Disney to no longer release films on Blu-ray & DVD in Australia.
 

The end of era for Disney home entertainment in Australia is coming to end. It has been confirmed that the company will no longer be releasing films on physical media (Blu-ray, DVD) in Australia. The final movie to receive a physical release in this country will be Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Movie collectors will surely be saddened to hear this.

https://whatsondisneyplus.com/disney...-in-australia/

This is likely going to happen to most countries in the next few years. Physical media will probably be phased out entirely by 2030.

Simpsons
 

It happened to the Simpsons too. But following fan protests, the Simpsons returned to DVD.

**** that ****.

It's going to be over, probably only the most high-profile stuff will get disc releases eventually.

Honestly, I'm over physical media.

It’s over for so long already it’s digital now.

Honestly, the day it goes digital is the day I'll either hang it up or lose interest.

I'd rather own copies of what I want to watch when I want to watch it, and not decide to some day sit down and binge watch My Hero to find out that Hulu stopped streaming it.

Exactly. I like having Physical copies because there is no ADS to deal with.I also enjoy collecting it too. Hulu has way to many ads thankfully I use an ad blocker. But it doesn't work on anime makes the subtitles out of sync so I gotta turn it off.

I just can't wrap my head around that there are still people who can't wrap their head around the fact that all-digital means "all-licensed" and that your paid-product can literally be taken away from you in the future.

I'm not against digital media by any means at all, but the simple fact is that if you own the disc then it's yours for consumption without caveat.

Just watch everything for free on the illegal streaming websites like I do. That way you don't have to worry whether a certain streaming service has a show or movie up that you want to watch, and plus everything is uploaded in one place rather than multiple places like netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, etc.

Once I realized I didn't have to pay to watch anything anymore and I could watch everything on the same site on 1.5x speed, I never looked back. Been doing this since around 2013...10 years now.

In the future, a lot of books, movies, television series, comics and video games we once loved might end up censored, just to please political correctness.

Please save as much as you can by not giving away everything in your collection.

Yeah I've realized recently, I'm just gonna watch most stuff digitally (a friend got me more into watching stuff illegally)

I'm planning on giving away old DVDs, the only physical media I'll look into is blu-ray, otherwise, DVDs are mostly old news, I'll just keep the ones that have "bonus features" like directors commentary, they're like time capsules to me

Another example of "you will own nothing, and be happy".

Exactly. It makes me shake my head at the idiots actually wanting this to happen.

I actually like owning the things that I buy. And short of death or a robbery, it will always be mine.

I'm willing to buy digital stuff but only if I can download it DRM-free and keep it on my hard drive forever and watch it whenever I want without the need of a client and an internet connection.

Exactly that's how I feel.

Has anyone ever lost anything they ever bought digitally out of their control? As far as I know even if stores remove movies/shows from their digital store front, if you bought it, you still have it forever in your account.

I suppose the only way you'd lose stuff is if you account gets deleted/purged for whatever reason, but how likely is that?

There is simply a population of the world who will forever be the people who go to the "they wouldn't do that" statements. These are the same people who cause trouble by, ironically pretending to avoid trouble by making statements such as "I think they just....", or "we only want to see that.....", etc. These are the same people who say things like "Well I have nothing to hide, so cameras don't bother me". It's a strange, problematic psychology.

To anyone but the lowliest of sheep it should be obvious - digital means you are renting a license, not owning a product.

Forget your password. Get locked out of it. Or maybe the company just gets shut down.

Like when I bought SF5 Champion Edition, it was literally SF5 with a paper with a code for me to download the upgrade. Lose that paper, and now I'm stuck with just classic SF5 and I would have to spend additional money to re-buy the extra characters and stages.

Another example was a while back when XBox has some issue with the classic XBox 360 login account. For a while I temporarily ALL my purchased games, some I could never purchase again because they're de-listed. Luckily they fixed it after a week but what if they didn't because they chose to only support XBox Series X issues and not the 360?