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Legend11 on 26 March 2009
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axumblade said:
Legend11 said:
axumblade said:
Legend11 said:
It would be interesting to see the biggest backer of Blu-Ray supporting the format's biggest threat, digital movie downloads.

You're about 9 months late with this statement....

 

 

There's a big difference when it comes to what Netflix represents.  How many people with a subscription to Netflix would go out and purchase a Blu-Ray copy of a movie when it's available on NetFlix and they have already basically paid for that copy of it?  It's also far cheaper when you consider what you're getting for your money.

Here's a link to what I'm talking about...  Also with the rapidly rising amount of competition to Blu-Ray (much more than DVD ever faced) I can't help but wonder if Sony's falling fortunes in this tough economy will spread to the format as well.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/33413/Blu-ray-losing-out-to-downloads#after_ad

That's pretty interesting how your initial statement was about digital movie downloads yet your followup was about Netflix, which on the 360 at least, is a streaming service, not so much of a download. I mean, if you feel the need to change what you're saying then feel free.

It is quite hard for me to get my finger around the idea of something so obscure as downloading movies could ever compensate for the ever dominant blu-ray player that every household seems to have. I mean everyone has a blu-ray player but I don't think I know anybody that has a computer.

Also, what's so wrong with Sony having Netflix on the PS3? Then I can stream the same old movies that my 360 does. ;)

 

Sony has a major problem on its hands and it's the same one they faced with betamax.  It's losing HD TV marketshare to Vizio.  It's losing console marketshare to Nintendo and Microsoft.  It's been mauled by Apple with its portable music players. It's losing because at the end of the day it's the mass market and not a few elite that will decide what the standard will be.  The bad news for Sony is that the bad economy is only going to make things worse for them.

People are free to live in denial, but the truth is that everywhere you look digital downloading services are starting up or growing.  Hell Sony even sees it with it's failed UMD format but will never admit it with Blu-Ray because they gambled away so much on it.  I guess we can revisit this in a year or two but I'm willing to bet when we do the future of the format will be much more obvious, even to those that refuse to see it.