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Will 2025 be the year physical media dies?
While its grim news for 4K Blu-ray player owners, the home entertainment sector as a whole is thriving.
Ill tell you the people who did see this coming: The manufacturers who make 4K Blu-ray players.
We havent seen any new 4K Blu-ray players coming fromSony,LGor Samsung in the last few years.
At CES, absolutely no one was talking about 4K Blu-ray players.
I had a small VHS tape collection growing up that I happily ditched for DVDs in the early 2000s.
I havent bought a single Blu-ray since.
But 4K Blu-rays always felt different to me.
They didnt feel like a half-step upgrade that Blu-rays felt like.
(Yes, I know Blu-rays offered better technical specs over DVDs, but the timing was awful.)
Thats due to the way streaming services encode and decode content as it moves over the connection.
I just hope that the world doesnt make that same revelation after theyre gone.
