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Re:Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies by SamuelAdams on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:59AM (#33178916)
Actually a recent trend is to not release DVD’s / blue rays because it keeps people on streaming services. I would love to buy a blu-ray of Hamilton the musical but Disney hasn’t made that available yet, despite being able to stream it on Disney+ since 2020.
Re:Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies by tim-- on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:07PM (#33179041)
Disney has never had a history of really being any good at physical media releases, but at this point it's starting to become a bit of a joke.

Even their 'higher end' 4k UHD media releases are missing features that Disney+ has, like Dolby Vision. https://www.flatpanelshd.com/focus.php?subaction=showfull&id...

Re:Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies by radicaldreamer on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:07PM (#33179037)
Even when they do release physical media, they often don’t have the best version of a show available. For example, Disney 4k UHD physical discs offer HDR10 but Dolby Vision is limited to Disney+ for the same films as are the IMAX enhanced cuts (expanded aspect ratios).

A small exception to this is the newly announced Criterion edition of Wall-E, which includes Dolby Vision.