Blu-ray 4K Under Consideration by BDA

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by MrHT

I guess the smartest thing to do is to convert our DVDs or BDs into digital files, such as AVC, and store them on a hard drive or USB. So long as we have computers, there will always be softwares that can play them. I think digital files are much more future-proof than formats since formats seems to change very often and become obsolete.

why? If I don't dust off my commodore 64 I can't play my oldest computer games, I have a lot of programs from DOS and earlier versions of windows that don't work anymore in the latest version of windows. I can still easily buy a record player or (combo)VHS player if I want. And even though BD has been out so long there are some people that still only rely on DVD. Honestly I see it way more likely that an application developer will decide "I will drop mpeg-2 since it is used so little" then it will be to find a "DVD" player in the future.