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I have a huge collection of 3 discs 😳

THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
THE RECRUIT
RONIN

BATMAN: ASSAULT ON ARKHAM
BLAZING SADDLES
A CHRISTMAS STORY
THE DARK KNIGHT
FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)
GALAXY OF TERROR
THE GODFATHER
THE GODFATHER PART II
JUSTICE LEAGUE: DOOM
SUICIDE SQUAD: HELL TO PAY
THE THING
THOR: RAGNAROK
and I used to have SILENCE OF THE LAMBS on Blu-Ray until my idiot brother scratched the hell out of it

Too many to list here. Latest purchases are MYSTERIOUS CASTLE IN THE CARPATHIANS and BUBBLE BATH, both from Deaf Crocodile.

the reason I bought a blu ray player was to get the Arrow release of THE MUTILATOR, which was blu ray only (iirc)... since then I've bought loads, but I am not remotely fussed whether I watch a film on dvd or blu ray, or whatever other format.

Zero!  :bluesad:

Don't throw anything at me through your screen/across the internet............  :bluesad: ............is blu-ray still a thing? Are new blu-rays still getting printed/released? I haven't bought a new one in....... several years now, nor have I even thought to buy one. I assumed there were new releases still being distributed until around the time O.G. Netflix/DVD.com shut down... but otherwise I sincerely am clueless. So much media seems to be going digital-only. If blu-ray is still "current", is it going strong? Is it slowing down?

Not to suggest I support digital-only....... I just have a couple dozen unwatched blu-rays and literally thousands of unwatched DVDs and VHS tapes laying around, so purchasing more is unlikely to be in my future...

Ah, I forgot - I bought blu-rays of QUEEN MARGOT and THE MOST IMPORTANT THING: LOVE last year. But those were, like... old releases of old movies. I have no idea what goes on with blu-rays!

Check out the reviews that followed one where a customer complained that a new release was on Blu-ray only (no DVD).

https://www.amazon.com/Lars-Triers-Kingdom-Trilogy-Blu-Ray/product-reviews/B0CNY7V5QV/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews (https://www.amazon.com/Lars-Triers-Kingdom-Trilogy-Blu-Ray/product-reviews/B0CNY7V5QV/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews)

LOL! That's hilarious... yeah, that was me writing that review, I think... maybe 10 or so years ago when blu-rays started replacing DVDs and I only had an expensive all-region import DVD player I was extremely high in sodium about all the new blu-ray releases. Don't mind me and guys like me - we're perpetually checked out from consensus reality.

I own far too many to list here

WAAAAYYYY too many between Kino, Arrow, Shout/Scream, Criterion and other labels. Don't trust streaming. I would even go as far to say I despise streaming and I thinking it has ruined film/television in many ways. 

I really would have a hard time listing all my blu rays. Although I don't buy them anywhere near as frequently as I used to I still pick up the odd new release.

definitely still stuff being released on blu ray.  for example THANKSGIVING came out on blu ray and dvd... the blu ray had extra bonus features than the dvd

also older films are still being restored and put out on blu ray which is what guys like Arrow, Indicator, 88films etc are doing...  weirdly there's a trend for releasing films as 2 disc sets with the blu ray version AND dvd version in the same box.

I am with you here, I've never streamed a film.

I won't defend streaming and streaming services. Realistically, however, there's content on those services that is unavailable (and may never be available) on physical media... so if you wanted to see Mike Flanagan's outstanding HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE and MIDNIGHT MASS, for instance, you'd have no choice but to stream it, or........ pirate it!  :cheers:       Unsure about the deal w/ FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (also outstanding) but I believe Flanagan finally jumped ship from his Netflix contract because they wouldn't allow those earlier ones to be released on blu-ray? Of course this is another good argument against streaming....... if Netflix is struck w/ a sudden fit of pique one day (as they occasionally are) an exec could just push a button and erase Flanagan's best films from existence.

To summarize, I'll still watch stuff on streaming if it's convenient or momentarily necessary. But - no guilt, here, speaking with complete righteousness - anything I can't stream, I DL from file-sharing services if I want to watch it and it's not something I already own or could purchase. (Obv I bought those two blu-rays last year 'cause I love those films and thought I'd want to revisit them again someday.) Why be at the mercy of the whims of streaming execs? Become your own streaming service!  :smile:

Even streaming exclusive films you can obtain Blu-Ray copies. Have no issue with it either.

The way most people think about movies is not "I desperately want to see 'Fight for Blood' tonight." It's more "Let's watch a movie, check what's on Netfilx and pick one." Therefore, as long as there's a reasonably wide range of stuff to pick from, they will stick with streaming and never consider buying.

Blu-rays and other types of physical media are for collectors now, a much smaller market but still a lucrative one for specialists.