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Let's be honest the 'DVD' is finished
linkinpark875
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The days of the 'DVD' are numbered. Blockbuster shut, Zavvi, Woolies all gone. HMV have few stores now. You can rent movies on Netflix, Sky Store, ITunes, PS4, for the same price as Blockbuster.
Movies get released digital before DVD now. Plus they take up less space. I have noticed ITunes prices have mellowed and there's some £5 movies and bargains to be had. Blu Ray will continue for people still buying new players and people who don't want long download times.
CeX will no doubt do well over the next few years with people flogging unwanted DVD's.
Movies get released digital before DVD now. Plus they take up less space. I have noticed ITunes prices have mellowed and there's some £5 movies and bargains to be had. Blu Ray will continue for people still buying new players and people who don't want long download times.
CeX will no doubt do well over the next few years with people flogging unwanted DVD's.
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Yep. I work in retail and we still have probably a 70/30 DVD vs Blu-Ray ratio. A lot of TV shows just don't go to blu-ray. Particularly network American shows. Cable tv shows yes. Not network.
Evidentially only the shit ones make to CEX then...
There's less and less places to buy physical media now. Manufacturers decide where technology go and especially in the games market they are desperate to go disc free. We are not talking about streaming I can buy a movie from itunes and download it and watch it without an Internet connection at DVD quality.
I'm a massive DVD fan but even I know times have moved on. In ten years we will all be downloading movies not buying discs.
Of the physical formats, I'd say Blu Ray certainly has superior image quality, but are enough people actually concerned about that? These days its all about cost and convenience, so if the DVD is still proving the more economic and convenient format then it'll probably stagger on until those factors turn against it.
I myself though have bought less Blu Rays since I've had Netflix.
Maybe shops like HMV are closing, but isn't that more because people are buying their DVDs online, rather than just not buying DVDs?
That was what i was going to say. I haven't bought a single DVD in a shop since i started buying online in 2009. My DVD collection is huge since i started buying online, it's just way cheaper.
I've never downloaded a film/TV series and never used Netflix etc., so if I was going to buy a film, I'd buy it on DVD
These days there`s little difference in price between BR and DVD and BR players can be had for as low as £50 AND they upscale your DVDs in PQ so no reason NOT to have a player - If only to take advantage of things like HMV closing down sales where blu-rays were going for £1.50 (box sets included!)
If you already have a working DVD player with an HDMI port there's no reason to spend money on a replacement until it breaks.
Am I missing something? How would that play BRs?
And for the record, HMV isn't doing too bad since they were saved from administration, we were always above the daily sales targets at the store i worked in. While i'm sure that eventually the time will come for them to close down, i can't see it being anytime soon. And they have started trying to price things competitively with online retailers, the aofrementioned big sellers like Despicable Me 2 were all priced at the same price as Amazon.
Wow, what title was it?
I just paid £5 each for a load of bootleg mst3k episodes on dvd, so I guess I'm in the same boat.
Anyway I doubt dvd will completely die out; having every Doctor Who looks good on my wall, having them all on a USB stick doesn't really have the same effect.
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Colditz ('72)
Danger UXB
Callan
The Sandbaggers
Airline ('82)
Hornblower
Sapphire and Steel
Dad's Army
Father Ted
or even Monk (although I do note that Columbo is out on Blu-ray)
I would love to get Robin of Sherwood on Blu-ray, but it's far too expensive, so I'll have to 'make do' with the DVDs.
Btw, do older tv series such as those listed above look alright on a large-ish 1080p tv set? My main set is a 720p model. I hope it doesn't conk out any time soon, but I don't want to buy something to replace it with that's unsuitable for watching my favourite programmes on.