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Tag Archives: DVD
Modern Movie Consumption 2
When I first began writing this essay it was intended as a personal dig into the home entertainment industry that, through technological progress, has now rendered my own humble DVD collection worthless and made consumers either re-purchase or abandon their home movie collection. As it turns out, that’s not quite the case. Consumers are overwhelmed with options. It’s not a battle between streaming vs. physical. We’ve almost reached a point where it’s possible to casually view a movie via streaming services, pay for it on video-on-demand, borrow it from a library, hunt down copies on physical media (new or used), and, for die hard fans and collectors, pre-order and invest in elaborate box set or steelbook editions by boutique labels. Everyone’s catered for. Continue reading
Posted in Media, Movies
Tagged 4K, BD, betrayal, blu-ray, censorship, collecting, collections, commerce, consumerism, digitization, disposability, DVD, greed, home entertainment, media player, movies, Netflix, optical media, packaging, physical media, spirits in the material world, streaming, throwaway society, UHD
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On death, disruption and discs
Every startup’s moonshot dream is to be the one that disrupts the status quo. The latest disruption snuck in via Netflix and my wife. This got me thinking about my own movie collection and general viewing habits again. Continue reading
Posted in Media, Movies
Tagged 4K, blu-ray, collecting, damage, destruction, DVD, innovation, longevity, mortality, murder-death-kill, Netflix, streaming
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More media madness, obviously!
Earlier this month I finished my wife’s artist portfolio website. Obviously it includes a store. Obviously you check out the competition while setting up shop, and obviously it doesn’t take long to discover the stranger side of Etsy. Continue reading
The first experience with reBuy
reBuy is a German web-based service that allows you to sell your unwanted media and electronic gadgetry — which spares me the hassle of selling and posting near-worthless stuff as individual items and having to deal with end customers. This could be an interesting little experiment. Even if the items were in good condition, I can suffer their loss if the deal goes sour. Let’s do this. Continue reading