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All in due time BD will takes DVD's place.



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Thechalkblock said:
All in due time BD will takes DVD's place.

 

That will never happen.  Blu Ray is at the mercy of HDTV market penetration which itself will never surpass the ubiquity of DVD.

 

Blu Ray may do better in some markets over others but it will never replace DVD as the global standard optical medium.



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Viper1 said:
Thechalkblock said:
All in due time BD will takes DVD's place.

 

That will never happen.  Blu Ray is at the mercy of HDTV market penetration which itself will never surpass the ubiquity of DVD.

 

Blu Ray may do better in some markets over others but it will never replace DVD as the global standard optical medium.

 

actually a lot of retailers, including WalMart, are aiming to push DVD out by 2012.



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Viper1 said:
Thechalkblock said:
All in due time BD will takes DVD's place.

 

That will never happen.  Blu Ray is at the mercy of HDTV market penetration which itself will never surpass the ubiquity of DVD

 

Is it even possible to buy an SDTV anymore? When people replace their TVs the only option they will have is to buy an HDTV. The same will eventually be the case with DVD players, when BD players come down in price enough retailers will simply stop stocking standard DVD players as all BD players are BC with DVD. The same thing occurred here with VCD, which was far more popular than VHS in many parts of Asia. Stores eventually stopped stocking standard VCD players when DVD players had come down to a similar price as all DVD players sold here are BC with VCD.

 



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Yeah I think they still do sell them, but it's kinda like how VCRs were a few years ago, the clerk would look at you funny then show you to the back shelf . LOL.

but yeah I see your point. I think the only question is whether or not a new medium will emerge in the coming years like Holograph storage that will compete with BluRay before it beats out DVD.



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I don't think some of you understand just how ubiquitous DVD has become and how it relates to so many industries.

And like Commando pointed out, optical (and holographic) mediums that are aimed to replace Blu Ray are already deep in development.

DVD will eventually fade from global popularity but not at the hands of Blu Ray.



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Commando said:
Yeah I think they still do sell them, but it's kinda like how VCRs were a few years ago, the clerk would look at you funny then show you to the back shelf . LOL.

but yeah I see your point. I think the only question is whether or not a new medium will emerge in the coming years like Holograph storage that will compete with BluRay before it beats out DVD.

 

 In the US retailers stopped selling non-digital ready TV's in 2007 for preperation of the TV upgrade that is happening in like 40 days. It was a law.



Max, good point but so many people are still confused on analog TV vs digital TV. Digital TV is what we are about to switch to however, digital TV does not equate to HDTV. 480 resolution TV signals will still be transmitted for possibly decades while the digital SD TV's will also be sold for quite a long time from now.



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Viper1 said:
I don't think some of you understand just how ubiquitous DVD has become and how it relates to so many industries.

And like Commando pointed out, optical (and holographic) mediums that are aimed to replace Blu Ray are already deep in development.

DVD will eventually fade from global popularity but not at the hands of Blu Ray.

You could have said the same thing about VHS (and a lot of people did).  And the fact is that a lot of people would have kept buying them if the studios had kept making them.  But they all decided to pull the plug.  VHS was pretty poor on a technical level though, I do admit.  Nobody really missed it.

A lot of you are missing the key, planned obsolescence.  ssj12 has it figured out.  Some people will never support a new format, but eventually they HAVE to when studios and retailers start pulling the plug on the old format.  My parents didn't even own a DVD player before Best Buy quit selling VHS!

Blu-Ray has shown some power this year, so I wouldn't be surprised if in 2009 we start to see a few titles get the Blu-Ray version a few weeks ahead of time like we did with DVD.

Retailers make more money off Blu-Ray than they do off of DVD.  That alone is enough reason for retailers to push it harder than DVD.  They did the same thing with VHS.  Anyone who thinks they won't do the same thing with DVD is fooling themselves.  It may not take place overnight, but at the end of the day big companies don't give a shit about the customer.  They give a shit about the customers money.  And if they can collusively force the customer to buy more expensive things, they will.

Do you think retailers sell HDTV's out of the goodness of their heart?  NO!  They sell them because it makes them more money than standard televisions.

 

 



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