| Viper1 said: I don't think some of you understand just how ubiquitous DVD has become and how it relates to so many industries. And like Commando pointed out, optical (and holographic) mediums that are aimed to replace Blu Ray are already deep in development. DVD will eventually fade from global popularity but not at the hands of Blu Ray. |
You could have said the same thing about VHS (and a lot of people did). And the fact is that a lot of people would have kept buying them if the studios had kept making them. But they all decided to pull the plug. VHS was pretty poor on a technical level though, I do admit. Nobody really missed it.
A lot of you are missing the key, planned obsolescence. ssj12 has it figured out. Some people will never support a new format, but eventually they HAVE to when studios and retailers start pulling the plug on the old format. My parents didn't even own a DVD player before Best Buy quit selling VHS!
Blu-Ray has shown some power this year, so I wouldn't be surprised if in 2009 we start to see a few titles get the Blu-Ray version a few weeks ahead of time like we did with DVD.
Retailers make more money off Blu-Ray than they do off of DVD. That alone is enough reason for retailers to push it harder than DVD. They did the same thing with VHS. Anyone who thinks they won't do the same thing with DVD is fooling themselves. It may not take place overnight, but at the end of the day big companies don't give a shit about the customer. They give a shit about the customers money. And if they can collusively force the customer to buy more expensive things, they will.
Do you think retailers sell HDTV's out of the goodness of their heart? NO! They sell them because it makes them more money than standard televisions.
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