Blu-ray player, movie disc's, etc.. Long live piracy.
But many of the releases you've pirated were ripped from the Bluray.
Fair enough, but I get what he is saying. I also never owned a DVD or BluRay player because of piracy. Yet, of course it sucks that physical media will disappear and with it all semblance of regulated quality.