Hope this helps:

Blu-ray is experiencing solid growth, but not as fast as that experienced by DVD. That can be blamed largely on HDTV not yet being universal. Only 77% of U.S. households have an HDTV. Meanwhile, color TVs were in over 95% of households by time DVD hit the market. In 1997, essentially every household in America that wanted a color TV had one, and once DVD players became affordable adoption rates exploded, going from about 10% in 2000 to around 70% by 2004. It was the most rapidly-adopted consumer tech to date.

Blu-ray has had to deal with having came out at a time when HDTVs were not in many homes. When Blu-ray was first made commercially available in 2006, less than 10% of U.S. homes had an HDTV. HDTV didn't reach 50% penetration until 2010, and at this rate it's still going to be at least a few more years before it reaches 90+%. It may take the remaining CRT TVs (which were discontinued by all major TV manufacturers some 7 years ago) to cease functioning to push the remaining holdouts into buying HDTVs. While total Blu-ray penetration is still at just under 60% overall, it is in 75% of HDTV-owning households (and climbing rapidly; in 2012 only 25% of homes and just over a third of HDTV homes had a Blu-ray player). Blu-ray penetration may grow even more rapidly thanks to the PS4 and XBO being on the market.

P.S.: I fell asleep last night before I clicked "Submit." I was sick and had a splitting headache to boot. Sorry if anything like the charts I posted earlier were already posted.

I really hope it does comes to us.

BD is already getting space problems to handle this gen games and I heard already that we are to see games coming in 2 or even 3 of them.

I know BD is still evolving and will handle this gen just ok, but we will need a new media in the next one probably, and I think the HVD may be the one.

It seems so cool and a really smart way to do the storage, and Blu-ray was also expensive years ago, maybe with some more good 5-6 years the HVD can be becoming a reality to us, I do really hope so.

I already read about the Archival Disk (I think it's named this way), that Sony and some other company were working at was already in use this year but I don't think I undertood it very well and I don't know if it's applicable to gaming, do you know about it?

While true for 35mm movies and digital movies before 2013, 80mm movies and everything shot with Digital RED 5k cameras do have a significant benefit from 4K blu-ray. It's not only resolution though, 10 bit color and rec.2020 will finally replace the ageing 8 bit rec.709 limited color space, unchanged since DVD.  Plus support for higher frame rates. Ofcourse all that is lost on today's tvs, yet when 4K tvs start to become the norm in 5 years, rec.2020 gets implemented in tvs and Oled tvs become affordable you will see a big step up to 4k blu-ray.

Average tv size still keeps growing and a lot of movie fans will never stop until they get the full cinematic experience at home. 4K masters are quickly becoming the norm in Hollywood, so why settle for less at home :)

I love blu-ray but I see the limitations of the format, it's not all that sharp and compression artifact free on a projector. Plus 2.35:1 movies only have 1920x817 resolution on the disc. A well preserved anamorphically shot 35mm movie would still noticeably benefit from 4K.

Maybe a minority of buffs will buy into that.Like a small minority of audiophiles bought into SA-CD and DVD-A formats.Mass public will prefer the greater accessibility of smart tv available movies/streaming services.By the way the new disney star wars movies are all going back to being shot on film so it's not as black and white as you say.

SvennoJ said:

Sure, they will be shot on film since film still has advantages in picture quality over digital for shooting. They will be mastered in 4K however, 35mm film distribution prints have been discontinued. Especially for Imax sequences 80mm film is still vastly superior over a 5K digital camera. Those shots will be future proof for an 8K master down the road. (Eg Baraka and Samsara already have been scanned in 8K from their 80mm negatives)

I don't mind if Blu-ray 4K becomes the next Laserdisc. I was happy with LD, served me well for a long time. Blu-ray 4K has a lot more convenience than the huge LD discs though with max 50 minutes per side, many movies came on multiple discs. That kept the price high too. Blu-ray 4K should do better than LD. Unless the price is sky high due to blu-ray 4K, 3D 4K, blu-ray, 3D, DVD, digital copy combo packs :/