BluRay in PS3 was Win/Win for Sony

[Grey Acumen]

Smash_Brother said:

Mars said:

lmao umm bud there is no downlaodable media for it to beat.

downlaod rentals mean nothing compared to a physical disk.

iTunes Movies Sold
1,300,000
From period: Sept. 12, 2006 - Jan 10, 2007

HD-DVDs Sold

650,000

From period: March 31, 2006 - March 9, 2007

Blu-Ray Movies Sold
675,000
From period: March 3, 2003 - March 9, 2007

Mind you, this was BEFORE Apple rolled out the AppleTV with HD and downloadable HD movies which, surprisingly, only cost about $5 more and are only a few GB more.

They've also added HD movie rentals, and thanks to the akamai servers, you can start watching a movie minutes after choosing to rent it and it will continue to download seamlessly in the background.

Then there's Direct TV which has been around for even longer, and Netflix's "$20 for all the movies you want" online download service is becoming increasingly popular.

It's all moving toward downloadable content: games, movies, TV, all of it. Storage is becoming cheaper all the time, internet connections are becoming faster all the time. All of this will move to an online model within the next 3-5 years.

How can DLC not be a threat when DLC is already kicking BR's ass?

Look, I'll admit, a lot of stuff may be moving towards DLC, but it will NEVER replace a permanent physical storage medium. It might beat it, but it will never REPLACE it.

Thing is, people LIKE having a physical "if someone wants to take this from me they'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers" storage medium. DVD is enough for now, but eventually, I do see file sizes and quality pushing things to where we need Blu Ray for better convenience, even regardless of a "high definition" issue.

Downloadable content will likely become more convenient, along with flash based storage as a rewritable medium, but there's still plenty of room for Blu Ray to carve its niche into.