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archer9234 on 31 December 2013
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Kasz216 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Blu Ray on Nintendo and Microsoft following Sony will expand Blu Ray adoption, but yes Sony has already done most of the work that needed to be done the same way they did with DVD's during the PS2 era. Blu Ray has been big a relatively short amount of time. It wasnt until like half way through the PS3 era that it started to pick up speed on stand-alone players. DVD's first came out in 1995 and no one could afford it until the Playstation 2 in 2001, so the Blu Ray market will slowly eat away at the DVD market.


DVD's first came out in 1996.  In Japan only, USA in december 97, Europe 98 and didn't go fully world wide until 1999.

The DVD standard was finalized in 1995 if that's what you mean.  It wasn't actually released then though.

 

Blu-ray has lagged behind DVD in pretty much every sales indicator except for player sales... only because of the PS3.

Not just in marketshare numbers but in just pure physical numbers.  Which is fascinating considering the increase in the market.

 

By 2003 DVD was considered to have a majority of marketshare by pretty much everybody.

By Blu-rays timeline that would be 2012.  We're sitting at 2013 and it's still only sitting at around 40% total sales on a statistic that only counts the top 50 movies.   Which is a measure that's slanted towards new media... and despite the fact that the PS3 came out before the PS1 respectivly lifetime..

Yeah. besides Digital forcing physical out of sales space. You also have to factor in a ton of people don't care about HD. They either don't like the higher cost. Or don't see any benefit in it. I still have friends who have a HDTV but have a SD cable box. This cuases the weaker sales. This will get worse when 4K comes around. I don't care about resoultion anymore. Mainly because will it end? Are companies just gonna keep uping resoution every 10 years? Rebuying stuff over and over again... I won't replace anything I already own on BD.

BD might of taken off if it didn't have a format war. And was able to be played in DVD players. I remember I couldn't buy any BD's for nearly 2 years all because of that stupid nonsese with HDDVD VS BD. It also doesn't help if a company doens't release their stuff on BD. I've waited so damn long for a complete series release of Smallvile on BD. but only 5-10 are availbe. So I end up buying the DVD sets. And won't bother if they do release Seasons 1-4, if ever.