I've said this like 4x already, but physical media is in such a weird spot today.
There's been an uptick in articles like these:
Why I still buy physical media -- and bought a $450 Blu-ray player in 2023The case for 4K Blu-ray in a world of streamingPhysical Media Still Matters in the Streaming Age and It's Time for Streamers To Embrace ItThe streaming apocalypse is nigh. Some are preparing their storm shelters now.Protecting physical media in an age of streamingDisney has finally been putting out blu-rays and 4ks of a lot of their streaming exclusives.
Warner Bros is putting out a complete series of Succession on blu-ray, despite only the first season getting a blu-ray in the first place.
This was neat. Apparently The Sopranos is getting remastered into 4kSomeone posted a bunch of pictures of pallets of film apparently from The Sopranos. They claim it will take quite a while before the process is done, although scanning the film was a very short process.
I'm interested to see where this all goes.
My hope is that this is the physical movie/TV space transitions into an enthusiast space. Big enough that companies still put out blu-rays. I think that's where things are heading.
Unless it's one last hurrah for physical media. But it certainly doesn't quite feel like that.
Warner Bros apparently has a Warner Archive Collection. I know it's not an interest of anyone else. But I think it's pretty cool that Warner Bros is putting out blu-rays of 30+ year old Scooby-Doo movies. They've already announced a fourth and fifth Scooby-Doo blu-ray release just this year; coming next month. And apparently a lot more to come.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Scooby-Doo-and-the-Ghoul-School-Blu-ray/185750/#OverviewIt's been a little nice with Best Buy getting out of physical media. Walmart has been able to gobble up a lot of their exclusives. The Walmart in my town for the first time ever actually has a selection of 4k movies and blu-rays.
I'm hoping that the Sony/Disney deal also impacts Fox.
I feel like Fox is in the worst space of physical media. At least for me personally.