Does Sony even want to succeed...

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sega4life said:

Akvod said:

sega4life said:

For the Blu-ray part...

 

Blu-ray will Not succeed because of Portable DvD players, and more importantly In vehicle DvD players..

If they start to package DvD's with Blu-Ray I can see Blu-Ray getting a leg up..

but... families like mine go into a store to purchase a movie we think:

DvD: I can watch it on All my TV's in my home, at the park, in the vehicle..

Blu-Ray: I can watch it in the living room, I can use the Digital version on my PC... and try...try... and get it to my cell phone..

 

If Sony made the PS3 without Blu-Ray (Held them back, still cost them money) it would be #1 with no doubt... but Sony just has to shove another format down your throat and make you B_E_L_I_E_V_E it's the new format and everyone should own it, as if nothing new is coming out in the next few years...

People buy consoles to play games, not formats, Sony thought "hey PS2 had DvD and it sold like crazy"... but that was a transition from VHS, ... (Tapes, lose quality, have to rewind, no scene selection format,) and thought Blu-ray would have the same impact... but well... if we were still in VHS, fuck ya... but were not...

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't see, especially after the last oil crisis, mini-vans with dvd players and mini tv's being wide spread... at least not as wide spread as HD Tvs.

You don't see DvD players wide spread in vehicles because of oil prices? as if the high cost of oil made in vehicle DvD players that were sold vanish?

kind of the same way that if you can't afford gas, then a New HDTV shouldn't be in your budget? let alone a Blu-ray or PS3?

There are more Portable DvD players and in vehicles DvD players then HDTV's in homes, and with the Gas Prices dealerships have been throwing in DvD players with vehicles for free as incentives.

Not to mention your forgetting the in home DvD Players, they are everywhere.... PS2's, Xbox's, Built in TV's...

Think of it like you and your wife/husband wants to spend alone time with each other, you grab a DvD bring it to the kids room DvD player and let them watch it... just like you can use the DvD format in majority of the places rather then a Blu-ray..

Your about to go on a trip, kids will be kicking and screaming in the back the whole ride, need something to keep them quite..

You have family videos you want to put on DvD.. why? because you can bring it to EVERYONE in your family, because they ALL have DvD players, and if they don't like grandma and grandpa, bring them a $29.00 DvD when you go over there...

Shit that's cheaper then a burnable Blu-ray disc...

Thats what appeals to a parent..

 

If your young... well... it's just hard to understand..

 

 

personally, I think your argument makes no sense. Technology advances over time, it is bound to happen sooner or later. DVD has been out for over a decade. THe world has made many adaptions around the format, but that doesn't mean we can't advance forward because it is so deeply rooted. BluRay seems like the likely successor at the moment, in time there will be portable BDplayers just like before so what exactly is the issue?

At the time of DVD's inception there was a lot of skeptability going around just like now.They were much more exspensive to make then VHS, of course, that is why it was better. It costs more to make things better. People thought "oh, but I have so many VHS tapes. I will never upgrade" blah blah blah but time will move on without you if you dont keep up. THESE people soon realized that all support for VHS was loosing steam, then dropped. Right now BD is in the phase of gaining steam, it exists and is often packaged alongside DVDs.

And why can't Sony push a format? DVD developers did and see where it got them. the successor to DVD was going to happen regardless(as you said yourself) so why not BluRay?

BluRay offers.....

-more then 3 times the disc capacity then DVD

-higher quality picture, true HD

-Dent, scratch, blemish resistant(practically invincible to everday scratches DVD was prone too)

-Bonus content via online download.

Shit, to me, the fact that the discs are scratch resistant has me sold. I challenge anyone to go find a BD disc and scratch it with their fingernail, tell me what happens. You cant do that to a DVD without having the fear of it not working anymore.

Right now it seems a little unpractical for a parent to be buying BD dvds on a family budget, that is ok. Yet over time, the prices will go down. DVD had the same issue but when the prices dropped, the sales flooded in.