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It's why I can't stand the 'information wants to be free' argument. Where the hell do you think that intellectual labor required comes from, the aether?
I still prefer to own movies I like and I have many of them. (no, not SO many as YOU have, my adversary). I think that having them will allow me one day to stop paying constantly more and more expensive subscriptions. By the way, for me, the DVD standard was very strange. I think that the engineering industry works differently than IT/CS guys. They think of "a product" which consists of the medium AND the "protocol"…
They would be different incompatible discs. That is: a different standard.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could stick the codec on the DVD itself? They are relatively small programs.
Well yes, on other hand there is also hardware acceleration case which make lot of sense when you are manufacturing devices at scale. And with codec. What code it is in? For what architecture or operating system? What is system constraints it has to operate in? Do you have some specification? Do you need to due something beyond it for new codec. And from security viewpoint running some arbitrary code from disk sounds…
Memories of dumping, patching, and reflashing my DVD drive firmware to make it region free thanks to resources such as Doom9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom9
I like watching movies, and thus, I have watched a lot. When I try to find a movie to watch on HBO/Netflix (I'm from Scandinavia - not the same selection as in the US), I have a hard time finding something to watch. A lot of newer movies doesn't cater to my taste.
On the other hand, I can find a lot of classics from the 80s/90s/00s and even 10s in thriftstores for as little as 1-3$. I then get to keep the movies, that I often end up rewatching, and I get the added features mentioned in the article.
I'm not to nostalgic about the cases, which I often just dump (I have considered keeping the fact-sheets though, just not the plastic casing).
I'll soon cancel my remaining subscriptions, and only purchase them a month at a time when something I truly want to watch arrives...
What I don't like about DVDs (I have a lot of them) is it's always a crapshoot if they play, or if they play for a while and halfway through the movie it sputters and hangs. The disk is pristine. Sometimes taking it out and putting it back in will get it to work, trying it in a different player will work, arggh. With streaming, you click on it, and it plays.
You have a bad DVD player and good internet. Lots of people have the opposite: crummy internet where there's no guarantee that they'll get through a streamed movie without buffering issues. On the article itself: indeed sometimes I enjoyed the directors commentaries as much as the films or shows themselves. In particular Requiem for a Dream, where the director's commentary adds a lot of context.
*Cinephiles took the DVD boom era for granted The reason it ended is because the general public doesn't care.
Because the general public "doesnt care" we are in a world you can own nothing, control nothing, repair nothing, keep nothing a secret, do nothing without going through gatekeepers. In short, idiocracy.
one thing with dvd era - it allowed small scale / budget movies to made. movies that were not blockbusters but allowed art exploration.