5/1/2023 0 Comments The medium physical release![]() Personally I would consider audiobooks as something entirely different from both physical and electronic books, but I would be remiss to not point out that these too are by and large digital, and sometimes listened by way of the internet.īooks can also be changed though. ![]() I love and swear by my physical copies, but reading a thousand-plus page version of the complete works of Shakespeare while on the subway is just inconvenient when compared to slipping a small device into your pocket on which you can read the whole book - your whole digital library, mostly likely. Books tend to take up even more space in its physical form, and far less digital space when digitized. A far, far older medium, yet not that much less perceptible to the increasing digitalization. If the same edit was done today, what version do you think you would get? What version would Netflix make available for streaming? What edits would or would not be made to the version in your iTunes or Google movie library? This was back in the days when DVD rentals had only recently exceeded that of VHS tapes. The story and the character were changed in hindsight in ways that conflict with how many viewers had previously perceived them, all in favour of the creator’s intentions. Former edits saw the soon-to-be-deceased character firing at and missing Han Solo first and thus provoking a firefight, and then a version in which both fired at one another without provocation, but with the other character still shooting first. One of the more controversial changes is an edit to a scene in Star Wars: A New Hope, in which one of the protagonists, Han Solo, points his concealed gun at another character from below a table at which he is seated and shoots him dead. Star Wars is both a name known to most and a franchise well familiar with new versions of its previously released movies. When said art is not written in ink, is not transcribed onto physical tape, then altering it becomes far easier, like editing a blog-post or uploading a new edit of an old YouTube video. We live in an age of remasters and re-releases, even with physical mediums. What they do to it though, that’s their business. They hold onto the content you are free to look at it when you wish. With the growth of digital distribution, a lot of people do not even technically own their movies anymore, but rather purchase the access to watch it on a company’s platform, or in some cases subscribe for a monthly fee for access to the entirely of a catalogue, like that of Netflix’s. It seems silly now to many, the idea of having to wait for your favourite movie to rewind back to the start before you can watch it again from the start. Movies, for starters, have definitely seen utility improvements in the aforementioned transitions. Old books and movies no longer need to rob you of what precious space you have in your home, and if you have good access to the internet then gone are the days of having to acquire a physical object to receive the content that you wish for. Lately though, most mediums have found a digital counterpart, one that portrays the same information, only it does so through ones and zeroes, and generally with the magic of the internet. This is true both for scrolls eventually turning into books, and more recently for movies transition from VHS tapes, to DVD discs, to Blu-Ray discs. Mediums have always transitioned or transformed in big or subtle ways to adapt to the needs of both perceiver and artist. The recent news that Samsung, a major competitor in the movie-player market, is to stop producing and selling new Blu-ray players in the US and presumably elsewhere, has got me back to thinking about mediums again, specifically the mediums through which we enjoy art.
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