when will they stop selling dvds?

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adamknox

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as said in title. I really hope its not soon :( lol! ive heard blue ray dvds are selling more and more each week.. im having flash backs of the old VHS's.. :( lol i have over 400 dvd's and dont really fancy them becoming obsilete and having to change them over to blue ray, incase the player packs up and u cant get one for love nore money:(
 
Shamikebab said:
Why do the DVD's you own become obsolete when they stop selling them?
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He's more worried about not being able to buy a replacement DVD player.

You can still (at least until a year or two ago when my Dad bought a new one) get VHS recorders, so I suspect that even once they stop selling DVDs (in 5-10 years?) you'll be able to get players for them for another 10-15years afterwards.
 
imb4tman said:
Bluray players support DVD anyway and I can't see any reason for them not to.
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Ha, good point. Yeah don't see any real reason for them to remove that from players as the extra hardware associated must only cost pennies at most, or do they even have extra hardware?
 
I don't think DVD's will go for a long time yet!

Blu Ray's take up like what 2% of the market *Random made up fact of the day*

Don't get me wrong I own quite a few, but only if the movie really warrants it, otherwise, yes please to a £5 DVD instead of a £12-20 BR.
 
This Christmas will be a big one for Blu Ray - I expect that we'll be seeing more and more players around the £50 mark to increase mass market take up. That in turn will bring down the price of the discs themselves (though if you look around you can easily get some great titles for £7 or less these days).
 
Why worry. DVDs will be here for a long time to come as the huge majority buy them and won't be in a hurry to change format or players. Blu-ray players will support them into the blue yonder. When the price of Blu-ray comes down the mass market will start moving into it.
 
simulatorman said:
Blu-ray players will support them into the blue yonder. When the price of Blu-ray comes down the mass market will start moving into it.
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That's true most BR players support DVD's too.

Also, I've never had a DVD player break on me, and well if it did, then I've still got a PS2, PS3, Laptop and PC to fall back on ;)
 
I was buying BluRays, but only if the film warranted it. I was in Asda looking at the Book of Eli, £7 on DVD, or £18 on BR. Just not worth it I am afraid!

The price needs to drop considerably. It really is not worth the expense! If it was around £13 I probably would have bought it. for £11 I definatley wuld have!
 
What are DVDs, I think I've read about those in history ? :p

Only worth buying blu-ray if the films warrants the need for HD quality

MW
 
I suspect DVD's will be with us for a while, there are whole areas of the home video industry that are only just starting to do Blu-rays..

Also for much of the content that is on DVD, the only advantage of blu-ray would be that it might allow you to have 1 disc instead of 2-3 DVD's.

Not to mention the fact that blu-ray players can all cope with DVD's, and the installed userbase of DVD hardware is many times that of Blu-ray at the moment :) (think how long it took DVD to overtake CD for computer games as a minor example).
 
I have over 800 DVD's and probably looking to sell the lot, and fund my Blu ray collection which is about 30 since I started buying them about 2 months ago.
 
Mr-White said:
Wow 800 DVDs, what's the reason for such a large collection :eek:

MW
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When I first bought my Plasma from OcUK, a 42" Hyundai, back in 2004 ? I made a special room in my house called - and still is - " The Plasma Room".:D So, friends and family would buy me a DVD and watch it in the plasma room with me. Over 6 years it has built up very quickly.:eek:
 
=VTA=MANFACE said:
When I first bought my Plasma from OcUK, a 42" Hyundai, back in 2004 ? I made a special room in my house called - and still is - " The Plasma Room".:D So, friends and family would buy me a DVD and watch it in the plasma room with me. Over 6 years it has built up very quickly.:eek:
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With 800 dvds I'd imagine the room is now significantly smaller lol

MW
 
=VTA=MANFACE said:
I have over 800 DVD's and probably looking to sell the lot, and fund my Blu ray collection which is about 30 since I started buying them about 2 months ago.
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That's quite a lot, I thought I was a little bit excessive with somewhere North of 300 DVDs but I can see now I've been positively restrained... If you're going to be selling them on the Members Market there's a good chance I'll be interested in a few at least.

For the original question I don't imagine they'll stop selling DVDs for a good long while yet, while Blu Ray may be sharper and able to fit more onto a disk for many people (myself included) the advantages aren't compelling enough to supplant DVDs currently.
 
Mr-White said:
With 800 dvds I'd imagine the room is now significantly smaller lol

MW
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If you store them right, you can get a heck of a lot into a fairly small space, a Kitchen cupboard sized unit can easily hold 200+ ;) (the trick is storing them so you can easily get the one you want, and more importantly find the ones you want without spending an hour hunting:p)
 
Werewolf said:
If you store them right, you can get a heck of a lot into a fairly small space, a Kitchen cupboard sized unit can easily hold 200+ ;) (the trick is storing them so you can easily get the one you want, and more importantly find the ones you want without spending an hour hunting:p)
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Or of course just adopt a large space ;)

800 DVDs really isn't that many if you have any series you are collecting, which for non-UK length series can mean six disks alone. Looking around I've probably got 150 films available for instance access, but many there's many more which would take around ~10 mins to locate as they are not on openly available shelves. There's also around 60 TV series instantly available in the same way. But that doesn't include any anime ..... ;)

I think we will still see DVD's for quite some time, Blu-ray disks are still relatively expensive on the high street and the authoring costs over DVD are still quite a bit higher. Also a lot of things don't really warrant an upgrade as they upscale fine at the player/TV so why spend more replacing them when you could be buying new things.
 
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