Blue Ray is dead? (Article)

[Kasz216]

dbot said:

Kasz216 said:

Staude said:

Kasz216 said:

Staude said:
blu ray is doing better than dvd was :p

except... it isn't.

It's doing worse.

Despite having a larger market to sell to.

 

It's doing better at it's stage in life. Concidering the way smaller market (hdtv's vs normal tvs. Everyone had normal tvs. Not everyone has hdtvs)

 

 

No it's not.  Disc adoption is way below still... the movie market is larger.

It's not surprising that disk adoption is trailing.  The conversion from VHS to DVD required a complete repurchase of the film on the DVD media.  The conversion from DVD to Blu-ray does not.  In fact, the DVD library will look better on the Blu-ray player. 

Also, anyone that is paying $35 per Blu-ray movie should really shop around.  I suggest Amazon.  The Dark Knight is $15 for DVD and $24 for Blu-ray.   

 

It being not surprisng that it's doing worse doesn't negate the fact that it is infact doing much worse.