Is this going to be released on DVD? Personally I'd rather pay for that than pay $10/month to watch one series on YouTube Premium (YouTube Red??).
It's available on physical media...unofficially. Not sure about the legality of the DVDs floating around since they're probably YouTube rips.
I would wait awhile. I'm sure once the series has concluded, it'll be bundled with The Karate Kid trilogy or sold individually depending on demand.
This will definitely be on DVD eventually, but I wouldn't expect it any year soon. The whole point of the series is to help sell the subscription service.
shareSeems like everyone wants their own service these days: Netflix, YouTube, Disney, DC, CBS, Amazon, Hulu, et al. Only one problem. I can't afford all of them. Wonder if someone would ever get the idea to package all of them together into a single service and offer it for like 20-25/month?
shareI'm assuming Disney will be taking all their content off Netflix once that launches. The upside to them owning everything is that service should be really worth the dough.
shareYou kind of called that one. Disney informed Netflix that they would not be receiving anymore Marvel properties. Disney shunted Cloak & Dagger over to their Freeform station. Netflix retaliated by cancelling all the existing shows. Interesting thing is that apparently the contract states the characters cannot be used anywhere else until two years after the cancellation date. You think Marvel would have learned from their mistake with FF & Spiderman and all the trouble they had to go through to get them back?
shareI think Netflix is gonna get boxed out and as forgotten as MySpace. Disney is launching their mega service, and AT&T/Time Warner are ramping up their mega service, and whoever else. Netflix is soon to be small potatoes and all the original content in the world they generate isn't gonna compete with the catalogs and licenses the big boys possess. It's gonna take 20 years to happen but I don't think the kids will be uttering "netflix and chill" in the future. Eventually, one of the new premiere super streamers will buy them out, probably Disney, and that'll be the end of that. They'll be kept around a while in name only, and then used as an expansion/combo package, and then dropped all together.
shareI think you're probably right.
shareNow BBC is getting in on the action as well.
shareI was eager to pick the film up on Blu-Ray once it was released, but this is from the official Twitter and it does not sound good:
https://twitter.com/cobrakaiseries/status/996821898704007168?lang=en
i was hoping for a legit home video release with lots of good extras, but it sounds like I'm probably going to have to just put my own homebrewed disc together.
It's a shame, really. I wonder what their thinking is. Maybe they feel like if they make it exclusively available on YouTube Red with no hope for a home video release then that will drive more people to subscribe.
I hate to say it but it's just the way things are going. It's a lot harder to find certain music CDs brand-new now because the music industry would rather have you subscribe to Pandora or Amazon music or Spotify so you can pay 5 to $10 a month just to listen to your old CDs on any device. And unfortunately, more and more laptops are coming without optical drives now.
Nintendo is doing the same thing now. Instead of being able to buy digital copies of old games you'll have to subscribe and pay $10 a month just to play them through their service.
And Marvel and DC comics are starting to get into that game as well.
You can still buy episodes of shows on iTunes or Amazon, old comics on comixology, even some old video games on steam or the PlayStation store or whatever, but this subscription stuff is going to be the new thing, and we're stuck with it.
While the demise of CDs really is a shame, to my knowledge every new album is still offered to own as an MP3 download. For movies, however, if you "buy" a digital copy of a film, you don't actually get a downloadable copy. Rather, you are only purchasing the rights to stream that film (and as we have seen, sometimes the right to stream that film does not even last forever).
While I believe that physical movie media will continue to diminish, my hope is that it will continue to live on for the enthusiast crowd, much in the way that vinyl has continued to live on for the enthusiast crowd. My thinking here is that it will become something akin to LaserDisc -- the films will be relatively expensive and the selection will be fairly limited, but if you want the best image and sound quality with the greatest wealth of special features, then this will be the way to go.
Yeah you can still buy whole albums digitally. But it's setup so you would want to subscribe perpetually if you want to keep getting new music for less. Unless you're only buying one or two albums a month at severely discounted price, it's not worth it in comparison to the subscription.
And yeah, there is something to be said about physical media living on. I like having books on a shelf and DVDs on display. You get none of that with digital. And it really ticks me off how Amazon (well, probably the publisher) has changed the cover to several Kindle books I own. I often find myself looking for an old paperback instead of messing with the Kindle edition anymore.
Yeah, the thing is, you can't actually "buy" a digital movie. That is, when you purchase a film digitally they don't allow you to download a copy in, say, the MP4 format. You are only purchasing the right to stream the film, and that right doesn't even necessarily last forever.
Not only that but you usually either get no special features or you get fewer special features than you would get on the Blu-Ray. For someone like myself, the special features are the main reason to purchase a film so that is just total bullshit.
BTW like yourself I also prefer physical books. I actually have never bought an e-book.
Long live physical media!
You used to be able to buy digital movies on iTunes. I've bought them and downloaded them to my laptop before. Did they stop that practice? It's been close to ten years since I did this.
shareCould you download them as a separate file, which you could then back-up and copy, or could you download them in the same way that you can download a Netflix film today -- that is, you can download it but can only watch it via the Netflix app?
shareYeah, it was a file. I believe it was an MP4 with some form of copy protection. I remember sitting in a coffee shop for a while, downloading a 2 GB file or something like that. And you had to watch them within iTunes, but you didn't have to be online. I remember this because I didn't keep an internet connection at home then.
shareThey were M4V files and you could only use them in iTunes or on Apple devices.
shareYou lost me at "had to play it through iTunes." That's about like having to play Netflix downloads through Netflix.
It would be like having a DVD that will only play in Panasonic DVD players.
I've already encountered a reason this is REALLY BAD idea. I bought a DVD of a movie with a digital "copy". The services went under. I have been informed that my "copy" will no longer be available. Glad I got the DVD.
shareYeah, I heard about that. UltraViolet got shutdown.
This also isn't the first time I've heard about people losing access to things they bought digitally. I remember reading a story just a short while ago about some films a guy bought in iTunes and then lost access to.
The whole thing is total bullshit and consumers should respond by simply not buying films this way. We should all be INSISTING on the continuation of physical formats and continuing to support these formats with our dollars.
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