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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 50450, member: 73"] I was quite literally [URL='https://retrogametalk.com/members/gorse.73/#profile-post-3983']planning[/URL] on buying a new Blu-Ray disc [I]next week. [/I]Games aside, there are a lot of movies and [B]especially[/B] TV shows that you just can't get on any streaming service – if distributors like Shout Factory or DiscoTek Media don't have the ability to press discs of them, they'll just be unavailable, which is really stupid in the information age. That disc that I wanted to buy, [I]Wait Till Your Father Gets Home[/I], isn't valuable to me just because it's a show I want to watch – the second and third seasons of that series [I]have never been released on home media.[/I] I can't even pirate them – the only version of that footage which currently exists is from grainy, decades-old Boomerang rips, and they've all been edited for syndication. Warner Bros is never going to release the show on Paramount+ or anything – it uses licensed music, so they'd have to pay royalties. Can you imagine how many other shows are in the same predicament? I know that people probably aren't buying as much physical media as they used to, and I'm happy to use streaming when the platforms are worth it. (They often are for music, and often aren't for TV/movies.) From Sony's perspective, I get it – pressing all those discs ain't cheap – but stopping production entirely is just an awful solution to the problem. What they should do, if they're really serious about this, is license the Blu-Ray manufacturing processes to third parties. That way, they completely offload the production to other businesses and still make plenty of money – it's a win-win! I guess they still want to protect that technology, but why bother if you're not going to use or make money with it? [/QUOTE]

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