| manifestd said: No need to add BR to the existing 360, not as an add-on or included. I guess it's a nice thought, but not cost effective especially not with the other movie watching options that already exist on the platform. Blue Ray will probably end up as some kind of niche medium for watching movies. Downloading is just more attractive to many ppl. That being said, I don't understand the Blu-Ray hatred in this thread. If you don't want it, don't get it. But alot of people have taken this as an opportunity to blast it like it sucks and it doesn't. If you had a full HD TV and someone gave you a BR player, you wouldn't use it? I guess maybe not. But there are some people who still want to own a physical copy of what they buy. A file on your hd or on someone's server is not a physical copy. Blu Ray is a HD solution for that want. I guess it comes down to personal preference. But I think that the haters that just hate for the sake of hating need to peel the foreskin of hatred from around their heads and look at the sunshine. There are all kinds of people in this world and not everyone thinks like you. |
Of course people will use it. Whether or not they'd buy the Blu Ray movies is a horse of another color.
The point is - why is iTunes a hit? You can't hack it and get free songs. You pay for each song, and can't get the linear notes. All you get is an image file that's the album cover, and digits and data that states it's a song or video. Folks laughed it off. Who's laughing now?
Physical media? Want me to tell you the last time I bought a DVD? An HD-DVD? (Weeks ago for $5 a pop) A Blu Ray? I got 'Iron Man,' 'Kung Fu Panda' and 'Indiana Jones' for $20 a pop right after they came out. I refuse to pay any more than that. And to be honest, I had all of those movies in digital form beforehand.
You can debate why Blu Ray will top DVD - doubt it - but especially with an economic downturn, added distribution costs, packing costs, shipping costs and the cost of the media, you don't *think* companies will push that? Offer the same product without the added costs of paying someone to press a copy, electricity for a robotic arm (or a small 4-year-old in Romania to package it) to package it and then ship it across the world? Do you realize if the studios go digital download only how much they'd save?
One sterling example to consider. The first copies - Blu Ray, that is - of Ironman were botched. Goggle it - I found out from Blockbuster, myself. I don't know how many copies were effected, but several were. They were all tossed unless you owned a PS3 that could update it somehow. With a digital copy, you can replace the file and offer it again for download. No added costs to reship it, repress it and the like.
Sorry, but BR won't overtake downloads.
