Taking the Physical (Media) Part 1

In this episode Russ Burlingame and Zach Roberts chat about the drawbacks of streaming media, the fact that directors are getting angry about how their films look on streaming apps, award-winning director of The Godfather not being able to find a home for his new film and so much more.

 

Part two of this episode will be dropping this week, so listen up kids!

 

Just some of the stories we’re chatting about, some of these we’ll get to in part 2:

Killers flower moon no physical media release date

https://www.joblo.com/is-killers-of-the-flower-moon-not-coming-to-blu-ray-after-all/

Rewinder Cars!

https://thenewswheel.com/videocassette-vehicles-remember-vhs-tape-rewinder-cars/

Roku adding ads through HDMI

https://www.lowpass.cc/p/roku-hdmi-ad-insertion-patent

Did You See (and Hear) That? Why Home Viewing Can Be Dark and Inaudible

https://filmmakermagazine.com/125430-home-viewing-problems-audio-video-streaming/

Filmmaker of Immaculate disappointed in color and lighting of different streaming outlets.

https://x.com/michaelmohan/status/1795305441674875374?s=46&t=oCX7LFzPAI6SZTIz1OcNpw

Coppola can’t find distributor

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/megalopolis-francis-ford-coppola-challenges-distribution-1235867556/

Can’t do this with digital media.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/wamjkjchtq11edw6/?mibextid=xCPwDs

Seinfeld thinks movies aren’t culturally relevant anymore

https://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/jerry-seinfeld-says-the-movie-business-is-over-plugs-his-new-movie.php

Young listeners are pressing play on cassette tapes

https://thehustle.co/news/young-listeners-are-pressing-play-on-cassette-tapes

The Criterion Collection is sold to new owner, along with Janus Films

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/criterion-janus-films-sell-indian-paintbrush-steven-rales-1236011122/