Like the VHS, will DVD's start to go extinct, as Blu-Ray's become the new trend?

With how technology is advancing, we all have to upgrade to an HDTV to watch simple Cable. If you don't get an HDTV, you can't get Cable. At least that's what I heard, I don't watch Cable ever, but it was in an article, you had to get a converter for the Cable to watch it on your HDTV.

I think until the price of Blu-Ray's drop by like $3 or so, on average, DVD's will be around for a few more years.

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All I can say is though, I haven't bought a DVD in years. I only buy DVD's if it's not on Blu-Ray. And when I do buy DVD's, which is very very rare, I cringe. The quality, compared to Blu-Ray, suck so horribily that it RUINS my movie experience.

If you all didn't pay attention, Avatar comes out this week on Blu-Ray. Also Minority Report and The Lovely Bones.

The Minority Report, just watched it, is epic and legendary to Blu-Ray. They gave it justice. It felt like a new experience. I just, literally, just popped in the DVD and the graphics are so blurry and run-down and I started to cringe again.

I currently have over 170 Blu-Rays, going to break 200 by the end of this year for sure .

I hope not, i don't own a single blu-ray.

The DVD player will have more staying power than the VHS. I still use my DVD player pretty frequently, and it would be silly to buy a Blu-Ray right now.

Didn't Blu-Rays beat DVDs in that battle a while back?

I think DVD's will stay for a long time also. But as we grow with technology, the sales will slowly see-saw toward Blu-Rays.

We are coming out with 3D HDTV's now with enhanced technology and I even tested it out at one Best Buy last week. It was the same technology with the movies you see at the Theaters, not the Red/Blue glasses. It was so cool. I might have to buy one now! So that's why Avatar won't be released in 3D for a long time.

Until we come up with a better format, I feel DVD will just be here to stay. VHS only faded away because we made a new format, the DVD. Until we get rid of the disc, it will have staying power. Who knows what we'll have in 20 years.

No. That was HD-DVD. It was playable on Xbox's and are like Blu-Rays. I have never seen an HD-DVD before.

Plus with a stupid name like that, no matter why they lost. Blu-Ray > HD-DVD. I just like the Blu-Ray name better and that's probably what got consumers attention too.

Speaking of Avatar, did you guys know that it's the first movie EVER, in Blu-Ray history to have more percentage ratio of pre-orders compared to DVD.

Yes, over 50% of the pre-orders of Avatar come from Blu-Ray, not DVD.

Avatar is probably going to be the most experienced anyways on Blu-Ray because it was created soley for the graphics...

Here is the article: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=4350

You always seem to bring up "Avatar" every chance you get.

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I still love my VHS tapes
I'll probably be the last one to buy a Blu-ray disk.

Everything gets obsolete at some point.

At some point, a high definition television will be obsolete for something better. We may not think about this now, but it will happen eventually.

DVD's will be around a little longer. They will die a very slow and painful death.

VHS has been around for so long! I get so nostalgic everytime I see my collection of VHS. DVD is not gonna have the same longevity, of course it'll die out eventually (and then at some point blu-ray will die out too)

I have Blue Ray player but I never buy them. I buy dvd's all the time, and I own loads.
I hope they stay for ages!

I bought my Dad a Blu-Ray player a while back and it came with the Spider-Man 3 on Blu-Ray.

Guess how many he has now after like two years? Just the Spider-Man 3 one.

Never again am I being so thoughtful. I could've saved that $300 for something else. He doesn't even use it.

Eventually DVD's will be gone, but they have quite a while to go.

A PS3 is the only worthwhile Blu-Ray player on the market. It''s more efficient than a standalone player along with all of its other features at a reasonable price.

Like I have always said and will repeat here: Blu-Ray will never take off

I'd say that time will come, but not anytime soon. I'd say considering the price of both the Blu-rays and the Blu-ray players, it's gonna take at least another decade for the normal DVDs to become obsolete. I own a Blu-ray player but I only know two other people who do as well - I'm not counting here notebooks and Playstations.

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I think so cause you can just buy movie on demand now. For a much cheaper price