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Why the heck aren't all the "old" series/movies available to buy anywhere? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I understand if they stopped printing new blu rays / DVDs, but it’s outrageous and disappointing I can’t just buy the digital edition.

Is there an actual reason companies do this? Do they hate money or what?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, can you give an example or two?

There's probably not a single answer for everything. Depending on what you consider "old" there's a chance no one saved a copy.

It might be that contracts were better back then so the studio wouldn't make much releasing it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Chuck, for example. It’s available in the US afaik but where I live, it’s available only in streaming on prime video. The blu rays aren’t available at all either

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

So it's a region locking thing.

That sucks for everyone. I remember back in the day when vpns got new regions, and there was so much more available.

But physical media needs to be physically produced. It's available in DVD and I think it came before Blu-ray even so you're kind of asking a lot here