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XanderZane on 22 August 2008

It's going to be a long, long time before Blu-Ray makes any kind of dent in DVD sales. Because of the upscaling DVD players and even upscaling game consoles, most movie lovers are going to just stick with DVD's and and what them in HD. There's really no need to switch to Blu-Ray unless you are using it as a storage media. I have a LOT of stuff on my PC that I would love to burn to a Blu-Ray disc. I can imagine how much a RW Blu-Ray disc will cost. Anyway, with Blu-Ray on the market now, you would think that DVD prices would drop some on new releases right? Nope, I still see new DVD's costing $19.99 or $22.99 for special edition 2 disc sets. Blu-Ray has yet to effect DVD prices.



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akuma587 on 22 August 2008

The Blu-Ray vs. DVD trend will follow more or less exactly what the DVD vs. VHS trend did, but it will undoubtedly take longer, maybe twice as long. I do think DVD's will eventually be phased out though for movies.



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JaggedSac on 23 August 2008

I think most people are saying 2012 will be the year when Blu-Ray overtakes dvd sales.



Viper1 on 24 August 2008
JaggedSac said:
I think most people are saying 2012 will be the year when Blu-Ray overtakes dvd sales.

 

I'm not sure it will ever happen...period.  It's a debate with merits on both sides of which I'd love to tackle but this is not the thread for that.



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ssj12 on 25 August 2008

8/17: Source

* DVD sales up 11.64% to $111.17m
* Blu-ray sales down 10.23% to $6.19m
* DVD 92% Blu-ray 8%
* ALTD: 92/8



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JaggedSac on 25 August 2008

What Blu-Rays released last week? Must not have been anything pretty.



Commando on 25 August 2008

Yeah I think it will be interesting to see if they end up releasing HoloData players or anything similar in the next few years. I do think overall that people are less wowed by Blu-ray as opposed to when DVD first came out.



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ssj12 on 25 August 2008
Commando said:
Yeah I think it will be interesting to see if they end up releasing HoloData players or anything similar in the next few years. I do think overall that people are less wowed by Blu-ray as opposed to when DVD first came out.

 

holodata is out... just costs about 20 million dollars for a player and 5 million for a single disc. I dont see it dropping in price anytime soon.



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FinalEvangelion on 26 August 2008

Time to drop the price of new release BDs to $25. I'll start buying them in mass when that happens.



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ssj12 on 26 August 2008
FinalEvangelion said:
Time to drop the price of new release BDs to $25. I'll start buying them in mass when that happens.

 

check amazon then, heck buy them through amazon using the VGC store.



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