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What’s the future of DVDs and Blu-rays?

What does the future look like for DVDs and Blu-rays? Not the most promising, based on recent physical media sales figures.

As Amazon reminds customers they don’t have full ownership of the digital videos they buy, I look at alternatives to buying digital videos.

On Tuesday, The Verge reported that Fandango, owned by Comcast, will buy Vudu from Walmart for an undisclosed amount of money. The […]

In the spring of 2016, I wrote about the major digital movie stores: Amazon, Vudu, iTunes, and Google Play. Given some major […]

Revenue in the US from subscriptions to digital streaming services (such as Netflix) has finally surpassed those of DVDs and Blu-rays for […]

While streaming video’s ubiquitous, actually buying or renting digital video’s not so much. A recent survey by research firm GfK showed 46% […]

DVDs (and to a lesser degree their Blu-Ray high definition cousins) have dominated the home video landscape since the early 2000s. The […]

Update (11/25/18): I’ve written an updated post about digital movie stores. Back in 2014, I wrote about the various digital video services […]

On October 28, Google is replacing “YouTube Music Key” with the formal launch of YouTube Red, a subscription service for YouTube. At […]

Fox has reported they plan to halt production of any future DVD and Blu-Ray season box sets for the long-running TV show […]