Sony's blu-ray Quagmire, the Millstone around ps3's neck

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Vetteman94 said:

PizzaFaceGamer said:

Vetteman94 said:

Its just another Blu-ray is doomed DD is probably going to take over despite Blu-ray outpacing DD.  Also if it was as well a researched as you claim they wouldnt have said the 20GB PS3 did not come with an HDMI output which is wrong.  All PS3s have come with them. 

Not true at all. This says nothing about blu-ray being doomed, it says it MASSIVELY UNDERPERFORMED, which I think we can all agree on.

Even last year kaz said blu-ray revenue would be 50%, but it still sits today at only around 15%, despite HUGE discounts on discs and players. You can get  a blu-ray player from walmart for 80 bucks!

Price isn't the issue, blu-ray just isn't that popular

No price is still the issue,  New Blu-rays are regularly around $25,  while new DVDs are around $15.  After that the price skyrockets for Blu-ray up to $35 for most movies,  while DVDs staying at about $20.   People wont buy a player as long as their is a price difference like that.   Price is the reason it just not that popular.

If royalties were not an issue, then the manufacture and distribution of Blu-ray would be just as expensive as a dvd......but Sony wants to recover the R&D costs that went into this, and they're going to get this back before they start lowering price significantly.  It's the same thing with the players, the owners of the player technology (panny, samsung and all the rest) will get their due before the price will go down.  Have patience.