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Cypher1980 on 20 February 2011
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Vetteman94 said:
Slimebeast said:

So Blu ray is still much smaller than DVD despite something like fours years on the market?


Kinda is yeah,  I think over the yeah it held about 12-15% of the entire market.  That does include more things like PPV, DD, and DVD.  But it is increasing, just slower then most hoped and anticipated.  The high prices and recession really hurt it,  as well as lack of information about the product.  But the high prices shouldnt be an issue anymore, and the recession isnt as bad as it was.  

I think DVD at this point was at about 30-40% total market,  but it was only going up against VHS.


I agree.

DVD is was way ahead at the same point in its lifecycle but it only had to dethrone an old champ in VHS.

BluRay offers advantages but in no way is it a required upgrade.

Also DVD had no Streaming services to take on and it lauched at the start of a boom cycle.

I can defend Bluray only so far though. The continued price premium and lack of advertising to the non tech consumer is frankly criminal.

I mean its still nearly twice the price per disc 4 years after launch. What on earth are the BluRay consortium smoking.

Also, can I have some !!!