Blu Ray vs DVD Marketshare

[SvennoJ]

Nettles said:

SvennoJ said:

 

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.

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 :/