Ail said:
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,...) |
I'm not saying that noone will buy them, but what we need to do as well is compare BD to how many download or stream these new releases which is what the industry is saying. Because BLU Ray at current levels is not profitable enough for the movie industry. Take Apple for instance, they supported BLU ray from day one and there is yet to be a single MAC with a BD drive. I mentioned most things in my previous posts above with links. But I feel it was the wrong time to launch a new medium of an old old tech that is the beloved spinning disc.
