Death of Blu-ray is imminent – Samsung no longer introducing new players

If no blue ray then what, back to DVD that is over 10 times smaller?

What happened to the Holographic Versatile Discs that were being developed a few years ago???

Originally posted by ivymike:

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What happened to the Holographic Versatile Discs that were being developed a few years ago???

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All the kids stream now, they aren't real interested in quality at all it's more about lazy or what is easiest for them. Mid-to-High end audio stores are falling away fast for similar reasons leaning more to car audio gear. Oppo gave up on their UHD players too, for some of us fortunately Cambridge Audio is trying to pickup the Oppo market but they cost twice as much and aren't as feature rich. I still prefer physical media but when they come up with a better means will switch to that, Streaming isn't a replacement for me, just a filler.

Sad news for sure. I like my discs so i can backup to my nas for my zappitti jukbox playing on my 3 dune players in my house. What a shame. What about regular blu ray players? Do they plan on making those still? I never jumped to 4k anyway

You can still find normal Bluray players, as well as 4K players. Sony, LG Panasonic and off brands are out there as well as plenty of Samsung's. Lots of time left before they go instinct. I too use discs as my base to support my audio-video servers, I use Plex as my main server but have Linux and other stuff as well.

Sounds like there will be a greater emphasis on hard disk based players with internet connectivity.

Wonder if the user who went by the name of "hughjars" still visits this site? (think he ended up getting progressively more aggressive in "debates" and was banned) Hows that HD-DVD collection and all those xbox hd-dvd addons that were so inexpensive that they guaranteed the formats success over Sony and Blu-ray?

But yes, physical media is going the way of the Dodo for everything other than as a backup, streaming services and the lack of bandwidth restrictions these days make things easily available and near instantly.
I remember when I would struggle to delete a 100mb download due to how long and hard it might be to find again, nowadays I clear GB's of downloads from my cache folder with no concern.