Streaming and on-demand is the future.
Corrected it for you.
I like having a hard copy. I stream most entertainment but a solid copy is good too.
You don't OWN anything, you RENT it from us, WE CONTROL ALL OF THE CONTENT: "pay per view" and if you don't pay up, we shut you out. Or as in the case of Ultraviolet: "we close up shop, and all of those movies in your personal library that you thought were yours magically 'disappear'".
I, along with thousands of other people across the country fought against DIVX, until both it and Circuit City were DEAD. Now, another generation has sprung up that doesn't remember that fight, or what the studios and a bunch of hack lawyers tried to foist on the public.
Sadly, they are lapping up streaming, never own anything, but rent it model with a spoon, even though the audio and video content stinks in comparison to 4K UHD, and even 1080p HD Blue-Ray just because it's "convenient".
Thanks but NO THANKS. I'm sticking with PHYSICAL MEDIA that I OWN. And if I want a digital copy of what I own, I will rip it to my personal hard drive and stream it from there.
And the future is here! They finally have more good stuff than I can keep up with.
Yep. The cable companies are going to have to start bumping up their 1TB/month data ceilings.
“Streaming and on-demand is the future”
These units stream as well, and some can decode SACD and DVD-audio, they have there place. And as others have said if you have a high end TV compressed streaming of HD is good but not great like on disc. Having said that a majority of people are uneducated about audio/video capability and will believe that streaming Netflix is as good as it gets. Ultimately the uneducated consumer will win out and more manufactures will shut down there disc lines like Oppo Brand did in 2018. They were the gold standard of the disc player manufacturers.