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

Your Name wrote on 29/12/24 8:28 am:

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.

Hence the name 'Beta' as in 'Better'!!

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.

For ten years or more (mid-80's through 00's, maybe), (as I was posted
around East Australia in Aust Army then after Discharge) part of my
Christmas trip home to Melbourne was to drop my BetaMax Recorder off to get the Heads cleaned at a place in South Melbourne where the only surviving Beta repairer had a shop. He had worked for Sony (Australia) so probably knew/should have known what he was doing!!

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).

Is that right?? I've brought many a DVD from EasyDVD!!

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".

I think part of the reason I hold on to this Laptop is that it has a DVD
Burner Drive in it .... not that I actually use it much ......
(Obj Doctor Who .... however, as Our ABC is re-broadcasting an episode
of New Doctor Who each week-day (stared in early June and currently up to early JodieDoc!!), I've probably got about 120-150 New Doctor Who episodes I'm needing to burn to DVD .... You know, for Personal Use Only!! ;-P
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Daniel