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<p>[QUOTE="gaijinkaiju, post: 14064, member: 54"]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://7news.com.au/business/retail/disney-to-stop-releasing-dvds-and-blu-ray-discs-in-major-change-for-australian-customers--c-11414857.amp[/URL]</p><p></p><p>And so and end to an era begins.</p><p>This doesn't come as any surprise to me at all, I completely understand why they'd do it from a financial perspective. Why let people pay once and watch a movie as many times as they want when you can hold the movie to a monthly ransom and milk them repeatedly.</p><p>Atleast until they remove it for no-reason at all, which happens all the time. Some times it comes back later, most times it doesn't.</p><p></p><p>I've seen this happening in brick and mortar stores too. The warehouse (our equivalent to Wallmart would be the best comparison) stopped <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/125014094/the-warehouse-phases-out-bluray-and-dvds-from-stores-as-customer-demand-plummets">selling all dvds, blu-rays and CDs back in 2021</a>, though ironically you can still buy blu-ray/dvd players. That was a real shame, because you could get them dirt cheap there.</p><p></p><p>Oh well, looks i'm going to have to just import them from the good ol' USA and pay an arm-and-a-leg in shipping costs, great.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="gaijinkaiju, post: 14064, member: 54"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://7news.com.au/business/retail/disney-to-stop-releasing-dvds-and-blu-ray-discs-in-major-change-for-australian-customers--c-11414857.amp[/URL] And so and end to an era begins. This doesn't come as any surprise to me at all, I completely understand why they'd do it from a financial perspective. Why let people pay once and watch a movie as many times as they want when you can hold the movie to a monthly ransom and milk them repeatedly. Atleast until they remove it for no-reason at all, which happens all the time. Some times it comes back later, most times it doesn't. I've seen this happening in brick and mortar stores too. The warehouse (our equivalent to Wallmart would be the best comparison) stopped [URL='https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/125014094/the-warehouse-phases-out-bluray-and-dvds-from-stores-as-customer-demand-plummets']selling all dvds, blu-rays and CDs back in 2021[/URL], though ironically you can still buy blu-ray/dvd players. That was a real shame, because you could get them dirt cheap there. Oh well, looks i'm going to have to just import them from the good ol' USA and pay an arm-and-a-leg in shipping costs, great. [/QUOTE]
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