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Originally Posted by IMJ
Outside of a slight and somewhat shady "sound quality" argument, there is no reason for vinyl to have had the resurgence it's had over the last several years.
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This. This is the reason.
About DVDs, I think a big part of it is we were "fooled" over and over again. First, that DVDs would be the pinnacle of home media. That that would be it -- once you had something on DVD, that was the best possible version that could exist, forevermore. So you might as well collect everything and fill your walls with movies, right? That's what I did, for sure. But... then blu-ray came out. Going from 480p to 1080p was HUGE. But now all these collectors of DVDs are kicking themselves, having to re-buy everything they had on DVD now on Blu-ray. Then what happens, as they're in the middle of doing that? 4K UHD Blu-ray drops, which is ANOTHER significant resolution jump. I think around this point a lot of people just said, "You know what, screw it... rather than try to keep up with this anymore I'll just stream and be happy."