Next-Gen disk sales outpacing original DVDs from the ’90s
- January 30th, 2008
- 3 Comments
This might not be news to everyone, but I found it rather interesting. Way back in the late 1990s, DVDs came out. They were slow to catch on, as the players were expensive, and the titles limited.
Eventually the merits of DVD swayed people, and the cost of set-top players came down enough to make them a commodity.
Next-gen disks, like HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, appear to be suffering a similar fate. But according to Video Business, the adoption rate of these high-def formats is actually higher than the one original DVDs enjoyed.
And now that the format war is all but over (sorry, HD-DVD!), isn’t it about time you go out and get a nice HD player for your HD home theater set-up?
mathew (Who am I?)
8 months ago
“And now that the format war is all but over (sorry, HD-DVD!), isn’t it about time you go out and get a nice HD player for your HD home theater set-up?”
Not until I can get a reasonably priced multi-region Blu-ray player.
pointless (Who am I?)
8 months ago
Someone must have forgot to send me the memo about HD DVD having lost, because I (and well over a million other HD DVD player owners) are still buying and pre-ordering new HD releases.
bbock (Who am I?)
8 months ago
You might have forgotten one of the reasons DVD adoption started slow. DIVX.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
Not the codec we know and love, but the proprietary version of DVD created by Circuit City and some entertainment lawyers. Their format was essentially the same but it had DRM that required a DVD player to be hooked to the phone so it could unlock it for a period of time. Paramount, Fox and Dreamworks were exclusive to DIVX. It confused the market and slowed the adoption of DVD, despite the fact that the DIVX players could play plain DVDs. I (and many others) held off from buying DVD until DIVX was dead.