Blu-ray is still too expensive, because of Sony’s greed, so you pay more for the player and the discs
Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How are DVDs still out selling Blu-ray? Blu-ray has been around for what, 25 years?
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You can get a Blu-ray player at the thrift store for a few bucks, same with the discs. I never see 4k stuff there though.
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I was talking about new releases for the disks, most people don’t buy players at the thrift stores (with good reason). Also, DVDs have better compatibility, some Blu-ray players cannot play newer disks
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
18 years.
Most people today still don’t know what a Blu-ray is, so when they think of “physical media”, they think DVDs. They’re both optical discs, so I guess people think they’re similar. Blame the studios for not marketing the format better.
The simple truth is that most people don’t care about video or audio quality. They just want to watch the movie, by taking the path of least resistance. Whether that’s by buying the DVD or streaming it. They don’t want to have to learn about resolutions and bitrates and all that. As far as they’re concerned, DVD is the pinnacle of physical media and nothing else came after it.
Emperor@feddit.uk 9 months ago
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