Physical Media Isn’t Going Anywhere, Says Blu-ray Disc Association

January 25, 2018

With some observers predicting that the continued growth of streaming-media delivery will lead to the death of physical media, a TWICE interview with representatives of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) offered a very different story.

Samsung’s Dan Schinasi, BDA’s U.S. promotions chair, and Sony’s Victor Matsuda, NDA’s global promotions chair, noted that that sales of Ultra HD Blu-ray players were up 133 percent. They also pointed to an eight-fold increase of 2017 unit sales of UHD Blu-ray software, accompanied by the number of available titles more than doubling to over 250.

From a content perspective, Disney has announced support for the format. With that, all the major studios are on board.

From a hardware perspective, the format, its technologies and capabilities continue to evolve. The BD-R/BD-RE version is specifically designed to meet the preference for hard storage of content on the part of Japanese consumers. Aimed at direct recording of advanced broadcast and satellite systems, it will accommodate up to 100 minutes of 4K recording and 30 minutes of 8K content; however -RE is available only in Japan with no plans to release it in the rest of the world.

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