According to data compiled by price comparison website Reevoo, sales of DVD players outstripped Blu-ray by an astonishing factor of 10, buoyed by much cheaper prices, wider availability and a worse-then expected recession.

To make things even more depressing, motion picture analyst, Global Media Intelligence, show that combined DVD and Blu-ray discs sales are falling fast as consumers prefer to rent rather than own, at least in the US.

As for DVD technology, it has been maturing and new features like Hybrid storage, SD Card readers and Upscaling made them appealing to the masses combined with a low price.

This corroborates Reevoo's other finding; that users are shunning physical media and migrating to downloads or over the air recording instead.

Even if Blu-Ray players are now available for less than £100, they have to face a hell lot of competition: Download services like Netflix, Amazon, VIrgin's OD or iTunes or even the XBox 360 could gradually make Blu-Ray obsolete.

http://security.itproportal.com/storage/news/article/2009/3/3/blu-ray-adoption-stumbles-dvds-and-downloads-grow/

This is probably due to the global recession, who knows how else Blu Ray will be affect if the economy stays at this current rate.

Overall this does not paint a rosy picture for the Blu Ray camp

New day, new Blu-ray is taking off/failing article.

Do you hate Playstation or are you totally in love with microsoft since all yer posts is negativ stuff for Playstation users. Or maybe both?
Just wonder. I`m not mad. Just curious.

ALL people that will try to say "BR is losing" by mentionning VOD are COMPLETELY failing

BR is not mainstream

VOD is not at ALL mainstream

no need to add more.

New day, another article posted by gebx regarding some sort of failure of Sony and Sony products...

/sigh

It does make sense really. A DVD and A Blu Ray disk of the same movie are excellent substitutes. So when the consumer feels less wealthy they are more likely to save money where-ever they can.

Downloads are more convenient. Conveneience is the reason DVD overtook VHS. Blu-ray is not more convenient. If it was, the better detail would just be gravy.

So it's not a shock it's not taking off. Neither would HD-DVD, but at least they were trying for new features, while the Blu-ray camp just felt they needed to copy what HD-DVD had. Yet either way, this is not the big thing the movie industry wanted. Excusing it with "BR is not mainstream" ignores that mainstream is what they wanted.

And trying to downplay it with "VOD is not at ALL mainstream" ignores that the article was not JUST mentioning VOD. It mentioned others.

Digital distribution is the future but wont become standard until broadband penetration and speeds in crease drastically. But way to go DVD!! I really dont like blu-ray because i cant justify paying $40 for a movie that would cost me $20 to buy in DVD. Plus BR killed HD-DVD and for that i can never forgive it :( that is until the movies become cheaper :)

He doesn't hate Playstation and isn't in love with Microsoft, he just posts things like this.

Edit: At least I think so.

I have a Sony digital camera and i'll never buy a Zune...

Just thought I throw that out there...