Blu Ray sales up 500% from last year.

[jalsonmi]

naraku2099 said:

jalsonmi said:

obieslut said:
ps3 future proof confirmed,
the question is are people going to be picking the ps3 as the blu ray player of choice or a stand alone because if they pick the ps3 then whoop whop for sony.

 

PS3 might help the adoption of Blu-Ray, but it's rather unlikely it'll become the Blu-Ray player of choice, just like the PS2 wasn't the DVD player of choice. You can already buy a Blu-Ray player for $150-$300--including ones made by Sony. It'll only get cheaper. If Blu-Ray does take off (and if they do, they really have to go away from that ghastly ugly packaging), the PS3 will be a small fraction of players sold worldwide. Hell, PS2 sold 120 mil units and it still made up only a fraction of worldwide DVD players. As much as we may like video games here on this site, video game systems do not drive the electronics industry. Never have, never will. It's just realism.

Blu-Ray packing is neither ghastly nor ugly. It's just blue and has different dimensions from DVD packaging.

Jeez, picky at all?

 

Hey, I'm a film student. Movies are my life, or at the very least my livelihood. I'm also a collector of movies and books and comic books and LPs and CDs, so packaging matters to me. And a dinky blue (or nearly nay color) transparent plastic case is ugly as sin and classes tremendously with the box art.

Compare this:

(full cardboard digipack)

to this:

Blech. And Batman Begins has a great poster. It's just the damned blue border that makes that picture look so stupid and unappealing. At least DVDs have a black case with no border on the front side. It's completely unobtrusive. Hopefully once more people get into the Blu-Ray business (if it does indeed take over) better packaging will take over.

LOL MATURE said:

 Anyone who has a problem with packaging (that looks nifty) is just nitpicking reasons not to like it.

 

 

I have no problem with the idea of Blu-Ray as a medium. Indeed, I'm all for higher quality picture and osund for movie viewing. I just want my fetish collecting objects to look good on my shelves is all. It's a small thing, but damnit, I care.