75Live Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 I am sure physical media is going away slowly but surely. I still buy blu rays whenever I actually get a movie. Actually while I claim all the codes for the digital version that comes with them, I haven't watched one digital version ever 😛 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 (edited) 6 hours ago, 75Live said: I am sure physical media is going away slowly but surely. You could be right, in PC gaming physical is almost gone. But I am not so sure for some reasons. A big one is vinyl/cd still being somewhat popular, music physical sales are still 70% the size of digital (including streaming, physical sales are still bigger than digital sales, i imagine streaming did kill digital sales business quite a bit). I think there is a reasonable chance it will survive has a niche collectible product for the Criterion and the fan-franchise output. Or a change could occur in physical hard drive technology that make it really interesting to still physically own your media, say a little quantic cube that could hold 20,000 movies, making it easy to bring your collection anywhere and share it with family/friends without license/Internet access issue and can have high quality 8k, 128 bits by pixels UUHD, lossless 8.2 sound, etc.... 15 terabyte by movie files. Edited August 31, 2018 by Barnack 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasticBeasts Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Is this even a question anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasticBeasts Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 I don't know If it's a regional thing, but If I got a blu-ray as a gift to a friend of mine they would laugh. Why waste your money when you can stream legally or not so easily? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Many of us have children so having a physical library of Pixar/Disney movies you can have them pick through is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilmac Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 On 8/31/2018 at 3:05 PM, Barnack said: You could be right, in PC gaming physical is almost gone. But I am not so sure for some reasons. A big one is vinyl/cd still being somewhat popular, music physical sales are still 70% the size of digital (including streaming, physical sales are still bigger than digital sales, i imagine streaming did kill digital sales business quite a bit). I think there is a reasonable chance it will survive has a niche collectible product for the Criterion and the fan-franchise output. Or a change could occur in physical hard drive technology that make it really interesting to still physically own your media, say a little quantic cube that could hold 20,000 movies, making it easy to bring your collection anywhere and share it with family/friends without license/Internet access issue and can have high quality 8k, 128 bits by pixels UUHD, lossless 8.2 sound, etc.... 15 terabyte by movie files. I still purchase physical game copies for the same reason I occasionally get Blu-Rays. Storage space. The PS4 or hard drive has limited storage space so I need to get the disc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 38 minutes ago, lilmac said: I still purchase physical game copies for the same reason I occasionally get Blu-Rays. Storage space. The PS4 or hard drive has limited storage space so I need to get the disc. A 4 TB external drive for your PS is what $130 ? That about 200 dual side Blu-Rays, slow storage space got quite cheap over the year's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
