Procrastinato on 14 June 2009
| Fei-Hung said: I think one of the main reasons why bd sells better is because consumers have no choice but to buy an original copy. In Leicester where I live, there shops that openly sell pirate DVDs for a pound each. Some are copies of originals, some are preview copies and some are rubbish. To own a physical copy of a hd film, you have no choice but to make a purchase which is original. |
That makes no sense. All Blu-Ray players can play DVDs. People are increasingly choosing the HD format, even over dirt-cheap pirated DVDs. The existance of dirt-cheap pirated DVDs hurts BD sales, because it makes an even-cheaper-than-retail-DVD option available to compete with BD, just like it does with DVD.
If your argument is that it hurts DVD sales "more" than BD sales, I would say that can't be true, as the choice to use DVD hasn't been taken away from the BD consumer.
