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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  I'm uneducated in this subject so this point may be ill informed rubbish, but i can see this additional blu format killing off blu altogether.
Why? Well it doesn't sell as many as dvd at the moment, so to halve that output again between two formats, i can see companies not bothering with 2K or dumping 4K unless it strikes gold immediately.
It could well be blu-ray vs HD all over again.
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Possibly so to a certain extent. It's already dying a death as the indies in all regions are keeping the format alive. Most of the big studios sub-license to smaller companies so as to avoid the hassle of self-releasing and the associated costs that go with it. Even larger studios such as Warner are either sitting on titles and not releasing them at all, or increasingly diverting them down the Archive release route.
If it wasn't for the indies and their passion for the films/format then home media would pretty much be dead, save for DVD which is generally still the preferred choice by the studios (cheaper to replicate, bigger demand, they make more money per unit) and consumers (cheaper to buy, easier to use/understand, more widely available, more choice of titles).
Now the studios have started investing in Ultra HD BD, we'll probably start to gradually see stand-alone BD or dual format BD/DVD releases disappearing off the shelves for the newer, bigger titles as they instead start to produce triple-format releases with UHD/BD/DVD (and Digital copy) packs instead to cut down on costs and cover all their potential markets, yet probably still release a stand-alone DVD (or at least DVD and Digital Copy) releases as they are dirt cheap to replicate and the demand is still there.