Blue Ray is dead? (Article)

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dbot said:

NightDragon83 said:

I don't hate Blu-Ray, I just don't think it's the ideal next step for a mainstream home entertainment medium.

DVDs were a huge step above VHS cassettes, just as audio CDs were a huge step above audio cassettes a decade earlier when the industry made the transition from analog to digital mediums.  Blu-Ray is to DVD as Laserdisc was to VHS... an improvement but not a replacement.

I remember when DVD came out, it was adopted very slowly.  DVD's problems were price and the biggest factor was people couldn't play their VHS tapes in their DVD player.  The resolution increase from VHS to DVD is actually much less than the resolution gain from DVD to Blu-ray. 

That isn't what sold DVD.

What sold DVD was all the added features DVD offered people.  That and people forced the jump.

If it was about resolution... (and the movie industry didn't force peoples hands) it would of never been adopted.

Also... it adopted better then blu-ray when you compare disc sales instead of player sales... (of which the vast majority of have playing blu-ray as a secondary option.)