Will Standard Blu-ray (1080p) be the last mainstream physical video media format?

[Dex Robinson]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

The upside is the niche format will cater more to the film enthusiast, meaning cooler extras, packaging, booklets and whatnot...

I've got real doubts about that.

It sounds the pitch for Blu-ray in the early days.

Remember the trumpeting of BD Live and things like picture-in-picture special features? I have a couple of those circa 2008 BDs with neat picture-in-picture features. I don't know what happened to that...don't see much of it anymore (but I buy almost entirely catalogue films these days). I've got an old HD DVD flyer from 2007 touting a whole range of "Superior Interactivity, mulitple video streaming, instant access..."

The last BD I watched didn't even have a trailer.