Warner's Home Entertainment Division Hit with Massive Lay-Off's

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Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

The simple fact is physical media is not selling gangbusters like DVD was 10 years ago. I don't think discs are going anywhere for a long, long time but you certainly don't need the staff you had a decade ago in today's market.

It's only going to get more and more niche and focused as time goes on.

The simple fact is these types of layoffs are affecting, virtually, every business sector, and it will only get worse.
I've never been a "sky is falling" kind of person, but many of today's problems can be traced back to one root cause: overpopulation.
Our population is growing so fast, and our technology is developing even faster which is why one person can now do the job 10 used to do a decade ago.
It's just simple numbers. If you have a boat and people keep multiplying in the boat, eventually the boat will sink. The earth is just a much bigger boat, and with 7.2 Billion(and climbing at an exponential rate) passengers, failure of sustainability is inevitable.

Very extreme, but you can apply that to the home video business and see a little bit of parallel. In less than 20 years we've seen: DVD, BD, 3DBD, streaming, just to name a few.
It's not like these technologies evolved over 50 years. They were consolidated into, basically, the last 17 years. That's called an explosion!
As with any explosion there are going to be outward ripples that affect every corner of the home video business...which we are starting to see.
Is it a shame? Of course! Will this be a 1-step back/2-steps forward scenario? I certainly hope so...because much like my overpopulation example the future don't look too bright.