Is The DVD dead ? (Sue)

A DVD (Digital video disc) is a form of media platform used to store and playback big quantities of data commonly for tv and film playback purposes. A DVD is portable and can be easily carried around place to place which let's the holder watch at the comfort of their home, in an office or at a friends house for a movie night.The playback of a DVD has no limits and can be watched as many times forward, backwards, paused or started (unless broken). The DVD usually has conventions including a playbutton on insertion of the DVD to it's media player, adverts (less common) for following films by the same producers or films considering the same target audiences, main menus, directors cuts, subtitles and outtakes to name a few.

The DVD has become more and more popular dating back to 1995 when it's popularity sky rocketed, meaning it was and still is highly likely to have a DVD laying around up to now. However with the internet growing and evolving more and more per day with streaming platforms like Lovefilm, Blinkbox and Netflix the DVD is fighting a losing battle and is rapidly becoming a near forgotten platform of media. The new age of media platform as Youtube, Vimeo or Netflix allows users to stream pretty much anywhere and also allows users to stream to many different devices ranging from smart phones, tablets and laptops to televisions, gaming consoles and apple TV type consoles with also a limitless feature, this also means at the touch of a button and not the touch of a bus pass, opening of a door, browsing of a film collection and negotiation of a store clerk you can acquire and watch a whole store full of films live and direct from the comfort of your room, on your way to work, even outdoors in an open field. This is arguable as streaming tends to come with buffering concequenses however, on the other hand DVDs come with scratching and disk-jump concequencially if not kept in mint condition, which as i'm sure the world knows isn't an easy task.
With prices of streaming getting lower and prices of DVD selling for around £9.99 to £20 brand new. DVD is well in the deep end without arm bands and is clearly drowning whilst the new age of interactive media platform is taking over storing all your films in a HUGE digital database, getting rid of your dusty DVD shelf and making room for vases and a trophy collection.

With all that being said, I do however believe there are some huge set backs to using online streaming over DVD's the first and most obvious being network speeds. Network speeds vary and can ultimately lead to your video not playing, or playing in a hugely pixilated rate pretty much ruining the film. Other set backs include payments as if you spend a month not watching a film for whichever reasons you'll still be charged your monthly fee and a DVD is a one time payment for life.
Also in time the databases for online streaming will become crowded and need updating (in theory). During these updates where films are added and deleted from the database your trusty old DVD will still be there, unchanged and ready for playback 40 years later if you need.

In conclusion I believe the DVD is well and truly dead although it has it's highs and lows. These highs are very much clouded by the vast amount of lows and because of this I believe it is dead.