DVD’s making a comeback? Content purges might result in resurgence of bodily media

While the bodily media enterprise has been in freefall during the last decade, THR is reporting that DVDs and Blu-rays may be making a comeback much like these skilled by CDs and Vinyl Records. According to the report, whereas Best Buy and Netflix have each exited the bodily media sphere, Amazon and different on-line giants aren’t planning on giving up on the expertise. Many see the resurgence of bodily media for music as an early precursor of higher instances forward for DVD/Blu-ray.

While unlikely to ever once more attain its 2012 peak of $1.1 billion in income (in 2022, the determine was a mere $146 million), many see bodily media as having a comeback as a extra area of interest media. It helps that with fixed content material purges, critical followers will need backup copies of their films as a result of who is aware of what might get pulled subsequent? There’s a slew of movies made for HBO Max and Disney Plus which are basically misplaced media now, in addition to the mega-budget streaming collection Willow. If these exhibits obtained bodily releases, they’d exist in some vogue, with the present unavailability driving followers to pirate websites.

One factor that the music enterprise has achieved to advertise Vinyl and CDs is releasing unique tracks that aren’t accessible to stream, making them collector’s objects. We obtained terrific extras like unique commentary tracks within the previous days of DVDs and Blu-rays. While followers have cooled on these a bit (and it’s also possible to get them digitally), one surefire option to get folks to purchase Blu-rays is to launch alternate cuts of the film which are ONLY accessible on disc. In the 2000s, unrated variations of raunchy comedies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Wedding Crashers offered like hotcakes. With so many watered-down films popping out, why not shoot some spicy footage and ONLY bundle them with the bodily copies quite than making them accessible on websites like iTunes? One factor to notice is that while you purchase a digital film copy, you by no means actually personal it. I’ve had a couple of movies vanish from my digital library through the years, which by no means occurs with my DVDs or Blu-rays (until I lend them to the incorrect particular person). Perhaps it’s time all of us begin shopping for Blu-rays once more, with smaller labels like The Criterion Collection, Arrow, and Shout Factory deserving our assist greater than ever.

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November 10, 2023 at 06:48PM