Sony: "Blu-Ray discs cost too much", lowers expectations on player sales

[LordTheNightKnight]

largedarryl said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
BTW, I'm not even sure HD streaming video will overtake DVD, because SD streaming video is doing so well. Look at the success of youtube, and its playback format. A format with major compression that is often loaded with artifacts and is rarely as easy to use as other video codecs, but in terms of playback, people don't seem to care.

I also remember that there was a big deal about surpassing CD audio, and there was a format war over the successor. The winner, from left field, MP3, which had worse audio than CD.

Well the thing abou the sub-SD streaming video on the internet is due to slow internet lines.  There is really not much of a limit on speed sending HD content through properly setup VOD services.  I think the popularity of online streaming video should be a critical market point, mainstream consumers are okay with sub-SD broadcasts for a majority of their video needs.

 

 

If it's not intuitive on the consumer end, then it runs into the same wall as HD on discs.