Comments on: Blu-ray not doing too well (except for PS3)

By: graig

graig — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:17:49 +0000

the disks are too expensive. i would buy an expensive player if the movies were cheap. really, 19 bucks is on the expensive side for a copy of a movie. i don’t care if it’s in high def or not. charging more than 20 , which most blue ray disks are 30 or so, is just rediculus. it’s not worth that much to me. and definately not worth that much to most people. that’s why blue ray is doing poorly. i have thought several times before. oh, the ps3 is not that bad, mabey i’ll get one for the movies, then i look at the price of the movies and im like. oh. no thanks. ill just get the dvd.

By: Dio

Dio — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:39:21 +0000

Blue ray is still expensive. It will not be popular till China get rights to product it. If the production is under control of a few countries (japan, korea, usa), the price will not drop to acceptable point. Thank about DVD player.

By: james

james — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:40:37 +0000

harold and kumar rock lol!

By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:38:08 +0000

The present format actually is DVD vs Bluray. The future format war will be Internet vs Bluray. (I figure blue ray will lose both.)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:32:52 +0000

The only reason you get some rich folk touting Blue Ray is, they need the masses to fuel their need for Bluray…without mass adoption blue ray will become extinct quicker than a T-rex at a meteor shower….sony has no interest in catering to a few hundred thousand rich people when there are millions who arent interested…

By: mike

mike — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:27:42 +0000

Completely disagree that blu ray makes dvd look like tape. And I have both. And thats the problem isnt it? The jump from vcd and Vhs to dvd was HUGE , whereas going from dvd to blue ray is marginal (unless you have a 10,000 dollar hidef setup, and hlets be honest , unless your a high end geek videophile with cash to burn (like me) why would you spend that much when DVD puts out a perfectly acceptable picture???? Blue ray to most people smells of greed and ripoff….dvd did not. So blue ray need to re-think….time alone wont solve their abysmal sales.

By: Brant

Brant — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:46:57 +0000

no one seems to mention that used DVD’s that are usually as good as new can be had for between 4$ – 8$ vs blu ray on sale at 20$- 25$

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:31:12 +0000

Blu-ray players cost less than PS3s now, so there should be no excuse not to buy them. I am getting one tomorrow!

By: Logan

Logan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:03:38 +0000

My take of truth, that all current movies are filmed
in HD. some movies you cannot make any clearer
because of age & work print.
Most people need…. to wear glasses, but have to much ego to do so.
The Technology Recession is comming
You can repackage it, but its the same thing just
with sparkles.

By: #1 Rush fan

#1 Rush fan — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:51:26 +0000

The real question isn’t about blu-ray sales, it’s about HDTV sales…. remember HDTV is NOT even close to being “everywhere” yet…and that makes Blu-ray just about useless. Adding insult to injury, the people behind Blu-ray don’t even advertise to the general public that a “blu-ray” player can “down convert” or PLAY on “regular” TV, even though it technically can….

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:13:47 +0000

Internet downloading is too good for BR to come.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:09:26 +0000

Batman Begins came out on HD DVD first. So did Superman Returns and Justice League: New Frontier. All Warner Bros properties. HD DVD’s are awesome. Now that they’ve lost the war, you can pick them up for 10 bucks each, same as regular DVD.

By: rj

rj — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:46:59 +0000

The economy is going in the toilet and people aren’t purchasing overly expensive players and extremely pricey movies. To me owning one of these things is akin to owning a Hummer. Not impressive, just plain sad.

By: ado

ado — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:27:49 +0000

Sony has always had expensive products – if they dominate the market why the heck they do not bring prices down, who’s gonna buy a 30 bucks BD – I got PS3 but have no BD and the reason I got it is for games.

By: PS3less

PS3less — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:10:14 +0000

…seriously, …who didn’t see this coming?

By: kcpost

kcpost — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:53:59 +0000

Part of the problem is the $30 disk. You can get the same disk, in regular format for $9 at Wal Mart. If they brought down the price of the movies, I’m sure they will sell allot more players, the movies are way too expensive.

By: BuilderBob

BuilderBob — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:42:24 +0000

Most people are not videophiles so they could care less about BD.

The majority of music sales are mp3s.
The majority of PC/laptop graphics sales are integrated Intel chips.

People care about quality but good enough solutions are all the majority of people are willing to pay for. When the price of players and movies come down (if they come down) then people will adopt.

For myself, 1080p often ruins the experience. I don’t need to see more clearly the poorly integrated special effects that are in many of the big budget movies.

In the mean time I’m looking forward to more and more content being placed onto sponsored sites for free and all you can eat subscription services.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:09:38 +0000

Who the heck wants to pay $30 for a BR movie?

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:05:12 +0000

I will buy one when it can play a DVD and costs the same as a DVD player. DVD is good enough, why pay more for un-needed flash.

By: Good Stuff.

Good Stuff. — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:43:20 +0000

Blu-Ray Won, Sony Won, Bluray adoption is quicker than DVD adoption. Studio support, content, everything was RIGHT, exactly why a Victory was so easly acquired against the pathetic hd-dvd format and microsoft’s worthless attempts at corperate payola.

Wait for prices to come down if you need, next year you’ll have even more great choices on the Universal Standard High-Definition Format of the Twenty-First Century, Bluray-Disc.