Comments on: Blu-ray: Why it Will Stay Blue

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By: John Grever

John Grever — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:58:16 +0000

Blu-ray will progress when the cost comes down. Until then, it will stay in a slow growth mode. Anybody hear of elasticity- an economics term that describes the likelyhood of greater revenue at various price points? Clearly Blu-ray needs to reduce selling costs at both the player level and the content, but the player has to come first. THEN sales will jump.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:47:46 +0000

I totally agree. Blu-Ray is a waste of time. Unless you have a 50″ TV (and therefore a 30 ft wide room) the quality difference is not noticeable when compared to an up-scaled DVD.

By: Brian S

Brian S — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:43:53 +0000

Upscaling DVD playback looks wonderful? For small enough screens, yeah, I’ll grant that. For larger ones (42″ and larger), there’s a definite difference, one that you can never match by interpolating from that little bit of resolution.

By: ZNF ‘Round The Web

ZNF ‘Round The Web — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:03:09 +0000

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By: Deo

Deo — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:34:46 +0000

350% growth on top of nothing is still only a few units.

The video rental business is changing radically, I guess once blu-ray catches up in two or three years people will be mostly downloading movies from companies like Netflix, that’s a market it won’t have.

As for media for computers (boot disks that come with your new computer) and videogames, it won’t be long until they start shipping flash devices instead of DVDs, that’s another market it won’t have.

Are collectors enough to justify a whole industry for Sony ? Hardly.

Embrace the future, streaming is the only real way to go.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:07:07 +0000

Sigh. Just another blogger who makes a doom and gloom article (despite the very good numbers from end of 2008 for Blu Ray) to get some hits.
So be it.

Bla Bla The Dark Knight 1,5Million sales in 2 weeks, Bla bla Tons of players sold, Bla Bla % of pdm versus DVD rising compared to 2008, Bla Bla Blu Ray +350% compared to 2007, Bla Bla Vizio releasing a full featured player for $199 MSRP in April, etc. etc.

As you can tell, I’m treating this article with the respect it is due given the lack of research given by the author.

By: megatron

megatron — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:31:01 +0000

This is a joke, like the other poster said BluRay is “taking off faster than DVD did.” And don’t forget unlike DVD the adaptation of BluRays is closely tide to the adaptation of HDTVs.

Considering bluray capacity is already able to go as high as 400GB I think the right format won this one.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:17:02 +0000

Actually, what hurts Blu-ray most is “Blu-ray” – from a branding/marketing perspective, it would have been better for “HD DVD” to have won. It should be immediately clear to most what it is and why they’d want it.

By: Ed Oswald

Ed Oswald — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:17:26 +0000

I wrote this one. As for the streaming, I do agree. But I think its one of those “too little, too late” deals. the HD DVD/Blu-ray format war really crippled Blu-ray IMHO. It would have probably crippled HD DVD just the same had it won..