re: How many blu-rays do you own?

I own three blu-ray discs, from this one collection:



I bought a blu-ray player but it hasn't been hooked up in a long time.

I don't think blu-ray was a failure, I think it just had a short heyday. CDs and DVDs lasted longer because they were very advanced for their time, and blu-ray came just before the streaming revolution.

What's crazy to think about is that HD broadcasts didn't start becoming common until around 2006, and it took a few years for everyone to get HD TVs, and TV broadcasts didn't become all digital until June 2009! We had the same crappy analog TV for decades, and now in less than 10 years they are already trying to transition from 1080i/1080p to a "4K" UHD standard (2160p using the old nomenclature, or 4x the resolution of 1080p). The next 10 years are going to be insane. VR everything.