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    Is Blu-ray burning out ?

    Jun 30, 2019 4 minutes
    Stephen Dawson

    amsung is pulling out of the Blu-ray S player market. Various reasons have been given, including the apparent victory of Dolby Vision over the Samsung-backed HDR10+ in the battle for an enhancedmetadata version of HDR.

    I personally found the news quite shocking. And it points to something important: most consumer entertainment products operate in a high-competition, low-margin space. A company can only make money on a device if it can make a respectable per-unit profit margin, or have an enormous sales volume. Continued development costs money. If enough money can’t be made to continue development, sales will just get worse.

    And if you’re a company like Samsung with a reputation for quality, you can’t afford to have your brand name tainted by one or two product

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