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How long til Blu-rays get phased out (lemmy.today)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Basically just the title. With DVDs getting tossed to the wind it made me wonder when will blu-rays go? I'm gonna miss bloopers and extra scenes

Edit: A bit confused but the general consensus is that in some areas BRs have already began to be phased out while in others they're just trucking along perfectly fine. It'll be that way until they stop being profitable to the studios who make them. Is that correct? I don't think the 8k argument is valid imo since that's really niche currently.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (4 children)

There are these things called "stores", you may have heard of them.

Target and Best Buy are just NOW talking about phasing Blu Ray out in 2024.

In 2014? Frozen sold over 7 million copies. Guardians of the Galaxy? Over 3 million.

Everyone with an Xbox Series X (2020), Xbox One X (2017) and Xbox One S (2016) has a 4K Blu Ray player. Same for the disc based PS5 (2020).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

While a decade is a stretch, there are some barren areas for Blu-ray Discs.

A few months ago I wanted to build a collection of Blu-rays as a conversation starter in my living room. I checked out well over two dozen Best Buy, Target, and Walmarts in a ~50mi radius (DC area) to find any that had a reasonable selection for sale. I was incredibly disappointed with how much effort I had to put in for this.

It seemed that DVDs were still a higher priority in my hunt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

In 2014? Frozen sold over 7 million copies. Guardians of the Galaxy? Over 3 million.

Ahh, so just 2 or 3 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are these things called β€œstores”, you may have heard of them.

How long til stores get phased out?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i don't have a single device with a disc drive in it like what you're referring to

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Oh, you're the one.