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

Hornplayer9599 wrote on 29/12/24 1:58 am:

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.

Correct!! I think I still have my Beta Recorder somewhere arround here!

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.
 

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Daniel