When did the decline of physical media begin?
>>221023709When Blu rays started to become more popular. When they started coming out with Blu rays which were worse than DVDs in terms of picture quality and started making all these "boutique" or 4k releases that cost an arm and a leg.
>>221023709When Netflix offered movie streaming on the PS3 was the beginning of the end for physical media. Netflix was originally a DVD and video game mail order rental service.
>>221023709I guess when Netflix streaming became popular.BTW, what are the boundaries for what counts as physical media? DVDs I think everyone would agree are physical, but what about MP4s? Those are just as physical (or not) as the files you access from a streaming service.
>>221023709The transition to higher capacity formats wasn't taken as well as DVD, since DVDs and DVD players were cheap. In order to play the short-lived HDDVDs and blu-rays, you needed a new player and likely a new TV. Of course since Sony owns blu-ray, they charged an arm and a leg for both production and even playback capabilities because they held the monopoly, pricing out a LOT of the market that DVDs had. Streaming still hadn't quite set up by then, but they were coming strong, so as technology advanced and digital delivery became a whole lot faster, people stopped buying physical releases because they would eventually get it for "free" through Netflix.I remember in the bridge between DVD and Blu-ray, most physical releases had both versions bundled together because adoption was so low. And then you were stuck with having to pay more, because you were buying both a DVD and a Blu-ray. I also feel like the quality of movies in general were pretty lacking around that time too.
A lost art.
>>221023709When internet speeds went up and you could dowlnoad a movie in few hours instead of few days
>>221023876This.I remember having to wait 30+ minutes to download a minute long video my cousin sent me of skateboard nutshots.
The iPod Video and iTunes, that's when it started
>>221023932Is that not physical media? You're playing digital files on a small portable device instead of on a larger DVD player, what's the real difference?
>>221023709When normies figured out how to torrent shit. It was around 2008/9 when my fat bitch girlfriend excitedly told me about this utorrent program that let her download tv shows on her shitty laptop. That was the moment I knew that physical was fucked forever. I felt nothing about it then and feel even less now
>>221023809>what counts as physical mediaBasically something you can touch, own and view when you want. The line gets a bit blurry with video games. As older games are physical, newer are mostly online only or digital. Yet what about a game on disk, pre-digital but there are no authorization servers? >>221023834>transition to higher capacity formatsTV tech was just too far behind media tech. DvD had the fastest modern adoption rate of anything since I think the microwave. Everyone had a player. DvD stomped VHS in every possible way. Better picture, skip, pause with zero issues and no rewind.Bluray wasn't the same fidelity leap being people mostly had small CRT sets. Format war didn't help. High costs didn't help. Highspeed internet helped streaming a ton and people loved not having to return a rental or ever get late fees. Late fee issue driving people to Netflix is over looked a ton. Leading to a big user base to move to streaming when Netflix dropped mail dvd serviceBlockbuster was making $800m+ off late fees every year. 16 percent of revenue was late fees. People hate it.
>>221023763>When they started coming out with Blu rays which were worse than DVDs in terms of picture quality??are you talking about bad color grading or AI upscaling?
>>221023976I don't even know how to answer such a retarded question
>>221023709Streaming. Physical media resurging again though because of there being too many streaming services now and movies/shows constantly being removed. There's a rental place in my city that made the news recently for just how much business it's getting now, apparently a lot of people are renting and buying from that place and it's hard to keep up with demand.
>>221023976>difference?It's just an issue of categories. A bluray disk is physical media. An encode of that disk on a thumb drive, even a full sized remix version, is still just a digital copy. Even if both require a player to view
>>221024191A bluray disk isn't analog though, it's just as digital as a file on a thumb drive so it can't be contrasted in that way.
>>221023709had those, had a friendwe took his parents house to watch those overnightwe grew up
>>221023709when people started to get faster internet
>>221023709when the Netflix became synonymous in popular culture with getting laid (netflix and chill) only virgin nerds bought dvd's
>>221023709When streaming got popular.
>>221023763>>221023709Unironically it was Best Buy. They eventually would only carry the latest releases and the latest releases were woke or Disney/marvel slop. So this was like mid 2010s. Companies like Suncoast went out of business because they were mostly inside malls. Malls died and Suncoast and Sam Goody went bankrupt. Best Buy owned their own stores or part of a shopping center. You would think that with Suncoast and Sam Goody gone Best Buy would take advantage of this but they didn't. They used to stock all kinds of movies, that's how I go introduced to Blade Runner, Sonny Chiba, Jodorwsky, Criterion Collection at Best Buy. But no, they started carrying less and started expanding more into video games and smart crap. PC sellers like Dell and HP also had more success with their own website being the main source of sales. DVDs really never went away, theyve always been the best sellers. But yeah, us actual movie connoseurs prefer the quality of Blu-ray so Best Buy never really tried pushing Blu-ray as much as they should have. When 4k came out there really was almost nothing to watch on 4k. Like genuinely most of it was garbage or 1080p films being digitally upscaled to 4k. It's only the last 7 or so years that we finally started getting new rescans of 35mm/70mm films that would look fantastic on 4k. Amazon was also a bit of competition because they had the warehouse space to stock movies. But even then, after Amazon sells out of something they're basically done. So other smaller companies end up being the best source for discs but "normal people" really only shop at Walmart/target and Amazon. That's why you see movies at Barnes & Noble at premium prices. I think that has really been changing now. It feels like normal people are finally understanding that digital is convenient but you don't get access to the movie 24/7 when the Internet goes down so they're switching slowly.
>>221023709>tfotrextended>ttttheatrical>trotki'm sure there's a cut under 150mins somewhere by a chud that works better than what's widely available.
>>221026100Dean? That's Sam
>>221026131Different show.
>>221023709The industry fumbled the transition to bluray and never quite back on its feet due to streaming. Lack of special features, expensive players and discs, excessive copyright protections, and a large number of shit transfers stained the medium and only somewhat recovered over time. 4K UHDs will probably be the last medium for physical media and it's a shame.
>>221023709When criterion started putting out their trash releases
>>221028163>Supervised and Approved by Michael MannYou niggers need to stop blaming Criterion and start blaming the people actually wanting this. There was a big stink when Eyes Wide Shut got released in 4k and you retards made a big stink until someone had to bust out the actual 35mm print and point out the the older Warner Blu-ray was over corrected.
When gullible retards started selling their DVDs because they could rent the movies they already own for a monthly fee on Netflix.
>>2210237092010-2013 is probably the most realistic timeframeAbout when streaming really started to take hold and companies even started to phone-in on the packaging since they already gave up on the software menus
>>221024126>Physical media resurging againKinda just feels like people are trying to find a collectable hobby that doesn't cost a lot and they're already familiar with
>>221023709With bluray, when they stopped puttin extras on bluray.DVD was the perfect format:cheap and 480p or 576p you don't need more
>>221028084>excessive copyright protectionsDoesn't Blu ray have less regions than DVD though?
>>221028231Nazis used that same excuse at Nuremberg
>>221023709around 2011
>>221028231>You niggers need to stop blaming Criterion and start blaming the people actually wanting thishow about accepting that the director should be able to have the movie he made the way he wants it?
>>221029157Fuck off George Lucas Movies belong to the people Not directors
>>221023709with the printing press
>>221023976The device you use is not the media. For instance, a CD player is not media, it's a media player. The CD's are the media. With am MP3 player, the MP3's are the media, and MP3's are not physical media.
>>221029195>Movies belong to the peopletake it easy, karl marx. fortunately that's not true
