Real 4k disks - what do you think the rollout timeline will be?

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by mredman

more then that. Look how much big blockbuster movies sell on blu ray. Physical media will likely never go away when studios make millions on it. Even CD and DVD's still get released

I'm not predicting the "death" of blu-ray, I'm predicting that it will be superceded. We had this same conversation here a few years ago about the demise of DVD (back in 2009, I believe). The majority of posters were saying that DVD would cease to exist in the next year or two because blu-ray was finally starting to take a good chunk of market-share, and I said that DVD would hang on and co-exist as a lesser "bargain" format, perhaps indefinitely. Naturally, everybody else in the thread spent the next week exhaustively berating me as a stupid, crazy "closet HD-DVD fan"... well, the years passed, and look who was right.

I'm saying the same thing now about blu-ray: it will be superceded as the mass-market standard at the end of the decade, but it will continue to exist and sell well for many years beyond that.