Some Blu-Ray, HD DVD Discs Sell Only 200 Copies

An anonymous reader writes "Much has been made of the strong sales for some recent high-def disc releases (such as 'Casino Royale' on Blu-ray), but a new Sony research report reveals some startlingly low sales numbers for other titles released on the next-gen formats. When disc sales of under 1000 can land you on a weekly best-sellers list, you know your format is in its infancy."

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Re:Similar to Vista.

[el_womble]

DVD has two faults in my eyes:

1: Its on a disc, so it takes up a lot of phyisical space and isn't instantly accessable like my music.
2: Its low quality. I have a nice 21" iMac and a new MacBook and would like to watch movies without the jaggies. (I know about VLC)

I don't want bluray or hddvd. I just want H.264, DivX or even MPEG2 in 720p or 1080p delivered via an online store, for a reasonable amount of money (bandwidth, servers and software do not cost as much as drivers, plastic, trucks, fuel and retail outlets - it just doesn't), that I can watch on any OS that I choose to use that day.

The DVD drive, for me at least, is going the way of the floppy. If I can't send it over the network, I use a $15 2GB flash stick. I need a DVD drive to occasionaly watch a DVD or incase it all goes fubar and I need to reimage (and that's only because I'm too lazy to have a bootable image lying around on firewire). My next laptop will hopefully be devoid of this most unreliable, power hungry, space eating item of history and replaced either with a bigger battery, ram or another processor - and whilst we're at it can I have my HDD replaced with flash as well? And I want a pony.

I almost wish this argument was redundant, but I fear its going to be at least anoth 5 years before the idiots from the Copyright 1.0 world realise that their business model needs an overhaul in the Web 2.0 world - and my dream of living without coasters is truely realised.