| xman said: I havent switched I can dvd's for $2.00-$20.00 Bluerays start at $30.00 not happening they need to come down in price |
Not quite. They only want more money the higher quality is only a way to get it. They would only drop the price to get more money to buy it. But a BluRay is more expensive in production than the DVD, due to the higher quality that has to be maintained and the licences for encoding and encryption technologies. In the beginning they were also interestred in the copy protection and in the potential to sell the old movies another time, but:
People who are not even ready to buy a film in decent quality for 5$ simply won't buy the movie.
The number of people who will pay again for the movie on BluRayis lower "Well I already have this film and I watched it one time. Is it really worth to buy this film again?". People didn't saw VHS as a durable medium, so they even bought the film without significant quality improvements, simply to have them "safe".
