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  1. steve jaros

    The DVD day’s are numbered.

    IIRC, BD unit disc sales have never to this day surpassed those of DVD. Of course, 10+ years ago that meant something. Today, it's like having the highest income under $20,000 in your neighborhood, or something.
  2. steve jaros

    The DVD day’s are numbered.

    I agree with everything I snipped, I would just add one thing: To me, in terms of mass acceptance, there was a psychological dimension to DVD adoption as well. For example, In the 1980s, when the record industry was introducing CDs, the CD looked more advanced than a vinyl LP or a cassette tape...
  3. steve jaros

    The DVD day’s are numbered.

    Maybe, but won't it be a Pyrrhic victory? E.g., in the music realm, I saw reports late this past fall that sales of vinyl LPs were about to overtake sales of compact discs for the first time since 1986. But when CDs overtook vinyl in 1987, the CD format became the "king of the hill", the...
  4. steve jaros

    The DVD day’s are numbered.

    The answer to the question posed in 2006, "when will BD surpass DVD in sales and become the home media format of choice?" appears to be "never".
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