The blu ray comes out in less than two weeks but it’s listed as unavailable. I remember the last time this happened (I think it was with the Winter Solider) it was because of some kind of pissing contest between Amazon and Disney. Anyone know if something is up?
I was wondering that myself. It is, however, currently available to stream/own from some services including Amazon. I imagine that the availability will change next week.
Buy it on Vudu instead.
The answer “buy it on streaming” doesn’t work for those of us who still prefer physical disks.
I don’t see why.
Let me fill that out by saying I have about 400 discs and am always suspicious of (not really all that) new tech for its own sake. However, I’ve not only started buying new stuff in digital form but am looking at converting my “lifetime” movies to digital form as well (it’s cheap). I think it’s reached the point where the advantages of a digital collection outweigh a physical-disc one, unless you’re bound to a viewing preference that doesn’t always have an internet connection available.
It really is a change that’s here.
You’re probably right, but some of us are old-fashioned enough to want something we can hold in our hands…
Besides, where do you store all that data? Sure, Terabyte external disks are here, and comfortably low-priced, but… (A quick estimate is that 1Tb can hold over 200 DVDs, so that’s pretty sizeable. But the next question is backup: get two Tb drives and sync? Subscribe to an external backup service? What’s the logistics of all this?)
(Amazon is very nice about allowing you to refresh a purchase. If I accidentally delete a book from my Kindle, they let me download it again. I would guess they do the same with digital content, but, of course, not with physical disks. So there’s another advantage…as long as Amazon stays in business.)
I never said ‘buy it on streaming’. Movies are generally released 2 weeks earlier on streaming services. Of course they are also generally available for pre-order months in advance.
I’ll probably just head up to a Best Buy on the 28th and get it.
Because UHD blurays are 100 GB each.
On Vudu’s servers. You don’t keep it locally.
But to each his own. Blu-Rays still sell. 
If you’re at that intersection of watching UHD movies on a current net connection, discs would be far more sensible, yes.
But the high-density, multi-layer BRDs are likely to prove even more fragile than the 25GB ones, which are already showing failure rates higher than DVDs, which are also aging out for many people. I have discs fail much more often than they used to - and not all of them are 10 years old.
A physical collection IS a digital collection. DVD and BluRay discs are every bit as digital as a download or stream. Unless you somehow find a place still producing VHS or Laserdisc, you can’t buy anything BUT digital.
And I’ll never pay money for a single movie download/stream. If I’m not buying a disc, I’ll wait for it to be on Netflix or Amazon, or on Starz. Hell, I’d sooner find a torrent than “buy” a movie that can be taken away from me in the future when companies change hands, change business models, or even just have a whim. Don’t say it can’t happen, it happened with quite a number of music services.
Bingo. Don’t always have an internet connection.
Also, my spouse likes 3D movies, which we have the capability of playing on our system, but I’ve yet to see that option in streaming.
And finally, it really pisses me off when the streaming option costs twice what the physical disk does.
This is interesting to me. I have DVDs that I purchased in 1999 that still work perfectly. In fact, of the thousands of DVDs and BRs I own, I’ve never experienced a failure like you describe.
Honestly my purchases of physical media have decreased substantially but I have all the Marvel movies and plan to keep buying them as long as they sell them. Except Doctor Strange from Amazon, for mysterious reasons. Apparently.
It’s both a quality of production issue and the random effects of time. Optical discs have been known from the outset to have lifespan issues.
What about it? AFAIK, all UltraViolet does is let you download a digital version if you’ve purchased a disk. It’s a nice feature, but it cannot replace disks by its very nature.
And I assume they still use DRM, which means that, if they decide to ever stop offering this, you’ll probably lose access–the same problem the poster you were talking to was complaining about.
They don’t support paying for something in particular unless they know for sure they will never lose access to it. I feel similarly, though my solution is generally to break the DRM and make backups.
No. UltraViolet is a consortium of most of the major studios and video providers, created (in part) to “hold the pink slips” on digital video purchases. You don’t need to worry about Vudu going out of business, or Amazon Video, or even the lost child FandangoNOW or whatever its name is this week. You are buying through those providers, but ownership is registered with UV, and barring all the major studios pulling out or going bankrupt, I’d say that’s as safe as any system we can create. (After all… your disks will burn nicely.)
Most people encounter UV because it’s a perk to get a UV code with your disc purchase, so that you can register as a digital owner as well. (There’s also not a damn thing that prevents you from giving the code away, to kids or parents or friends. Anyone who scoffs at the whole idea is welcome to email me any unwanted UV codes.)
You can convert your disc holdings to digital by taking them to a service center - most Walmarts, I forget who else - and having them validate the disc and enter an ownership code. It’s around $2 a disc, but the prize is that you can upgrade DVDs to HD digital holdings for another buck or so.
If discs make you more comfortable, fine, I won’t argue the point… but digital ownership of movies is well and truly here and likely to completely displace physical media in single-digit years. Probably no more than 5.
You are really lucky then. I have had lots of DVD’s fail. Some of them were just kids movies but others were music and data disks that I cared about. You can sometimes fix them by washing them with dishwashing liquid or polishing them with toothpaste but it isn’t guaranteed to work. It is hit or miss though. I have 6 CD’s loaded in my car that have worked flawlessly for up to 20 years.
I don’t buy that many movies but when I do, they are all streaming these days (mainly from Amazon). I have a really fast internet connection at home so that isn’t an issue. I can also watch anything in my collection no matter where I am even if it is just on my iPhone. If anyone thinks someone is going to buy or shut down Amazon in the future, I am sure there are millions of people that would love to hear about it in advance. It is one of the biggest companies in the world and not going anywhere. Speculating about Amazon going out of business is like thinking Wal-Mart could just close all of its stores suddenly in the 80’s or 90’s.
Because some of us prefer Chicken to beef? Or Rock & Roll to Rap? Or Green over Yellow?
It is a personal preference.
Even if the OP (for whatever reason) doesn’t consider streaming acceptable, the fact that it’s available from Amazon streaming is evidence against there being a “pissing contest” that’s preventing the physical-disk availability.