| Jordahn said: Where you are wrong is that you CANNOT accept the FACT that your statements are OPINION. No matter how you want to spin this, there are improvement from DVD to Blu-ray, and the difference and cost are all relative from person to person. |
Exactly. I think it is necessary to get the heat out of this discussion. BluRay offers a potentially better image quality and a potentially better sound quality.
It always depends on the customer itself, what they are ready to invest to get the quality and how much of the potiential is used by the movie producers. I know people who are excited with their 200 Euro Surround Set, but I don't really think that they have even a chance to get to the limits of even Dolby Digital 5.1...
If I look around I know a lot of people who own a PS-3. but they don't even have the slightest interest to use it for BluRay. I know one guy who is still proud about its collection of 3 BluRays (which he bought when he got the PS-3). It is not the question if they see the differences or not, they simply don't care so much that they would really invest money. They are using DVD only. In the beginning I bouzght a lot of BluRays but now I select very carefully. The BluRay isn't the medium of choice for every movie, or I simply are not interested to pay the price that they demand.
But I don't claim that they are evil bastards, because they ask so much money. It is their choice too. And I thoink here lies a fundamental issue: Who is interested that BluRay gets into the mainstream? The hardware industry and Sony. Both see a chance to get more money. Are Warner Universal or Disney interested in getting the BluRay to the main stram? Yes, if the people pay the asked price. It simply makes no sense for them to simply reduce the prices for BluRay and replkace the DVD. They want to increase their revenue, not decrease it. For them the current situation simply works. Their are movie buffs who simply pay the demanded price to get their movies with the optimum quality, and there are people who are not ready to pay so much money and get the DVD. They are interested that more people buy the BluRay, but only because they earn more money with it.
The situation was different with VHS. They were not really interested in getting rid of VHS but they could earn more money with DVDs that were cheaper than VHS tapes. In fact they had some trouble with it. More and more movie fanatics saw: Well I can simply wait six months and buy the DVD for half the price. If the BluRay prices don't drop to the mass market level more fanatics pay the high price.
