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ChronotriggerJM on 17 January 2008
TheBigFatJ said:
carlos710 said:
why would they drop their BR support now that BR looks like the clear winner?

DVD outsold BR nearly 200:1 last year. DVD is the format winner.

The other thing to consider is that BD players also play DVDs. So you have 100% of your market if you sell DVDs only and it costs you nothing extra. Rather than selling BDs to about one percent of your market and DVDs to 99%, you sell DVDs to all of those people (since few people will buy a movie just because is BD).


 DVD isn't a format winner. It's a separate format on it's own. DVD isn't a high def experience. Hell most of the TV's in the world can't even display them properly. I don't see Disney backing out until they make their money back from whatever delopement cost's they initially put in. It's not like blu-ray is losing anyone money. Each player sold is profitable, and every disk sold is the same. 



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superchunk on 17 January 2008

Well, it took years before they adopted DVD. Maybe they just don't want to pay the royalties until it is the dominant home media choice. i.e. it has to outsell dvd.



kitler53 on 17 January 2008

lol, i don't believe it but i would laugh so hard if it did happen.



Mark2008 on 17 January 2008

DVD came out in 1997. VHS new releases stopped about 2006.

Despite the fact, to this day, VHS is in nearly 100 million homes and is the most popular medium for recording TV shows.... it stopped being a viable market for selling pre-recorded content.

I think blu-ray will go that way someday, and therefore Disney will drop support...but its a few years off.

No way does Blu ray hang around as long as VHS or even DVD....it'll be a blip, kind of like 8 track...garner some support for a while, thanks largely to the PS3...but in the end, I think set top boxes like TiVO and AppleTV, will edge it out in terms of serving the same purpose.



tombi123 on 17 January 2008

Yeah my friend at Nintendo just phoned me and said that Nintendo are pulling the plug on the Wii.
Whatever you do don't buy a Wii.

See we can all do that.



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madskillz on 17 January 2008

@ Tombi

Do you have their number on your caller ID? I need to get a review copy of Wii Fit sent to my crib. Just tell them that fool at duke city gamerz wants one - they have my address. Mucho gracias ...



Damstr8 on 17 January 2008

does sony have a contract with disney? cause if they do...i very much doubt disney will drop if they could



 

 

Aj_habfan on 17 January 2008
tombi123 said:
Yeah my friend at Nintendo just phoned me and said that Nintendo are pulling the plug on the Wii.
Whatever you do don't buy a Wii.

See we can all do that.

It makes sense, PS2 has over 100 million sold - like 6 times the amount of the Wii.

Garcian Smith on 17 January 2008

Petition for "Blu-Ray" to be wordfiltered to "LaserDisc 2" signed.



"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."

 -Sean Malstrom

 

 

Psymatiq on 17 January 2008

at my local candy shop they told me that disney drops dvd to go cd.


true story from real life



Xbox360 and Ps3 owner

I spit in your mouth at nite