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theprof00 on 29 December 2009
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Kasz216 said:

 

Your an amusing person... you have an odd amount of arrogance for a product you have no connection to.  You should look at things more clearly.

And you have a lot of faith in an unproven product. Seriously m8, my arrogance isn't against you. I've been talking to people about this since BR's release. At first I myself thought "this will never take off". However, as time went on, the trends were easily visible, and there were a large number of people touting HDDVD despite they were losing a lot of money on each player, had a very small royalty rate, and were literally giving players away for free. Near the end, they were selling HDDVD players with 20, (20!) free HDDVDs.

There is also another number of people who simply hate Sony with a passion and I saw people buy 3 or 4 HDDVD players and hundreds of movies simply to help Toshiba win the fight. It is really disgusting how some people work. For a good year and a half, the same people made the same threads "_______ will beat BR" or "PS3 failing, ________ wins".

I don't think you really realize the problems with this.

Blu-ray will be the standard... but not in the same way DVD was the Standard.

It really doesn't matter. That's like saying, "Oh, the PS3 will be successful, but not as successful as the wii/ps2". Who cares??? Why is everything always compared to some surreal unobtainable standard? (I say unobtainable in the nicest possible way. It may actually be obtainable if things go really well for the format)


CBHD's revenue is lower.... but Blu-ray actually makes the same amount per unit blu-ray wise in China as they do in the US.  The loss of China is HUGE.

China is acting very mercantilist, that is why they did it. Keep wealth in the country, export, do not import. Yes the loss of China is huge, but it has nothing to do with CBHD, it has to do with national strategy. CBHD will be big in China and several other countries, but it will never be a true competitor. It is not BDA's fault that China did this. DVD licensing fees were actually higher than BD, BD did everything they could. BR is fucking BANNED in China.

Additionally, they are losing a lot of Chinese manufactuers... who once again, was a big part of the DVD lisensing sucess.

If CBHD becomes the standard for China...  or even worse... China and other poorer countries... the BDA loses a LOT of money.


This is not counting the fact they've had to cut prices quicker then DVD, and won't have near the share of DVD thanks to the numerous other options out there.


After the 3rd to last line, I was ready to give up. So BR won't be as profitable as DVD. Wonderful...and don't care. They aren't losing money, they are losing potential profits.