The magnificent seven Although

The magnificent seven

Although I agree with what your saying from a statistical analysis standpoint, I believe youre missing the larger point of the article which is that Blu-Ray did not see the significant increase in sales following the demise of HD DVD that they were expecting. For the last year analysts and industry experts have been telling the masses that the reason for the slow adoption of HD media is the lack of a clear choice for consumers and that doesnt appear to be the case. It is becoming more and more the magnificent seven that it is price that will determine the adoption rate of this technology and not consumer indecision. Hopefully this point will be kept in mind for the next generation of physical Holographic perhaps? There will be an increase in sales as the other studios start releasing their products on Blu-ray. It makes little difference to the consumer that the studios have switched if they cant find the movies they want on Blu-ray yet. The only advantage right now is that consumers no longer can buy HD-DVD at most retailers and are being told not to buy it by some retailers. However, no one is going to buy for a format that doesnt have their favorite movie yet, so the real advantages of a unified format have yet to be seen. And duh, the prices are too high and were too high for both formats. Which is why almost no one bought either format so far. But at least those who buy in now will know the format will be the standard format. And with standardization perhaps the prices will start to come down. Who knows. And with standardization perhaps the prices will start to come down. Who knows. Hasnt come down so far. Im quite content to wait it out until it does. I think Ill wait till it gets under 1 With all the fanboys raging at how wonderful BluRay is for not the magnificent seven movies but PC storage I thought for sure that sales would explode for everything BluRay after the demise of HD-DVD. Or maybe the HD-DVD folks were on to something when they said that 30GB is enough for HD movies but 50GB isnt enough to be useful as file storage. Now were in the BluRay world and paying a premium for a media disk that isnt, or ever will be, fully utilized. Or maybe Toshiba is posting incredible losses the magnificent seven they nearly went under subsidizing hd-dvd, which was yes, quite expensive too, just selling at a huge loss. The technology is new and expensive in both cases. HD-DVD lost out because Toshiba burned themselves out and couldnt support it any longer by paying people to adopt it. In the process they drove any other CE manufacturers out of supporting it as well. Fact is people are broke, dubyah has the United States in a financial disaster and people are struggling just to pay the outrageous energy bills or keep their car moving with obscene gas prices. Or could it be that Toshiba didnt have the cash to pay off movie studios because they were passing it on to the consumer by taking such a big loss on the price of the players. Right, thats why they payed off Paramount. The consumer had squat to do with their prices, they wanted to win at all costs. People keep blaming everything on gas prices but weve still got cheaper gas than most other countries. Maybe if people quit buying SUVs and crap Id hear them out but uh-uh. I pay about 30/month for gas on my nice 30mpg car. You must drive one block to work. I zip an hour down the highway and back and it costs me I doubt Bluray will become as popular as DVD has. might get alot bigger, but still never reach the proportions that DVD did. I think its chance as a data recorder will give it chances to survive. but downloads will likely surpass buying media music cds, movies in the future. which mean move sale son bluray will never be close to DVD sales levels. Down-loadable movies and streaming video. New memory technologies may soon make Blu-Ray worthless. The whole HDMI/HDCP? Whats that? mess. The cheapest player on the Egg is about 4 HD-DVD players went for 100 as they faded away. DVDs are bargain bin, far cheaper than they ever were before and finally reasonably priced! With hundreds of thousands of movies to watch, who needs new ones? Not many new movies are that great anymore, sometimes the classics are better.