BD loses ground to DVD even with $199 BD players

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Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

TheBigFatJ said:

It looks like BD is losing ground to DVD, even when you only take into account the top 20 which mitigates DVD's library advantage. As of the last week, Nelson had BD down to 8% market share -- significantly lower than antipcated by Sony.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080923-blu-ray-stutters-in-face-of-tough-economy-hd-downloads.html

Netflix CEO Barry Mccarthy

It may grow after the holiday selling season, if sales are slow and prices are cut more aggressively.

Arstechnica notes: And HD movie and TV downloads are becoming more popular than ever—many of them are even free, thanks to ad-supported streaming—and the short-term outlook for Blu-ray looks a little grim.

Why do you think BD isn't being adopted? Certainly there are people out there who want HD content and are willing to pay a premium for it, although I doubt it will be more than 50% of the market anytime soon. Do you think BD will ever reach the 50% number that Sony claimed they'd have by the end of 2008?

That ain't what I heard them claim.

 

I'm pretty sure Sony claimed that their BRAND would make up 50% of the BluRay market share, they didn't claim that BluRay would become 50% of the entire market.