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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] DVD is Dead. Long Live DVD.
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:53:43 +1100
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Hornplayer9599 wrote on 29/12/24 1:58 am:
> On 12/28/2024 07:41, Daniel70 wrote:
>> Blueshirt wrote on 28/12/24 8:11 pm:
>>> "Tech's takeover of show business has turned everything into 
>>> streaming."
>>> 
>>> This is the landscape in which the sad state of home video 
>>> continued deteriorating in 2024. Best Buy ceased carrying DVDs 
>>> this year. Target followed suit. Redbox rented its final Liam 
>>> Neeson movie and shuttered its kiosks in July. Finally, LG 
>>> announced just last week that it would discontinue all its UHD 
>>> Blu-ray and Blu-ray players, joining Samsung and Sony in ditching
>>> the optical drive.
>>>  
>>> https://www.avclub.com/death-of-dvd-death-of-streaming-physical-media
>>> 
 >>> I copied this from another newsgroup as some here might find the
>>> article of interest.
>>> 
>> Strokes me in Discs, Blu-ray might have been to DVD the same as
>> Beta was to VHS in tapes!!
> 
> Beta was the better product compared to VHS.  What killed Beta was
> that it was proprietary to Sony, and they wouldn't allow 3rd party 
> manufacturers to build them.

Correct!! I think I still have my Beta Recorder somewhere arround here!

> VHS was "open source", and that allowed those to be mass produced at
> a much lower cost.  Blu-ray (and HD-DVD) was just the natural
> evolution from DVDs once HD video was possible.
> 
-- 
Daniel