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Girl Gamer Elite on 15 February 2008
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Ail said:
Girl Gamer Elite said:

Blu-Ray isn't out of the woods yet, it still has to convince the consumer its worth bothering with.

In the end, is it really worth replacing your entire library of movies just for a crisper image? While DVD and CD offered several benefits and conveniences over VHS and Cassette, Blu-Ray is little more than a Luxury Item whose benefits are superficial, not convenient nor of any real benefit to the consumer.

Even if Blu-Ray helps the PS3, it does little more than create a PSP scenario as its appeal as it could become more desireable for its secondary features. Either way, its dubious to think Blu-Ray is actually doing terribly well when Sony is forced to give away free movies with their PS3.


Just wondering, have you watched a Blue Ray movie on a 1080p TV yet ?

Because it is an amazing experience ( try Kingdom of Heavens Director's cut).

As for the free movies offer, now that HD-DVD is dead I woudn't be surprised if that offer stopped soon.

Otherwise I agree with you I don't think people are going to replace their DVD library with a Blue Ray library.

What is going to happen is for new titles, especially those with decent special effects or scenery, over time Blue Ray will become a susbtential part of the sales .

And as sales of new DVD are a huge part of the total DVD sales, that is not so bad.

But yeah, for older movies, aside a few exceptions ( LoTR extended edition comes to mind, that would be the 4th LoTR copy I own lol..) I woudn't replace my DVDs with Blue Rays. 

Besides you don't need to replace your entire library, a Blue Ray players plays DVD, whereas DVD players don't play VHS... 

If I was Warner or any other studio I woudn't bother coming with new releases in Blue Ray of older movies except the big hits ( Lotr, Die Hard, Star Wars yes, John Wayne's no).

 


I'm sure you'd like to believe that is true but quite honestly the adoption rate of the format is proof enough of the lack of interest in such a superficial upgrade. 1080p will be made available with better formats in the future. Right now tech heads are just too eager to jump on the first half assed band wagon.