There are many significantly cheaper bluray players than PlayStation consoles. I’d wager that only a handful of a percent of console owners have ever watched a bluray movie on their PS5, because barely anyone buys and watches blurays, and people who buy consoles are overwhelmingly buying things digitally.
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MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Oh no, I’ve just realised that this might mean the end of bluray too because most people use PlayStation’s for watching blu rays. I know I bought a PS5 earlier than I needed to specifically for 4k blurays
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 5 days ago
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
It’s more that it’s a two birds one stone kind of situation. 4k bluray players still fell expensive considering all they do is play blurays
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 5 days ago
A bluray player can be bought for like a hundred bucks even here in Australia. They’re not expensive.
They don’t sell because no one gives a shit about physical copies movies.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
They should though because the difference between a movie on streaming vs on bluray at what’s supposed to be the equivalent quality is just not comparable, audio being the most obvious compromise streaming services make that I always spot and I’m not even a massive audiophile and have bad tinnitus to deal with too.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Fortunately, someone linked an article in here saying that Blu Ray sales are up a lot in the past few years, which is a metric I’ve been contributing to personally.