Looking for some of your favorite nineties classics on Blu-ray or streaming? For some massive titles you’re surprisingly out of luck. Months ago, we here at JoBlo started writing about an issue near and dear to the hearts of film fanatics everywhere – the resurgence of physical media. After being shocked by how difficult it … Read more
Some prominent movies are still very hard to find on either disc or streaming. Here are some notable examples of why you should hang on to your physical media. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article listing ten movies that – despite being well known – were difficult to find (legally) on any streaming … Read more
One of the reasons physical media still matters is that movies can vanish. One notable example is Ron Howard’s 1985 classic, Cocoon. Something inevitable has started to happen. Hardcore movie fans have stopped buying Blu-rays (although they’re in the midst of a slight comeback). Maybe it was the pandemic, when we were all stuck at … Read more
While many retailers are dropping physical media, some say DVD’s and Blu-Ray’s may be making a comeback similar to vinyl and cds. While the physical media business has been in freefall over the last decade, THR is reporting that DVDs and Blu-rays might be making a comeback similar to those experienced by CDs and Vinyl … Read more
The era of Netflix sending people DVDs in the mail is now officially over. The company announced it was finally ending its original business, sending people little red envelopes with movies inside, earlier this year. This wasn’t the first time Netflix made this decision; in the fall of 2011 they announced a plan to spin off their … Read more
The DVD — short for digital video disc — was only brought to market in 1996, and didn’t become widely prevalent until the early 2000s. So the DVD medium has barely existed for a quarter century. Many people still use their DVD players. Even though the format has long since been eclipsed by Blu-ray and streaming, you can … Read more