According to a new research report by ABI research entitled "Blu-ray: Consumer Survey Results", the PlayStation 3 is the only 'bright spot' for the Blu-ray format right now, and without it the format would be struggling "mightily" to reach any consumer acceptance.
?While you might think gamers purchase fewer movie discs than others, we didn?t see any significant evidence of that in our ... [ read the full article ]
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My brother has a PS3 with Blu Ray and i watched one movie in Blu Ray and yes it is superior in quality but not enough to make me want to switch. VCR to DVD was a more significant upgrade as compared to DVD to Blu Ray.
Of course, if the prices go down i'll jump on Blu Ray. 400 to 600 dollars for the players and 30.00 for the movies? Sorry !! No way.
Plus being video streaming might be the next thing, blu ray may not have a long shelf life anyway.
Quote: If you google you'll see that there are rumours that by 2009 studios will start releasing some titles only in BD. Totaly agree with you mate.
If they kill DVD now, they will loose huge. Some people cannot afford BR Players and Discs. They are going to get their content from pirates, even if the quality sucks.
Originally posted by stumpied: If people want the benefit, let them have it. For those who choose not too, respect that decision. You can't have the best of everything.
Totally agree with you. I personally don't care much for Blue Ray.Of course Blue Ray is better than SD or ED (enhanced definition, not Erectile Dysfunction LOL), but my upconverting DVD player is good enough for me. I care more about content and plot. Besides, the change, although discernible, is not critical. It's not like I'm going from grainy B&W picture to HD. Most people are not Audiophiles or Videophiles.
As it appears to me, they will begin to phase out DVDs some time after the Digital Switch in Feb,2009 and UHF analog sets will become glorious paper weights/white nose machines. Once that occurs you will most likely see the price of HDTVs drop and HD media also go down in price. Right now most people don't have screens that can even properly display 1080p.
Until the majority of house hold have upgraded to HD there really isn't much call for people dropping big money on Blu-Ray players and BR-Disks.
Blu-Ray won the format war because it was marketed better and the use of the larger capacity on the disks allowed for even more perks to be stuffing onto a movie disk. Better picture and more Extras with special edition and cuts. Sony also had an ace in the whole and knew Blu-ray wouldn't lose because of the PS3 using it as a primary optical disk as opposed to the external add-on HD-DVD player that Toshiba licensed out to Microsoft for the 360.
So bottom line here is, point of this article is rather obvious. PS3 clinched the format wars so of course they are currently the only "bright point". Now there really isn't any rush to be the next big thing until most everyone has and HD screen that can handle such movies. The biggest use of BDs is for video games and thusly those are the sole users of BDs.
I foresee bigger and better things to come in the future of Blu-Ray and just like VHS tapes, CDs, and DVDs in the past, the prices will come down and new standards will be set. Blu-Ray will have its day. Until then those who have them and enjoy them... Good for you and those who don't and like what they do have... Goof for you too!
And let us not forget that Sony is a Japanese company. The rest of the worlds gets the all the goodies Sony and other Japanese companies make once the Japanese are already tired of them.
Originally posted by varnull: Philips have a history of making world changing developments.. yet they don't ever seem to push it down peoples throats unlike sony. They exist in their market happy to invent and pick up whatever sales they can get
and what do Philips get for their non-aggressive policy ? what they get is usually a lot of very angry consumers like me who were suckered into buying their new technology only to see it disappear a year later through lack of promotion and studio support
- cases in point
1) Philips V2000 video tape in the early 80s
2) Philips CDV discs ( gold coloured ) in 1989-90
stupid me paid £ 500 for a Philips CDV 475 player in 1989 on unending promises of " it's the enext big thing " and " massive studio support " - only to see the whole carpet pulled from under my dimwitted feet 10 months later and the format dropped down the pan.
anything that Philips invent from now on they can shove up their arses as they don't have a clue how to promote it.- most recent case in point -
anyone bought one of the new line of Philips PCs or laptops that came out 12 months ago ? where are they now ? down the pan with most of their other new line ventures.
if i was to buy into a new technology like blu ray etc then I would want an aggessive pushy company like Sony behind it to push it and make sure it didn't die - not pussy whipped bum boys like Philips who charge the earth for their "inventions" and then go home and spend nothing on promoting it.
It could have been worse. You could have bought RCA's SelectaVision like my Dad.
I dont see why they even made blu-ray in the first place.
I dont know anyone who wants to get a PS3 or an expensive blu-ray player just so they can get some dumb exra features on an (also expensive) blu-ray disc
Originally posted by eliplan: I dont see why they even made blu-ray in the first place.
I dont know anyone who wants to get a PS3 or an expensive blu-ray player just so they can get some dumb exra features on an (also expensive) blu-ray disc
You do know that it has extra space for more content, right?
