No Love For The Blu-Ray

macnificent7 writes "Market analysis firm Cymfony has combed through blogs and discussion boards, and finds online consumers aren't thrilled about Sony's Blu-ray DVD technology. Many users are still bitter about the limited availability of the PS3 because of the Blu-Ray. Also many are skeptical of the Blu-Ray because of Sony's past formats that did not succeed."

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Simple Solution

[Duds]

Remind people Microsoft support HD-DVD!

Re:Simple Solution

[Threni]

> Seriously, I'm going to upgrade my collection every time you add a zero onto the storage capacity?

Exactly. I don't give a shit about high def - I can afford but can't justify the cost of the tv/player/disks. DVDs are good enough for me, and I imagine it'll take longer for the price of this new stuff to come down in price because it'll be like the video equivalent of SACD disks - it solves a problem that simply doesn't exist for most people.

Re:Simple Solution

[The PS3 Will Fail]

"I do wonder, though, how many more times will Sony have to lose because of their stubbornness before they realize it might be more beneficial playing nice with others... ah, well..."

I dislike Sony as a company but they are certainly not the only ones pushing Blu-Ray; the Blu-Ray Disc Association board also includes Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Pioneer, Koninklijke Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp and Apple. I think it's rather deceitful to act as though Sony is the only company that has a hand in Blu-Ray (or you're simply not aware of this fact, in which case I hope I have enlightened you).

Blu ray DVD technology search on Omgili

[spale]

Yep, just made a search on Omgili about Blu ray DVD technology - and the first result was "Screw Blu-Ray"
Many other interesting discussions as well:
http://www.omgili.com/omgili.search?q=Blu+ray+DVD+ technology

BROD ?

[Rastignac]

BluRay is dead. We hate it. So Sony's marketing division must do something.
My idea: Sony must change the technology's name to something funny like "BROD: Blu-Ray Of Death" ;)

That's because...

[redblue]

wii hatessss it!

Bloggers != Consumers

[Espen Skoglund]

Right. So (most) bloggers have a strong dislike for Sony and everything they do. How is this news? This is akin to having an analysis of Slashdot postings concluding that most Slashdotters dislike Microsoft. As it turns out, neither bloggers nor Slashdotters give an accurate picture of the demographics of regular consumers. And given that people with a grudge against some idea or company -- in this case Sony -- are always the ones who cry out the loudest, I'm actually surprised that the "analysis" didn't come out even more slanted in HD-DVDs favour.

And what's the deal about 21 percent of the online consumers disliking Blu-ray because Sony included it in the PlayStation 3? I can see several reasons why poeple might resent Blu-ray, but this is definitely not one of them. The only conceivable explanation I can see behind such reasoning is peoples aversion against anything that is Sony.

Because it's not true, maybe?

[KingSkippus]

I'm going out on a limb here, but maybe because it's not true?

Some of the early players didn't recognize or support region coding. That doesn't mean that the format is incapable of it. And trust me on this, it is unfortunately going to be with us for a long time to come.

Disruptive technology waiting in the wings?

[AlzaF]

Isn't the decreasing cost of increased broadband bandwidth and increased hard disk space will eventually make HD disc formats obsolete?

It's just a matter of ignorance

[FunkeyMonk]

My wife and I recently saw a TV commercial for a movie "now available on DVD and Blu-Ray." She said: "What's Blu-ray?" That's exactly the problem with both formats.

Nobody in the non-geek world knows what they are, so nobody cares.