Think about it, when dvd came out just about all the movies industries, companies decided to drop making pies for vcr on VHS.
That medium died out and never really had the chance to evolve because of this. There was even an (or a few) HD VHS tapes that most wouldn’t believe were made on VHS.
Another more recent example of this problem is, now allot of media companies are chasing after ai. Are there any major companies that make movies/shows/cartoons/anime that are not in some compacity?
We need companies that take different paths, and, not do exactly as everyone else is doing. That’s what’s wrong with the movie and film industry today. They’re appear to me to be, afraid, and cowards, to think out of the box. There afraid, and scared to stand out, and be interesting. To wreck other companies. Scared, and afraid to compete. Cowardly. these companies seem to be.
edit: why are we still on blueray, why isn’t their a newer physical media format for movies? Some might say that physical media is dead, I would say that it seems like no one (company) wants to step out of line and make a newer format to replace blueray.
The idea i’m proposing isn’t to give up on physical media, but to make better physical media with modern technology. Blue ray using disk technology requires a laser disk. But imagine if they made like SD cards, or USB drives that were read only with just the movie on it. (sd cards would be better.) that’s the type of changes i’m looking for, something more modern. More practical for a typical modern day.
They could essentially get rid of the media player to reduce the ewaste (by not needing an extra device just to physically watch a movie) as you mention and make the physical media accessible on devices that support the format like laptops, computers certian smartphones. (Which I didn’t want them to not have their own device as it gives more power to tech giants, but that would aim to address your ewaste concerns.)
Blueray and DVD players are both quite ewaste intensive and do less things for the user then say a PC or smartphone that would do better for the user.
If you think about it, blueray was made when playing ps3 or ps4 quality games on a portable device was a dream to many. It;s a very outdated physical technology. and very desperately needs a physical upgrade. Physical hardware could easily be better but it’s not in the industries interest to innovate in physical media because they all want to essentially be cable tv over again with streaming.