Basically just the title. With DVDs getting tossed to the wind it made me wonder when will blu-rays go? I’m gonna miss bloopers and extra scenes
Edit: A bit confused but the general consensus is that in some areas BRs have already began to be phased out while in others they’re just trucking along perfectly fine. It’ll be that way until they stop being profitable to the studios who make them. Is that correct? I don’t think the 8k argument is valid imo since that’s really niche currently.
Some data:
The Motion Pictures Association yearly THEME report, https://www.motionpictures.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/MPA-2021-THEME-Report-FINAL.pdf, shows a pretty consistent drop-off in physical sales of about 20% per year in the US. On the global side, it’s dropped consistently from about $15 billion in 2017 to $6.5 billion in 2021. By comparison, over that same time period digital grew from $28 billion to $72 billion. Or, out another way, digital went from twice as much as physical to about 12 times as much.
So physical is pretty definitively on the way out and will be dropped as soon as it is unprofitable. It’s hard to know when that point is without knowing what the upfront and scaling fees are with Blu-ray distribution. My gut is that we’ll stop seeing Blu-ray releases within 5 years