Blu-ray price history tracking close to that of the DVD
The Blu-ray format is slowly overtaking DVDs as the de facto format. However, one criticism the new format has been receiving is in regards to the perceivably high price tag for the players. It seems like these concerns may have been misplaced at first glance.
According to Gizmodo, the Envisioneering Group provided some data via The Wall Street Journal regarding the trajectory of the price of Blu-ray players within the past several years. The group also provided price history data for DVD players as well in order to do a comparison between the two formats.
Surprisingly, it seems like Blu-ray players have been dropping in cost much faster than DVD players have historically. Over the course of three to four years the Blu-ray player prices have been lower than DVD players same time during its life. This doesn’t take into account for inflation when you consider the fact that the DVD format launched in 1997 and the Blu-ray in 2006.
via Gizmodo
Basically Blu-ray players have been historically much cheaper than DVD players when considering the number of years the format has been out on the market.
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The Blu-ray format has been steadily overtaking DVDs but it’s been a tough road with the initial battle with HD-DVD and now with the recession in full swing. However, sales have been stellar for the new format this year showing a great deal of potential for growth.
Some have argued that with the popularity of streaming movie services such as Netflix, Blu-ray may have an even tougher road ahead. However, that argument becomes paper thin when you consider the fact that streaming movies will most likely just replace brick and mortar movie rental services such as Blockbuster rather than physical purchases. There will undoubtedly always be a market for those wanting to physically own the movie.
Critics of the Blu-ray format may want to re-analyze the price history of DVDs again before accusing the new format of having a ‘high price tag.’
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December 27th, 2009
“There will undoubtedly always be a market for those wanting to physically own the movie”.
Consumers are fine with owning music downloads.
And once they figure out that they can fit 250 movies on a 1 TB hard drive the size of a small paperback book, they will be fine with owning movie downloads.
And when they figure out they can transfer that movie from hard drive to laptop to cell phone, they will be more than fine with downloads.
Optical discs are going the way of the do-do. Blu-ray is looking like the 2.8MB floppy disc.
December 27th, 2009
My problem with blu-ray is the price of the movies. BR discs are ridiculously expensive. Why pay $$$ for a movie on BR when I can get it for cheaper on a DVD?
Not to mention that not every movie really benefits from the “HD experience” that BR offers. If I am going to watch a comedy or drama there is little to no reason for me to get it on BR disc. If it was a Transformers or Spider man movie then I may want to watch it on BR. Even anime doesn’t show much of a difference on BR compared to DVD
December 27th, 2009
Blu-ray way too overpriced for most people in this economy. DVD is still the best deal for the masses.
December 27th, 2009
DVD was a huge leap in quality over tape, I bought a player, the second model Toshiba put out in the States immediately after the standard was ratified.
While blu-ray had HD-DVD,Circuit City announcing Divx less than thirty days after I dropped a serious chunk of change on a player brought everything to a screeching halt and sent me into an orbit around planet Pissed Off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX_%28Digital_Video_Express%29
Studios loved the idea of a pay per play, especially Disney who might as well be selling crack with their animated baby sitters. Studio remastering basically stopped or the release was held up.
Most of the masses find the DVD perfectly acceptable.Blu-rayw is the first A/V standard I haven’t felt any real pull to jump on early and my stuff is good enough to see the difference. There is a world of difference between a MP3 player and the downgraded quality of a less than a dollar audio track through ear buds and a 1080P video and audio multigig clump of data with studios loading up special content under collector and special editions
Most of the US residences aren’t setup for that kind of bandwidth under high demand utilization of the provider infrastructure that is not the same as streaming. Then you have the same reluctance of the DRM happy media companies. The Dodo probably has a decade left simply because of the inertia of the masses and not wanting to just kill off a revenue stream where all the investment is already done and the consumer trained.
December 1st, 2011
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