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Originally Posted by tony404
http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=365&tag=nl.e550
Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.
With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won?t save it.
16 months ago I called the HD war for Blu-ray. My bad. Who dreamed they could both lose?
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Delusional Sony exec Rick Clancy needs to put the crack pipe down and really look at the market dynamics.
In a nutshell: consumers drive the market and they don?t care about Blu-ray?s theoretical advantages. Especially during a world-wide recession.
Remember Betamax? SACD? Minidisk? Laser Disk? DVD-Audio? There are more losers than winners in consumer storage formats.
It?s all about volume. 8 months after Toshiba threw in the towel, Blu-ray still doesn?t have it.
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you=retard. You're just pissed because you invested in a HD-DVD player and movies.
First of that guy is a tard. He is basically plagiarizing an article another tard made like 4 months ago. So welcome to 4 months ago. Geez do you pick your articles like you do women? Just whatever skank ho offers her cunt to you? Do some fact checking first.
FACT: blu-ray is FAR ahead of where DVD was at this point in it's lifecycle. And DVD had ZERO competition to deal with. You do realzie that 99% of TVs sold today are HDTVs and that by Christmas you'll be seeing sub $200 blu-ray players?
FACT: blu-ray's #s are actually rising over last year while DVDs #'s are shrinking.
Anyone that thinks "HD" downloading is in the near future is an idiot. Considering the US has ZERO broadband plan and 20% of the country can't even get boradband and ISPs have ZERO interest in bringing it to them how is HD downloading going to take over physical media? Also consider that the median broadband speed in the US is 2 Mbps. Yes download that "HD" movie from Itunes or Xbox Live in only 7 hours!
Also to compare a "HD" download to a blu-ray and call them the same is being obtuse.
HD download: 720p 4-6 Mbps bit rate( hell even DVD has a bit rate of 8 Mbps )
blu-ray: 1080p 40 Mbps bit rate.
Also you can actually take blu-ray disc to a friend's house and watch it. You can't do that with a "HD" digital download. I mean unless you want to haul your XBOX 360 or PS3 or computer to your friends house.
Also ISPs are now starting to institute caps. Comcast has a 250 GB monthly cap. TW is having trials with monthly caps that are between 5-40 GB. Yes I said 5 GB. A "HD" download is 6 GB. Cox has caps they just don't enforce them yet. At&T and Charter are also considering caps.
You are obviously a hater. All haters are retarded since they use emotion and not LOGIC.
Fact is ALL the studios are now onboard the blu-ray train and they want blu-ray to take over DVD. By next year watch as the number of movies coming out on DVD shrink and blu-ray is the ONLY way to get them on a disc.