I have decided to get either a Panasonic TH-46PZ85E or LG 50PS8000 also. I don't know how long I'll be in Germany so I bought a cheaper blu-ray player home theater in a box ( HTP-BD36SF (HTPBD36SF) : Home Cinema & Hi-Fi : Sony). I am originally from the United States but have recently moved to Germany. I searched the forums but am still confused.
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This time, the business of technology will be robbing us of our cultural history and the simple pleasure of watching older movies and TV shows.It's my first post for please forgive my naivete. Soon, my ability to watch them will be crippled. Thanks to tape and optical media, I've been able to do that. I want to be able to watch these movies when I want to watch them, not when and if they show up on a streaming service. But I do love movies from the pre-code movies days of the early 30s to today. But, as the screenwriter John August has pointed out with every decade you dive into the past, there are fewer and fewer movies available. Sure, if you're looking for movies from the last 10 years, chances are you'll find it.
Oh, make that four, with Disney launching its own streaming channel, with exclusive rights to Disney, Star Wars, and Marvel Cinematic Universe films, you'll probably want to subscribe to it as well. This means that to make sure you can stream the most popular recent movies, you need subscriptions to all three services. Even with all those titles there's little crossover between them and what's actually available changes at the beginning of every month. Amazon has the most with 12,764, followed by Netflix with 3,861, and Hulu with 1,646. I have many movies and TV shows that are unlikely to ever be available on a stream.īesides, as ReelGood, a company, which tracks streaming services, recently observed Netflix and the like don't actually have that many movies in their libraries. While this makes perfect business sense, as someone who's been collecting video since the VHS days, this move leaves me cold. The market's increase in streaming and (Samsung's) imminent integration of both AirPlay and iTunes into its TV streaming platform directly mitigates the need for a player." "Samsung's exit is likely a combination of all (these) clining sales with little outlook for ASP (average selling price) increases, leading to lower margins. Stephen Baker, NPD's VP of industry analysis, speculated to CNET that Samsung was exiting the Blu-ray business because of low hardware margins and how people are moving to streaming for their video entertainment. Samsung is just beating the rush to the door. We also bought and rented another $4.55 billion worth of online movies and TV shows. Of that, subscription streaming - led by Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Hulu - took the lion's share, with a 30 percent year-over-year rise to $12.9 billion. According to the Digital Entertainment Group 2018 home entertainment report, we spent more than ever on video last year, $23.3 billion, up 11.5 percent from 2017. Ted Sarandos, Netflix's longtime head of content told Variety, even though Netflix still has three-million DVD subscribers, " We never spent one minute trying to save the DVD business." With its demise, Blu-ray follows Laserdisc, BetaMax, and VHS VCRs into the second-hand stores. On Amazon, Samsung had four of Amazon's 10 best-selling Blu-ray players including the most popular model. Samsung had 37 percent of the market, followed by Sony at 31 percent and LG at 13 percent, according to market research firm NPD Group. It's not often that an industry's leading OEM quits, but that's what Samsung has done. Recently, Samsung told CNET that, " Samsung will no longer introduce new Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray player models in the US market."Īlso: Data archiving for survivalists: Ready for that solar flare?
Then, streaming came along and everything changed. They were set to dominate the video world. Within a few years, Samsung and other Blu-ray OEMs had defeated their rival HD DVD manufacturers. Over 10 years ago, Samsung released the first commercial Blu-ray video disc player. Samsung has powered-up its Smart TV experience with a 'One Remote' control and an upgraded voice recognition feature that will allow consumers to use smart features more smartly, says its development team. Samsung opts for smarter smart TV experience