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tenia wrote: Sat Jan 12, 2019 2:20 pm The issue with Hunt here is that he's, in the end, conflating UHD with the overall physical market. If he expected UHD discs to massively take off, he just was wrong, but it doesn't mean it equates to the total market collapsing faster than it already is.
It just means, well, that the industry yet again pushed a physical medium that wasn't supported that so many consumers' expectations. On this matter, it surprises me there is so little deeper articles on comparing the actual sales figures vs what the industry has been trying to sell us in the past years but that are usually solely predictions. Last time I checked, most of the actual collected key figures were 25 to 33% below the original projections, but this wasn't preventing the industry to rave about how they were seemingly selling tons of UHDs and how they were planning to sell more and more.
Hell : they projected a 8 fold increase in UHDs sales from 2016 to 2017. Figures are very difficult to find on the Web (or you'll find some different figures for the same period) but the best I found was only a 3 fold increase.
Did the industry expressed this ? Nope.
Did any journalist pointed this out ? Nope.

Bill complains about The Wrath of Khan 4K HDR master not hitting the shelves, but how were the sales of the anniversary BD release (the one with the new restoration) already ?
I wouldn't be surprised if the sales weren't already very high on BD. Why would Paramount, a studio that already doesn't do many UHDs of its catalog, would then release it ?

As he mentions at the end of his article, actually, the handful of studios are the ones getting hit, but look at how many indies are currently feeding the Golden Age of Blu Rays !

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tenia wrote: Sun Jan 13, 2019 5:59 pm I'd probably need 2 lifetimes : one for my kevyip, then another one to collect the other titles already in circulation !

domino harvey wrote: Sat Feb 02, 2019 11:13 pm See the entry on "kevyip" here

perkizitore wrote: Sat Feb 16, 2019 2:28 pm Unless you are willing to spend big bucks to get a premium Panasonic or Pioneer Player, the best options are Sony X700 (budget Oppo) and some LG models (they may have some DV compatibility issues with some screens).