DVD Is still King after 25 yrs

[Blankthawtz]

I still buy blu rays

 

[FlyRy]

The issue is that blu Ray never really caught on. DVDs last basically forever, so there was no incentive to rush out and upgrade your entire collection the way there was from VHS to DVD. And a lot of the up conversion has been shyt. And they always package Blu Rays with DVDs.

There is if you want your shyt in HD.

I'm sure the format war with hd-dvd did not help neither did the recession. But people would upgrade if they had to. Like every other format made us eventually. I know not everyone's a videophile, but don't these people realize the TV shows they're watching look way better than their fuzzy ass DVDs?

 

[MenacingMonk]

The issue is that blu Ray never really caught on. DVDs last basically forever, so there was no incentive to rush out and upgrade your entire collection the way there was from VHS to DVD. And a lot of the up conversion has been shyt. And they always package Blu Rays with DVDs.

I still have my DVDs, but i mostly got rid of the ones I upgraded. Some movies, like comedies, just aren’t worth an upgrade. I’ll buy them if they’re cheap and a movie i want though.

 

[Uno]

Go to walmart, there is always people by the DVD bin

 

[General Mills]

Same here breh I only owned a handful of DVDs over the years , Wanted , Dumb and Dumber , Mortal Kombat , Andy Milanokis Season 1

What a random collection

 

[filial_piety]

I still buy blu rays and DVD ...i get tired of streaming and wanting to see something only for it to be gone the next month. Plus alot of what I want doesnt stream.

 

[-DMP-]

I but UHD albeit, very slowly. I only have about 4 or 5.

 

[BlackBall]

Barely any 4K content, fukking gimmicks

 

[King Frost]

Wtf is the point of uhd. They can’t scale blue ray to 4K or is that an upgraded off shoot of blue ray? I’m confused

uhd is a scam, majority of the movies are upscaled aand they charge an arm & a leg

Barely any 4K content, fukking gimmicks

they shut out porn, make the actual players expensive, non playable on ps4 and add drm that the player must "phone home" or it can't play
doomed from get go

It's stupid they never cut them off

give up 65% of your revenue?
the market has spoken

 

[FlyRy]

Barely any 4K content, fukking gimmicks

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Bullshyt breh you don't know what you're talking about. Pretty much every netflix original movie and show is in 4K and/or HDR for the past 3.5+ years now. They demand it. Amazon originals too.

There are 4K discs being released every week. New movies, plus a lot the classics have been coming out this past year. Almost 1k titles on 4K.

uhd is a scam, majority of the movies are upscaled aand they charge an arm & a leg



they shut out porn, make the actual players expensive, non playable on ps4 and add drm that the player must "phone home" or it can't play
doomed from get go


give up 65% of your revenue?
the market has spoken

Maybe most CGI heavy modern movies are upscaled, but even they look great with the inclusion of HDR. Plus 4K DI's have become much more common thant hey were 3 years ago. The real benefit of UHD is older movies shot on film being remastered from the negative. As a collector I'm more excited for shyt like The Shining and Gremlins coming out in october than I am newer movies. I usually get the newer filcks on UHD digital and the classics on disc.

and the players aren't that expensive, they're like $100-125 now. shyt dropped fast. It launched at $400 and 5 months later when I copped mine it was $200 and that DRM shyt never happened.

And i get that it wouldn't make sense to cut off 65% of your revenue but in every other aspect of entertainment they eventually force one to upgrade. There's usually like a $2 difference between the DVD and the bluray for new movies. And the 4K usually is only a few bucks more than the blu.

 

[satam55]

Top 20 Sellers for Week Ended 7-6-19 – Media Play News

20 years in the game
can't stop, won't stop

I'd like to see this chart include digital sales.

 

[satam55]

For high-resolution video and TV, 4K has pretty much become the default, but not for long. At IFA in 2018 we even saw companies talking about 8K, and Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, has promised to film and broadcast the 2020 olympics in 8K

With all these pixels, you might be surprised to learn that most movies and TV shows are still edited at a measly 2K, even for big budget extravaganzas like Aquaman or Avengers. Often, that shiny Blu Ray you bought or the 4K HDR stream you’re about to watch was actually artificially upscaled from normal dumb HD. So what’s going on?

 

[daemonova]

Some of y'all will wish y'all still had physical media when the streaming wars start. I still buy DVDs. Probably won't ever stop

we got three 3 dvd players sitting on top of one of the last vaccum tube tvs they ever made, they all collecting dust, and that's not counting the ps2

 

[BlackBall]

Exactly this streaming is just compressed and upscale at best

 

[BlackBall]

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Bullshyt breh you don't know what you're talking about. Pretty much every netflix original movie and show is in 4K and/or HDR for the past 3.5+ years now. They demand it. Amazon originals too.

There are 4K discs being released every week. New movies, plus a lot the classics have been coming out this past year. Almost 1k titles on 4K.



Maybe most CGI heavy modern movies are upscaled, but even they look great with the inclusion of HDR. Plus 4K DI's have become much more common thant hey were 3 years ago. The real benefit of UHD is older movies shot on film being remastered from the negative. As a collector I'm more excited for shyt like The Shining and Gremlins coming out in october than I am newer movies. I usually get the newer filcks on UHD digital and the classics on disc.

and the players aren't that expensive, they're like $100-125 now. shyt dropped fast. It launched at $400 and 5 months later when I copped mine it was $200 and that DRM shyt never happened.

And i get that it wouldn't make sense to cut off 65% of your revenue but in every other aspect of entertainment they eventually force one to upgrade. There's usually like a $2 difference between the DVD and the bluray for new movies. And the 4K usually is only a few bucks more than the blu.