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Disney has announced it will stop releasing DVDs and Blu-ray discs in Australia.::undefined
Disney has announced it will stop releasing DVDs and Blu-ray discs in Australia.::undefined
On one hand, I’m glad that less plastic is going to end up in landfill.
On the other, you’ll own nothing and be happy.
I have downloaded every movie that I’ve paid for on every platform where I have paid for movies. If they suddenly decide that I can’t watch those movies any more I can say, “Fuck you, yes I can.”
Fuck yeah.
This is the way!
To the high seas!
It sucks. Physical media has a higher bitrate than any streaming service ever conceived of. Streaming is great for random shit to watch, but it fails miserably when compared to video and audio playback from a high-quality physical media.
Yeah from an audio/video quality standpoint we’ve taken a big step backwards with streaming. I’d rather watch an HD blu-ray movie than a 4K stream from Netflix or Max. With a semi decent multi-channel sound system the streaming offering is even more stark.
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The news article talks about the discontinuation of video physical releases, while you are correct in the sense that you can find high quality audio digitally, i am unaware of anything comparable for video.
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As a counterpoint to your landfill comment, if a movie is played 5 times off of the same blu ray disc or streamed 5 times from the Disney+ servers which is more environmentally harmful?
It doesn’t take much energy to press a disc and once the disc is pressed, it could theoretically be viewed for at least several decades to hundred of years if stored correctly.
The threshold for one blu ray disc to be more environmentally friendly than a streaming movie is 4 views. Source: Ars Technica
Own nothing produced by Disney, and be ecstatic…