They would've lost all their licenced content and been left with nothing. That's why they pivoted.
Never say never! Chase your goals and believe in yourself, don't let the haters keep you down!
Ad-free models cap profits. You can only sell as many subscriptions as there are people. Ad-supported models can make infinite money.
The biggest issue is that subscription income isn't tied to titles, which each individually cost money (see: the Matt Damon clip about DVD sales).
Advertising is the only way they can make money.
The Predator Blu-ray looks like ass for many of the same reasons, you'll need the 4K to get a decent version.
Bad remasters aren't a 4K-specific problem.
That's true for disc, which has to be widely compatible, but not for streaming where you can easily throw up either an HDR10 or DV stream based on the user's equipment.
Cameron stated it's about how the Native Americans should have fought harder.
It's not 1997.
Regarding Ten: https://mailchi.mp/4d35e062af06/10-by-abbas-kiarostami-is-about-womens-issue-broken-news
https://fasikul.altyazi.net/in-english/mania-akbari-tells-her-own-story/
"I felt like I was 130 years back in time watching what the Lakota Sioux might have been saying at a point when they were being pushed and they were being killed and they were being asked to displace and they were being given some form of compensation," he said. "This was a driving force for me in the writing of Avatar – I couldn't help but think that if they [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future… and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation… because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society – which is what is happening now – they would have fought a lot harder."
Blaming the Native Americans for their own genocide is pretty fucked up.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/18/avatar-james-cameron-brazil-dam
Avatar was made to lecture Native Americans about how their genocide was their own fault, but you seem to be using it as a positive comparison?
https://youtu.be/olqVGz6mOVE?si=wyVvuCOso24IZHso
TL;DR: Marcia Lucas didn't do anything editors don't do on every film ever, and the "saved in the edit" video is garbage.
This makes the product worse in order to increase profits, which is exactly what enshittification is.