Did you ever really watch many DVDs?

Streaming killed blu-ray. There are three kinds of people out there

1. video enthusiasts (smallest group)
2. people who like a good picture but not willing to spend a lot of money for it
3. people who are too dumb to stream and don't give a shit about video quality

1 won't keep blu ray alive.
2 has already switched to streaming

That leaves 3 keeping DVD alive for years while blu-ray becomes yet another premium home video format relic. It will probably hang on another five to ten years, but it has no chance of ever overtaking DVD sales.

>dvd will outlast blu ray
>but somehow won't be killed by streaming, which you say killed blu-ray

>didn't read the entire post before responding
embarrassing

around 2006-2010 I pirated about 700 movies, burn them on to DVD and watch on Sony player
good old day, user

i still watch dvds

Bought one in '97 and came with James Bond GoldenEye

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I went to VHS to watching movies on cable TV, to pirating them from p2p programs.

i used to rent them all the time from netflix and greencine and watch them on my panasonic home theater thingy.
it's easier to find quality encodes now, and locating obscure stuff is less of an issue.
being able to listen to or rip the director's commentary was always a plus when renting or buying dvds early on though.

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I bought maybe six over the years. I had Ethernet back in 99 as it was my first year in uni so went right to pirating everything. Most DVDs I watched belonged to my family. Still might watch one when visiting because their internet is so shitty and they have about 200

>expecting people to read your drivel
cringe

4. The people who buy boxsets but since nothing ever ends anymore there is never a boxsets.

I'm still buying DVDs, user. Not everything gets a Blu-Ray release, plus they are dirt cheap and I don't mind SD quality.

I got my first DVD player in 98 or 99 I think. I was the first person in my family to get one. I was 10 or 11 years old. I owned a few DVDs, whenever I could I would get new things on DVD instead of VHS. I remember owning a couple Pokemon DVDs, the Pioneer released ones. I also rented DVDs instead of VHS too. Before that I owned many VHS tapes and recorded things off TV using VHS too. Because as you can guess I was an autistic child I noticed the poor quality of VHS recordings early on. Even when it was good it couldn't match the quality of analog satellite broadcasts, analog cable, or the various digital sources around. I badly wanted a laserdisc player before DVD took off. I had seen them and even used one once at my grandma's house. The cost was very prohibitive and the best bet to acquire the discs where I lived was mail order.

By the time DVD had reached it's peak and everyone in my family had a player I already moved on. I learned how to download movies off the internet in VCD and SVCD format. Even though the old DVD player I got for my birthday years back was expensive and nice I replaced it with a cheap ass one that could play pirated movies I downloaded off the internet. I had so many CD-Rs just laying around... After that I got an xbox for Christmas, softmodded it, and XBMC became the player of choice. S/VCD was on it's way out and all the shit I wanted to watch from the internet was in xvid. Or it was asf/wmv files from porno pay sites. The only VCDs I downloaded by then were porno dvd rips. Those were xvid soon after too.

i wanted a blu-ray burner for $60 i was excited to get one then its $20 for a 10pack of 50gb blu-rays which equals about 500gb, to back up data, now a 500gb drive is like $22 bucks, id rather buy 2 of those then buy 2 packs of discs and make 2 copies of everything, not to mention the blu-ray burners that will accept 120gb and burn 120gb discs are $120 and the discs are like $10 a piece wow blu-ray is gay, sony is garbage proprietary overpriced bullshit, cant wait till that loser company dies, apple, google, sony, you all suck fuck you.

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Blu ray will stay alive but it will be a kinda niche thing. We will never see the number of releases there was on DVD on bluray. Streaming will overtake it for sure but group 1 will keep blu alive. Even though they're a small group they're the most willing to spend. That's why laserdisc stuck around as long as it did until DVD overtook it.

no the people who were supposed to keep blu-ray alive were people like me who would use the format to back up data but the discs are overpriced garbage thats what i think

At this point that's a niche market too. That's why they're able to fuck you on the price. It's not competitive or in high demand.

The conclusion "DVD will outlast Blu-Ray" does not follow from those points. You do realize that, right?
Besides, music pirating and streaming had been around for much longer, yet CDs are somehow still around, while cassettes and other stuff aren't, because they are an inferior format. Same for VHS.
Once costs go down enough, DVDs, at least non-writable ones, will be the ones more likely to disappear. There will be no point for anyone to buy DVDs when Blu-Rays are better.
Also, there are people, such as myself, who burn data on empty Blu-Rays, which is already a more efficient solution, money-wise, than doing the same with CDs or DVDs.

Only retards stream.

I had a shit ton of DVD's and still do, but literally the second I saw a BluRay disc's quality I knew I was never going to play any of them ever again. Especially now with the bigger screens/monitors playing a DVD on them is a joke. When everyone thought a small screen (20-30") was adequate DVD was still viable, now they're pretty much useless.

And?

yes I used to borrow/rent and make a copy with DVDShrink for my home collection.

I hope you were burning them to DVD9s. DVD Shrink did horrid encodes. Was better just to download the scene DVDR rips off the internet since they did 7 pass CCE at the minimum.

thinking about it, I realized I watched way more VHS movies than dvds. Watched way more porn in dvds though

As a zoomer, I grew up watching cartoons on DVD's. Had tonnes of them, they might still be somewhere, but I have to do some digging.

Ironically although I have a blu-ray external drive, I still use my DVD burner far more than the blu-ray which I have no media of.
I pulled the blu-ray drive out of an old japanese Fujitsu AIO that bought the farm and put it in an external enclosure.

I still watch VHS tapes

1999

I watched way more VHS than DVD. Once bittorrent and streaming sites came out I knew DVD was obsolete.

It's boomers who can't tell the difference between 2 discs and just going for the cheaper one.

If there was fast internet in the 80s DVD would never have been developed.

Back in 2000 my PC wasn't fast enough for DivX, HDs were too expensive to store the movies and internet was metered. The idea that I could somehow pirate movies and come out ahead was a pipe dream. Later when I got a faster machine and flat fee broadband I learned that 2x CD 700MB DivX/Xvid was total crap compared to DVD quality so I didn't feel like I wasted any money.

I used to watch everything on DVD on the big screen
Beat the 17" monitor I had

I guess you didn't have a burner and hear about SVCD. xvids were good enough for me until I owned HDTVs. I was watching xvids off flash drives on my xbox 360 before that. I also watched 720P x264 TV episodes on my 360 after I upgraded to HD but I would have to transcode the 5.1 audio to 2.0 AAC so it could play it, MKV->MP4 with the video untouched. That was always really fucking annoying.

rural America watched the ever living fuck out of DVDs back when internet companies couldn't be bothered to offer anything but dial up internet service to them
Blockbuster was the movie nut's best friend.

I buy old anime and then watch them with my friends, it may not be the best way to watch them but it's cheap and easy to find where I live

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I used to rip DVDs at my local library into a 10GB external hard drive and watch them at home

Physical media will never go away because streaming services get raped by the licensing jew left and right. When a movie is not available on their favourite streaming service, many people would rather just order a physical copy online than sign up for the nth video streaming site. Hopefully zoomers who have a vague understanding of what 1080p means due to watching so much youtube will prefer blu-ray over garbage like DVD.

going to blockbuster with family every weekend to hire a bunch of DVDs was comfy af. My condolences that you didn't get to experience this.

>people who are too dumb to stream and don't give a shit about video quality

My parents' DVD player died about 3 years ago, and they got sold by some guy at Best Buy on a Blu-ray player. Other than a couple movies that came with both, they've only bought DVDs since, saying they can't tell the difference (Except that they can rent a DVD for less from Redbox).
This is the audience that buys DVDs, 55+ boomers with poor eyesight who just want to watch a movie for cheap.

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Not really, no. By the time DVD players were ubiquitous and cheap, broadband internet was already there.
I used to burn .avi files on DVDs, though.