So reverse the trend. Stop licensing your catalog for streaming and sell physical media.
However, De Luca and Adby said the loss of the revenue stream that came from DVDs has pushed them to make better movies.
Personally I think it translates to taking fewer risks.
Agreed. There just isn’t the variety of films anymore and so much stuff (even the poorly written shows) has to have a “premium” streaming show/film budget. It’s all about franchises, reboots and sequels to decades-old-films.
What’s a guy gotta do to get a commentary track nowadays?
Invite the guy who read every interview about the movie
Honestly not a bad strat
Warner Bros, the same ones who made the DVDs that rotted on the shelf? That Warner Bros?
WB clearly cut corners and deserves critique, but it’s important to know that no digital storage is eternal - it will all go bad at some point. The only practical solution atm is to routinely transfer the data to fresh storage.
That’s true, and you’re completely right. It’s also 100% an argument against DRM, but also: https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-replacing-disc-rot-dvd
I mean, that’s still pretty awful :D
I also miss the days where I bought physical media. These days, it’s hard to find something new that interests me, is actually available for purchase, and/or isn’t a super limited collectors set with steelbook etc that needlessly inflates the price. Good thing I have decades of physical media to, um… sit on a shelf unwatched, mostly. >_>
I buy physical media frequently, but the quality of it in the video sector has really dropped. Musicians are over here constantly stepping up their game, but hollywood has so over-consolidated and accomplished so much regulatory capture of their remaining competition that they just serve slop.
Great example is a recent It DVD that I bought, which was so perfunctory and so poorly made, it’s hard to believe it even exists.
