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Samsung stops releasing Blu-ray players in the US
Did you notice that Samsung hasn't made a peep about Blu-ray players at CES or other recent trade shows? There's a good reason for it: the company is exiting the category in the US. Samsung told Forbes and CNET that it's no longer introducing Blu-ray players for the country. It didn't provide reasoning for the move, but Forbes sources reportedly said that Samsung had scrapped a high-end model that was supposed to arrive later in 2019.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @07:13AM (3 children)
Easy for you to say, but not all of us live in a magical fairyland with uncapped high-speed data connections to the internet.
(Score: 2) by Apparition on Sunday February 17 2019, @07:40AM (1 child)
It's easy for me to say, but I also backed it up with facts. I realize that not everyone has uncapped high speed Internet, but the fact is optical media is being phased out. That's just undisputed. Stores have begun to stop stocking and selling optical media. Optical media player manufacturers like Samsung and Oppo have ceased manufacturing optical media players. The sales of optical media have plummeted over the past few years while video streaming subscriptions rise and the sale of digital media have substantially risen. The writing is on the wall, whether or not you want to see it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Apparition on Sunday February 17 2019, @07:47AM
I should also mention that Hollywood has recently begun doubting the 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray format, and several 4K Ultra HD movie restorations are only being released digitally, like It's a Wonderful Life, Lawrence of Arabia, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Also, rumor is that both the next Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox (scheduled for release in 2020 or 2021), will forego any kind of optical media drive. They will both be digital media only, according to the rumor. Now whether that's true or not, we'll see, but it wouldn't surprise me. Half of all Sony's and Microsoft's video game sales in 2018 were digital.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:10PM
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