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Gh0st4lifE said:
Obvious reasons why it is failing :


Blu Ray = DVD 1.5

Blu-Ray price = DVD 2.5

Economical crisis makes you think again.

Downloadable content is cheaper, more practical, with a wider and more accessible choice, etc.


It will never replace the DVD the way the DVD replaced the VHS. It might gain respectable market shares in some regions but it will never fulfill it's purpose.


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Blu-Ray might be Sony's biggest mistake ever. It screwed the PS3 and it wasn't meant to synchronize with an economical crises. UMDs, MiniDiscs, etc. It's all part of a huge Betamax complex. Sony needs a therapy.
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Sony doesn't own the Blu-ray patent, or even 50%.

 

UMDs and Mini-discs (outside Japan) never reached 10% penetration.  Weekly software revenues (BD/ BD+ DVD) is what I use as the number to measure market penetration.



"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."  --Hermann Goering, leading Nazi party member, at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials 

 

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