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

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Domicinator said:

ssj12 said:

Kasz216 said:

Euphoria14 said:

I look at it this way because I think it makes a hell of alot of sense as to why BD will eventually overtake DVD.

#1 - Prices will drop and be = to DVD player prices, we all know this.
#2 - Disc prices will drop and be = to DVD disc prices, we all know this.
#3 - No need to repurchase your DVD collection since BD players are DVD compatible.

So when people go into a store and see a BD player for $80 and a DVD player for $80 some of you actually think people will buy the DVD player? At the same time they see a new movie on DVD for $15 and the BD version for $15 they will once again buy the DVD version? This also doesn't include the fact of what will happen if and when studios decide to release on BD first or possibly... BD only in the future.

What about when new home theatre systems are released that include a BD player as opposed to DVD players, once again seeing as BD is DVD compatible.

Jeez.... can I borrow what some people are obviously smoking?

You guys can stand still if you wish. Only I think it makes no damn sense.

If my opinion is somehow seriously flawed, please let me know.

If and when prices are equal AND someone needs a new one... well yeah.

That likely isn't happening for years though... and most people already have players... by then VOD may be everywhere.

VOD wont effect the physical media market that much, people still perfer having the physical media of a movie.

I use VOD to check out movies and if I like it I go out and buy the movie if available on Blu-ray. There are many people like me who do the same.

 

How do you know what most people still prefer?  And are you serious?  OnDemand, Netflix online, and similar services are gaining popularity every second.  I'm not going to say that "most people" go one way or the other for sure, but I am going to venture to guess that "most people" don't buy every single movie they watch.  "Most people" probably rent 99% of the movies they watch, and as far as I've been able to tell so far, "most people" still don't really understand what BluRay even is.  And finally, I'd also be willing to guess that "most people" rent 90% of the movies they watch.

It's just like how people don't understand HDTV.  My in-laws literally have an HDTV on every floor in the house.  There's a big 42" one in their living room, a small one in the kitchen, and a small one in the guest bedroom.  And they don't watch HD content on ANY of them.  They have an HD digital cable box that's hooked up to a fourth TV.........a STANDARD DEF TV!!!!  It drives me absolutely nuts whenever I go to their house.  And I find this to be common.  A guy I work with was bragging that he got an HDTV for Christmas last year.  I asked him how he liked it and he said, "Well, I guess it's clearer than before.  I can't really tell."  I'm sorry, but if you can't tell, you're most likely not watching anything in HD.  Throw in the fact that you can't get HD without an HDMI or HDCP cable, and then people like that start twitching and drooling.  They just simply don't know what they have in their homes, and even if they do, they don't know how to hook it up.

I'd venture to guess that those same people didn't even know there was an HD DVD vs. BluRay war, and if they did, they probably don't know who won or what the difference even was.  I told my sister in law the other day that I usually get my movies via OnDemand and that the HD ones are usually $6.99 or $7.99 if they're new or new-ish.  I believe that's what you pay to rent a BluRay at the store right?  Well, she replied "We go to Blockbuster and get them for much cheaper...they're $3.99 at Blockbuster."  To which I replied, "Yeah, for standard def movies, right?  Not BluRay."  Her reply?  "What's BluRay?"

My favorite is when people come to my house, where I have my HD cable box hooked up with an actual HDMI cable and tuned in to an actual HD channel with the screen set to the correct ratio and not stretching everything out or blowing everything up so that it looks weird.  (Another thing people seem to never realize is that most channels have an HD alternate channel, even if the standard one says it's in HD.)  Then they're always like, "Wow, your TV looks good."  And I always reply, "Yours could look like this too if you would set it up correctly."

My point is that people don't even know what the equipment they already own can do.  Things moved really fast from standard TVs to HDTVs and people are making the switch in droves even though they don't know why.  So BluRay isn't even their vocabulary yet.  But OnDemand is.  I don't know many people who don't know how to use THAT feature.  It's caught on like wild fire along with Netflix.  I think I'm the only person I know who DOESN'T have a Netflix account.  And I think once people get their HDTVs figured out and realize how awesome true 1080 HD can be, they will start seeking that content out via their cable box, not a multi hundred dollar player.

 

 

wtfh, I did not say most, I said many. Get your freaking facts straight before jumping all over someone. It is rude and destroyed basically your entire argument. I refuse to read past you stating I said most when I did not.

For all I care your entire post is bunk.