Creating my own copies will always be king. Physical media is outdated and vulnerable.
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Disney+ Password Sharing Crackdown to Start in June
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Creating my own copies will always be king. Physical media is outdated and vulnerable.
Is physical media outdated? Yeah.. perhaps to some.. I personally don't think they are. If I was given the option of either a Blu-Ray or on a storage device, I would most definitely take the Blu-Ray. I think physical media is certainly no less vulnerable than a failed storage device, corrupted data, dropped hard drives, power surges etc and we all know that SSD's have a do have a shortened lifespan the more that data is written to them, no matter how much we don't want them to fail.
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They are more vulnerable, by virtue of being easier to physically damage simply by handling it, as well as being difficult to make (physical) backups of. Plenty options for redundant storage digitally to ensure peace of mind (not to mention options to source them again at a push).
This without even mentioning that if consoles didn’t exist most people wouldn’t even own a means of playing physical media.
ETA: there is one good reason for physical media to exist though - without it, we would not have means of creating proper, lossless, remux copies. Due to the fact that most streaming services cripple even their “4k” streams. So I guess we do agree somewhat
it’s just that I don’t have space/patience for discs.
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Drop a Blu-Ray disc at, for example, body height and there is a better than average chance it will still play. Do the same with a hard drive and I am not so sure the odds would be the same.
And sure.. I agree there are digital backups for peace of mind.. but generally now you have more out of pocket expense. I think I would stick with a $29.99 Blu-Ray.
However, I think we can agree to disagree
Agreed with streaming crippling their 4K streams and discs taking up space. My TV cabinet/unit is rather full with over 700 DVD/Blu-Ray/4k. (touch wood they all still work - I am very particular with them though
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Drop a Blu-Ray disc at, for example, body height and there is a better than average chance it will still play. Do the same with a hard drive and I am not so sure the odds would be the same.
And sure.. I agree there are digital backups for peace of mind.. but generally now you have more out of pocket expense. I think I would stick with a $29.99 Blu-Ray.
However, I think we can agree to disagree
Why would I be dropping or carrying HDDs in the first place? That’s what I meant by being more likely to damage just by using normally. Not sure of your age, but I’ve been around to suffer many skipping CDs, unreadable DVDs, unplayable game discs etc. Digital is better. I agree that companies not letting you own a copy is BS.
I think we know or have friends who aren't well versed when it comes to technology and, possibly would have had that friend who passes on a HDD asking to watch a movie? And most people will do it like that just fine. This however, is how most people could potentially lose data just by (figuratively speaking) throwing around HDD's or dropping HDD's. By the sound of things, you come across well versed enough not to do that.. but you would be surprised at the amount that do.
I would be lying if I said I had never had disc that have skipped, I certainly have. But more times than not, they have worked for me. But then again, I am very particular as to how I handle my physical media
I am old enough to remember cass-singles, beta max, mini-discs, laser discs and even 8-track.. and oh boy do I love my vinyl records!
My wife and i, when we have time, we usually pick a film that is really worth big screen. Everything else I just rent and we watch it at home. I cancelled Netflix recently. Luckily for us movie industry is going downhill like there is no tomorrow so we don’t have a backlog. My favourite genre is science fiction and how many real science fiction movies were there in last decade…
No wonder they're trying to squeeze any possible cent from their userbase, given how all their recent movies are flopping...
Exactly. Password sharing is the least of Disney +’s problems at the moment.
I’ve saved money on our Disney+ subscription by cancelling it until there’s something worth watching.
Last I checked, it was the CEO of Netflix who made that claim, not Disney.
Welp, be prepared to lose a lot of people. When are these companies going to realize there are families outside your household
Not surprised. Netflix did it and the blow back was minimal and reality Netflix got more subscribers in total so zero loss to them.
Yes some people got mad but most that didn’t subscribe just lost access to it.
Yes some people got mad but most that didn’t subscribe just lost access to it.
Am I the only one who is gobsmacked that even if Disney+ had an average revenue of $5/month that they’ve been loosing money at half a billion dollars a month in revenue?
How much are they paying in royalties when they own all the content? How much are they actually spending on new content that’s streaming only?
I think it’s wild they’re not making huge profit at that economy of scale.
It doesn't work though. The device still has to have connected to the home's ip address within a month.
You can get your kids' computers and phones to work but not a smart tv.
You need a streaming device like a firestick and they have to bring that home and activate it on your home network once a month- roughly. It's usually a bit better than that.
It is ridiculous. I understand cutting down on password sharing but when the kids are away they aren't using the service at home so why am I still paying for 5 users in the house then?
? It never went away. It is still there.
I used to be able to keep up with high quality movie and tv releases. Now it is impossible. Much more good content available than I have time to watch.
Little hard to make the argument that it’s theft to share your password when streaming services both explicitly (like netflix’s “sharing is caring”) and implicitly (multiple streams and profiles without any location enforcement, which I assure you is not in any way new technology Disney+’s engineers were unable to use) encouraged sharing passwords while they were trying to expand.
Yes the terms of service technically prohibited it (some of it, the definition of “household” was often left very intentionally vague, hence the biggest group of folks getting annoyed at this are folks with kids in college), but the services were very well aware of how they were positioning their products for sharing.
There’s a real and quite valid argument to be made that the services are breaking a social expectation they created *and encouraged* to their users.
This isnt like cable where tapping into someone else’s subscription was always frowned upon and the providers attempted to stop from the beginning.
All true. I think it's funny when people act like these "crackdowns" are due to streaming companies fed up with all the STEALING and THEFT going on. It's literally them deciding that they will see an increase in subscriptions if they prohibit password sharing. Which seems to be the case, if Netflix is anything to go by. Sorry, it's not about morality, it's about money.
