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I'm in my mid-30s, so that was the mid-1980s when my family first got into it. I noticed in the 1990s, blank VHS tapes got longer — BASF made a T-200 that could hold 10 hours in EP mode — but not necessarily better in quality. The tapes just seemed flimsier and more easily breakable compared to...

From the time I was about 20 months old, I had never known a time without home video in the home, so each new format seemed like a natural progression from the other.

Both of those transfers I mentioned seem to have been made around the same time, and Disney has only released the first one to Blu-ray at this time. For what it's worth, the guy who was running home video in the early DVD years now runs the parks. Criterion will often have different extras on...

Well, one night I watched two old Hayley Mills movies: In Search of the Castaways and The Moon-Spinners. The former was on laserdisc, and the latter was a DVD whose transfer was obviously a laserdisc port. The laserdisc looked better and offered lossless sound, something the DVD could have...

The gain in the last week is obviously because of the Black Friday boost, but that's expected. There is a glimmer of hope if there were more post-Thanksgiving sales this year than last year. What those sales figures still don't say is whether DVD those sales are for movies released only on DVD...

Recordable DVDs seem to be more practical to record anything off TV than Blu-ray, even now. What percentage of those sales constitute DVD-only releases?

I detest "background noise" and I only leave the TV on when I actually want to watch it. Otherwise, it's a waste of time and a waste of electricity, and therefore a waste of money. In my opinion, the only shows that are worth watching at all are shows that are worth giving your undivided...

And those of us who like other genres find it irritating that the stuff we like gets pushed aside for that. Why else would law-abiding consumers be treated as if we were potential criminals? Why else would we be subjected to all this rigamarole when none of it is actually necessary for a disc...

Discs may get scratched — a guarantee if you have children and/or animals around — but hard drives still crash and overheat. We already got that with Mac & Me. That same year, CBS announced a Saturday morning cartoon based on Domino's Pizza advertising character The Noid, but like The Noid...

For older YouTube music videos, perhaps, but that is changing now. I think cable is going to get hurt even worse than physical media. Where does it have to go from where it is now? That’s even less likely to start growing again.

The quality of online media used to be pretty substandard compared to what it is now. Remember how bad the audio for RealPlayer was compared to a CD? You can now hear that same music in much better quality on YouTube!

Yeah, your favorites, maybe. That's no comfort to anyone whose favorite show stalled at season 1 or 2 and is only available on streaming with some of the episodes missing a few minutes. That is, if they are even on streaming at all. Here's a link for non-NYT subscribers. Though to be honest...

And that’s why it was so great about laserdisc: it never had any of that garbage to begin with.

If DVD survives well into this decade, it will likely be as a "court of last resort" for obscure movies and unreleased 1980s sitcoms shot on tape. Meanwhile, who's going to buy a DVD of a show you can already stream in HD or purchase in HD from iTunes? And future adopters of UHD will likely do...

UHD has nowhere to go but up simply because it's new. If it does go up, its sales will hurt DVD more than Blu-ray. After that, there'll have to actually be 8k content before you can even think about a format on which to put it.

The last new movie I saw in a theater was Judy. That's only getting a Blu-ray, not a UHD. I would have gladly sprung for a UHD now that I actually have it. I agree with Bill Hunt's assessment. Disc may be down, but it's not out. If it were, then Playstation 5 wouldn't have disc capability at...

I just had my privacy violated, so under the circumstances, I couldn't care less about the greed and short-sightedness of the companies pushing streaming on us. And I also couldn't care less about the opinions of anyone who dismisses the collecting of physical media altogether. Maybe if there...

Maybe that's part of their motivation: circumventing the Blu-ray Association's fees. Someone mentioned that in another thread as being a cost factor that automatically makes it more expensive to master than DVD, not just increased resolution and more sophisticated compression codecs.

After someone hacked into my Amazon account, thus limiting my access to all aspects of it, as well as having to deal with authorized use of my Hulu account, my opinion of streaming media has not increased but decreased. It's physical media OR NOTHING from now on. That is non-negotiable. I'm not...

I used to alphabetize mine, then I got lazy about it after life happened, and I found it easier to put the lone released season of Silver Spoons in the space atop the complete run of Golden Girls, to put Small Wonder right between The Boys in the Band and Ted, and what has come out of Webster...