Disney will manage its streaming side, Sony will do the physical side. Except for this one weird little line in the article:
"According to Disney, the licensing model allows the studio to continue to offer films and TV shows through physical retailers...".
So sometimes Disney will still sell physical media? That doesn't make sense. If they're not continuing to churn out physical product, their cost per unit to do limited runs is going to by sky-high. Even media manufacturers who relabel product for them are going to charge them more for doing off-runs since they're not doing on-going runs for them. This is really weird.
Also mentioned is the continue softening of home media sales, which distresses me. I don't want to be forced into "buying" digital-only releases as we've seen how trustworthy these idiots are with making sure that you "own" these things for your lifetime. Give me a physical copy, or a way to download a file that I can make a copy from! Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt!
The one thing that the article doesn't mention is Disney's vaults, so I imagine that those are going to continue to be clamped shut and things will go on disappearing, to reemerge every 10-15 years or slower to try to gin up consumer demand for infrequent releases.
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