Believing Blu-ray will succeed doesn't make sense

[HI-Saturn]

I've said it before and I'll say it again BD won't take off till prices come down to a reasonable level. Seriously who's going to pay $35 for a BD of a $5 Dvd..Speed anyone? Most but not all buy on price and right now those price are way too high.

[LewisCamel]

what is the point in this article? This dude sounds like a bit of a knob

[sorceror]

The cnet article actually has a point (as a lot of people here and elsewhere have pointed out, unless it's a special-effects blockbuster, an upscaled DVD is just fine even on a sizeable HDTV), but it picks some weak facts to back it up. One week of sales doesn't form a trend, and considering that it's pretty well-known that newer SKUs of the PS3 are coming, I'm not shocked PS3 sales are down a bit right now.

But yeah, dropping the price of BD discs would help a lot. And downloadable, portable copies are a very good idea - they should be standard. (Heck, for players like the PS3 and others w/USB ports, there should be a copy right there on the disk that you can load onto other media.)

[urherenow]

Not with you on this one wraggs...

1) replacing your library with blueray is YOUR CHOICE. Blueray players are compatible with DVD

2) Sony has a variety of Vaio models with blueray players and blueray burners

3) DVD cannot handle uncompressed 7.1 audio

4) as you mentioned later on in your rant, the video quality difference is STUNNING on larger screens and I personally am impressed with the difference on a cheap 42" 1080i plasma screen.

5) The blueray movies I have thus far were all on sale and I got them for $23 or less. The only time I bother with DVD now is when I find a good movie for $7 or less that wouldn't make me any more excited if it were more crisp. Like the last oldie I picked up was "Real Genius"... not something that would be impressive on blueray. Iron Man? You bet your life that'll be a blueray purchase!


umnnn.... </rant>


edit: and I also have a couple of BD movies that have a digital copy included. I can use it in my PSP :P

[pibs]

Seriously I believe that BD is just too expensive for common joes right now (here in the states) Most people I have talked to do have HD tvs but are still watching standard programing and it seems like they see Hi Def as a novelty at the moment.

I do think that Digital Distribution is the future for our media but it has to be implemented in ways that common folks can purchase it without being tethered to the internet.

[jamotto]

SD is just fine for my Low Definition eyes.

[TheLostProphet]

lol @jamotto

While HD is awesome I'm in no hurry to get it, so like the dvd I'll wait for it to become mainstream before I start shelling out loads.

However, Iron Man, yessssssss.

[F9zDark]

Rather than writing an article based solely opinion why not try to find some actual proof that indicates Blu-Ray will "die"?

Wow an 8 percent drop. Hmm, can that be explained by any other means? How about the shaky US economy? Car manufacturers have reported record lows for the year thus far in comparison to last quarter and the same time last year, manufacturing has dropped significantly as well during this period and has hit a 7 year low...

Seriously, with:

1)High gas prices
2)Soaring Foreclosure rates
3)The lay off of thousands of people at many different jobs and from many different walks of life
4)An extremely weak dollar

Is this drop in sales due to "Blu-Ray tanking" because it cannot best DVD or is it simply a matter of ECONOMIC RECESSION?

Come on... If its sales were down 75% I'd seriously consider it being on its death bed (and even that we couldn't definitively say was DUE to DVD being the champ). But 8%? I'd say the companies backing Blu-Ray are quite lucky, in this harsh economic climate I'd expect people to save the money and buy DVDs rather than expensive Blu-Rays...

If anything this just proves that Blu-Ray will one day be the ruler of the movie disc media market; since just about everything else that's expensive and isn't a necessity has had sales slumps of far more than 8%...

[ANoob]

Contradictory.

It's your opinion that believing Blu-ray will succeed doesn't make sense. You fail to realize that your sentence is posted as fact. And I thought I was noob .

[F9zDark]

Contradictory.

It's your opinion that believing Blu-ray will succeed doesn't make sense. You fail to realize that your sentence is posted as fact. And I thought I was noob .

Why doesn't it make sense? DVDs do not have the capacity to hold Uncompressed, HD 7.1 surround sound, nor do they have the capacity to hold even a compressed HD, 1080p encoded movie.

When DVDs first came out they were equally expensive as Blu-Rays are now. Simply because they are expensive doesn't mean they won't sell. The same was true of CDs when they first came out as well.

The space capacity increases made them worth it. Before DVDs there were Laser Discs, which were huge "CDs" that could hold a movie. Can you imagine if DVD failed to take the marketplace against that? Needless to say we wouldn't have portable DVD players now would we?

The fact of the matter is, for a truly HD experience Blu-Ray is the only way to go, and again, considering that the sales slump was ONLY 8% I'd seriously question any sane person saying that Blu-Ray will fail to succeed.

This author wrote this article haphazardly, using this sales slump to bring forth his DVD-loving rhetoric. I guarantee you the sales slump was due to the poor economic situation the US experiencing...