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Originally Posted by ApK
Double layer DVDs are the standard for commercial movies.
Less popular for home-recording, but they do have (or had) a following among home video buffs.
As for Blurays discs (25 GB per layer), they were eclipsed by other forms of storage and streaming for everything but commercial movie distribution (mostly, anyway).
I am surprised there even is a 4K Bluray standard being sold, and that discs will be coming in higher capacities.
I'd have bet that Bluray was going to be the last form of physical distribution we were going to see at any mass market scale, to be totally replaced by streaming and solid state storage.
ApK
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By commercial movies, I suppose that you mean those produced for public viewing, such as in movie theaters? I'm not much of a movie-watcher, but all of the movie DVDs that I've played will play in my computer's DVD drive. However, come to think of it, all of the computers (laptops, all--I wear them out like crazy) that I've purchased in the last 5 or 10 years may have/have had double-layer capability.
I tend to shy away from blu-ray movies. For one thing, none of the computers that I have bought have/have had software pre-installed that will play them. Too, I have to plug a standalone blu-ray player into my computer every time that I want to watch a blu-ray movie. I do have a 1080p-capable laptop now, but frankly I haven't been able to see much difference between the visual quality of the dvd and blu-ray movies, either. And the sound quality of one of the blu-ray movies was crummy--worse than any dvd that I ever remember playing.
Yeah, I'm sure that the days of physical discs of every kind are numbered, including the CD.
The "purple thingie" that I spoke of, I now remember, is actually violet something. Seems like Sony is the one who created it. But I think that that may not require a new kind of disc, but is just a different way of encoding or something.