People are streaming so physical discs are not needed any more...............
“physical discs are not needed any more”
They might be useful once the streaming rewrites history and the hard core brainwashing begins.
The world may become like the Stalinist Soviet Union. People may become “unpersons” and politically incorrect ideas may be erased.
Again they are forcing the quality and ownership for convenience trade off. Streaming cannot come close to matching the picture and sound quality of the disc mostly due to the compression. A 4K DVD gives far superior picture and sound and you own it.
Did Han shoot first ?
Cause did on my original Japanese import laserdisc
That’s nice. And then they can cancel any films at any time by removing them from streaming servers. And it’s also fun that to see any given film I might need to hit Paramount, Apple, Disney Plus, Amazon, etc etc.
Discs are where it’s at.
Streaming has gotten much better, and is certainly convenient, but it still can’t touch the video and audio quality of physical discs. If you have a good to excellent home theater system, the audio in particular is vastly superior on disc. As with the video, the higher quality is because discs can provide much higher bitrates.
I’m afraid, though, that middling quality will be seen as “good enough” by the masses, and home theater will suffer the same fate as high quality two-channel audio for music when MP3 crowded out far superior formats.