readwriteweb.com: Everyone knows optical storage discs are on their way out in the long run, but ironically, the the biggest, newest format of them all could become extinct before the rest. Here’s why Blu-ray might join VHS in the dustbin long before DVDs or CDs give up the ghost.
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Sony is going to release a 4K Blu-ray player that supports Dolby Vision, a first for them.
Samsung announced its new, top-of-the-line Ultra HD Blu-ray player a week or so before the CES 2017 consumer electronics trade show in Las Vegas but we have now seen the M9500 in the flesh.
This is a little silly, who doesn't want HD movies and surround sound sure netflix and lovefilm are great but still going to your friends with a Blu-ray/dvd cant be replaced, there would be no way I would be like "hey dude, you got interent connection? well sweet let me just log in so we can watch a movie" No.
Eventually but not for a long time. This is extremely comparable to CDs and digital downloads (music industry). Digital downloads have taken off but CDs are still important and still sell well.
Music is one thing, but there's too much data in HD visuals and audio for people to effectively stream all the time at a high quality.
Blu-Ray is probably the last physical media we'll use, but it has plenty of life left.
netflix movies look even worse than DVD quality wise. It says that they are HD but it's bullcrap and let's not even talk about the sound!
All valid points,
blueray is doomed
because the mainstream yuppies will flock where ever the trend goes and that's how things traditionally die now. unless blueray has a hardcore userbase (thats not ps3 oweners) that can support it, its doomed to die.
Id buy a blueray burner and some disks for backup functionality. but I wouldnt buy a blueray movie.