The average person buying movies on physical media in 2022 is: poor, or has a bad internet connection, or is a collector, or is elderly and doesn't like changing formats. So most of those would prefer the cheaper, more ubiquitous option.
It also doesn't help that DVDs are operated by a consortium of companies but Blu-ray is majority owned by Sony, who is notoriously stingy.
yeah I have music on vinyl I really like because I'm paranoid about digital stuff dying. vinyl is really durable as long as it's stored correctly and can potentially last centuries
DVD was a broader consortium under Philips, I believe. Sony takes a larger chunk of the pie via blu-ray's consortium that they're the main contributor too. I think Sony's more avaricious and controlling than even the usual electronics company. But u/ANTI... is probably right about how DVD exploded because it was the first popular format to come after VHS for a lot of the world and solved almost all of the issues people have with VHS. Blu-ray's just an upgrade to DVD and broadband internet started being popular right around the same time.
Not really, optical media has been on the decline since 2007 / 8, the PS3 came out in 2006.
As someone who refuses to listen to ads or pay for streaming music, the elimination of optical drives from modern laptops has been mildly infuriating.
I had never really thought about it too much.
I've got a stand alone BluRay player like five years ago after the DVD player died because it was the cheapist thing I could find online at like 45 (ish, I think) US bucks.
DVDs were introduced in 1996, when high speed internet was very expensive and uncommon. DVDs actually filled a market niche. Blu Rays were introduced (globally) in 2006 when internet piracy was much more practical, and offered no improvements over the DVD except for people who owned very expensive (by 2006 standards) TV sets. Around the same time (2007) Netflix began transitioning from physical media rentals to online streaming and the need for physical media began to wane.
When the PS3 first released they were selling it at such a loss that it was the cheapest Blu-ray player on the market, and also let you play video games lol
no, blu-ray was introduced in 2006. dvd's were introduced in 1996. so if blu-ray had the same trajectory (and i'd expect blu-ray to move slower, since it's less of a jump in quality than vhs to dvd was, and it's harder to convince people they really need something virtually identical to what they already have (disc to disc as opposed to tape to disc)) it would overtake dvd rentals in 2013 and completely replace them by 2018. but streaming happened in that time instead
I'll be honest most movies I see for sale in like CVS are not really gonna benefit from increased visual fidelity.
