So I've had this thought for a while and I thought I'd throw into the abyss that is NOSTR. What if DVD's, BluRay, and music CD's start to go up in price due to AI? Now here me out... People are getting their hands on local AI models and people want to train adapters and finetunes on their favorite media. The best way to go about doing that would be to go straight to the horse's mouth and pay for the best quality physical version you can own. This way you can splice, split, extract, upscale, and reconstruct anything you need for a quality data set. As AI models like cross-talk separation, image generation, video generation, voice cloning, music creation, music editing, sound effect creation, etc. all either come to fruition and improve, people will want the best possible reference for their aims. People who have vision, ambition, and excellence in mind won't accept a screen recorded version of a show streamed at either an unknown or low bitrate (this is, of course, very context dependent and may not actually matter in certain cases). Older media might become even more expensive. There might also be some actual competition in the world of video deinterlacing as a result... Hard to say because what's available is already pretty good. Anyways, thoughts on the idea? Could this be where the wind is blowing in the next few years?