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DVD was also popular around the time that Plasmas were being introduced, which also had burn in issues.
by Arbalest 7y ago
DVD was also popular around the time that Plasmas were being introduced, which also had burn in issues.
- tunnuz 7y agoAren’t DVDs popular anymore?
- chungy 7y agoBlu-ray has been around for a good while now.
- mattnewton 7y agoAnd broadband adoption. I think streaming actually killed it, not a higher resolution format.
- frosted-flakes 7y agoDoesn't Blu-ray still have better quality than most streaming services?
- function_seven 7y agoIt does. I’m sure most people don’t think the quality difference is worth the hassle of storing physical discs and paying for them. Compressed 1080 is good enough.
- hunter2_ 7y agoA decent number of streaming services have very good 4K and all you need is a Chromecast Ultra with a $200 TV to make it all work.
- PunksATawnyFill 6y agoIs that sarcasm?
- Fnoord 6y agoTrue, except now in EU, the bitrate of 4k streaming is low because the EC asked companies to reduce it. This because of the COVID-19 pandemic leading to everyone [who can] being required to work from home.
- mattnewton 6y agoYeah, if you buy a new TV and sit close to it you can tell the difference. But I think for most people 1080p at a distance was acceptable where a fullscreen VHS picture would have been illegible, and the convenience became the next biggest factor. The leap from VHS to DVD was a lot larger than the leap from DVD to Blu-ray, in terms of the perceived quality IMO.
- matheusmoreira 6y agoYes. Streaming services provide 1080p or 4k resolution images but it doesn't matter because they apply heavy compression in order to save bandwidth. In my experience, even 100% black frames have artifacts. No wonder people turn to copyright infringement.
- qlm 6y agoMy local supermarket has 2-3 times more DVDs than Blu-Rays.
- chrisseaton 6y agoNo, they’re low resolution and bulky. Do many people even own an old DVD player anymore?
- nelblu 6y agoI still buy DVDs because I like classic movies and for those movies it doesn't matter whether you watch in dvd quality or Blu-ray. Plus DVD rips are significantly smaller in size and even though I have Blu-rays for some movies I don't have a Blu-ray player on my computer to rip them. So effectively my preference is to buy DVD, unless it's a relatively modern movie (post 90s)
- PunksATawnyFill 6y agoNot true. Movies were of course shot on film, which has way higher resolution than DVD. Even old TV shows look better than ever, as long as they were scanned from film. Look at the original Star Trek or Twilight Zone on Blu-Ray.
- dmos62 6y agoYou're talking about the most popular movies that were transfered to digital or even restored. Most films weren't. Plus, we lost immense amounts (most) of cinema that was produced before ~1950s when better film started being used.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> You're talking about the most popular movies that were transfered to digital or even restored. Most films weren't. How are you watching a film on DVD if it hasn't been transferred to digital?
- Lammy 6y agoDVDs have been around for over twenty years. There are plenty of things that were released on DVD but now hang in license limbo due to a publisher going out of business or whatever. There may have been a transfer done for a DVD release that would need to be re-done for HD, and that all takes time, money, usually personal interest of some sort, and of course the physical items still have to exist (2008 Universal Studios vault fire, anyone?)
- projektfu 7y agoYeah, those were mad expensive. I remember complaints about the logo "bugs" on TV stations that were fixed parts of the display.
- M2Ys4U 6y agoYeah the BBC News DOG was got burned in to our plasma TV pretty bad when I was a kid