Blue Ray is dead? (Article)

[gavind5uk]

I think one point being missed is that there are a lot of young folk out there that dont have these enormous dvd libraries to cry about, in fact, i myself have more blueray films than dvd at this point.

If the film companies are signed up to it then blueray is what you will be getting, there is no choice in the matter, they will simply stop selling films on dvd eventually. people didnt stop buying vhs because they loved their dvds so much, load of people were pissed off that dvd ever came out because of their already existing vhs collections.

Also, on the point of downloads, while the convenience is there, i agree with those who said about people liking to buy something that they can hold onto, also, both download speeds and hard drive size are no where near the levels required to make download hd content a viable solution currently.

If you think blueray is a niche market, then any belief that it will be outdone anytime soon by the download market is pie in the sky imo. The number of people that have a system of any description in their home that easily plays downloaded material on their living room tv so tiny that it makes the blueray market look huge in comparison.

Also any hd downloads would be going to be through a ps3, xbox, or pc, one of those already has a blueray, another are starting to be sold with blue ray as standard (or you can pick one up pretty cheap) and everyone else no doubt will be buying the stand alone players.

I really think this is just another evolution in distributable media, and, as previously said, the youngen's aint interested in your smelly old man dvds lol