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thetonestarr on 09 October 2008

Seeing what we ship every day from my building at Amazon, I don't doubt it.

I don't necessarily believe it either, but the point is - we ship a lot of bluray discs, and it's entirely possible. Especially since Disney has hindsight and experience with VHS and DVD as well. They can use past experience with previous format adoption rates to expect what to happen with bluray.



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Dgc1808 on 09 October 2008

Wouldn't be surprised. But I think DVD will still have atleast 35-40% Marketshare. There are alot of people that just don't see upgrading as that big of a deal.



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Godot on 09 October 2008
thetonestarr said:

Seeing what we ship every day from my building at Amazon, I don't doubt it.

I don't necessarily believe it either, but the point is - we ship a lot of bluray discs, and it's entirely possible. Especially since Disney has hindsight and experience with VHS and DVD as well. They can use past experience with previous format adoption rates to expect what to happen with bluray.

 

And you're at Amazon. An online store... People buying from online stores are usually more... tech-savvy than the average Joe that buys his movies at Wal-Mart.



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Dgc1808 on 09 October 2008
Godot said:
thetonestarr said:

Seeing what we ship every day from my building at Amazon, I don't doubt it.

I don't necessarily believe it either, but the point is - we ship a lot of bluray discs, and it's entirely possible. Especially since Disney has hindsight and experience with VHS and DVD as well. They can use past experience with previous format adoption rates to expect what to happen with bluray.

 

And you're at Amazon. An online store... People buying from online stores are usually more... tech-savvy than the average Joe that buys his movies at Wal-Mart.

 

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thetonestarr on 09 October 2008
Godot said:
thetonestarr said:

Seeing what we ship every day from my building at Amazon, I don't doubt it.

I don't necessarily believe it either, but the point is - we ship a lot of bluray discs, and it's entirely possible. Especially since Disney has hindsight and experience with VHS and DVD as well. They can use past experience with previous format adoption rates to expect what to happen with bluray.

 

And you're at Amazon. An online store... People buying from online stores are usually more... tech-savvy than the average Joe that buys his movies at Wal-Mart.

 

Which is a very big part of why I said I don't necessarily believe it.

But it is definitely possible, considering how much we ship.



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Phrancheyez on 09 October 2008
goddog said:

in other news wishing on a star with a cricket near you still does not make wishes true

Jobs, is on their board, and he has not seen fit to make macs blue ray equiped despite being on the blue ray consortium too. so until the jobs decideds its worth while i have little faith it it, even less when iorn man only managed over 500k

 

LOL, you base your assumptions on Steve Jobs?  Wow..just..wow.



Pk9394 on 09 October 2008

I think we all forget the fanancial crisis happening right now. People are worring keeping their job than buying a brand new expensive entertainment systems. if this issue is not resolved soon, expect a huge economy reccession or even worse a depression.



goddog on 09 October 2008
Phrancheyez said:
goddog said:

in other news wishing on a star with a cricket near you still does not make wishes true

Jobs, is on their board, and he has not seen fit to make macs blue ray equiped despite being on the blue ray consortium too. so until the jobs decideds its worth while i have little faith it it, even less when iorn man only managed over 500k

 

LOL, you base your assumptions on Steve Jobs?  Wow..just..wow.

 

no i have many other reasons ive stated in other threads.

but it was fun to weave him in there with him being on many blueray boards, and a board member of disney since the pixar acquisition, and ceo of apple who normally jumps on cutting edge tech he sees as the big thing, leave blueray out of his companies computers, and not even support it in OS (though it is coming builds of the OS have had it for almost a year now). he does still swing a bit of power in the tech and entertainment worlds 

 

edit, also how can you not find the man at least interesting, i mean even a guy pretending to be him, fake steve jobs, had amajor fallowing, that says alot



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Phrancheyez on 09 October 2008

yeah..no. I don't like any of his "cutting edge" technology. I've used macs quite a bit and can't stand them. iPods aren't that bad, mp3 players just arent for me. iPhones and iTouch or whatever? don't get me started..

I see your reasoning, but I don't think Jobs is a very good staple to go by. Just my opinion.