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That's what Warner learned: Their rush to buy Flixster (which wasn't a digital merchant when they started out, and made Warner the only studio at the time to own a digital-merchant service) and push the "You'll love Digital because it's easier!" campaign, was part of an almost flat-out...

I said "slow"--think three to five years for a start--but, like Bill's secondhand-sources problem, it depends on what kind of "sales" you're measuring: Retail disk practically became extinct in the 10's, not because of digital, but because the other big-boxes besides Wal-Mart became frustrated...

Think Charles Foster Kane's "You give me the (sales numbers), I'll give you the 'war'." Physical media is currently on a very, very slow bounceback after the eight-year Digital Purchase debacle (although, as Bill points out, we first have to reopen a lot of disk-pressing companies that folded...

That was true about Instant Netflix, in the early days, IIRC, back when HDTV was still a minority-- You could bring up the info data onscreen and see whether your movie was streaming in 480 or 720p, which would fluctuate and adjust accordingly, depending on bandwidth and your screen resolution...

Practically ALL the Pixars are on 4K by now, and mostly the post-Tangled 21st-cty. "Third Age" Disneys. Like the first days of Blu-ray, they're still hesitant about whether the non-CGI ink-and-paint classics would "survive" higher resolution. (All those brushstrokes!) Or had detailed...

Almost every site that reposted the first announcement cried "The beginning of the end! Disney announced the first step in doing away with physical disks!" Obviously, that needed a little studio clarification, but I don't think they quite expected the misunderstanding to blow up as big as it...

Again, Bill is trying to play the "Twilight of Physical Media!" violins, to be our Leader in Troubled Times, but--after the entire Internet similarly blew up--Disney had to clarify that they weren't "Setting forth on their first step to eradicate disks from the face of the earth", but only...

Although I'd been reading his site since the DiVX Wars, and still consider him the "face" of the industry authority, I flatter myself that Bill Hunt and I are, at the moment, the jokingly Best of Feuding Enemies on his TDB Twitter accounts: During my, ahem, absence from HTF, I, under the alias...

Any (ahemmillennial) who has never seen Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, The Omen, Patton, or the original Heston POTA has NO IDEA why people went to the movies in the late-60's/early 70's Golden Age, where Fox and Paramount ruled supreme. :oops: The most important part of seeing, quote...

The keyword being "They" = "Disney", and not "All the studios". Oftentimes, you'll see one sales-disgruntled studio trying to whisper-campaign their own wishes into reality, by trying to make it look like "everybody" was thinking it, and they weren't the freak. Disney's a chief offender, and...

Namely, when studios wanting to cut their own losses on a slow niche format that wasn't going over with mass customers in the big Target-Mart retails tried to wash their hands of responsibility, and say "Oh, well, EVERYBODY'S BEEN SAYING the format's dying anyway!" (Like when Disney tried to...

Not to mention their earlier plan of "vaulting" the Fox house classics out of distribution, like Aliens and Planet of the Apes, to make the re-releases into events, like their Disney classics. Haven't heard whether they're still planning to go ahead with that, but the Die Hards would certainly...

No, you're NOT reading it right. At the moment, the decision was only on continuing 4K for releases other than their post-90's WDFA, Fox or Pixar animateds (with the obvious live-action exceptions of Lucas and Marvel), and there are a lot of reasons for that. Most of them discussed in...

They originally had big plans for classic live-action on retail Blu, but "Babes in Toyland" was first out of the gate for Christmas, and...it's no classic. :huh: Everything else was exiled to the Club, and while they've done some good bare-bones, DMC Blu's seem to be a necessary step in...