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11 Discs?
- Thread starter flavious27
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It is due to all of the different formats. Cars 1 comes on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital copy as does Mater's Tall Tales. Cars 2 adds a 3D version to the mix. Disc 11 appears to be bonus material.
Seems a bit excessive with more than a handful of the discs never going to be used.
I would agree but that is the multi-format world that we live in right now. Give it a few more years and hopefully DVD's will be going the way of the dinosaur.
Still going to be awhile before dvds are taken over by blu rays, last week the sales different was still almost 4 dvds to 1 blu ray.
Quite true, but blu-ray sales went up something on the order of 35% in 2011. Sooner or later it will reach a tipping point where blu-ray sales are far enough ahead of DVD sales that studios will simply stop making them. It will take a bit of time bet standard DVD's will eventually die just like VHS did. Of course there will probably be some new format coming out about the same time that will replace blu-rays and we will start all over again.:lol:
Well they increased 35% for units shipped in the US from 2010 - 2011, which is impressive. At the same time blu ray's marketshare will still take some time to eclipse dvd, especially when so many blu ray packages are double packs with dvds.
I don't see another physical media that will come out on the consumer side, but vod and stream will surpass blu ray. With digital cinema though, I see 8k on the horizon in the next 10+ years.
Streaming and VOD could eclipse Blu-ray today. The problem is bandwidth. Blu-rays transmit information as high as 42 Mbs. You average broadband connection these days is somewhere in the 6-10 Mbs range. When we are all connected to 100 Mbs connections streaming and Vod will have arrived.
Gizmodo did a fair article on the subject recently.
http://gizmodo.com/5865856/ridley-scott-streaming-movies-suck
Silver Figment
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Am I the only one who thinks that 11 discs for Cars is at least 8 too many?
A Giz article linked on here, my how the degrees of separation are getting smaller and smaller.
One of the problems with streaming is that the infrastructure is not in place to handle the higher demands. Though most of the content being seen right now doesn't need better quality. Looking at the movies that come out, only a dozen or so every year really need blu ray or anything above it. That is partly why it will be awhile before there is a form of physical media that will surpass blu ray.
Down the road I could see something setup like blockbuster express digital. A customer brings a small hard drive, like a WD passport, to the kiosk and they can download a couple of movies to the hard drive. There would be coding in the file that limits playback time. For collections like HP, Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR, and Pixar; consumers would buy a HD with the movies already loaded. Really this is how the movie theaters are doing it and it makes sense.
Why I started this thread.