Unironically the betamax of the 21st century

>unironically the betamax of the 21st century
goodnight, sweet prince

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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.

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yes. because HDDVD is clearly used more widely than bluray

yeah no sweetie okay

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>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).

oof, i was too late, was supposed to write immediately after posting. take that reply as my response.

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.

>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.

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.

I do watch the DVDs though.

Blu-ray did have its time and place in the mainstream when internet connections weren't fast enough for HD streaming, but I think now that internet connections are fast enough, we're seeing the transformation away from mainstream use of optical media to a primarily digital distribution economy.

People like the convenience of being able to look up a movie and watch it within 30 seconds of it popping up in their minds, and not having to go out in the freezing winter temperatures to watch a movie, especially when you're snowed in.

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I don't get why streaming is so popular when it's such low quality
Can't these services let you download a movie and watch it after it downloaded the first part instead of streaming it? It'd be the same thing only with a 5 minute buffer time at the beginning to download the first part, or even less of it if you don't care about 4k

At worse quality than regular a 1080p Blu-ray disc.

Sucks that Netflix is designed around amerishart 3rd world internet

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there are millions of Americans with affordable gigabit, and many more with 100mbps+

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you can thank companies for holding DVDs up for so long. if BD was released those 7 years earlier, it would be well adopted

And most of that is wasted

depends what you're doing.

I regularly download UHD remuxs at 40-80GB in size per movie.

Having 700-800mbps for torrents is great.

that's kind of wasteful. do you encode those remuxes or do you have bunch of hard drives with them?

I've got around 40TB of HDDs currently.

Some things I will encode, but just depends what it is.

>I don't get why streaming is so popular when it's such low quality
most people don't notice the shitty quality
bds would still be expensive as hell. i think it's not as widespread because of the price but i guess you get what you pay for.

>bds would still be expensive as hell
also dumb marketing. they were waaay to expensive when they hit the market (not to mention the writers). meanwhile DVDs were approaching a price of CDs

>Netflix can do 4k
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

coupled with a 1TB data cap.
The free market always finds a way to screw you up

>Cap
>Free market
>Bandwidth can reach the free market with a mile long pole
>Implying

>coupled with a 1TB data cap.
lol no, i use 5-6TB a month, this is verizon. No data cap.

You fucking faggots would go out and vote for the first time for a socialist who promised everyone free gigabit