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That’s what they had already been doing in Australia for the last few years - any Disney release down under recently was a licensed product that a local boutique label had licensed from the company. That they’re shutting that down suggests to me that even that as a business model was no longer...

This is the point I keep making that too many here are simply unwilling to acknowledge. Disney isn’t eliminating discs in Australia to try to push people towards streaming. Disney is eliminating discs in Australia because people have already chosen streaming and there isn’t enough of a demand...

I keep thinking about one thing whenever this news comes up: the legal filings that Universal and Warner made when they combined their home video divisions into a joint venture they called SDS. In that filing, they justified the venture by stating physical media sales were falling so quick that...

Would recommend reading the Bits post, which was within the past few days. Their license was with Disney Consumer Products, not Disney Home Entertainment, so basically they’re allowed to make collectibles, not discs or disc-based content. But allegedly Disney was blindsighted by this particular...

Disney has a package of films, mostly from subsidiaries that no longer operate, that for whatever reason they wish to keep in print. Mill Creek previously licensed that package for several years. When their license expired, Disney then licensed that same package to Kino. When Kino’s license...

I think we also basically had a widespread experiment with average, everyday non-enthusiast consumers purchasing movies on disc back when buying on DVD was new and more convenient than renting for a lot of people, and I think the result that experiment yielded is that most people didn’t really...

If Bill Hunt’s report at Digital Bits is accurate, a company in on small international territory that has rights to make steelbook cases for titles in their region did this on their own, and Disney apparently wasn’t even aware it existed until it was done.

They had been licensing in Australia - Random Space Media has been handling physical media for Disney, Sony and Universal down under. I would guess that they looked at the numbers and determined that the revenue generated wasn’t worth the effort it took to coordinate the effort. Obviously not...