Disney has announced it will stop releasing DVDs and Blu-ray discs in Australia.::undefined
Maybe they can stop releasing shit movies here as well, while they are at it?
Let’s not overdo this. Besides they’ve already got The little Mermaid’s Bambi Big Adventure in the tubes.
This is problematic. Australia and New Zealand are in Region 4, I suspect this is killing all of region 4 (Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean). This means they cannot watch at the highest quality, none of the streaming services are as good as a local blu-ray or local Plex/Jellyfin/Emby. Also problematic for preservation, especially given services removing content so it is no longer available at all.
If I could buy unencumbered digital files for my local server, I wouldn’t have that much problem with discontinuing physical releases. Instead best case I can get it a digital “copy” that is tied to a specific service (movies anywhere, google play, apple, etc.). Which content has also been removed from, even though you bought it. I’ve been buying DRM free music for around a decade and things have been fine. I would have to think really hard of the last time I bought a CD, as I’ve been buying flac encoded audio exclusively for a few years now (bandcamp.com, us.7digital.com, prostudiomasters.com, hdtracks.com). I’d really like to do the same for movies and series, including extras.
Are you saying there will be an influx of pirates in the Caribbean?
A new dvd/blueray drive for a PC needs to have it’s region set the first time it encounters a region locked disk. I believe most can be reset a maximum of 5 times before it locks.
Build yourself a “Media Player PC” and set the region to US.Or sail the high seas like they seem to want you force you to.
Not everyone is going to understand they need another drive. It just stinks.
It likely will encourage more people to sail the high seas.
Could you get equipment to play media from other regions? When I was importing stuff from Japan to the US, I had to get a regionless player.
I wonder what the impact on piracy will be? It’s probably harder to rip streaming services than it is to rip blu-rays…
Its trivially more difficult to do webrips. It will likely have the opposite effect of what you’re thinking of, some people that would buy blurays will just pirate now.
If someone buys a disc, they own it and it’s a one off. To be tied to subscription services will see the Jolly Roger fly again in Australia.
Remember when we were the country known to be the largest pirates?
We don’t even crack the top ten now. We used to be cool.
Let’s get the old crew back together!
I never stopped sailing my friend.
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Can’t have rescuers down under.
And then their price will skyrocket on eBay
Bob Iger sucks
