Samsung Blu Ray Players 2019 Registration On Any

This comes as a confirmation of what many observers expected, given that the company last released a new player in 2017.

This was an important omission for the target audience; Dolby Vision is attractive to home theater enthusiasts because of its theoretically superior specifications and because it allows moviemakers to more finely tune the experience as compared to HDR-10.

Physical media sales have been declining at double-digit percentage rates for a few years running.

Even within those sales, 4K Blu-rays account for only 5.3 percent of sales compared to the aging DVD format, which still sits at 57.9 percent, according to Forbes.

Samsung may have made this decision in response to its competitors market dominance, not just the shrinking marketplace for physical media.

And it probably doesnt help that the widely owned PlayStation 4 and Xbox One game consoles are also perfectly adequate Blu-ray players for most consumers.

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Samsung Blu Ray Players 2019 Registration On Any

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FallonBloomberg via Getty Images Did you notice that Samsung hasnt made a peep about Blu-ray players at CES or other recent trade shows Theres a good reason for it: the company is exiting the category in the US.

Samsung told Forbes and CNET that its no longer introducing Blu-ray players for the country.

It didnt provide reasoning for the move, but Forbes sources reportedly said that Samsung had scrapped a high-end model that was supposed to arrive later in 2019.

As it stands, there are a number of likely factors behind the decision.

While 4K Blu-ray disc sales have been growing rapidly, theyre part of a declining industry.

Overall disc sales fell 11.5 percent in the third quarter of 2018.

Its a tough space to be in, and even brands like Oppo Digital have backed out.

It didnt help that Samsungs players didnt support Dolby Vision (just HDR10 and HDR10), ruling them out for home theater enthusiasts who either dont have HDR10 TVs or simply prefer Dolbys approach to HDR video.

While many will tout Blu-rays higher quality compared to streaming services, theres no doubt that theres a larger audience of people who would rather subscribe to Netflix or Amazon than buy physical movies.

The Digital Entertainment Group noted that 2.3 million 4K Blu-ray devices sold in US during the first nine months of 2018, but those included game consoles that might never play a disc-based movie.

Netflix, meanwhile, had over 148 million global subscribers by the end of 2018.

Samsung might not want to pour money into disc players when they have an uncertain future, especially not when its TVs now have access to movie purchase and rental services like iTunes.

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