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Cypher1980 on 26 August 2010
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Vetteman94 said:
Cypher1980 said:
Vetteman94 said:
Cypher1980 said:

What the hecks the point of that. The US, as we have spoken about before, has a chronic Internet Infrastructure compared to Eurasia.

To limit the study to an area that will unfairly distort the figures seems a little shortsighted.

Or maybe its intentional to misrepresent the scale of the issue.

Thats is very true, the US does have a horrible internet infrastructure. But, all of the numbers in the Blu-ray sales tracking thread are from US only.  So why would those same people then track DD for the rest of the world and then compare them with Blu-ray in the US?

I think you are being a little overdramatic about the tracking of the numbers. 

I think you misunderstand me ?

Given the BluRay figures are for the US only the study is valid. But only in terms of BluRay Vs DD in the states.

Most people will naturally want to expand the results to encompass the entire world. It would be seen as reasonable.

However given the known Infrastrucuture problems in the States and DD/Streamings reliance on said infrastructure the figures if extrapolated worldwide would be almost certainly unreliable.

No I understand, I just cant pull number from where they dont exist.  But even despite the US current infrastructure problem, I would guess that the story is not all that different everywhere else. For one reason, DD movies do not have the same advantages the DD music has, portable movies arent a convienence, you cant just start watching a movie while doing something else.  But, Maybe I am wrong.  I have heard that Blu-ray has been doing well in other areas like Europe but no numbers to report.

OK I dont expect you to produce speculative numbers. That would be wrong.

but as for "I would guess that the story is not all that different everywhere else"

I'm sorry that is just not addressing the issue. Streaming is a serious threat to Physical media in Europe. Not as a replacement but as a competitor.

This blind concentration on DD and its PROS and CONS seems somewhat pointless.

DD and Streaming services are two quite different things.

I to have no European numbers to report. That said here in the UK BluRay exists but its not really fully understood by most and is insanely expensive compared to DVD. Often twice the price.

I have a feeling that the BluRay charts as reported (ie USA only) do not paint the full picture and may be portraying the medium in an overly positive light when applied to a worldwide scale.