Blu Ray turns 20

[SvennoJ]

The recent ones I bought were the Phoenician scheme and memoir of a snail. I still prefer the image and sound quality of blu-ray although I rarely watch blu-rays anymore :/


They made one huge mistake with blu-ray and that's making it less convenient than DVD. Slow load times, unskippable splash and warning screens, commercials before the menu..., unresponsive menus, no quick resume. (Or only works for some, not for most)

Streaming was going to take over from blu-ray anyway, but it would have had longer legs if it wasn't such a pain in the ass from inserting a disc to actually watching the content.

Blu-ray never ever got anywhere close to the popularity of DVD, sabotaging itself from the start with higher prices for less convenience vs DVD and streming arriving soon after which focused on nothing but convenience. For example how come blu-ray never got skip credits / opening theme for series. 

Anyway I've got many hundreds of them, maybe a thousand. Always nice to see that stable quality again and hear uncompressed sound, but streaming is simply more convenient. However now subscriptions are turning to ad supported plans, maybe blu-ray will have a little comeback / longer legs.