Friday 24 January 2025
If you have read the title Yes Blu-Ray is Dead until February 2025
So yeah they are going to shut down their factory in Feb 2025
Last year, Best Buy Took away the physical media; however, Barnes N Noble still has an array of Blu-rays and DVDs. Last week, I visited my local Barnes and Noble to check out what they had in the Blu-ray and DVD section. And it has some cool stuff that I can't justify buying for 39.99, lmao, even though I already have it on my phone for "Free, lol."
I remember Blu-rays becoming available thanks to the PS3's launch in 2006. The PS3 and PS4 were the cheapest Blu-Ray player. However, the prices of the PS3 and Blu-rays back then seemed unjustifiable since DVDs were more affordable. Even after 4-6 years later, when I got myself a PS3 in 2012, seeing Blu-ray prices still didn't make any sense. To this day, Blu-rays are still very expensive.
Every time I go to a Goodwill or any thrift store I still see that they have an overly large selection of DVDs than Blu-rays.
I do remember HD/DVD was a thing but it didn't see much popularity.
The big advantage that Sony had with Blu-Ray is that it holds 4x the storage of data "25-50GB" Compared to a DVD "1GB-4GB".
For those who are worried about it buy what u can!!!
For me, I just never really got on with Blu-ray at all lol...
By 2011, You know thanks to the internet I just never really bought a single physical disc copy except for my brother who still collects his DVD/Blu-Rays to this day.
Overall collect what u can because this thing will disappear.