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Rpruett on 29 June 2009
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sega4life said:


DVD down 13% in 2009

Blu-Ray Not selling as well as expected

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Digital Download / Streaming on the rise...  hmm...


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I've always said this, Blu-Ray will not beat DvD's because of In-vehicle DVD players, Portable DVD players, and Other small handheld devices.

DVD: you can play it in almost every single room in your home, take it in the car/truck for a family trip, or use a program to convert it to your iPod / Zune / Phone.

Blu-Ray: chances are you only have 1 blu-ray player so that's a room you can watch it in, there aren't any In-vehicle or Portable BR players that I know of, and BR PC drives aren't to wide spread, not to mention the programs to convert them to iPod / Zune / Phone aren't as easy as a DVD converter, or well known.

You do realize that when DVD was in it's infancy it didn't have portable devices everywhere right?   You also do realize that Blu-Ray players can play DVDs.  So once the physical Blu-Ray player price drops it's only natural that in order to keep the price relatively high on the portable players they will throw in a Blu-Ray drive.   

What you're saying is like DVD never had a chance to over take VHS because they made TVs that did both.   All that's really doing is delaying the inevitable.