So Sony really got it right with Blu Ray

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frybread said:

kanariya said:
BD will replace DVD in a few years jsut like DVD replaced VHS.

The public liked DVD because:

1) It was smaller than VHS.

2) They were allowed to skip to any scene.

3) Freeze-frame pausing.

4) MOST OF ALL:  No more rewinding.   Rewinding was a huge pain, it would break vcrs (causing people to buy rewind machines) and if they forgot to rewind, Blockbuster would sometimes charge a penalty.

 

Oh, it also had a clearer picture.  So did Laser Disc.  So did Beta Max.  Clear pictures do not sell formats to anyone except ... well, us geeks.

 

You forgot to list the biggest advantage of DVDs imo.

Repeated watching of the same movie did not damage the medium.

I have countless VHS that I recorded myself which after 10 viewing or so were starting to show some issues...

That, with price is one of the big reasons VHS never took off as a medium to sell movies to the mass market. You could not expect a tape bought one day to still be in the same shape 5 years later...

I only ever bought 2 VHS.

I have a collection of 350 or so DVDs.

And I own about 10 Blu-Ray ( I switched to buying in Blu-Ray last September).