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

[Zekkyou]

SvennoJ said:

Zekkyou said:

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.

I should have added what i said was based in a world where streaming didn't exist, so just HD digital media vs blu-ray at the same price. The same as how things currently stand with console games.