Disney Sony and Disney ink deal for Sony to handle Disney's physical media production - The Digital Bits

[Nadam]

A huge win for physical media lovers (IMO).

 

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There are some significant developments happening within the home video industry of late, developments that I’ve been spending a lot of time investigating and really digging into these past few weeks here at The Digital Bits.

And I can now confidently report that one of them is this:

Disney and Sony have just inked a major deal for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to take over all of Disney’s physical media production going forward.

This means that Sony will handle and oversee the actual authoring and compression of discs, that they’ll work with the replicators and packaging vendors, and that they’ll oversee the titles as they go out to the distributors and on to retailers.

 

The Digital Bits article: Link

Edited February 20 by Nadam

[Nadam]

I am REALLY hoping this means movies like Toys (1992) and Dead Poets Society (both amazing Robin Williams movies that I love) get put on 4K (and out of DVD hell in regards to Toys). 

[Ari]

Hopefully we get movies like Fight club, die hard with a vengeance, and many more 20th century films on 4k

[Nadam]

3 minutes ago, Ari said:

Hopefully we get movies like Fight club, die hard with a vengeance, and many more 20th century films on 4k

 

God, I hope so! So many amazing films that Disney has locked away in their vault that absolutely deserve a new 4K transfer for UHD Blu-Ray.

[LeadFarmer]

fantastic news man thanks for sharing.