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Miitan
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How about because they're obviously not meeting the needs of the people who want to give them money? |
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StudioToledo
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Of course this rings true for the interests I've had in collecting actual film prints such as the ones that use to be screened in cinemas until recently. You can not get that same feeling digitally or centuries down the line so that sentimentality will always be there.
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agila61
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What RyanSaotome has quite concisely displayed here is the argument that lays the foundation for the pitch from the antipiracy industry to the content creators. The more people in the market believe that the the free availability of bootlegs implies that legit downloads are worthless, the stronger the appeal of this or that action which is supposedly going to interfere with the free availability of bootlegs. By contrast, the more people are willing to acquire anime content by means that support the creation of the works they enjoy, the harder it will be for the antipiracy industry to tap anime content creators as a source of income. |
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PurpleWarrior13
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What a great "episode"!
 (I don't know what else to call these)
The earliest form of home video, dating back to the 1920s as "Show-at-home" reels of silent films are worth quite a bit today, but at the same time, they were rare, and were VERY expensive, so not many people had them. Some are more valuable than others. This is the only way to see the original cut of the 1925 Lon Chaney classic, "Phantom of the Opera", but I'm getting off-topic!  Today's DVDs, and yesteryear's VHS tapes are so plentiful, I can't see them, as a format, ever being valuable, with a few exceptions.
I honestly think don't think "physical media" will ever die. I believe we'll always have digital, and I believe that DVDs as we know it will eventually disappear with time, and something new will come along, but I picture both "streaming" and "physical media" going hand-in-hand. Streaming is a great thing to replace renting, in that it works if you only want to watch something once. We'll always have some sort of media available for people who want to own a movie or TV show, and watch it whenever they want. How common will it be? Time will tell. As for Blu-rays... since Blu-rays really aren't that revolutionary, and involve a lot of HD remastering, I doubt everything will be available on the format. VHS to DVD was an amazing difference, but Blu-rays are really just high-end DVDs. A few people even think books will eventually become obsolete. I doubt this even more highly since they have stood the test of time. We've been using them for CENTURIES. And nice one about the Laserdisc! (Though I've never even touched one, so I have no opinion on the format)
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HitokiriShadow
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"column" See definition number 5. |
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