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All this means is that you think very differently than Joe Sixpack. That $1000 can put to better use, such as buying over a dozen beer kegs. Oh, Please ! ! ! ;)

My guess is the folks who subscribe to viewpoint 1, are in the movie studio's legal department. :lol: In the case of viewpoint 2, my guess is it's the executive running the home video department at a movie studio who subscribes to it. The declining sales figures will affect their...

I distinguish between streaming of music, and video streaming of tv/movies. In the case of music, I get the impression the music industry was eventually forced into it kicking and screaming. There was a whole entire "generation Y" which came of age during the late-1990s -> early-2000s who only...

This must be location dependent. The nearby BestBuy offline retail outlets still carry the Star Wars and some Marvel superhero movies on dvd. Next to the dvds, were the blurays and 4Kblurays of the same superhero movies. No guarantee anybody is buying the bluray (or 4Kbluray) players on...

This is hard to say. There is also the possibility that this action ^ might have torpedoed the disc market and accelerated its decline even faster. Many "pointy haired bosses" are not willing to make a decision, which might torpedo their careers and lead to their dismissal when things go...

The movie companies know this now. In hindsight, the bluray/dvd/digitalcode multipack idea was likely the "last chance" they had at convincing Joe Sixpack to upgrade to a bluray player. Unfortunately Joe Sixpack didn't bite and went straight to streaming.

In other words, if one draws a "line of best fit" through the data over the past 5+ years to "average out" the huge swings, the slope of the line would still be consistently negative downward.

More broadly, I believe something like bluray/4Kbluray might have thrived if the internet never became ubiquitous back in the mid-1990s. Basically if the internet was still "frozen in time" in its late-1980s -> 1990 form before AOL.

This goes to show that the "world of Alan Smithee" and the "world of Joe Sixpack", are entirely different planets with almost zero communication with one another. ;)

A hardcore nerdy/geeky/tech type could get very angry about it. :ph34r: A non-geek/non-nerd type might not get angry, and just move on to a streaming service. (ie. No more impulse buys of movies on dvd).

It could be even worse than a half.

More generally, the movie studios likely suspect that replacing dvds with blurays/4Kblurays at walmart will not be a simple "zero sum game" replacement scenario. More likely it will resemble a "negative sum game" of a lose-lose scenario, where the previous dvd customers will not buy movie...

In practice, this is false. That previous shelf space vacated by dvds, has now been replaced with cell phones and cell phone accessories !

It's probably not legitimate, in the sense that it is an excuse for pure laziness and apathy. Likely Joe Sixpack would rather spend that cash on more beer kegs and weed. ;) This will likely happen once Wallyworld, target, BB, hmv, biglots, etc ... ALL stop carrying ANY movie discs...

Going back further in time, it was like trying to "herd cats together" to convince the movie studios to be on board with dvd back in the early->mid 1990s. It took a lot of lobbying and intercompany "political capital" by then-Warner executive Warren Lieberfarb to convince the other movie...

With all that being said, one big reason why dvd wasn't killed off deliberately was that the patent holders didn't want to end the easy cash flow from dvd patent royalties. Apparently there were hardly any movie companies which owned any actual crucial patents for dvd or bluray for that matter...

A decade ago, patent law in principle could have been used to abruptly kill dvd by having it tied up in the legal system. Today that avenue doesn't really exist anymore.

This will be almost impossible to pull off, with almost all of the dvd player patents already expired. Most of the remaining unexpired dvd patents, are related to burning dvdr discs.

My big reason for not jumping onto the 4Kbluray treadmill (yet), is that there isn't any titles of interest to me. (Same reason why I never got into dvd-audio, sacd, bluray-audio, etc ...). If some generic sci-fi or action movie ends up only being watched once or twice, then I mind as well...

This sounds like a very strange perception. Especially with $5 bluray dump bins flooding discount retailers over the past decade. Basically going straight to streaming type services, or going back to attending the local cinema with a dozen screens.

I don't personally know @JoshZ offline. Though with that being said, I use to engage in such "schadenfreude" behavior a lot when I was younger. I'm sure many folks have somebody in their own offline social circles, who gossips in a similar manner. ;)

I have plenty of brain cells to expend. When I'm not working or watching tv, most of my "leisure" time is in the form of reading advanced mathematics books and doing a lot of calculations on paper (or on the computer).

This may sound really silly. The only "broad collecting" of optical discs I still indulge in, is picking up cd, dvd and bluray discs which I researched and are known to have lots of "extra basketcase drm" beyond the generic css (dvd) and aacs (bluray). Nowadays tons of these such titles are $2...

I noticed this split in a tangential niche of buying/collecting/listening to less popular punk rock bands, around 20+ years ago with file sharing programs like kazaa, morpheus, limewire, etc ... Basically the latter was the final separation and disconnection of disc ownership from the actual...

Roughly an all encompassing slang term describing the best available video quality at a particular moment in time.

To the contrary, I was a big fan of cheesy sci-fi movies for decades. (Cheesy action and horror movies to a lesser extent). So stuff like Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, Sharktopus, Sharknado, etc ... was up my alley. ;) A complete waste of cash for me, would be buying $2 dump bin mysteries...

I still haven't purchased a 4Kbluray player yet. At this point I probably won't bother with 4Kbluray, unless a local friend gives me their old 4Kbluray player (as a hypothetical scenario). The last time I was highly tempted to actually buy a 4Kbluray player, was back when "Valerian and the...

Most of my extreme "scavenging" of $2 dump bin dvds, was in the early->mid 2010s. It was mostly in the form of sci-fi and action movies, typically from bottom feeder indie movie studios (such as The Asylum who made Sharknado) and some less popular titles from the big studios (such as Sony...

Even though I only started buying a lot of dvds/blurays in 2011, I still purchased a lot of dvds for the reason that they were easy $2 dump bin fodder, while the bluray versions were still around $20 a pop at the time. When I realized these dvd movies had very little to no rewatch value for me...

Jesse / (Alan) is one of those hardcore nerdy/geeky types who genuinely enjoys being histrionic about video quality that is not "holodeck" quality. ;)