Sony on the brink of corporate upheaval, drastic changes

[NJ5]

Hyruken said:

 

 I have a 42inch HD plasma tv with a panasonic SC BT 100 Blu-Ray home cinema kit. In total that cost me nearly £2500 ($5000). I work in the media industry so will naturally buy any gadgets that come out, i love them. I notice the difference because i have spent a fortune on it so trick myself into believing it is a big difference. However when i have friends or my girlfriend over and show them say Transformers or Dark Knight etc.. they are like cool! But then they will say "i dont really see the difference". If they cant see the difference on a top end home set-up how will they see one on a bog standard one like the PS3 on a normal tv? They obviously wont. The reality is to me i think it is money well spent because i love films, but the average guy on the street will not be spending best part of $5000 to see a tiny bit of difference. The ironic thing is people i have had round think the old dvds ive got look better and that is just them being upscaled. The reality is we have been here before with other Sony formats, remember Laser disc? Remember Mini-Disc? Whatever happened to those? Wernt they better then normal discs and normal dvds? That is the reality the difference is so tiny and so small that majority of people will not justify paying as much as you and i have for something that will show that small a difference. Blu-Ray has just had its 3rd holiday season and has not really made any stride into the dvd world. In fact it moved from 2% shares to 4% share. At that rate it will take 25 years to just get to 50%. Somehow i doubt were be watching discs in 25 years time.

I have seen similar stories a lot.

The other day, me and my family went to visit a friend, a well educated guy. He had just bought a new 42'' LCD TV... I didn't say anything, but it was set up horribly. There was noticeable ghosting in the image, and he didn't seem to notice or care. His explanation for buying the TV was that it was bigger so they could read the text better while sitting on the couch at the opposite wall.

People generally buy HDTVs because they're flat and big, not because they notice an improvement in the image.