Parece que los DVDs como medio de almacenamiento (y de consumo) están apunto de desaparecer. Esto es porque, según esta nota de cinemablend, hace tiempo que vender videos y películas en este formato no es negocio, y las cifras van para abajo cada ves mas. Lo único que los salvará -por un rato- es su utilización aun mas o menos vigente para instalar y/o almacenar programas y archivos en computadoras (PCs).
No es raro que en estos días veamos una tecnología desaparecer. Lo inusual es que en este caso es una que tambien vimos nacer (el standard del formato DVD apareció en 1995).
Como que las cosas están pasando demasiado rápido, ¿no?…
Prepare yourselves to explain what “The Cloud” is to all your elder family members because DVDs are going the way of the dinosaurs.
Variety has alerted us to PricewaterhouseCoopers’s new study that shows box office and digital revenue is projected to rise steadily over the course of the next five years, while the sales of DVDs—as well as other disc formats—are predicted to fall drastically. This study posits that the sale of streaming video titles will exceed the sale of physical DVDs as soon as 2016. Which means, DVD’s days are numbered.
DVD sales saw a 28% drop last year, making $12.2 billion. This total only is expected to reach $8.7 billion by 2018, a time at which electronic home video (streaming titles or digital downloads) are anticipated to be the highest-earning element of filmmaking. Within five years, digital video profits are expected to leap from 2014’s projected $8.5 total to $17 billion. Basically, PwC projects that by 2018, digital video will be earning distributors more profits than movies’ theatrical box office will…
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