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I wouldn't be surprised to see that happening as technology continues to improve, as encoding becomes more efficient, and as bandwidth becomes more readily available. But at this point, the vast majority of their target audience seems to be satisfied with the quality being provided, which may...

Bitrate comparisons between physical media and streaming also isn't apple-to-apples comparison. Physical media has specs that are locked in place once the format debuts that cannot be changed or altered. There are more efficient ways to compress data than the codec that is used on Blu-ray, for...

I’m not sure that it would. The profit margins on a lot of these releases are razor thin - the difference between customers paying full price vs customers buying at a discount is probably the difference between a release that breaks even or makes a tiny profit to one that loses money. I think...

Every time that a studio or small label announces a new title and people go “Yes! I want that! But I’ll wait for a sale” is basically another nail in the coffin. It’s not fair, but I think that’s the reality of it. I think we’ve been seeing more sales this year than in years prior because things...

I think that's it, in a nutshell. I also think that the vast majority of movie watchers have little desire to be movie collectors, and we're seeing that reflected in both sales numbers for physical media, and the relative speed at which streaming had been adopted by the larger industry and...

To Brent’s excellent points, I think the US market for physical media will dry up before the international one does. I’ve been saying this for ages, but anyone who’s passionate about collecting movies on physical media in 2018 needs to seriously consider going region free. The disparity between...

But realistically speaking, how is that any different from DVDs and BDs having chapter stops that allow you to go back and forward as you please? I find fast forwarding and rewinding on a stream to be somewhat obnoxious to use. If Netflix is testing out a feature that’ll make those functions...

I have room in my heart for both. Streaming has been perfect for me for shows and movies I only want to see once; it’s a lot better than having to go to a store to pick up a physical object and then having to bring that object back to the store a day later. It’s better than Netflix-by-mail...

A couple random thoughts: 1) I dislike the way this article (and many before it) lump in all kinds of streaming as if they're all equal, and intended to fulfill the same role, when that just isn't the case. Just as there's a difference with physical media between buying a disc and renting a...

The article is interesting, but it seems more anecdotal than data driven.