Au contraire. 4K Blu-rays will, in my opinion, give Blu-Rays a much needed boost. Streaming or digitally storing 4K movies and series will take a hefty toll on people's internet bandwiths. 4K Blu-Rays will alleviate that problem for people who love movies, but don't have as good internet bandwiths. Also, movie enthousiasts will rather purchase digitally or use Blu-Rays due to streaming often displaying artifacts and potentially lessening your movie experiance.

BluRay is superior in many ways. Just not enough ways. It's not like VHS to DVD. It's just a bigger, sharper image version of DVD. It's DVD+, honestly. And to me, as someone who already owns a huge DVD collection, I just see no super compelling reason to suddenly switch mediums when the medium I've been buying for two decades now, is perfectly fine.

I don't know that I believe DVD will ever be "overtaken" by BluRay, and as someone who appreciates having physical copies of films, not just digital ones, I personally hope it sticks around for quite some time.

Poor Blu-Ray. Obviously, yes, there will be a ton of "Blu-Ray" players out there with PS4, Xbox One, and even PS3, but the Blu-Ray movie market is dying. I love movies, own an Xbox One, and to this day, have still never watched a Blu-Ray movie. It's digital or the occasional DVD.

I dont use digital at all because I am a collector. I want to use the movies in 10 years and physical is always cheaper (when you are not lazy and actually look for deals).

I have like 250 blurays and the most expensive one I ever bought was 12 or so when the format was pretty new. The average bluray costs me like 6€. (renting digital movies costs almost the same rofl)


Also if I want to watch a movie digitally I could also just watch a random stream somewhere on the interent. There is no reason to "own" something digital. I cannot show it to anyone. i cannot look at my collection and say "wow" or anything. There is nothing that differenciates me from someone that "pirates" those movies other than my bank account showing -10€ or so.

Also since I have so many bluray players (6 PS3 consoles ,1 PS4, 1 Sony standalone bluray player, 2 PC HDDVD/Bluray drives and 2 Ikea uppleva multimedia sets with bluray players.) why not use them from time to time :)  

Btw I also hate how compressed digital looks and buffering sometimes is also pretty annoying even tho I have a 50 MBit/s connection

Our government lets ISPs get away with it, simple as that. Most ISPs are also cable television or satellite service providers that don't want you to go all-digital, so they discourage it through data caps. They also use them to pretend to justify their price tiers on their service packages.

None of my friends buy Blu-Rays like they used to buy DVDs ten years ago or so.

The market for physical media has shrunk incredibly.

Everyone has Netflix nowadays and in the US Hulu too plus most cable providers offer pretty much most new release movies on demand, why get off the couch, drive 10-20 minutes to the store to buy the disc version? Streaming and home cable is much more convenient.

Physical media is headed the way of the dinosaur.

Your kids will laugh at you when you tell them you used to purchase games and movies on a shiny plastic disc and had to drive to the store just to buy every single game or movie you wanted.

It depends on how godo the new h265 is. 4K is roughly 4 times the size of 1080p. So 4 times the video content. Current Blurays are at 50gb but that includes extras, multiple audio tracks etc. all encoded with h264 so yes the logic would be that you'd need 200GB. However h265 is trying to decrease file size through compression by 50% meaning that a video encoded with h265 will be half the size of a video encoded with h264 and look the same. 

So 100GB will probably be the aim for bluray discs, triple layer 33GB but who knows!

I think the general market shows that people value ease and accesibility over quality. In other words, the majority would rather stick with Netflix streams than go through the hoopla of acquiring an expensive new media format, an expensive new television and expensive new discs, and have to weigh the costs of replacing collections while worrying about whether this new format will have lasting power or if it will be a fad like laser discs or HD-DVDs.

I'm not saying there won't be a market for 4K, but don't be surprised when it barely dents the digital market.

When I buy and rent movies on disc, it's still DVD. Everytime I ask myself why I don't get a Blu-Ray player, it's simple: DRM. I burn a digital copy of all my discs and occasionally one that I borrow, and it's much harder to do that with Blu-Ray, and takes up a ton more space. I'm perfectly fine with a high-quality DVD rip.

"Americans pay so much because they don't have a choice,"

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24528383