BD loses ground to DVD even with $199 BD players

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selnor said:

markers said:
look blu-ray is going to be the final dominant format before everything becomes straight digital download. if you dont like my opinion fine whatever. but i am not going to change my opinion till its proven wrong, and that cant be done for another 5-10 years. so you know my stance and why now i am done with this subject :]

 

All I'll say is the industry believes its on the way out now. Plenty of articles around web. and I believe only in another 2 years. Sales are already on the way down.

 

 If the industry believed the way you say we would not be seeing fire sales of DVD at 5$ every week at shops like Best Buy.

I can't believe either studios or even retailers make any profit selling DVDs at those pricse ( and I'm not speaking of 10 years old movies, more like movies that came out 2 years ago or so..)

Any way in the coming next 2 months we will have for the first time release of this year April-July blockbusters movies in Blue Ray with no other HD format competing. This will be the true test...

It's foolish to expect people to migrate to Blue Ray by buying first low budger/low special effects movies.

If people are moving to Blue Ray they will buy first the movies which will benefit the most from it ( and which people believe are most worth it, I doubt most would drop 27$ or so in a so-so movie, but it will be interesting to see for example how well this year's batman does in Blue Ray when it finally comes out)...

 Personally I know I bought 1 Blue Ray in the last 8 months and I have already 4-5 movies I am planning to buy in Blue Ray in the next 3 months ( Iron Man, Wall-E, Indiana Jones, Dark Knight,...)