High-definition television absolutely provides a better picture for your viewing pleasure, but throughout the stages of television’s life itself each step has been state-of-the-art at its time.

When television first came out it was black-and-white and then they progressed onto color broadcasts. The invention of being able to record broadcasts from your home was extremely expensive; some of the first VCRs were $800.

There was the initial push for video CDs and then DVD made its debut and DVD was considered standard for a very long time; just up until recently. HD DVD and Blu-Ray are going head-to-head trying to establish themselves as the high-definition standard for the new level of high-definition broadcasts. HD DVD finally lost the foot race in trying to establish themselves as the market standard.

I think our current time and status is kind of suspect; we have all these neat features and gizmos now that we really don’t need another video disc. DVD is still widely popular and many video by mail services are still making money by shipping DVDs all over the country. Families are still enjoying the same movie quality and entertainment by watching a DVD as they would from a Blu-Ray DVD.

Some might argue that it’s ‘not worth’ watching a movie if you’re not watching it in the highest quality possible, but this would be an arrogant statement.

Because before Blu-Ray was invented, people were watching and enjoying movies with DVD way before. The same entertainment and value was obtained money was still being made with the distribution and sale of DVDs. The quality of a DVD is still very good.

In comparison to the picture quality, Blu-Ray DVDs have a slight improvement over traditional DVD players, but there’s nothing there to say that the old version should now be considered intolerable or inferior.

Now that the cable companies have started distributing their services for video on demand [in high definition] you have to ask yourself how much longer is there going to be a requirement for a video disc at all?

Are people still going to be willing to purchase the video disc?

I’m sure they will; people have an innate desire to have to own all types of entertainment.

I don’t currently have a Blu-Ray DVD player. I had a very large collection of DVD movies and I just don’t feel the need to have to replace all those DVDs simple because the movie is now in a higher resolution; for which I think this is just a ploy from the movie studios just to make more money on the same movie that you’ve owned three times before, since it was initially released as a VCR tape. I feel no need to go out and purchase a DVD Blu-Ray player because I think it’s just a waste of time.

The first issue is that the Blu-Ray DVD players still having came down in price, there’s not enough producers of the Blu-Ray players to drive the cost of the units down. And while the movie studios are still producing movies in the old DVD format are also producing them with its Blu-Ray versions of the movies to try to drive the sales in that direction as well.

The demise of VCR tape was a process of flooding the markets with low-cost DVD players and focusing strictly on the production and distribution of DVDs. For the movie studios to keep producing a DVD and Blu-Ray version of the movies they recognize and the knowledge that DVD is not dead but yet Blu-Ray is not a success yet.

With every day, every week and every year, technology is changing; it’s progressing at an exponential rate.

What you need to do is understand that first there was a video beta tapes, VCRs, DVD and then Blu-Ray. these are all technologies that have progressed rapidly over the last 40 years. And giving each medium it’s due Blu-Ray only has about 10 years left at maximum in its current state and then it’ll be replaced with a new medium. Higher definition better sound quality and then we’ll be right back where we started.

When you’re talking technology, you’re talking standards changing every six months. The standards are being developed every day that surpassed the old standards in so many ways. Cable providers are providing digital recording devices with their subscriptions and providing video on demand for their customers.

And so we’re back to our initial question which is do we really need to purchase a Blu-Ray DVD? I say no.

Video on demand is going to keep progressing to cable customers, it’s going to make it to the portable devices, it’s going to make it to the Internet and the format that Blu-Ray DVDs have, in its current state, is going to be replaced with a new format in just a matter of years. I actually wouldn’t doubt the replacement of a Blu-Ray DVD disc by using a jump drive.

I’m going to hold out until there’s not any options, I’m going to upgrade when there isn’t anymore DVD players on the shelves or they don’t sell DVD movies anymore.

Thanks for reading!

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