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Sony Just Might Save Physical Media | If Sony Listens!
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2024
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With @sonypictures recent deal with @Disney , Sony is taking over their physical media distribution for the U.S and Canada. Which for us collectors this was great News. Now that Sony is in a bidding game with skydance to purchase @paramountpictures if Sony ends up winning this bid and takes over Paramount pictures, And if they listen They could have physical media back on top. While @stopthefomo has his own predictions. As a collector I have mine. Fomos video is here • Surprise Move, Sony TV...
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I would say for sony to give us options for slipcovers and steelbooks not just steelbooks on release day. Lets hope Sony can do this
I'm with you on that! In general Sony does a great Jobs on their restorations. I'm really hoping somehow the video finds them and they actually do start a boutique label.
The Sony remasters with Dolby Vision are top tier. Totally worth it, though I understand people who are hesitant to double dip.
I'm with you, I'll buy all their remasters with Dolby Vision, they're gorgeous.
Yes I'm really hoping this deal goes through
Sony's ownership of Blu-ray might explain why they haven't delved into streaming extensively, aside from their Braviacore platform, which is exclusive to their TVs.
That has nothing to do with it. Sony was just late to the game when it came to streaming and they were late to the game in terms of acquisitions.
First Disney bought LucasFilm and then they bought Fox. Sony lost MGM to Amazon, and then there was the Warner Discovery merger. They already bought Crunchyroll for streaming anime. If Sony buys paramount, I doubt they close Paramount+. They'll bring Crunchyroll into Paramount+ like Disney did with Hulu. They might even add PlayStation+ as well.
@@TopGunZero I suggest checking out Dan Murrell's segment at the 10:50 mark in his video "Who Will Win the Battle for Paramount Control?" Do you agree with his analysis? I'm unsure how Sony would differentiate the streaming service beyond improving the user interface.
@@user-bk4pm6me8i I disagree with his analysis, it's a pretty shallow one. Providing no new information or thought process.
Sony taking over Paramount isn't going to drastically change the creativity of hollywood. In fact, I think there is some serious concerns as to whether or not 5 studios can be profitable in this industry. No one champions consolidation, but sometimes it is necessary to keep an industry alive. Streaming really complicates things as well. I'm not sure if Sony keeps Sony Pictures being the low man on the totem pole and it is something that Universal is going to have to face as well.
People also pretend like we've always had 6 major studios. The entire studio system has gone through massive changes over the years. We used to have 5 big studios and 3 small studios. And studios used to own theater chains. These studios also have major competition from big tech that has not been kept in check. Amazon bought MGM for example. Without consolidating Big Tech will eek them out entirely.
I digress, let me answer your actually question. How would Sony differntiate itself? Content. Sony+Paramount make way more content than Netflix and have way more legacy content.
Sony also has other levers to pull that Netflix doesn't have. Anime (though Netflix is trying here), Music, and Gaming (although again Netflix is trying).
If Sony were able to buy Paramount, they would be able to put together the first true superservice. Amazon and Apple are both already trying this (Amazon obviously in the lead). But Sony putting together a successful superservice would allow them to drastically change their market position. Right now they're a 100 billion dollar company competing with companies at minimum twice their size. 200 billion for Disney, 250 billion for Netflix, a trillion plus for Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple.
Sony could buy Tidal and combine subscriptions of Tidal, Paramount+ (Sony/Paramount content), PlayStation+, and Crunchyroll. That's music, TV, Movies, Anime, and Video Gaming, under one subscription.
Sony has about 140+ million end users on PlayStation that they would be ideally placed to market this product to. They have 120 million+ registered users who currently have Crunchyroll. Paramount+ currently has 71 million subscribers.
Sony getting to scale, is probably the only thing that prevents a major media/electronics company from really getting further lost in the shuffle of big tech.
@@TopGunZero There are some serious concerns regarding whether major studios and movie theaters can be profitable in this industry, partly due to streaming services and COVID. Consolidation may be the final solution to keep the industry alive. The lack of confidence in home entertainment sales from the studios complicates things as well.
Yeah, before Disney acquired Fox, it didn't feel like Fox was a major player anymore.
You're right that Sony and Paramount produce more content than Netflix and have a wealth of legacy content and IP. It remains to be seen if Sony will hire the right people to create good movies like they did with Sam Raimi and Chris Miller & Phil Lord.
The concept of a superservice is intriguing. Could attract subscribers for the experience. It will be interesting to see what the pricing will be.
Where you have a point I think, is that in order for physical media to persist, we probably need a company to have a monopoly on physical media to the point where it's really profitable for them.
If Sony can put together distribution of Sony, Paramount, and Disney (Fox) movies on physical media, it will help leverage deals with the other studios: Universal and WB.
It might even make sense for them to distribute the movies from their own warehouses and do DTC and cut out retail.
Definitely agree with you
I want all 4 fright nights together in blu ray set
Slip covers are shit
Recycle cases are shit
Great video. I wasn't aware Sony bought Paramount. Actually surprised by that. They have some nice looking 4k's. Maverick for one. I am a very positive collector of Physical Media, but am beginning to realize perhaps the end is coming. Robert on the John Campea show a few weeks ago actually gave us a 5yr window before we start seeing the decline of Physical Media. I hopefully hope this isn't true. The fate is in our youth. I can tell you of my 3 kids, only 1 collects. She is my favorite 😆. Thanks for this informative video. ✌️
Sony hasn't bought Paramount yet. They have until sky dance loses the bid. That's why I was saying if Sony buys them then yes they could potentially save physical media. I for one am rooting for it and I too got my little one into collecting. He's happy cuz he gets to take over my collection if something happens to me.. 😂.
Thanks for watching
@movie_av_impulse Sorry, I misheard that. Yes, you did say Skydance. I love Sonys 4k restorations as well. I hope it works out
@@dwaynesager1864 I hope soo.. that's if they listen 🤷🏽♂️
One can only hope 🙏🏽
This video is missing the fundamental truth that ALL corporations globally are working together to slowly move the entire world to an always online, subscription only model for all media. That’s why so many companies are losing tons of money doing this work - money isn’t the goal right now. The money will come later once there are no other options.
I I have to somewhat disagree. While some companies yes are moving to try to save their hemorrhaging app. Cuz let's face it. Almost 90% of apps haven't even made their profits back yet. No matter what, there will always be a need for physical media. Now whether that totally shifts over to nothing but boutique labels or companies like Sony smarten up and keep producing Physical copies. That's on them. Now where I do agree with you that most companies are trying to shift to All digital no matter how good they try to get it there it's only so long that they can keep covering the overhead of their losses on apps. But physical media will never go away. The market will just become smaller and smaller and will be forced like we are with everything else to pay outrageous prices for something like a movie.
I say this as a 40-year-old myself: The problem is that while you physical collectors would support a future of limited physical releases sold at a extreme markup - these companies (particularly Sony as a format manufacturer first and foremost) know that you guys are a dwindling economic resource. Can you look this up, but: most marketers focus on the 18 - 34 Demographic. It has been this way for a long time now, and that is because THAT demo can physically work the longest hours, are the most concerned with their image, have the least impulse control, engage in the most wreck-less spending of the cash they make, often do not have kids or major responsibilities... and STILL have many more years to work and be loyal repeat consumers. 🤔
You'll notice that after 35, you get different commercials targeting you. You notice music, fashion, food, car commercials... basically all advertisement has younger people than you in it. You my friend are slipping out of that market that game companies, movie companies, fashion brands, and pretty much all pop-culture brands care about. There is no more a penny-pinching group than those middle-ages people, and they know that. You and I have far more priorities than Rayband glasses, iphones, electric cars, concerts, overprices apartments... etc. 📱😎☕
A lot of us are married, some have kids, most have aging-parents... and we are the ones stressed and worried about the world in a way the younger people can't comprehend (they protest, but they can't truly). And by the time your 40... you hopefully value money differently than you did in your 20s and early 30s too! Hopefully you know the difference between wants and needs, and have control on your impulses to buy things you want - a 40 year old should not be sub-coming to FOMO like these 20 somethings do! These companies are not designing games for us. These film makers are not making horror or action films for us. Today's clothes are not made for the middle-aged man. And sadly, neither are these companies like Sony and Disney worried about a bunch of guys ho want to keep their media on a shelf. People Talk, but Money Walks. 💸
So its a matter of demographics more than it is a matter of what is and is not popular right now. If Sony could make triple the money with a physical release than streaming, than they would push us all that way. But they are not, and most of us who still have physical media are either in their mid-30s *minimum.* And realistically, most the collectors I know are either my age or in their 50s and 60s. These companies shift markets, and those markets are like a Battleship (not a tugboat) - in that it takes them a lot of investment and time to make these decisions. Nothing they do is for this year, the next, or even the one after that! And no 'infinite growth' late-stage capitalism driven company makes decisions for the next 10 years.... they are looks farther ahead than that.
So these multi-media companies are asking how old will WE be in another decade or two - and they understand that we will be so a minuscule minority at that time versus the younger generations. At some point you will not be able to afford these overpriced physical products you want (in this purposed future). In another decade many of us will be either approaching (or past) retirement age, and living on fixed incomes, savings and (hopefully) a nest-egg at that point. These companies want the kind of revenue that can only come from young, active, working people who have lots of disposable income... not those who need to keep money for health care, mortgage, retirement, aging parents, etc. 😥
What you want now - and what you say you want - will not be who you are or what you think important in life by the time your in your 50s or 60s - I saw it with my own parents, and their friends. And even at the age I am now, I have totally different wants and needs than I had even when I turned 30. If your a big multi-national, multi-conglomerate, technology and multimedia company that has been around for coming up on 100 years.... you are not investing in manufacturing and distribution for a audience that will only be sustainable for maybe another 15 years. Especially as world resources become more scarce, and demand of silicon. aluminum, and other materials (which discs are made of) actually start to actually rise in value thanks to their use in other 'modern' applications these days. 💽
Transportation costs also factor into the lack of sustainability too. It's just a fact. What you purpose could never happen, because Sony doesn't care about making your money in the next 15 years... they would rather invest that into (predictably) far more profitable future generations of consumers. We are aging out, and our ways are too. Best to leave this stuff to smaller companies that want to provide that service and are not in it to appease the children of today's investors and shareholders. Sorry to be the barer of bad news brother - I like your channel. ❤
I have lived through those years you speak off. Raised 3 kids with my last leaving the nest for college this fall. I am approaching my fifties and am just starting to get back into physical media. Home entertainment is better then ever and quite often movie viewing at home is far superior then the theater experience. 4k physical media is far superior to streaming so I will enter my retiring years continuing to buy and support physical media as long as it is available
@@dwaynesager1864 Man, I'm glad to hear hear that! 😄👊 As long as we support it, there will be smaller companies that meet that need. But we need vocal people like yourself. And I agree that the media itself is amazing (Bluray particularly). The one good thing, is that it is getting easier for private people and companies to make these things - and that will be the saving grace.
My rain-check I give people under these videos (even a thoughtful and well thought one like this) is: now that these companies got a taste of the digital future, it's like dropping a turkey leg into the mouth of a hungry alligator.... they are not going to give you that back ever again. So it's is not productive or healthy to keep having this tired discussion about how to convince these companies to go back to the old ways, that we see every week here on RUclips. We would be better served adjusting to the new norm, and carving our own boutique industry (much bigger than what exists)... just as the retro videogame space successfully did almost a decade ago.
Gamers already figured this out. As long as there are folks like you who are willing to support, then there is a bright and vibrant future there for those who are willing to leave the old model, and the companies that are killing it. There is no reason that we can't reach the point where boutique companies are getting licenses to print in limited runs some of the IP they don't right now! But people are going to need to start showing more support to these boutique companies, and they are going to need to show up in numbers - instead of giving into collecting only old media.
Well I agree with some of the things you said, in reality the only reason certain companies want to buy digital is it's way less cost effective selling a digital copy. But as long as There's some kind of physical media to be bought I'm there... Thanks for watching. Me being 41 I've seen tons of things come and go! But one thing is always certain. History always repeats itself.
@movie_av_impulse well said. Who would have thought Lp's would make such a huge comeback.
Steel books are shit why would u want a case that can scratch
Also dvds should not be made
4k blu rays are waste and pointless when u think how hard it is to find sony 3d tv
We want franchises released on blu rays
That includes tv and shows and music videos etc with them no more half assed releases
Okay well somebody clearly woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Steelbooks Don't scratch that easily and there are steps to keep that from happening. I own many steelbook and none of them are scratched. Dvds are still made because they are cheap and cost effective. 4k releases are not pointless and I have no clue why you brought up 3D TVs. I myself am a 3D lover but unfortunately the technology is gone. The odds of companies bringing that back are slim to none. Sony , Paramount ECT. Put out great. 4K restorations
@@movie_av_impulse yes 1st step don't buy trash cases
@@RaymondWhitten-ef7ky Right!!! Well that's you I'll continue to collect and buy Steelbooks, slipcovers and movies I want to see get releases ✌🏽