Comments on: Blu-ray on track to taking over DVD

By: blued888

blued888 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:03:46 +0000

I wholeheartedly disagree with this. 9 million TOTAL Blu-ray sales is diminutive compared to the DVD sales of just some titles.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:14:36 +0000

All the SD titles were expensive as well early on.

DVD was worlds ahead of VHS, and you could see the difference on any TV. You won’t see universal acceptance until the players drop under $100US.

I wouldn’t think delaying the release of SD for a week would do much except cause more P2P traffic, increase shipping and billing costs and delay receiving revenue.

Trying to artificially ram technology down the throats of consumer in order to force a standard has never worked well in discretionary items.

Blu-ray will take over when players and media hit a level that ordinary folks are willing to pay. The vast number of consumers watch a movie once.

Getting all aggressive would mean on demand and pay for view for a big number of consumers. Not something retailers and hardware manufacturers are eager to see.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:39:57 +0000

“Blu-ray on track to taking over DVD”
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Not in my house, or any one else I can think of…This sounds like pure hype and B.S.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:51:32 +0000

There’s no requirement to be HD to be on Blu-ray. In fact, all players MUST support SD 480i. Put away your HDDVD fanboy sore loser hat.

If the studios REALLY want Blu to succeed they would delay DVD release of new titles by a week but include an SD DVD with every Blu-ray movie sold. DVD would die in less than a year AND they could cut the prices big time (to near DVD levels) due to economies of volume.

By: mack

mack — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:45:40 +0000

with the incredible high cost of blu-ray movies blu -ray will never take over satandard DVD.blu ray is a high definition format meaning that it has to be in high definition to be on blu ray so all of those TV shows and movies recorded in standard resolution won’t make it to blu ray and they are in the thousands.

By: James Isles

James Isles — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:25:24 +0000

A very informative article on the battle between Blu-Ray and HDDVD, a battle that indeed has now been won.