It's Official: The DVD Business Died in 2024

FYI: Warner Bros DVDs made from 2006-2008 have irrecoverable laserdisc rot and the company isn't reprinting most of them.

https://www.joblo.com/hundreds-maybe-thousands-of-your-warne...

It's pretty sad. I'm in the process of moving, and while I did so, I shucked much of my DVD collection - Everything is in three ring binders now, because they're so much more convenient, and much smaller in my storage.

While I was doing so, a bunch got ripped and transcoded into Jellyfin. It's pretty great, having them available all the time. Piracy is obviously an option, but it's not a great one.

What? I really want out of my DVDs, though, is the assurance that I've got the same DVD as other people do. Advent of AI, there's no reason that I couldn't be being fed a different version of every show I watch than everyone else. I know. They could be rendering stuff in real time. It's not that far off. The nice thing about a hard copy is that it can't be changed on you.

There's other ways of doing this of course, but having talked to library scientists of late, they are not nearly the right kind of paranoid for what I'm afraid of.

DVDs whilst not a great medium for archival storage, are essential for archival purposes, so many films, TV shows, or just removed scenes or alternate cuts of each are on DVD only. Anyone who buys dvds now, should be ripping them. It would be a terrible shame for those movies and show as to not be looked after and kept alive.

As long as I can get hold of them, I will keep using it.

Who knows, it might get a comeback like Vynil, where record stores nowadays feel like I am back in the 1980's.