I'm not sure what they will be releasing though, is that a blu-ray set (different from the US version, with all the episodes) or would that would be some form of digital release only?
News Season 1 DVD/Blu-Ray Release
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Ah, good catch, the listing isn't specific. But considering the episodes 1-10 discs have a German language option...
I'd be very surprised if it was a digital only release, given we can already get that here.
Before an official announcement was made, this listing appeared on a Swiss site:
https://www.1advd.ch/film/BLU-RAY+Englandimport/Star+Trek+-+Prodigy+-+Season+1/38730299
They often post listings for upcoming releases before offical announcements.
I generally dislike the practice of releasing partial seasons, but it's still a day one purchase.
What a rip-off. Each episode is 24 minutes long.
Which means you get 240 minutes worth of entertainment for about the same price that you pay when buying a 120 minute-long movie. Sounds like a good deal.
For $22 plus taxes at Amazon for 10 episodes. That's nuts especially since P+ gave very little noticed about pulling the show from their streaming service.
I'm not sure I get what one thing has to do with the other, but either way...you can buy it or not, it's completely up to you. If you think the price is too high, then stick it to them by not buying it.
I received my S1A blu-ray disc, imported from the US, and the discs indeed play on European players and the video quality is excellent. I rewatched "lost and found", an underrated episode as it's a very good introduction and one of the better pilots for Star Trek series.
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The complete Season 1 is starting to appear for pre-order at various UK retailers.
I'm starting to wonder about the whole purchase digital or physical media thing. I pre-ordered Prodigy Episodes 11-20 and also the Picard complete series, but I wonder if it's ok to buy them on Itunes since my blu ray player is old fashioned. I know people say you don't really own it, and they can let it go at any time, but it is still the Itunes store, and not Paramount Plus which did cut Prodigy. Also, the Discs for Discovery are pretty expensive now. Or just my whole blu ray set up is so antiquated that I would prefer just to get the better quality.
Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself of something you've already decided.
What is an "old fashioned" Blu-ray player anyway?
It's not 4K and I think it's more than 10 years old.
I-tunes is OK for music (m4a-files) because those can be downloaded and they don't use DRM anymore. If the same is true for the video files, then by all means go for it. If, however, you cannot download them to a local device/HDD or if they need to "phone home" before you can play them, be aware that what they term as "buy" is really a lease of unspecified length that the vendor can terminate at his leisure and at any time (even though this is probably illegal at least under EU laws).
I don't think that's a problem. 4K discs are expensive and rare, and quite often even 4K discs are upscaled versions of full HD masters rather than "true" 4K (Passengers, Dunkirk and Blade Runner 2049 are examples of movies that were mastered in higher than full HD quality, but even some major movies nowadays are finished in full HD due to effects work or other compromises).
Generally, even old Blu-ray players should still offer exactly the same quality as their newer cousins, if we're talking regular Blu-ray. Which is the only thing you can get Prodigy on anyway (animation in 4K would be ludicrously expensive, but Prodigy is gorgeous full HD on disc), other than the obsolete DVD format.
Blu-ray generally is a stable format, and even the PS3/PS4/PS5 (and the xbox equivalents of the latter two) play blu-ray (the versions with optical disc drives, obviously). And cheap players generally give the same image quality as those with more bells and whistles (outside the 4K players).
At most, an older blu-ray player may need a firmware update to play some of the newer discs, and only if those come with a newer version of the copy protection scheme that isn't known to the player yet.
I'm out of the country for about six more weeks so can't check it out in person, but I just received a notification that my season 1, episodes 11-20 Blu-ray order has been deliverered.
Wish I'd known it was out yesterday, when I was ordering a box of N95s out of Amazon. Oh, well: hopefully, I'll remember to order it the next time I order something out of them.
You can download any video content you've purchased through iTunes. I bought the entirety of Prodigy just for this purpose. Even if Paramount yanks it, you can still watch it.
Look what arrived today! 
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