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Are Companies Trying to Kill Blu Ray?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:16 pm
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Here is a good article about the various piracy encryptions that force you to constantly update your players. The problem is, many players are able to upgrade which causes the consumer to go out and buy a new player that will be obsolete soon enough. Whatever happened to buying a disc and being able to watch a movie?
With my current player, I can watch Blu Rays made before a certain year only. I want to buy a new player but have no idea which would last a long time.These companies want consumers to move to streaming but the problem is, you don't own the film in that case. The distributor does. If that company shuts down or sells the rights to the film, you are SOL.
Here is a good article about the various piracy encryptions that force you to constantly update your players. The problem is, many players are able to upgrade which causes the consumer to go out and buy a new player that will be obsolete soon enough. Whatever happened to buying a disc and being able to watch a movie?
With my current player, I can watch Blu Rays made before a certain year only. I want to buy a new player but have no idea which would last a long time.These companies want consumers to move to streaming but the problem is, you don't own the film in that case. The distributor does. If that company shuts down or sells the rights to the film, you are SOL.
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:20 pm to JabarkusRussell
You don't own a movie you bought on itunes?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:21 pm to JabarkusRussell
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc are already killing blu ray
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:23 pm to Brosef Stalin
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Utorrent is already killing blu ray
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:23 pm to JabarkusRussell
Blu Ray is already dead. Stack your Blu Ray player next to the VCR. Streaming Video and Ondemand services have made it an obsolete technology. Why take up all that space when you can stream the movie you want from Amazon or Netflix straight to your TV.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:24 pm to dagrippa
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You don't own a movie you bought on itunes?
I bought several tv shows and movies off Amazon. One day I went to watch it and it said the company that owned the show lost its rights and I no longer owned the property. Amazon did give me a gift card when I bitched but I doubt they will continue to do so.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:25 pm to JabarkusRussell
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These companies want consumers to move to streaming but the problem is, you don't own the film in that case. The distributor does. If that company shuts down or sells the rights to the film, you are SOL.
Disney has literally pulled films out of people's libraries before, but they also are working a different business model than everyone else where they rely on artificial scarcity. Once Blu Ray sales shift to Digital Sales, I think most companies wouldn't pull the content. That would completely kill future sales if nobody thought they could trust it.
As for the company shutting down and leaving you hanging, Google, Apple, Amazon and Walmart(vudu) probably aren't going anywhere.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:26 pm to Navtiger1
I have access to every movie I have ever purchased on my itunes account. This includes my phone, my ipads, my apple tv and all of my parents devices as well.
I got rid of all my blu ray and dvd movies more than a year ago.
I got rid of all my blu ray and dvd movies more than a year ago.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:29 pm to JabarkusRussell
buy a ps3
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:30 pm to TigerinATL
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As for the company shutting down and leaving you hanging, Google, Apple, Amazon and Walmart(vudu) probably aren't going anywhere.
Those aren't the companies I'm talking about. Say you own a film by Sony. They are not the most successful business right now. Imagine they have to liquidate their assets or sell their film catalog to a new company. Now Universal owns the digital copies and you don't.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:38 pm to dagrippa
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You don't own a movie you bought on itunes?
Interesting debate, do you really own it? In order to really own that media content Apple would have to exist for the rest of eternity. RCA no longer exists, neither does TWA, General Foods, Pan Am, or Woolworth's. Heck, General Motors almost went out of existence. Companies do go out of business.
All you really own is an account that has a username and password which entitles you to download a series of 1's and 0's. I had this discussion with a friend of mine who has a ton of media with Apple, probably $15,000 worth of movies and (especially) music. He wondered what would happen to him if he died? Does he pass on his username and password as an inheritence? How is it valued? Does his account live on without him? How does his account change ownership, or does it all just disappear with him?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:45 pm to dagrippa
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You don't own a movie you bought on itunes?
You own the license to view it through one of Apple's portals. Do you even EULA bro?
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This post was edited on 7/28/15 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:51 pm to colorchangintiger
To me there is just something about the ritual of going up to my media room, opening the case, putting in the player.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 1:55 pm to achenator
There's something about wirelessly transferring movie files to one of the terabyte drives connected to my bluray player.
It is literally ALL it is used for.
It is literally ALL it is used for.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:05 pm to JabarkusRussell
good thing my blu ray player is my ps3 and it updates automatically so I dont have to worry about this
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:07 pm to JabarkusRussell
Blu-Ray is already dead. The obituary will be published soon.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:11 pm to JabarkusRussell
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The problem is, many players are able to upgrade which causes the consumer to go out and buy a new player
Im guessing you meant "are not", why are they not able to upgrade the firmware?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 2:12 pm to achenator
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To me there is just something about the ritual of going up to my media room, opening the case, putting in the player.
To me there is still a ton of value in bluray, namely HD audio. Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master through a good receiver make a huge difference to my ears compared to the 5.1 formats that current streaming tech makes use of.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 3:05 pm to CAD703X
Haha..........ALL by VHS tapes still work..........they may require a little splicing with Scotch tape now and then, but they all still work. I don't have to download any of these "software updates" you crazy kids are always doing neither.
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