[aosmith]

Physical media was dead on arrival. This was a product of poor infrastructure eg it's faster and cheaper to ship a DVD vs transferring several GB. This no longer holds true. While streaming and ownership are complicated there's no reason to go back to physical media unless you like vinyl.

[greedo]

The quality of a blu-ray disc is usually a magnitude better than the best streaming service. And a 4K blu-ray is years ahead of what streaming platforms even dream of.

[aosmith]

Sure but storing blu-rays is silly, just rip them to disk. Use a lossless codec if you're picky.

[zamadatix]

Agreed on turning them digital. If you care about quality just remux them though, all a lossless codec is going to get you is a 10x larger file with the exact same output.

[account42]

If only remuxing could get rid of the black bars that Blu-Rays include in the video stream because the spec only allows a small number of resolutions which surprisingly don't include any 21:10 ish aspect ratio common with movies.

Even just a convention for storing crop coordinates in metadata that players could automatically make use of would be godsent. Although a perfect solution would need to support varying this throughout the movie as some cunts (Nolan) like to use different aspect ratios for diffent shots.

[account42]

There is still a difference in the legal landscape that gives physical media a big advantage.