The "Beginning of the End" for DVD, BluRay As Online Viewing Surpasses Physical Media Viewing Tuesday Mar 27 2012 08:38 EDT A new study from IHS (via Telecompetitor) claims that 2012 will be the first year ever that more movies are streamed or purchased online than are viewed via physical media (DVD, BluRay). Legal, paid-for consumption of movies online in the U.S. alone will reach 3.4 billion views, compared to 2.4 billion for physical video. The natural growth runs in contrast to movie industry efforts to try and salvage physical media sales through sometimes obnoxious and artificial means (like 56 day new release delays). "We are looking at the beginning of the end of the age of movies on physical media like DVD and Blu-ray," says an IHS analyst. |
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Doomsday is still far away.Until I can stream 1080p content at a bit rate of 50Mbps with 7.1 DTS-MA HD surround sound with hours of extra content .. than Blu Ray is quite safe as the deployment across the US of faster than 10Mbps internet is quite slow and will likely take decades.
DVD's can go away as far as I'm concerned , they are past there prime. I don't think the players will disappear as the piracy market is too vast for that. But I already stream tons of Netflix content.
But this entire headline is moot since bandwidth caps will completely hamper any true change , no one will be willing to give up there collection of discs only to be told they can only watch it so many times in a month before they get charged tons of extra money for bandwidth or threaten with a disconnect notice for hogging bandwidth. I think our physical media is still quite safe. | |
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