It’s fairly obvious that Netflix won the first round of the streaming TV wars. Here’s the thing: as subscriber growth becomes saturated, Netflix has to keep providing Wall Street with those sweet, …

from the pay-more-for-less! dept

  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    5 months ago

    I dropped them almost a year ago and have been buying blu-rays with the money instead. No regrets

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      As someone nostalgic for DVD extras I might start doing that.

      I found an audio track on an… acquired copy of Star Trek: TMP with the Okudas and it got me to watch the whole thing twice in a row.

      • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        The sad reality is that the quality of modern BluRay releases has significantly declined. Sure the picture looks great, but they barely come with special features anymore. Also, the QA is atrocious. I buy a lot of UHD BluRays and ~30% of them come corrupted/damaged out of the box.

        I really want physical media to become popular again so companies start actually putting in effort.

        EDIT: I still love physical media. It’s pretty much the only way to own a copy of media anymore. I just wish it was as beloved as the DVD days.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      If anyone knows of a player I can vertically mount to the wall let me know and I’ll buy it today. I see that kind of thing for CDs. It’s still just a spinning disc!

    • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Just read few posts above that Blue ray is done with Sony shutting down last factory for drives. I guess it’s time to stock drives 🤷‍♂️

        • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          For now. But the trend is depressing and eventually it won’t be profitable for anybody and one day there will be no more disc drives to buy.