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coolestguyever on 29 December 2008

Blu Ray has Warner Brothers...end of story. This new thing won't be able to compete.

plus 19 million blu ray players just counting PS3's. Plus many standalones.



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selnor on 29 December 2008
RPG said:
Digital Distribution will never overtake disc format, look how big music downloads have become yet people still buy music discs. Gamestop, Game, huge supermarkets etc would also lose huge sums of money so no matter how anyone looks at it, people will still always prefer the hard copy.

The day a company goes digital distribution only will be the same day they die. Also what about connection speeds? I cant keep count with the number of people who only have a certain bandwidth and can only download so much in a month.

NA, Asia and Japan need to get superfast internet speeds and that too the majority of people, then someone can say with a straight face that DD can match a hard copy.

LOL majorly. Yes people still buy physical media but it seriously is nowhere near being the dominant format. Digital is the be all end all of that industry now. It's where the revenue comes from.

For example End of year report from RIAA for CD single sales was 2.6 million in america in 2007 making $12.2 mill

For Digital downloads for singles in 2007 was 809.9 million making $801.8 mill

Massive difference.

Straight face that hard copy cant match DD. :)

http://76.74.24.142/81128FFD-028F-282E-1CE5-FDBF16A46388.pdf

 



Commando on 29 December 2008

Well that's music not Video Game. Massive difference.



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selnor on 29 December 2008
Commando said:
Well that's music not Video Game. Massive difference.

 

 Please read the post I quoted. He was talking about the music industry. Of which I showed him he was massively incorrect on.



Commando on 29 December 2008

ahhhhhh, ok, my bad dude.



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sunil247 on 30 December 2008
coolestguyever said:
Blu Ray has Warner Brothers...end of story. This new thing won't be able to compete.

plus 19 million blu ray players just counting PS3's. Plus many standalones.

It will be interesting if Microsoft decides to build RDM's into their consoles :)

 




Saiyar on 30 December 2008
selnor said:
RPG said:
Digital Distribution will never overtake disc format, look how big music downloads have become yet people still buy music discs. Gamestop, Game, huge supermarkets etc would also lose huge sums of money so no matter how anyone looks at it, people will still always prefer the hard copy.

The day a company goes digital distribution only will be the same day they die. Also what about connection speeds? I cant keep count with the number of people who only have a certain bandwidth and can only download so much in a month.

NA, Asia and Japan need to get superfast internet speeds and that too the majority of people, then someone can say with a straight face that DD can match a hard copy.

LOL majorly. Yes people still buy physical media but it seriously is nowhere near being the dominant format. Digital is the be all end all of that industry now. It's where the revenue comes from.

For example End of year report from RIAA for CD single sales was 2.6 million in america in 2007 making $12.2 mill

For Digital downloads for singles in 2007 was 809.9 million making $801.8 mill

Massive difference.

Straight face that hard copy cant match DD. :)

http://76.74.24.142/81128FFD-028F-282E-1CE5-FDBF16A46388.pdf

 

from the same link.

CD album sales 511.1 million making $7452.3 million.

DD album sales 42.5 million making $424.9 million.

 

% of revenue 2007 (for all formats): Physical 77%, Digital 23%.



Diomedes1976 on 30 December 2008

If the big hardware/software developers dont back this up it hasnt anything to do .And all those are backing up Blu Ray .I dont see this even launching into the market .



gavind5uk on 30 December 2008

While im a big proponent of downloadable media, currently downloadable films & blueray movies are serving two different purposes.

You buy the blueray for quality, you download for convenience - until internet connections are enormously faster and hard drives are alot bigger, this will be the case for a while.

I agree that the downloadable content will hold a large market share in the years to come, but there are going to be a number of years between now and then, and blueray will fill that gap.

The other thing is, this belief by some consumers that they decide what the media will be...., the film studios decide what the media will be and we will like it or lump it, they have far too much invested in blueray now to jump ship onto yet another format, and any company trying to get in on the action this late in the game is frankly living in cukoo land.



selnor on 30 December 2008

A question are all those tech heads who own PS3 who said they want the latest HD movie experience seriously gonna diss this new tech? All the people who have slated the netflix HD stream saying they want the best the market has to offer which is why they went BLU RAY?

Those same people cannot possibly now say they would not want this. And dont even think about using the price issue. You have constantly put 360 fanboys down over price point, so that is not an excuse.