And i’m not even talking about music, I’m bored of that conversation
I read some random post that was fed to me by facebook about Electric Dreams an old series I never got to see. At the time (about 2015-2018) I remember wondering if it would ever get to Netflix, the only streaming service we pay for, being huge fans of Philip K Dick an all…
https://awsmone.com/electric-dreams-season-2-will-it-happen/
So according to this post, despite this show being mooted by Sony Pictures as being high quality and presumably very expensive, it wasn’t received well. Apparently series that are a collection of short stories are not easy to sell. (Black Mirror did ok, er right?)
So, after it’s initial run, on Amazon Prime, it stopped. Now I guess it’s still there, I don’t have it, so i suppose i could get Amazon, but I’m not going to. And Sony are still struggling to sell it elsewhere snd there’s no second series planned.
And again, the long awaited “Pistol”… only on Disney Plus. Well, for this one I broke my pact with myself and bought one month of that streaming service. It was fantastic! So fantastic that I want it on my shelf! Yes in a box, taking up space, yes made of cardboard and plastic.
I can’t even play DVDs anymore, after my player broke, I used a PlayStation, now the controller doesn’t work, my DVD shelf is a bit redundant, but should I fix this? Get a new controller or dvd player second hand?
The market for hardware formats in music has shifted a bit, although the majority of millennials and younger are sticking to rental via Spitify etc, the market for vinyl has come back a bit as Cranes last week excitement proved (see previous post), and I think us boomers know why. The obsession to follow and support one particular artist is all but gone by the younger generations but when they too find themselves hooked by a single group, they too will experience the joy of owning something about them, something tangible they can put in a shelf.
So, to my point.
Why not with film? Is that all but gone forever now? After DVD, we had Blue Ray?? was that anything really more than expensive DVD, so, where’s the new format? What about that cool marble like thing invented by David Bowie in ‘The man that fell to earth’ can we have that?
Or what about releasing TV shows, films and band promos on USB sticks, huh? Isn’t that a good idea?
Let’s do it!
I’m on it everyone, gonna release a USB, what do you want on it?