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Wman1996 said:
d21lewis said:

I'm talking out my ass but I feel like Blu-ray never really caught on like DVD or VHS.

You're correct. DVD surpassed VHS in terms of market share globally by 2003. Blu-ray has gotten close to matching DVD as they compete for market share, but not close enough. And it's never surpassed DVD's market share. And UHD will likely be the final physical home media format. It won't ever surpass the DVD or Blu-ray market share. In fact, some corporations already stopped making UHD players. And they're still making Blu-ray players despite that. 

I went all in with blu-ray, double dipped on a large part of my DVD collection and have over 600 blu-rays. Blu-ray was a huge step up from DVD both in image and sound quality. No more full-screen / wide-screen distortions or 3:2 pull down crap and far fewer compression artifacts. Max of 9.8 mbps for mpeg-2 video compared to max of 48 mbps for h.264 video.

UHD however, small increase in image quality (no where near the 5x jump from dvd to blu-ray), no difference in sound. They went cheap with UHD and lost their target audience. I've been a videophile since LaserDisc and went straight to S-VHS for recording. UHD just not good enough. After reading reviews of early releases I decided to stick to blu-ray. It's still better quality than 4K streaming and has all the sound options and extras.

It's not only that UHD players are already getting abandoned, many movies aren't available on 4K blu-ray either, and many that are have faked or bad HDR added on top. I rather have none than artificially added or enhanced HDR.

Long live Blu-ray. Hurry up Amazon, release The Expanse S4 on blu-ray already!