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Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-10-05: Despicable Me and Bad Boys' "fourquels" top the charts, while 4K's slice of the pie decreases to less than 10%!

Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Until I started seeing this graphic weekly on all, I greatly overestimated blu-ray’s market share. I find it surprising given the ubiquity of higher definition televisions and blu-ray players.

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TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
As stated in previous threads, there are lots of reasons why DVDs are still popular today:

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

For most people, DVDs “just work”.

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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- Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Also people bought them many years ago and they are still chugging along, so they have no desire to upgrade.
  
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