Movie execs worried about Blu-Ray

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goddog said:

Bboid said:

FishyJoe said:
The way I look at it is that Blu-ray will still be popular, but only for content people really want to keep. DD will be for most movies and TV shows that will be watched once or twice, which is still a very large part of the market. IMO, Blu-ray will never capture the market like DVD but will probably be like audio cassetes, a stopgap between records and CDs.

 

Basically you have it right.  DD will take the rental sector and bluray will have the larger share of the purchase market.  Probably a shared market like this for many many years.

 

Id have to say the rent market will be bigger than the own market, but the DD own market will also be bigger than bluerays will be, the itunes store is already kicking ass there with over 18 millon in unit sales last year sales (no solid numbers on this year but expected to be much higher), though thats just a small peas for right now.

(though these movie sales pale in comaprison to music sales which are over 1 billion tracks every 3 months starting march of this year) link has old article  http://metue.com/06-19-2008/apple-itunes-sells-5-billion-songs-videos-strong/

 

What % is hd though and what % is meant for non portable use.  I'm only evaluating HD material as aside from that there is no use for blu-ray aside from the gaming market(maybe). 

 

I also dont hate on DD, i just find in the HD world/ gaming world certain companies are pushing a product that even more people can't reach.  Next msft console is possibly only going to be DD, I just don't like that idea.  I do use DD for music though but I stopped downloading tv shows and movies because the voice-video sync issues are severely troubling and make me want to shoot an arrow through my screen.  I was however refunded the cost ever time this happened though.