how long does DVD format have until the format dies?

never

ppl are still going out and buying tapes and vhs, so even they're still alive

will dvds last 100 years? like, if you bought a dvd today, will it last that long?

well you can buy tapes from ebay or something like that, but stores dont officially have them. same with VCRs
and some tapes are very expensive, collector item tapes.

and no company is making either one of them, no company is making tapes either, so when tapes start to damage, there will be no replacement, you know?

What I was wondering is how long will it be until factories stop making dvds

What I was wondering is how long will it be until factories stop making dvds

I think the only thing that could definitively kill dvds is if the manufacturers of Blu-Ray discs made a decision to set their MSRP's for BDs exactly the same as dvds. But as long as dvds cost less than the BDs, people are still going to buy them because it saves them a few bucks. Better picture quality and more features are nice enticements to pay more for the Blu-Ray, but when push comes to shove, the majority of consumers are still going to make decisions with their wallets.



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well you can buy tapes from ebay or something like that, but stores dont officially have them. same with VCRs
and some tapes are very expensive, collector item tapes.

and no company is making either one of them, no company is making tapes either, so when tapes start to damage, there will be no replacement, you know?
I can go to my local £1-Shop, Wilkinsons or Argos and pick up blank cassette tapes

I don't know the equivalents for USA but I assume similar

by persen1 » Mon Jan 18 2016 15:55:13
Until every movie and TV show that ever has been made, have been scanned frame by frame to HD and then remastered.
So about 100 years, give or take a day or two, will the DVD still be alive.

This ^^^


I think the only thing that could definitively kill dvds is if the manufacturers of Blu-Ray discs made a decision to set their MSRP's for BDs exactly the same as dvds. But as long as dvds cost less than the BDs, people are still going to buy them because it saves them a few bucks. Better picture quality and more features are nice enticements to pay more for the Blu-Ray, but when push comes to shove, the majority of consumers are still going to make decisions with their wallets.

It has nothing to do with price point because DVDs on average are only slightly less than Blurays. It has everything to do with source material being scanned into HD as persen1 stated above.

The companies that own the tv shows and films have to spend money to transfer and/or remaster the film into HD so they can be released on Bluray. For a new film it doesnt cost much, for a 25 year old tv show like the "The Wonder Years" it costs a lot and is the reason it is only being released on DVD and not Bluray.

Shows like "The Wonder Years" were filmed on film but transfered and edited on videotape so they have to go back to the original reels to remaster them and then scan them into HD and then recut the episodes exactly how they were broadcasted and it takes a lot of work and a lot of money and if the studio doesn't think its profitable then they just won't do it and they will only release it on DVD.

wow so that means that some shows will never be made for blu Ray?

No show has ever been made for Blu-ray. Television shows are made to be shown on television sets in the area where they're produced, typically. That doesn't stop engineers from doing standards conversions so they can be aired in foreign markets. Mastering for Blu-ray is typically more involved than that.

Remember that regardless of the type (DVD, Blu-ray), a disc is just a collection of bits.