SvennoJ on 02 August 2012
| DirtyP2002 said: BluRay was pushed in the market without demand. I mean, I never ever met someone in 2005 saying "I wish I could get a better picture than this crappy DVD offers". It will take another 3-4 years before BluRay gets anywhere near the 65% - 70% region. In 2016 we will see digital distribution become bigger than ever. I think Digital distribution has a better chance to become the dominant "format" than BluRay. |
Well, now you have met one, and 2 of my friends couldn't wait as well to get their hands on HD content. DVD was only a marginal upgrade compared to laserdisc, only the superbit collections really out performed laserdiscs uncompressed video signal. And after I bought a 52" 1080p tv dvd really started to show its age.
I have no doubt digital distribution will become the dominant format. It already killed most video rental stores. But there will still be demand for a physical format with all the extras at the highest possible bitrate.
Blu-ray market share will probably mostly increase from declining dvd sales without blu-ray sales actually increasing.
