PS3 is only 'bright spot' for Blu-ray, says report

[Euphoria14]

misterd said:

Euphoria14 said:

#3 - No need to repurchase your DVD collection since BD players are DVD compatible.

And that's one of the problems that BR will face that DVD didn't. Most people owned very few movies on VHS (unless they recorded them off TV). Since DVDs were often cheap, people bought bunches of them and have built up a big library. But where the DVD question was "do I want to own this movie", the question for BR will be "do I want to buy this movie again".

I can say that I will not be upgrading the vast majority of my DVD collection. And even if they come out with, say, Jaws on BR tomorrow, I might not buy it. OK, I probably won't buy it because I don't have a BR player - but I will by the end of the month, and at that time I still wouldn't buy it. Why not? Because I, like so many others, got burned repeatedly by studios double, triple and quadruple dipping their movies on DVD, we just know they will do it again on BR.

These two factors alone are going to surpress the sales of BR discs considerably as compared to DVD. 

Some classics will not be repurchased, agreed, there are many old VHS movies I still own and never wanted to purchase DVD versions. Of course there are some that people may give in for. I know this does not speak for everyone but I have read around the internet with a simple google search and from a few friends of mine that if Lord of the Rings were to release on Bluray, it would probably sell pretty well. I know I would gobble it up. :) I have not rewatched those movies yet because I am eagerly waiting for an HD release.

I believe there will always be those select few movies that no matter how many times it is re-released, people will continue to buy it. Thanks to VHS,DVD and now Bluray my girlfriend has me stuck on my 3rd version of Dirty Dancing...

In terms of new releases however I see no reason to pick them up on DVD. Specially when prices are comparable.

 

Edit - I noticed a conversation about "Planet Earth"? on Bluray. I saw it in Walmart a couple months back, is it possible to find it cheaper than what the $80 my Walmart was charging? I have never seen it, but I am a huge fan of anything to do with Outerspace/Earth/Stars/etc... and am pretty sure I would enjoy it.