How high are you?
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OP: I'm good, how are you?
Now I'm too high
If this were a complaint about not having physical media, whatever.
But VHS is dead for a reason.
Absolutely, VHS is a dead format for some pretty obvious reasons by this day and age.
However the bigger picture I was focusing on was that the industry makes similar actions together and not collectively. While the companies typically work independently, they copy and don't create as much they don't tend to do anything impressive like they did even just 8-10 years ago. Nothing is unique except what they happen to own as ip. And a lot of their content is rehash and not much is new from scratch.
Which is why I included the second example which is more modern. Talking about ai companies all chasing ai. But why is it that they all seem to be interested in it, and you have what seems that none of the well known media companies thinking, no we don't feel we need this and not using it?
Nothing replaces Blu-Ray because it's more than good enough. A single disc can store up to 100GB.
Until videos are too large to fit on a Blu-ray.
Yes.
While Blueray can do Hd, and maybe even 4k pretty well. Higher video qualities like 8k or 16k might require better hardware. also the fact that blueray still uses disc tech and their not using some kind of mini drive or sd card like drive for movies is also an issue. It shows they hadn't innovated the formats since basically when blueray came out, (besides some adjustments to the technology as it went on. Also DVDs are slower at loading, why are we still using them instead of something more modern and more energy efficient for the environment?
Sure you do have streaming and cable, but when you think of the film industry, you typically think theatres, DVDs collections. blueray, and really just hasn't been anything exciting different, or interesting from the industry. everythings just feels the same across the board. What happened to the film industry, and innovation?
Higher video qualities like 8k or 16k might require better hardware
There's no money in it, it won't happen. Not in consumer space anyway.
Please don’t give them the idea to give up on blurays or physical media.
Full HD is already perfectly fine for most people, so I can’t even imagine how great a bluray in 4k is.
I’m still watching DVD’s and, as long as the movie is great, it’s perfectly enjoyable.
Most people are watching Netflix which is apparently not giving you real full HD or 4k and people are not bothered.
Innovation is great, but having a new format would create the need to have new equipment and create even more e-waste when we can’t manage it already.
The idea i'm proposing isn't to give up on physical media, but to make better physical media with modern technology. Blue ray using disk technology requires a laser disk. But imagine if they made like SD cards, or USB drives that were read only with just the movie on it. (sd cards would be better.) that's the type of changes i'm looking for, something more modern. More practical for a typical modern day.
They could essentially get rid of the media player to reduce the ewaste (by not needing an extra device just to physically watch a movie) as you mention and make the physical media accessible on devices that support the format like laptops, computers certian smartphones. (Which I didn't want them to not have their own device as it gives more power to tech giants, but that would aim to address your ewaste concerns.)
Blueray and DVD players are both quite ewaste intensive and do less things for the user then say a PC or smartphone that would do better for the user.
If you think about it, blueray was made when playing ps3 or ps4 quality games on a portable device was a dream to many. It;s a very outdated physical technology. and very desperately needs a physical upgrade. Physical hardware could easily be better but it's not in the industries interest to innovate in physical media because they all want to essentially be cable tv over again with streaming.