Sony's in a 'bag of hurt' because of Blu-ray

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Zekkyou said:

sales2099 said:
Really is fascinating how the best quality picture is very niche and dropping off. Funny how the average consumer prides the delivery system (netflix/console on demand) rather then the quality of picture.

It's not really surprising when you consider the cost difference. It's like £7.50 - £15 for a single blu-ray movie on amazon or £6.99 for a month of access to Netflix's entire library (a lot of which is still HD, just a compressed equivalent) :p

If HD digital media cost the same amount as a blu-ray movie (like the prices of retail games vs their cost on PSN/XBL), then blu-ray would most likely be an awful lot more popular.

Yet prices of HD digital movies to own are generally higher than blu-ray disks. Renting has always been cheaper. If you're happy with whatever Netflix serves up and don't care about owning a movie, then yes it's the better choice than buying blu-rays obviously.