| archer9234 said: Yeah. besides Digital forcing physical out of sales space. You also have to factor in a ton of people don't care about HD. They either don't like the higher cost. Or don't see any benefit in it. I still have friends who have a HDTV but have a SD cable box. This cuases the weaker sales. This will get worse when 4K comes around. I don't care about resoultion anymore. Mainly because will it end? Are companies just gonna keep uping resoution every 10 years? Rebuying stuff over and over again... I won't replace anything I already own on BD. BD might of taken off if it didn't have a format war. And was able to be played in DVD players. I remember I couldn't buy any BD's for nearly 2 years all because of that stupid nonsese with HDDVD VS BD. It also doesn't help if a company doens't release their stuff on BD. I've waited so damn long for a complete series release of Smallvile on BD. but only 5-10 are availbe. So I end up buying the DVD sets. And won't bother if they do release Seasons 1-4, if ever. |
DVD had the huge convenience factor ofcourse, blu-ray is actually less convenient with the lockouts during mandatory screens. Price is a big factor too. Plenty of people still have SD boxes because prices for HD cable are still very much inflated, same with blu-ray versions vs DVD versions. And as you said, DVD didn't have a format war, and doubled as a CD player at the time. That's the function of my DVD player nowadays. I also still have to buy DVDs now and then, simply because some stuff still refuses to come out on blu-ray.
Anyway resolution ends with 4K for 35mm films, and 8K for 70mm and new content. There simply is no possible sitting distance where anything higher then 8K is visible. 4K is probably the end for the living room, but a higher res display has other benefits. Scaling content to more pixels produces less artifacts.
After the resolution upgrades will comes the color upgrades. Rec. 2020 will hopefully make it for 4K playback at 10 and 12 bit color, tvs still have some catching up to do to support it fully. OLED will happen some day, for now a 1080p OLED is still 10K.
There is little reason to upgrade most of the stuff on blu-ray resolution wise. All current animations are not going to benefit, nor any existing CGI heavy movies. Only in the last years hollywood has been starting to use 5K cameras. Movies originally shot on 70mm will benefit (there aren't that many) and some pristinely kept 35mm movies.
Better color reproduction and simply higher bandwidth plus better compression techniques will help and make it look better on 1080p sets as well. But I expect to be upgrading far fewer blu-rays then I did DVDs. I'll be buying new in 4K though.
I wonder what will happen with a digital collection. Does anyone have a substantial (legally purchased) digital movie collection? Through what service? And do they offer free upgrades or discounts to better resolution and sound? Or is it the same as physical and you're expected to buy again.
And I don't count Netflix as a movie collection... http://www.avclub.com/article/netflix-to-help-subscribers-new-years-resolutions-106678
