Blu-ray replacement coming in 2015

[addu]

without optical media and those players to assist, one will not be able to enjoy multi-angle, multi-channel multi-audio and even future 3D or 4D, 4k or 8k without it. Flash media is sooner going to be departing like a flash. Because the new generation of codecs is made to operate or decode via hardware only and this the manufacturers are aware about. They dont want a similar fate of their businesses with the present hdtv's they suffered. Everybody enjoying with usb's. So most probably the next generation of uhdtv's will not have as such.

[Cornucopia]

You bring up an interesting point, even though the crux of what you stated is not true.

New codecs will continue to be implemented in both hardware and software. There has been no indication that this would change. Even h265 is being utilized in both.
Flash media, like all solidstate media, continues to grow with no end, or even leveling off, in sight.
Many/most recent model players and displays utilize usb. The marketplace is asking for them; why would manufacturers back off now?

But there are those other features that are best implemented, if not only available, on authored physical media: menus, chapters, multiangle, multi-playlist. Multi audio or sub streams work with file-based, local media, but not really those others. Streamed media is worse; hell, you can't even Ffwd/Rwd or skip/jump much of the time. Add that to my previous list.

Scott

[OllieTSB]

The marketplace is asking for them; why would manufacturers back off now?

That ignores the factor of "payoffs" which has been proven by recent developments: Sony-Philips paid off studios to "go BluRay exclusively" when the BluRay vs. HD Disk Formats were starting up.

And the whole Cinavia being a forced requirement from 2012 in all BluRay players.

These are two examples where consumer "will" had no impact on the decision. Suddenly, you couldn't buy an MGM HD-Disk Movie because they were receiving such great revenue from Sony-Philips. NOT from the consumers. And Sony-Philips' promise to monopolize The Video Format wasn't seen as any threat to consumers - not that they could stop it.

The installation of Cinavia Detection is a more recent example, and this is going to keep raising its spectre in the future. However the "standards committee" was bought off, well, they certainly won't confess to pay-offs - but the few titles infected with this says a lot about the reluctance of all others to pay Verance's tariffs.

These are examples where the manufacturers might claim to be looking at 'long term' options but I still suspect immediate payoffs. IF Cinavia was the godsend revenue protector that Verance-Sony claims it is, then why aren't tens of thousands of titles (released since 2012's hardware standards requirement) including Cinavia?

Alas, we can't rely on the manufacturers to pay attention to consumer 'demands'.

[polarhei]

The Media gets bigger Good for saving space. But the related services such as Blu-Ray movie format seem worse than before. It looks like service provider's managerial problem more than others.

Based on the above, There will be no much replacement Unless Superior brain-washing CMs.

4K resolution may be a sample of planned obsolesce, Thanks for some Super Hi-Vision Introductions. It saves me.