Secret Invasion, Ironheart, Armor Wars and a Wakanda series are all in development. The animated What If.? is scheduled to debut this summer. Marvel, Hawkeye, She-Hulk and Moon Knight are all currently in various stages of production. But more focus is being put on these movies eventually coming to Disney+ for subscribers to enjoy.
Meanwhile, upcoming MCU movies like Black Widow and Eternals are still poised to get a full home video release after arriving in theaters. is rumored to be phasing out Blu-ray/DVD releases altogether. Even a handful of years ago it may well have been. From a large, corporate perspective, the juice may simply not be worth the squeeze. They care about the value that show adds to Disney+ by being exclusive to the service. The studio likely doesn't care all that much about the money they could make with a Blu-ray release of WandaVision. Disney+ has already amassed more than 100 million subscribers and is now, arguably, Netflix's biggest competitor. They reorganized the entire studio to prioritize streaming last year.
For those who still value buying a show or movie physically, WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, as well as the other MCU shows in the works, would presumably make great candidates for such a release.īut Disney is focused on the big picture. These MCU shows could probably pack an awful lot onto a Blu-ray release, in terms of behind-the-scenes content, commentary tracks, etc. They are also often accompanied by bonus features. Physical releases aren't reliant on internet and they are available for the user when and where they want them. While physical media has increasingly become a niche market, those who value Blu-rays have their reasons. Though it's easy to see why certain hardcore fans might want to own a show like WandaVision on disc. Releasing the shows physically would seemingly diminish that in some way.
These shows living exclusively on Disney+ gives the streaming service some hugely desirable content that can only be watched if someone subscribes to the service. That said, this news largely makes sense. Though it does come with the quote "never say never" caveat. But don't expect to see these shows make their way to Blu-ray/DVD any time soon as the studio reportedly has no plans to do any such thing, leaving fans and collectors who want to own their favorites on Blu-ray out in the cold.Īccording to a new report, Disney has "no plans" to release the live-action MCU shows on Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD. Disney and Marvel Studios have already released several shows set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe on Disney+ including The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, as well as Loki, which is currently airing its first season. At the moment, the series seems to be limited by the broadcast masters (which were magnetic videotape) being the only known complete version of the show.Fans of physical media who also happen to like shows such as WandaVision may be out of luck. In any case, it would be a huge undertaking. They could potentially also scan Rhino's master in higher resolution than Rhino did, assuming that the master that Rhino had was on film.
Or, they could attempt to re-create all of the repairs by themselves, using the broadcast master as a guide. Either that or, Shout might have to find all the repair pieces sitting loose somewhere, and re-apply them to the higher-quality master. If Shout wanted to make a better version, they'd have to find a set of masters which is higher quality than the broadcast masters that they found, but newer than whatever master it was that Rhino found, so that it includes all the final repairs. The end result is something that matches what was aired on TV, but the quality goes up and down due to mixed sources.
When Shout Factory took over the license, they managed to get their hands on a full set of broadcast masters (high quality videotape) that had previously been used by a TV station to broadcast the actual episodes as kids saw them in the 80's, so they made a digital copy of that, and then patched in any scenes from Rhino's digital copy that matched up with the broadcast version. A great many repairs were clearly made to the series between the time when this source was made and when the episodes went to air. Click to shrink."Rhino" was the first company to release Transformers on DVD, and the picture quality was really high (it might have been from a remastered film source), but people quickly noticed that there were animation errors all over the place (even more than Transformers was known for).