Rumor. Disney to drop BR.

[ChronotriggerJM]

Gnizmo said:

ChronotriggerJM said:

 

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 -_-

If DVD retains 99% market share for the next 15 years, do you honestly think studios will still be making blu-ray movies? If blu-ray attains 99% of the market share do you think anyone will still be making DVDs? They are directly competing formats. If you own a movie in blu-ray, then there is no reason to buy it on DVD. If you have just bought the movie on DVD, there is very very little reason to buy it on blu-ray. People will not be buying movies on both formats and that means they are compeing for sales. Every DVD sale is one less blu-ray sale, and every blu-ray sale is one less DVD sale. It is that simple. DVD and VHS were very much competing formats back in the day as well.

 I still think it's just like someone stated above, when DVD was first introduced, I'm sure it got it's ass handed to it by VHS -_- I generally put competition to be between two similar products. Not different markets, yes their both forms of entertainment, but like I said one wont even play on some huge percentage of the TV's out there. It's a transition, all the movie and hardware company's need to do is wait for adoption rates, it's not like there losing ground is it? The movie company's will release their material on all mediums possible, DVD, Blu-ray, and digital, as far as I know not many company's supported the laser disk, so there must not have been much faith in the product, that doesn't seem to be the case this time around.

@Nuckles, when was the last time you looked at HD-TV adoption rates lol? Nothing but increasing there :P I've mentioned it before, you probably can't find a tv in your local stores that DOESN'T support 720p,  I know I can't at my local best-buy and Fry's.

@Saiyar, lol, so true xD