| akuma587 said: Lol, so why has the argument shifted to DVD vs. Blu-Ray? Has anyone looked at the thread title? Even I got sucked in. |
Because proof of one lie shows a tendency to lie and overstate. Which is what the Blu-ray conglomerate and some studios do in hopes to put a big shove behind a format that isn't anywhere near as impressive market wise as they would claim.
It hasn't gotten out of Laserdisc territory yet... it's sales are closer to Laserdiscs then DVDs in any case. I believe Laserdisc sold about 8 million total discs in it's third year. With about 300K players in it's home... which really has you question how many PS3's really are being used for movie players. Much like laserdisc, the largest opponent isn't a rival format. It's consumer apathy.
Reporters on such matters have goten a lot lazyier and buy into the spin a lot more... or maybe networks have just gotten better at spin. So there is still hope. But it's not going anywhere near as rosey as people had hoped and projected. There is still a very real chance it doesn't catch on.
The VOD stuff is easy.
The Blu-ray conglomnerate is counting ONLY pay per view VODs for revenue and not counting other streaming options that are free or paid through via advertising.
If you take it as unique views of movies vs blu-ray discs sold you see that Blu-ray is FAR behind VOD. Unique views on individual sites beat Blu-ray's combined sales.
