You can't explain the decline of the DVD market with only your own reaction to the product. Most people aren't as unreasonable as you are.
Assuming people are like me and rarely watch a movie more than once unless it's exceptionally good, why pay $20-$30 or more for a DVD when you can rent it at RedBox for a buck or watch it on demand or on Netflix.
OK I bought the disk, but I can't make a backup copy or skip the ads and previews?
Oops, I dropped it or my kids got ahold of it, and now there is a little scratch on the disk, and it's entirely unplayable. Tapes were far more rugged, if slightly bulkier.
Why would you say DVDs are fragile? Disk media replaced tapes, which were much more so.
Markets don't decline due to negative reasons. People are generally willing to put up with a subjectively poor experience if its absence would be worse. Instead they die when something else offers something better.
In this case, Netflix. It is not poor DVD quality that stopped people from buying them, it's Netflix and competitors. If DVDs sucked, they never would have replaced video tapes.
In that case I am far more unreasonable. I dont support MPAA, RIAA, etc. involved companies at all. My reasoning is that by supporting them you are supporting their lobbyists who will then introduce crazy laws like ACTA and SOPA. I'm just patiently waiting for them to die off.
Yes, I do. Ads are a cheap way to make something profitable that would otherwise not be. You should be thankful we even have theaters these days.
If you think it is unreasonable, why don't you find something better to do with your time and money? You could make a nice dinner for two with €10 and have a much better time than you would being angry at ads and those rich assholes in Hollywood. Nobody's forcing you to watch films.
You realize that's EXACTLY I and millions of others are doing right? That in fact that exact phenomenon which you suggest is what caused this article to be written?
Nonsense. If I wanted to watch ads I'd be home watching television, not paying ten bucks a head in the theater.
Surely you are joking? What about parent's position strikes you as unreasonable?
Most people are just as "unreasonable" as the grandparent, which is to say that they are highly reasonable and you are the unreasonable one.
I don't know if you remember a film from about forty years ago, where the general public was exhorted to admit that they were, in fact, "mad as hell," and as result, "not gonna take it any more." People are currently mad as hell, and now we're seeing them decide (unsurprisingly) to not take it any more.