Comments on: Blu-ray report card: Analysts predict record breaking sales

By: Reality Fanboy

Reality Fanboy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:00:44 +0000

OOOHH I spent $800 on bluray so now i can see every wrinkle in the actors face in the dull movie!!! YAY BLURAY!

By: Norm

Norm — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:46:37 +0000

The Blu-ray version of Iron Man took about 17% of the total sold, including DVD sales. If you consider how many people actually own DVD players, selling almost a quarter of its sales in Blu-ray is phenomenal.”

This makes no sense. How does the number of people who own DVD players have to do with sales of the Iron Man movie? This only tells me that the movie didn’t sell very well.

By: Dario

Dario — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:49:21 +0000

“saw an increase of 396%” ….. yeah, right, so they sold 4 blu ray disks instead of 1 … ” I don`t believe any study that I haven`t forged myself “…
Blu ray is a flop ….. they havn`t even got 2% of the market, another Sony DRM doomed format …..

By: martin

martin — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:11:23 +0000

Blu-ray is picking up steam and as analysts predict will triple in sales by next year.
I work at an IT company and everyone including my boss has jumped on the Blu-ray band wagon. Its quickly turning into the easy Christmas gift this coming holiday.

Blu-ray sales will pick up steam in parallel to HD TV sales. The majority of the consumers are moving to HD quickly.
Just the other day I went to Walmart and I noticed they were only selling 1 tube based TV, they were all LCD, or Plasma TVs.

Its really inevitable that DVD consumers will move onto Blu-ray once they see the difference between HD and DVD.

By: DaveBG

DaveBG — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:17:11 +0000

Obviously this was written before we knew about the financial crash, the end of cheap credit and the coming recession.

Sales are down & consumer confidence is shattered.

No matter what the PS3 kiddies say a new & expensive video format stands no chance.

The grown-ups will spend on their home entertainment during a recession (expect sales of big TVs top hold up a while longer) but they won’t go out & spend on something like Blu-ray.

Bad luck Blu.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:03:48 +0000

I don’t know anyone who has Blu-ray or is even interested in Blu-ray. The reason being is the high cost of the player and DVDs work quite good.

Maybe when Blu-ray drops in price to almost that of a good DVD player, then more will be interested.

Believe me, there are more important things than Blu-ray in this economy. In fact I’m still using my “antique” VCR which still works quite nicely.

I think this hype article for Blu-ray is just that…hype.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:59:30 +0000

No wait, bloggers say Blu-ray is dead! And Xbox360 fanboys say so too. Wait wait, these analysts just can’t know what they are talking about. No way they are smarter than bloggers or blog commentors!?!?!