Star Trek: Picard The Complete Series (Blu-Ray) $48 + Free Shipping

This is $24.99 on vudu right now.

Good series and probably the last time you'll see the original cast all together.

You're talking about the last season. People can safely skip the first two seasons and not miss anything.

And Paramount+ is 6 bucks a month.

Yes, there are cheaper ways to watch it. Blu-ray is the best way to actually *own* it.

THANK you. Agreed! They were terrible.

Is there a visual or audio advantage to BR vs. streaming for this series? The description doesn't mention HDR/ Dolby Vision or Atmos

THANK you. Agreed! They were terrible.

And Paramount+ is 6 bucks a month.

Yes, there are cheaper ways to watch it. Blu-ray is the best way to actually *own* it.

Or save your $50 for something else and get the exact same content by downloading it via torrent (qbittorrent client recommended), with a VPN connection to Spain, where courts concluded a few years ago that viewing, downloading, *and* uploading copyrighted content are all perfectly legal as long as you're not trying to make money from it (long the argument for peer-to-peer sharing to be legal everywhere).

$50 doesn't seem like a great value proposition when you realize the only unique thing you're buying is a disk, which itself is virtually obsolete technology in the marketplace, at least as a form of non-archival storage. You're not even getting an experience to go with it, as you would at a movie theater -- where $50 would go pretty far.

Sure. Why not steal directly from the mouths of the artists and actors who created this show you love?

Great advice. 🙄

In a society governed by laws and dependent on capitalism, there is no rational reason to choose the more expensive way to get any consumer good. The whole system is built on inefficiencies being discovered and exploited. The market responds as it needs to. If I don't make the rational choice in this scenario, then someone else will. It's not a zero-sum game. If an industry is suffering, solutions will be created.

People have been saying for decades that p2p will destroy the music/movie/etc industries, which today sounds like a farce, given the massive expansion of forms and formats, and the ubiquity of entertainment in our lives today compared to previous generations. $50 Blu-rays are in the category of niche, luxury products today, the same as $30 vinyl records. They were never popular or practical products for any person with an average income who wanted to have a reasonably diverse collection, which is why they have been supplanted by alternatives that deliver better value for the consumer. The few people who still use the Blu-ray format are older, wealthier than younger people, have gotten used to paying these kinds of prices for decades, and are probably less interested in or even able to find new ways to get content.

I guarantee you this kind of thing is not a significant source of revenue for studios, not when the vast majority choose the $5.99/month streaming option. Streaming audio and video is much more practical and convenient than downloading all the stuff you want to listen to and watch. There are so many benefits to streaming that p2p is completely unable to provide. That's why I pay for some streaming services and only bother to download the stuff I watch over and over again.

Again, people have predicted the demise of industries bc of p2p for decades, and here I am, someone who uses p2p, and I still pay $20+ a month for Spotify and Netflix. What I never wanted to pay for is a $15 CD (or $50 Blu-ray). Most people never wanted that. That's why those options didn't last as the mainstream way to consume content. And yet, I think we can agree there are more opportunities for actors today than ever before, and musicians can get their music to literally billions of people on Spotify, YouTube and hundreds of other outlets, and they have more ways to make money than ever before. Are they suffering bc I'm not buying a CD? Well neither is Patrick Stewart suffering bc I'm not buying a Blu-ray disc.