Re: [OT] DVD is Dead. Long Live DVD.

On 2024-12-28 14:58:10 +0000, Hornplayer9599 said:

On 12/28/2024 07:41, Daniel70 wrote:

Blueshirt wrote on 28/12/24 8:11 pm:

"Tech's takeover of show business has turned everything into
streaming."
 This is the landscape in which the sad state of home video
continued deteriorating in 2024. Best Buy ceased carrying DVDs
this year. Target followed suit. Redbox rented its final Liam
Neeson movie and shuttered its kiosks in July. Finally, LG
announced just last week that it would discontinue all its UHD
Blu-ray and Blu-ray players, joining Samsung and Sony in
ditching the optical drive.
  https://www.avclub.com/death-of-dvd-death-of-streaming-physical-media
  I copied this from another newsgroup as some here might find the
article of interest.

 Strokes me in Discs, Blu-ray might have been to DVD the same as Beta was to VHS in tapes!!

 Beta was the better product compared to VHS.  What killed Beta was that it was proprietary to Sony, and they wouldn't allow 3rd party manufacturers to build them.  VHS was "open source", and that allowed those to be mass produced at a much lower cost.  Blu-ray (and HD-DVD) was just the natural evolution from DVDs once HD video was possible.

Yep.
Betamax and VHS were two competing video tape formats.
Video discs have instead evolved in capacity and video quality from laserdisc -> DVD -> Blu-ray / HD-DVD -> 4K / UHD-DVD. 8K discs were sort of on the way, but very few companies were interested thanks to silly streaming. Higher capacity discs (2000 times more capacity than a 4K Blu-ray disc) have been developed, but they will likely be only used for data storage.
The death of video disc formats is slightly exaggerated, but manufacuturers no longer making players will probably hasten that demise. It might make a comeback similar to vinyl music, but it's unlikely. :-(
JB Hi-Fi in New Zealand and Australia still sells DVDs, and many movies and TV shows still get a disc release. There are also many online legal retailers of DVD discs (EzyDVD.com.au for example).
I bought one of the last models of VHS-DVD combo-box players so I could still have access to my tapes. I got a Blu-ray player, and I'll have to get a 4K player. I also need to get a vinyl player, but thanks to the comeback, these are fairly plentiful again, if somewhat expensive for such "old tech".