>unironically the betamax of the 21st century
goodnight, sweet prince
Unironically the betamax of the 21st century
Landon Evans
Robert Torres
Betamax was still produced and in use until 2016.
Also, Sony was the only company behind Betamax, there are a half dozen+ companies behind bluray, sony just happened to be one of the biggest primary members of the bluray association.
Sorry, but bluray isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Even if it WERE just sony like with Betamax, they'd still make blurays for the japanese market, just like they did Betamax.
Brody Morales
yes. because HDDVD is clearly used more widely than bluray
Alexander Martinez
yeah no sweetie okay
Nathan Hughes
>inb4 HD DVD
HD DVD was more like the RCA CED, barely sold letalone found in stores for longer than a year (at least where i live).
Nathan Nguyen
oof, i was too late, was supposed to write immediately after posting. take that reply as my response.
James Morgan
i was more talking about market share and its relevance in the normie market, of course these formats are always going to be sold to enthusiasts, but we are going to be finding way more "netflix only" films and shows in coming years, just like how a lot of movies would pass on beta and laserdisc because it simply didnt appear to be viable
netflix can do 4K, im pretty sure. im not a normie so i wouldnt know. also beta was higher quality than vhs, but that didnt make a difference. people wanted the convinience of longer runtimes (which today can be equated to the normieflix desire to binge an entire TV show without swapping a disc). also if youre comparing to DVD, DVD never had competition, everybody used it back in the day and no format could even compete before blu-ray.
Austin Rodriguez
>netflix can do 4K, im pretty sure
With some caveats but yes.
Also the bitrate is 1/3 or 1/4 of the UHD bluray.
Jose Campbell
I still only have DVDs, but a pretty decent collection of them. Though I don't watch them , I also still have a bunch of VHS tapes, mostly ones that I recorded movies on cable channels (which was silly since edited and commercials unless it was ones off HBO which some are). As a kid I was basically committing piracy before I even knew what piracy was.
Lucas Bennett
I do watch the DVDs though.