Was your son’s new player brand new, or a used player, and if new is it one of the many pieces of crap marketed towards hipsters?
Yes, more genre movies are being released - to niche audiences such as yourself who spend lots of cash on collectible movies. However the vast majority of people who watch movies will never buy any of this. Part of the reason that these kinds of movies are often limited in release, and also vinyl music releases, is because there isn’t a big enough audience for them. These special limited releases make the collectors want them even more, as something special that won’t be around… but in fact, they are usually limited in number based on how many units would sell for the title, even if it wasn’t limited.
The majority of movie watching people don’t buy discs any more, and don’t even own players for them. That’s just how it is now, and will remain.
I never said players will become unavailable tomorrow. What I said is that I don’t want to deal in the future with having a collection of films that requires me to buy an overly expensive player to watch them. And these players will grow in price as the said players become less and less available over the coming years.
Yes, it will happen. Physical mediums are continuing to become less common and I don’t see this trend reversing, but growing.
I think we just have a very different approach to collecting.
For you, buying a couple blu rays is no big deal and you probably regularly spend what I consider lots of cash on these movies.
I wait sometimes years before buying a movie, and only buy select titles, and will not pay past a certain price for any one title.
I also will not buy things like electronics new - I wait until I can find them dirt cheap, second hand. I haven’t had more than $1000 in my bank account at any one time for the last decade, so yes, the price of a blu ray player is a lot to me.