Looks like Blu-ray may follow HD DVD into the dustbins of history.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9877031-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9877031-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
"We can use HD discs to train consumers to move into digital, but it's a transition," said Warner Bros.' Dan Silverberg. "Downloaded content will come, but the consumer will get quicker tutorial into video-on-demand, etc., by owning a Blu-ray player or HD DVD."
People will get tired of replacing their favorite films to the trendy format of the moment. The price of the software ranging from $20 to $30 for Blu-ray discs right now will eventually drop. But digital copies costing less than $5 a pop, it's an easy decision for many.
And to make matters ever more absurd:
- Has HDTV sell in has reached "mass consumer" numbers?
- More than 50% of households that are on the internet still use dial up!
blu ray is in my notebook PC.Until download becomes portable (ie. you can pop it in the mini van for the kids), dvd isn't going anywhere. DVD's are cheap now ($4 - $9.99) while blu-ray has actually jumped even higher recently (19.99 - 32.99). You don't see blu-ray in any portable device or any low cost devices for that matter.
This will change over time, but the only way I see either format disappearing is widespread wimax rollouts so you can download pretty much anywhere (ubiquitous internet) at a reasonable enough speed.
blu ray is in my notebook PC.
Or, it could be that Blu-ray is to DVD what Laserdisc was to VHS. That is, Blu-ray could become a sort of specialty item for videophiles and people with high-end HT setups, while the mass market moves directly to downloads for the majority of its movie-watching. I think the failure of Laserdisc to capture the mass market (outside of Japan) in the way that DVD and VHS did ought to be intensively studied by the people marketing Blu-ray right now, because in my view they are making many of the same mistakes, chief among them being keeping prices too high.Blu-ray is to DVD what DVD was to VHS. The new format will supplant the old one simply because content will gradually shift towards the new format, over a period of years. The entertainment industry will see to that. It's all well and good to say that consumers won't want to repurchase their favorite movies in the Blu-ray format, but if the previous transitions are any indication, a great many will. How many of us are still playing our VHS tape collections? As for downloads, I don't see it as being set to replace any hard format, for at least as long as it remains rental only.
Downloading from iTunes is cool and revolutionary, but the experience of buying a physical product and holding in your hands is something that can never be replaced (sorry Apple).
Are there any other old fogies out there that get what I'm saying?