Thomas T
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Who will cover scanning, clean-up and color costs?I would love to see DVDs make a strong comeback but I don't think it will happen via the major studios. Many of us are grateful for the efforts of Kino, Mill Creek, and others to assist those who love catalog titles. (IMHO Kino is remarkable in terms of volume and quality of output). Hopefully, more major studios will lease titles to those physical media companies who want to publish titles. That may be one way the DVD/Blu-Ray market can build again.
Thank you for that link. As I don't stream, I'm ignorant about this statement:
More like wishful thinking! If the studios are cutting costs by reducing the number of titles available to streaming, why would they expand disc releases which are more expensive to produce and release?
Granted, I am not as heavily invested in digital as many of you are, but as an outsider looking in, it seems like the industry needs to get its shit together if they want customers to feel more confident in embracing the future of digital delivery.
In this arena is where I see these Boutique lables picking up the studios slack. If it hadn't been for Olive, I don't think titles like Jack Lemon's "How to Murder your Wife" or Yul Brynner's "The Buccaneer"might not have seen the light of day!!I can see physical media having a brief surge especially with the rising cost of streaming, but wanting obscure titles or shows over 40 and 50 years old is a stretch. I would be fine if studios simply released some shows or movies in whatever condition they are in, because some things deserve to simply be seen and don't have to be perfect.
Movies Anywhere is a start, but the studios and stores need to work together to create a digital landscape similar to the physical one. With physical media, I don't care what studio puts out a movie or what store I get it from, because it all goes on my shelf.
In this arena is where I see these Boutique lables picking up the studios slack. If it hadn't been for Olive, I don't think titles like Jack Lemon's "How to Murder your Wife" or Yul Brynner's "The Buccaneer"might not have seen the light of day!!
Not from what I saw when visiting my son (who dumped his physical library and had Netflix early on). I generally prefer the early eras of movies and TV. Netflix had very, very, few tiles, from the early eras, focusing mainly on the more high profile titles from the past 20-30 years. During one Christmas visit I couldn't even find any of the more popular 50s Christmas Classics and only 2 or 3 1960s TV series I like.Thank you for that link. As I don't stream, I'm ignorant about this statement:
When Netflix launched its streaming business, you could find everything you wanted, from every era of film and TV, available at all times. Everyone else followed that strategy — but now things are changing again.
Was that ever true? Could you find on Network obscure movies from the 1930s and 40s?
Agreed Ron, but whatever the factors are that will continue to offer a flow of titles to those wishing for a disc format over streaming format is my happy place. I say, "Test away".That's certainly the advantage of physical media.
As far as digital is concerned, I feel like its just another format war where one distributor hopes to dominate the market over another.
I don't buy anything from VUDU. Sure, it's just as easy opening up the VUDU app to access films I buy, but I would rather have everything under one single umbrella and so far, iTunes/Movies Anywhere has the biggest advantage. In addition, I enjoy the auto 4k upgrades from my HD purchases.
Boutique labels will continue to thrive.
Right now, based on all the titles announced in Q4 this year, I don't see any slowdown from the studios. One would think 4k and Blu-ray physical media are thriving.
It's a head-scratcher when you see all these titles being announced but stores are pulling back on inventory.
I don't quite understand it, but I still believe that we are going to continue to see a huge shift toward digital delivery by the studios. If there's a resurgence in physical media offerings, I am going out on a limb to say it will be brief. I think there's a lot of testing of the waters going on at the moment.
Thank you. If streaming doesn't provide access to rare and old movies, it's not much use to me.Not from what I saw when visiting my son (who dumped his physical library and had Netflix early on). I generally prefer the early eras of movies and TV. Netflix had very, very, few tiles, from the early eras, focusing mainly on the more high profile titles from the past 20-30 years. During one Christmas visit I couldn't even find any of the more popular 50s Christmas Classics and only 2 or 3 1960s TV series I like.
When NetFlix first launched video streaming they had ~1000 titles, then licensed Starz product, dropped that (when Starz declined to renew as it cost them more than they earned on the deal), and then started individual deals with various studios. I've checked what they have to offer just about every year for the past 15 or so years and they've never had enough older content for my taste, much less "obscure" titles.