Thursday, February 9, 2012

DVDs Are Dying, and There's Worse News Ahead for Hollywood

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Movie DVDsIt's been nice knowing you, optical disc.

DVDs -- and even their more modern Blu-ray siblings -- are gradually fading to black.

It was really just a matter of time. The VHS cassette had its fun. LaserDisc partied on the fringes. Why should the DVD be any less transitory a technology?

Movie studios have known this for some time. They've seen sales of blockbusters and box office duds alike flounder during the home-market window. They've pointed at scapegoats. "Netflix (NFLX) is the problem!"...

DVDs Are Dying, and There's Worse News Ahead for Hollywood originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-02-09T07:30:00Z.

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