Rumor. Disney to drop BR.

[ChronotriggerJM]

Gnizmo said:

ChronotriggerJM said:

TheBigFatJ said:

carlos710 said:
why would they drop their BR support now that BR looks like the clear winner?

DVD outsold BR nearly 200:1 last year. DVD is the format winner.

The other thing to consider is that BD players also play DVDs. So you have 100% of your market if you sell DVDs only and it costs you nothing extra. Rather than selling BDs to about one percent of your market and DVDs to 99%, you sell DVDs to all of those people (since few people will buy a movie just because is BD).

DVD isn't a format winner. It's a separate format on it's own. DVD isn't a high def experience. Hell most of the TV's in the world can't even display them properly. I don't see Disney backing out until they make their money back from whatever delopement cost's they initially put in. It's not like blu-ray is losing anyone money. Each player sold is profitable, and every disk sold is the same.

The only thing in this thread more ludicrous than the OP claim is yours. DVD and Blu-ray are absolutely competing against each other. If you have a movie on blu-ray, are you going to buy it on DVD because it is "a different experience?" If blu-ray takes off, then DVD will die. If DVD retains the 99% of the market it has with no signs of losing any ground to blu-ray, blu-ray will die. They are directly competing formats.

 HUH?!? I don't consider "upgrading through time" to be competition I'm sorry, when some 70% <- (made up number) of households don't even support the product your offereing, I fail to see that as direct competition, right now the competition was between HD-DVD and Blu-ray as a "Standard format" for High Def movies. It's a transiition for sure, but I don't see warner pushing out Blu-ray and DVD versions of a movie and hoping Blu-ray outsells its DVD counterpart. They want both to sell. It's offering movies in standard definition AND high definition, not one or the other -_- When the technology becomes more wide-spread, DVD will "phase out", just like VHS and DVD, DVD was the niche market at first, then as it became the standard VHS was phased out. So consider it what you will, I personally don't see it as a competition -_-