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Originally Posted by haydnfan
Even though blu-ray won that format war, it still lost. The price was too high (and still is too high), streaming took over, and people had no interest in immediately replacing their dvd collection.
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All those, plus they forgot MPEG2 being a "fluffy" video format meant good upscaling algorithms could render near-HD video from DVDs.
Even worse, most of the digital video subscription services allow downloads for off-line viewing, much like Overdrive and Kindle Unlimited do for ebooks.
And, finally, digital downloads to cheap kids tablets serve as electronic baby sitters without risking a video disk or having to make a cheap copy for the kid to repeatedly watch and eventually destroy.
Hindsight says disk-based HD video only had a narrow window to build critical mass for the winning format and the format war froze the market too long and the wait for BD to mature the software and for players to come down to mainstream prices so that by the time the format was truly ready for the market the market had changed.
The churn since then (3D, 4K, multiple HDR flavors, and now 8K) isn't helping drive sales volume either.