@Operandi
Streaming quality and bitrate can be improved, and there were some high bitrate sources (Sony's Bravia/Pictures Core is
supposedly "30-80Mb", though
unclear if nerfed since originally introduced).
Streams can be captured, or someone might start offering simple downloads.
Whether someone actually will, that's another question.
Streaming is nowhere near the quality of disks. Go look up the bandwidth of, say, HDMI for 4k60 content, then add in HDR, then figure out how they get that to you on a vastly slower internet connection.
Compression is particularly bad for audio. Dear god, the difference for something like John Wick, streaming VS blu ray, its like I went from a 20 year old pair of PC speakers to an audiophile setup.
Eagle eye-d viewers will also notice the color and pixel compression in the video, newer formats are better but its still noticeable, a 4k stream for amazon or netflix still has worse picture quality then a 1080p blu ray.
1. Sony is killing consumer recordable media, not the discs used to sell movies on, which are "pressed" in factory with content on them.
2. Regular Blu-ray is dying anyhow, Ultra HD Blu-ray will still be around for 4K content.
3. Blu-ray was launched in 2006 and turns 20 next year...
Then again, som people still buy movies on DVDs, a format from 1996...
Regular blu ray still significantly outsells 4k blu ray. You can play regular blu ray on PC easily enough and you can rip its contents for simple home viewing. And a regular blu ray has better picture and especially audio quality then a 4k stream from any provider.
4k blu rays, OTOH, you have to conduct various black magic trials to get the video off of them.
DVDs can play natively on PC and have even less DRM on them, thats why people still buy them.
I just was forced to buy another week of prime.
There is nothing I want to watch. Except the cooking show from Mr May.
Without good movies, without cheap media I did not have any need for an optical drive. Also there is no software for the optical drive. So why bother with a blueray.
Starting a random film and hit pause after 30 or 45 seconds. The longest I watched was around 15 minutes. About some nonsense.
I never owned a single MiniDisc, BLUERAY, DVD. I had many CDR and audio CDs. A woman hit my car and crashed it around 5 years ago. That was the point when the demand for audio cds was over for myself. Even burning audio cds was a hassle, especially with the software.
The only thing I stay subbed to Prime for is the Trio of jeremy james and richard. I so wish I could get the grand tour on blu ray though......
Especially for preservation. At some point stuff has been edited, like the grand tour south africa episode, Feed The World, where Hammond gets Alan sugar mixed up with Trump, the text "he means donald trump" was edited out for unknown reasons sometime a year after its release.
This is the real reason you average fan of movies, TV, ect. should care. Picture and sound quality are thing but the way streaming is structured the consumer has no ownership of anything, and its cost prohibitive for any service to have access to everything and unlike music if the actors and crew don't get paid nothing is going to get created so constant transfer of rights from service to another and things just outright disappearing is only going to get worse. Streaming is is always going to be crap experience if you are interested in anything that isn't of the moment, its only going to get worse and more expensive over time. I don't care about collecting physical media and I've never even owned a physical DVD or Bluray but I own tons of Bluray movies simply because its the only way you can actually own any of it.
Disney is one of the worst offenders, you ever see hwo they've butchered the Star Wars movie on disney plus? Absolute Garbo.
A streaming world is a world with 0 consumer rights and excessive spending along with loss of any "purchases" you make. After the last decade of media conglomerates falling over themselves to censor "problematic" shows and split content among as many services as possible, physical media stands out as a far superior method of viewing.
