HappySqurriel on 15 March 2007
staticneuron said:
Comparing UMD to Blu ray doens't make a lick of sense. UMD's have not had the same support for one and second of all UMD'S were and still not meant to tackle "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" Have a umd player for your tv huh? A umd burner? Yea I see the adverts now..... its small! doesn't even mach the resolution of your SD TV and has 1/9th the space of DVD's
Logically speaking UMD's were stupid. Any one could tell you that before it even launched and anyone could tell you after it's launch that it would have died because of the prices. Blu ray isn't even a comparison. UMD is just as lame of a comparison as betamax is.
The comparison wasn't "UMD failed so Blu-Ray will fail" but was more about the initial optimism of a format (in particular a format attached to a gaming console) can be delusional.
Many PSP owners probably bought a handful of UMD movies when their PSP was reasonably new because they wanted to try it out; as time went on the novelty of a new format wore off ... The same thing will happen to Blu-Ray and people will not buy movies like The Benchwarmers simply because they have a PS3 which happens to play Blu-Ray movies. (Basically they will be waiting for movies they actually want to own to come out) ... This will lower the dominance of sales that Blu-Ray currently has and sales will become more based on the "Quality" of the movies that are released for a format ...
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