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Originally Posted by ratinox
I still maintain that it's convenience. Netflix put Blockbuster out of business by being more convenient. Netflix killed HD-DVD and nearly killed Blu-ray by being more convenient.
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Okay I buy them killing Blockbuster, or at least having a big part in it with help from other streaming services, on-demand and RedBox, but how did it kill HD-DVD? HD-DVD died in early 2008 when Netflix streaming was in its infancy (until January of 2008 streaming wasn't unlimited). If anything the combination of Blu-Ray and users sticking with regular DVD killed HD-DVD. As for Nexflix nearly Killing Blu-Ray again not seeing it (unless you have some numbers?). Now if you want to argue that streaming in general has hurt physical media sales in general there is no doubt about that, but it's far from dire and bandwidth hogging UHD content has given physical sales a bit of a boost I believe.