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- Josh Steinberg
This. Definitely this.
There's been several times where I preordered a Marvel movie from DMC within the first or second week that it was in theaters, but I had to wait until the disc shipped to get it, even when it came out on digital at least two weeks prior.
Walmart tried this with Vudu several years ago, where you’d preorder the disc and Vudu would give you the movie as soon as it hit digital and Walmart would send you the disc when it was released. Demand for this service was low, and the studio wasn’t willing to provide the digital copy to Vudu so they were paying out of pocket to provide the service, and it quietly disappeared after launching with some fanfare.
It kinda sucks but there just aren’t enough buying discs anymore for any of the studios or retailers to bend over backwards for us.