Kinds of Kindness (2024 | HMV Exclusive) - October 21, 2024

[The Hornets]

Originally Posted by UnionJackMix

While I appreciate BD+DVD combos (simply because you might just need it, and sometimes I still want to get US releases knowing the BD is region-locked, like Lionsgate) why would someone not want HD? I'm really asking out of curiosity. I was really absolutely adamant about changing in the beginning, but not anymore.

The user base for DVD is miles bigger than BD. Many people felt DVD was good enough and moved to streaming for most watching just buying the occasional title on DVD. The step change from VHS to DVD was massive and it was a much more practical format than crapped out VHS tapes.

The change to BD wasn't big enough for most of the public to bother. Not helped by the HDDVD vs BD wars in the early days. Think that had a more noticeable impact than Betamax vs VHS as that was still in the days of rental tapes and very little sell through at that time. Then VHS became the format as those were the players the public bought.

This is why Hollywood still puts out DVDs of their films as they still sell.

The independents have long given DVDs up as collectors want BD and UHD.

If you look at the real world and not the bubble here then UHD is a fraction of BD in terms of user base but not sales as the UHD buyers are the heaviest buyers of physical video.