Christopher Nolan Says Streaming-Only Content Is a ‘Danger’ and Can ‘Get Taken Down,’ Guillermo del Toro Calls Owning Physical Media a ‘Responsibility’
by KillerCroc1234567
Christopher Nolan Says Streaming-Only Content Is a ‘Danger’ and Can ‘Get Taken Down,’ Guillermo del Toro Calls Owning Physical Media a ‘Responsibility’
by KillerCroc1234567
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> “If you own a great 4K HD, Blu-ray, DVD etc etc of a film or films you love…you are the custodian of those films for generations to come.”
I don’t have a player for any of those formats, Guillermo. In fact I recently gave away the DVDs that I did own because I have no way whatsoever to watch them. So I guess you’ll have to go to someone else for your slice of the DVD sales, er… I mean, to be your custodian.
I never go anywhere without my portable DVD player.
Don’t DVDs and CDs at most last 20 years? Does he know just how much lost media has been retrieved and archived thanks to the internet.
As for his little anti-streaming only thing? Come back and talk to me once you stop making deals with Netflix. You literally put your name in the title of Cabinet of Curiosities and it is Netflix only.
No thanks. I’ll take the comfort and convenience of streaming at home.
I see his point but what happens if they stop producing the devices that play physical media? I imagine you could buy a DVD player somewhere but I never see them in stores. Even video game consoles and laptops don’t have DVD players anymore. VHS/VCRs are long gone. I do keep some DVDs of movies I love, and when my internet was down for a few days recently I definitely watched some of them. I guess there’s no perfect strategy.
I like movies. I own dvds and blurays. But whenever a director or someone similarly connected with the entertainment industry tells me it’s “my responsibility”, to put more money in their pockets, I have to take all that with a great big ole grain of salt.
I get where they’re coming from, but there’s a middle ground, no? I pay for streaming, but I like to own a copy of DVDs and CDs for pieces of work I really love and want to experience that way.
But at least audiences can still give work a chance they wouldn’t have otherwise because of the streaming model. At least 50% of stuff I’ve seen recently is never stuff I would have experienced if I didn’t have a streaming subscription.
Neither format is perfect but neither is like the absolute worst thing ever. DT is making it sound like owning a copy is a very sacred thing but not everyone thinks or cares to consume media that way.
Like if I owned a photo of my favourite painting in my phone library but didn’t pay to go to the gallery where the original is held that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the art, it’s just that I might not find the latter super cost effective or practical for how I live.
There is truth there that there should always be an option for content to be able to be purchased outside of a subscription as you never do have the ability to “own” the product with most streaming providers. They can be removed like we’ve seen with Westworld.
I’ve always preferred physical media over digital, whether it’s movies, shows, or video games
My collection of old dvd’s and VHS movies highly agrees
*jerk off motion*
They do have a point, I’ll admit that. But this is why there is a “sector” of the internet where folks screen record content. Folks do not know how long said content will be available at a later date on that streaming service. Reminds me of how we use to record shows on vhs back in the day.
As much as I want to be like LOL OLD PEOPLE AND THEIR IRRATIONAL FEARS, I have lost many albums due to Apple Music converting my entire library and being like “Teehee nope, we don’t have this so now you no longer do either.” I’ve also lost movies they no longer have the rights too. I take full responsibility for that, but meh.
Good example is all of the now banned episodes of Always Sunny. Some of the funniest media in history is likely to all but completely disappear.
Let’s compromise and all get bigger hard drives.
These two just read their contracts and discovered that they get a higher percentage on disc sales.
Would be wild to lose my Spotify collection I’ve spent a decade building
People still buy “physical media?”
Just do some lobbying to force streaming companies to provide downloadable copy for subscribers.
If they rebalance audio for home on physical copies great. However, i see no point to buy another gadget just to play physical copies of movies.
This just seems like a very back in my day mindset.
Well maybe they should just make better movies that do better at the theaters (hello barbie) Fuck Nolan especially because he delays post theater (like stream/blueray) releases. I didn’t even watch Pinocchio cuz it looks so bad.
It’s almost like they have a financial interest in this
Ladies & gentlemen, PLEX.
They are not wrong in a decade how much of the digital content we consume will still exist. The tapes that once had the early doctor who were copied over back when conservation wasn’t a consideration. Many of them found today are from viewers whom had made copies.
Ensure the evil streaming services don’t pull their movies to license elsewhere is the least of my worries in my tiny, over-priced apartment paid with my pittance of corporate allowance
Buying 8-tracks is my responsibi…. Cassettes. Buying cass…. CDs. CDs are definitely my responsibility.
What about the happy medium?
Digital content that you keep on a drive thats offline…
*cough*🏴☠️*cough*
It’s never been a problem for us scurvy’s 🤣