Microsoft: Xbox doesn't need Blu-Ray

[joeorc]

nightsurge said:
Also, @Damnyouall, just one more slightly off topic question. Do you use cash or credit? Because you seem so fixated on physical media, yet I can almost guarantee you use digital payment methods more often than not. If you don't, then the whole physical media superiority is just a sign of your not willing to adjust to the times. You will see physical media purists slowly fade away as time goes on since DD is better in nearly every way imaginable (all but resale basically).

no not at all, in my opinion it's value is already devalued as soon as it hit's the internet.

you can collect digital download's but the value is less than physical media, also as long as people like to collect thing's which is never going to change physical media will alway's be seen as value greater than digital download's.

also with a score like this it's not going to be anywhere near what DIGITAL DOWNLOADS would need to be to overcome packaged Media an Im very sorry to say it's most likely going to be  that way for a very long time:

Blu-ray Sells over $200m in Jan-Feb 2010, Restores Growth for Packaged Media

According to aggregate weekly estimates from the research department of Home Media Magazine, revenues from Blu-ray sales in the US in 2010 through February were $200.95 million, 59% more than in the same period of 2009. Additionally, thanks to Blu-ray, the revenue from packaged-media sales stopped falling and grew 3% year-on-year.

As to market share, Blu-ray accounted for 11.7% of packaged-media sales revenue in the first two months of the year. In Jan-Feb 2009, this percentage was 7.6%.

The biggest-selling week was the week ended January 3, with $37.72 million in BD sales. The slowest week was the week ended February 21, with $18.58 million.

It is worth mentioning that Blu-ray sold more in these relatively slow two first months of the year than digital downloads did in the whole of 2009 ($199 million, including both standard-definition and high-definition, according to Screen Digest). In spite of all the continuous hype from tech sites and web pundits about the impending digital domination and the disc's demise, the public seems to see much more value in a movie when it comes on a high-quality physical support with top-notch video, audio and extras than on a downloaded video file.

 

Home Media Magazine