If you walk into a video store and the latest movies are Blue-Ray only, you’ll buy a BR player (whether you have an HD-TV or not). At least your old DVDs will still work in the new player.

The best way to push the new is to simply phase out the old. (Naturally, this will only be done when it’s profitable for the studios to do)

I’m tired of aruging this shit. Blaming me of ranting and not listening? Please man. Please enligten me as to were I ever claimed BD will overtake dvd in the near future? If you go back, listen and read, my original point was that BD in my eyes is all ready successful. It already has a market. It can be bought everywhere in the world and as per my links, it’s already takening up significant chunks of the DVD market. It’s already taking 18% of the Japanese home video market. Then transition (which will be slow yes) is happening right before your eyes but you choose to stick your head in the ground.

Yes this the physical format is transient (now way!!!111one wow didn’t know that, maybe I should leave the PS3 or 360 and wait for the PS10 or xbox 8?), but like I told you before, this is not the cell phone market. It doesn’t change every 6 months!!! CE companies and Hollywood just don’t want to change the way they distrubute movies and music every year. It costs too much money. If there was a new format that will be launched 2010 90% of CEs and Hollywood will shrug it off!! Your little list of failed formats there is excellent prove of this. No one wanted to buy into it because no one believed it could carve out a decend market for itself with decend returns.

Now before you attempt to point out the supposed irony, like I’ve told you before, the BDA has already managed to convince every single movie studio to start BD, they already have all major CE manufaturers on board. They already have Dell in their pockets to start production or $800 BD laptops. They’ve done what none of those other formats got right.

That’s the irony and the point your missing kabraal. Try a few others. A-track, betamax, minidisc, laserdisc, UMD, SACD. That’s BD forbearers, the formats that claimed improvement but no innovation. Funnily enough, they all have close ties to Sony.

What you’re missing about BD, UHD or whatever is that the physical format is transient. Why buy an expensive BD player, when it’s replacement is already in the works? As far as multilayer goes, goodluck. The current gen players only support 2 layers, so you’ll need new hardware anyway.

As I’ve said before, if you’d stop ranting and actually listen for a change, BD may very well find itself a market, but it’ll remain niche, like laserdisc or minidisc, and in time it’ll be superseded by downloads as is happening to CD as we speak.

So please explain to me how a technology based on blu ray disc (1 layer, 2 layers, 3 layer or 100 layers) is bad for erm blu ray disc? I mean that’s what you said right? Please explain it. This is like me saying superbit DVD will kill DVD even though, it’s fucking dvd… understand?

Please provide me with some links (not from some fanboy blog please) with your BD sales numbers. And before you do, think of a second and please don’t link month on month sales numbers from December/January/February like previously. That just doesn’t work for people who can think further than their nose. Because if you do, you might as well run for the hills. Everything CE tanks during those three months.

I’ve some links for you

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/home_entertainment/video/e3if32b8f1fa30457d78668ac733fc7bde1?pn=1

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1155

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1222

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1206

http://www.chinatechnews.com/2008/05/23/6782-chinese-companies-authorized-to-produce-blu-ray-products/

I really don’t get the irony of my post. The way I see things is we started with projectors, went to VHS, went to DVD and now we’re starting to move to BD. After that we’ll move on to something else and then something else again. I don’t see what’s so difficult to stomach about that?

Blu ray isn’t going anyway mate. Face it. I’ll waste more time on you in a year. Have fun.

So if BD upscaled is “good” for UHD, which is a 4:1 vertical upscale, then why the heck do we need BD when DVD is twice as good on “HD”, because it’s only a 1.5-2:1 vertical upscale. Exactly.

Nice one mate, there’s an own goal of note! Thanks again for proving my point.

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Hmmm now where have I heard this before? Hitachi maybe?

It’s not my opinion kabraal, that’s what the current sales numbers and precedent say.

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Let me correct that for you as you obviously didn’t understand all that well:

“Every single thing you say now about UHD was said about BD, and HD DVD for that matter”

It’s a complete fully spec’ed format and fully supported by industry. UHD is a pipe dream which will only be realized years from now. It will be realized off course, as I generally believe in technological progression.

Look you obviously couldn’t give a shit about all this and that’s fine. But the mistake you make again is forcing your own opinion / interests on the rest of the world. Your opinion that no one really cares is at best, a wild guess. What’s one of the fastest growing industries in the world? LCD and Plasma TVs. People are off course interested in stuff like this. It’s the Americans bread and butter. As the prices come down more will buy into it.

And no worries there. I have book marked it. I’ve booked marked it since it since this thread was published.