Are DVD's being phased out?

[kempodragon]

Recently I checked on the NIS America website for season 2 of "Waganaria" and saw that all titles released from January onward are bluray only. I also picked up the Riddick Collection at Walmart and saw it was only Blu-ray and digital download, no dvd combo pack. It makes me wonder how much longer DVD's will be made given the fact HDTV's are beginning to reach a saturation point and production costs keep dropping.

[HWK]

Actually, that is good question. Where I live same thing is happening last 20 movie or so I choose to buy are all blu-ray only and finding DVD is becoming hard.I can't complain I like quality and off course flexibility.

As for digital download I am not really fan of those, they can never compete with quality which come with blu-ray disc and off course peace of mind.

[edmundpeterson]

I am worried about that too, especially that I used to buy a lot of DVDs.

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[Ghitulescu]

Why would be they needed anymore?

[Dark Eiri]

BD players are as cheap as DVD Players used to be when they eliminated VHS for good. So yeah, it's time.

[TheSkiller]

I don't think it's time.
Where I live only about a quarter of current movie releases are available on BD in rental stores, but always in addition to the DVD of the same movie.
Neither me nor anybody I know personally owns a BD-Player (and a purchase is not planned either). A DVD-Player, however, everyone has one.

[Mole]

The DVD as a format needs to die.

The future isn't really BDs or physical medias, but online distribution.

BDs and other physical medias will be reduced to a niche market by people who perhaps likes to collect them.
Majority of people don't really care or need to buy a tangible just for the sake of watching it maybe 1 time.

A lot of people will be moving to digital hoarding instead and store thousands of movies on their HDD.

[Ghitulescu]

The real danger is the availability.
One has a certain movie (or music for that matter) on a medium. No matter how many movies an online videotheque might have (or claim to have), they won't have all of them. They will hold stupid movies like Kick ass because these seem to be commercial and disregard the others. Being accustomed to "have" it will be difficult to revert to the pre-war situation, when one had to go in a theatre to see a movie, and the movies had repeated scenes borrowed from an earlier one to satisfy the customers that wanted to see that one instead.

[Video Dude]

The DVD as a format needs to die.

The future isn't really BDs or physical medias, but online distribution.


I hope not.



A lot of people will be moving to digital hoarding instead and store thousands of movies on their HDD.

But how can you digital hoard without DVD or Blu-ray? You need optical media to get a quality copy to your hard drive.

You can't bit-by-bit copy online streaming because of the DRM. Even if you could, most online services are bitrate starved in terms of quality and buffering and drop frames are an issue.

[Sharc]

Haven't printed press and books been declared obsolete many times in the past? I still see (and read) newspapers and books ;)

[Ghitulescu]

Unfortunately it's not the consumer the one that decides when and what format will die....
The so-called technical obsolence is a marketing strategy to force people buy things many times over ....