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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by boohoo123 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:31AM (#42949892)
My guess would be offloading storage space while adding monetization revenue.
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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by tombert on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:41AM (#42950071)
Is storage space for this significant?

I doubt they're deleting the master copies or the master renders or anything, so the only thing that would be offloaded would be the "consumer" renders. A Blu-ray movie with no additional compression added is between 15-40 gigs.

A consumer like me has a 300 terabyte storage array, presumably Warner Bros has even more than that (and certainly could afford more than that), so it feels like 40 gigs per movie is basically nothing.

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by pwg on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:58AM (#42950365)
The 'offload' might be "building an entire streaming infrastructure".

This way, they get to ride Youtube's streaming system rather than have to build one out.

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Re:Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies on Yo... by vel0city on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:13AM (#42950620)
They already have built one out, it is called Max.
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