S.T.A.G.E. said:
It doesn't matter what Sony, Samsung (Which is my favorite brand) or even Sharp want for HDTV's. People wouldn't have responded as much if it was just private companies alone influencing the situation. The only way people would respond to accepting newer installments by private organizations, if they resist, is by being duped (IE: The PS3). Yes, HD DVD was beating Blu Ray before the PS3 came out. Sony was moneyhatting Blockbuster, making deals to make Blu Ray exclusive. Blu Ray had a load of powerful backers from Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, Disney and more investing in Blu Ray. HD DVD only had a couple of companies backing them. Blu Ray's survival is all corporation politics. Standard DVD didn't even get this much resistance vs VHS. Blu Ray wont become 4-20 dollars without beating or being equal to standard DVD. It costs too much to make them. Blu Ray was forced upon us. Ask youself the question of why no one responded to Blu Ray in the first place and how it came to be accepted. Sony used to videogame industry to dupe the people into accepting the format. It's like someone said in another post before. The PS3 was a "Trojan Horse" for the adoption of Blu Ray. Technically it was forced and this is no conspiracy theory. The people should be able to control the market, but when you have companies like these who have the money to force their will, things happen. This brings us to where we are today. |
What do you mean duped? That people were "forced" to get Bluray on the PS3? There's the 360 avaiable, and ultimately you don't have to buy a Bluray movie. If you're upset that companies are using Blu-ray disks for video games, while many may argue that Bluray is inferior to DVDs, I don't think Hideo Kojima, along with every developer who made a game are in this "conspiracy". You also stated in your earlier post that we wanted DVDs, while Bluray was being forced upon us. So what was up with the PS2 and Xbox then???
So are you against consoles getting 3rd party exclusives in this console war? Sony got support from movie industrialists, and got to get their movies on their disk (like the 360 got games on its system early in the war). We still had a choice, and we decided to buy the format which had more support and movies on it. That's competition, and fair competition.
Bluray will become cheaper... unless its raw materials are worth $20? Bluray came to be accepted because Sony decided to, along with getting movie studios (and their own studio) to support their format, AND they took the risk and gambit to make the PS3 a bluray player. It payed off in the aspect that all those millions of PS3's, although low in the console wars, were huge in the HD format wars, and they were able to get more Bluray players, and convince the studios to give even more support.
Yes, you can say that the PS3 was a "Trojan Horse" for Bluray, but again, we did not have to buy Bluray movies, we had the 360 avaiable BEFORE the PS3, and DVDs aren't going anywhere for a few more years. Companies are able to control the market!!! There's no such thing as force, unless the entire industry is agreeing not to give consumers what they want, which seems nearly impossible without government outright banning a product. If everyone really wanted to buy only DVDs, they'll do so, and the companies who still continue to manufacture and sell DVDs will get the benefit of losing the competition who try to "force" Blu-ray on us.
Advertisement, is an attempt by companies to control the market. Make something cool, and people will buy it (e.g. iPod)
Cutting and setting the price is an attempt by comapnies to control the market. While this might sound scary and conspiratorial like you say, due to competition and enough freedom in the market, if there is one company who won't hitch the price up on the product, they'll reap the benefits. If all of the companies want to push Bluray by making it dirt cheap, they're not really "forcing" us to buy it, is it?
You're sounding more and more crazy. You seem to despise how companies are trying to compete (or "forcing" as you call it), but it is that very competition that makes you safe from being literally forced to buy a certain product, at a certain price, from a certain company, etc. You don't HAVE to buy Bluray. You don't HAVE to buy a PS3. All movies are on both DVDs and Blurays (or actually, all movies are on DVD, and some on Bluray).
