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Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2025-11-07: The Fantastic Four is still on top, along with Godzilla.

zabadoh@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m shocked at how DVDs are still over half the hard media market to this day.

That has to be globally, right?

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TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s most likely for US/Canada only. And there are many reasons why DVD still outsells Blu-ray and 4K:

Unawareness of, or indifference to, DVDs’ subpar video/audio quality.

For most people, DVDs “just work”, unlike Blu-rays which require a lot of setup compared to DVD.

Studios and manufacturers did a poor job of educating the public about the different formats.

Streaming/digital is too convenient for the public to consider physical media.

People are unable/unwilling to upgrade their tech.

DVDs are cheaper and more ubiquitous than Blu-rays and 4K UHD discs.
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- OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    All the movie studios lobbied so hard to get their copy protection in and make sure you couldn’t skip warnings and ads, that the format is a pain to use, maybe worse than DVD.
    
    Yeah, I think this definitely contributed to Blu-ray’s slow start. DRM does more harm than good.
    
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