>>82732608>>82732530It did, and for the major studios it's still 3 months - that's something the theatrical chains rely on, and it's why they only show movies for around 3 months at most, so it's not really up to the studios unless they want to not get distribution in future.
However there are a number of people, especially at smaller studios, who are looking at quite radically different models of release, like having it come out streaming the same day as it releases in theaters, that kind of thing. The idea is that the old model isn't really working for anybody, but it may be that it's just not working as well as they'd like even though it's the best it could possibly be. In a couple of years we'll know.
The actual push toward that 3-month release isn't really to do with people pirating, it's to do with maximizing profits - in previous decades you had so much media and it cost so much to buy or rent (just the equipment you needed to view it cost a lot) that people were relatively frugal about spending on it, and you only released the best stuff. As time and technology progressed the barrier to entry has been lowered and so people will spend more - piracy is a factor in that, but not a great one; it's more to do with making your back catalog work for you rather than just sit on a shelf because there's no home versions of it.
>>82732647Physical media is dead. Even this 4k shit is dead on arrival. Digital is the future and you know what? Y'all brought it on yourselves, fucking lending your copies of shit to other people like COMMUNISTS. Disgusting behavior. Now you can have convenience and the distributors can control what you can watch and when without the tedious and expensive lawsuits that came from installing spyware on your computers (Sony) or trying to prevent you from owning writable media (literally everybody for the past five decades).
If there's a future, it's a Weyland-Yutani Future®
