Cypher1980 said:
Vetteman94 said:
Cypher1980 said:
CrazyHorse said:
Bobbuffalo said:
Blue ray is not the future. Is nothing but the succesor of the Laser Disc. People don't give a damn about pretty images. They just want the content. No wonder why services like Hulu are in the rise while HD TVs sales are flat and the switch to HD met with resistant.
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People embrace things they don't need all the time it just requires public awareness of the product and most importantly it has to be at the right price point.
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So to summise
More Adverts and slash both adoption costs and media costs of Blu Ray
In other words the Blu Ray consortium should "get the hell off its fat ass and do something"
To be still sub 10 percent vs DVD in a highly favourable sales tracker restricted to top 20 movies 3 years after launch is just pathetic.
Its not Blu Ray's fault (the product is fine), its the fault of the studios and the BR consortium who are desperate to make money off the back of BR at the earliest opportunity.
If something is not done in the next 12 months to push BR to at least 50:50 on these charts then I think BR runs the risk of being condemned to relative obscurity.
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It is no longer restricted to the Top 20 revenue only, it now includes every blu-ray sale now. It has since about spring last year
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Are you sure ?
It seems restricted to Top 20 were Blu Ray and DVD have concurrent sales.
Also it deals with revenue. This in fairness is common practice (dollars are a good common denominator after all). However the way the chart is represented it could be viewed by some as a strict unit to unit battle.
Given the price discrepancy at POS the sales on concurrent DVD vs Bluray in units sold ratio form would be closer to 95:5
Once you take into account the thousands of titles that are DVD only you get a better picture of the battle facing BR.
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Absolutely positive, Home Media Research switched last year to Total Revenue to better indicate the progress of Blu-ray. Basically to show its true position for the week. So dont confuse the addition of the other charts. They are there just to show how the Top 20 of each category are doing. Think of it like Box Office charts, even though they only show top ten Box Office hits for the week, when they show total revenue its for every movie that was in theatres.
Also if I am calculating correctly, if it was only Top 20 Blu-ray ratio would be closer to 16:84.
