Ail said:
Kasz216 said:
Ail said:
Kasz216 said:
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.
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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.
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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.)
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Err ?
Didnd't the movie industry shift from a model where titles would be available first for rent and then several months after for purchase to a model where you could buy titles the day they became available for rent when the DVD switch happened ?
If that isn't giving a new format a huge boost, I'm not sure what is...
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Yeah that's what i meant. They did force it.
If DVD was just about resolution and had no push from the industry where they made people jump into the water... no change would of happened.
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Same thing is slowly happening with Blu-Ray.
I don't think the business model were you sold movies 6 months old DVDs for 5-7$ each is very sustainable when those movies cost 200-300 million$ to produce and when theaters revenues are not increasing anymore...
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I don't know. From what i hear a crapload of blockbuster bombs make a killing in the DVD market.
No doubt the movie companys will eventually try and push blu-ray even harder... but the question is will they do it now during the recession when people may be priced out of the market?
The industry is fairly recession proof but people area still going to be mad at the cheaper pricepoint getting taken away and backlash could be huge.
Blu-ray seems destined to be a niche product for at least as long as the economic crisis lasts unless it's costs eventually come down to bring it to DVD level.
Also the BDA will likely have to lower liscensing fees. One of the biggest problems people had with DVD was the fees were too high.. and the BDA's is apparently higher?
I mean in china they'd actually lose money per DVD and DVD player they made leading them to consider making their own "HD" format.
