New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray

PHPNerd writes "A new consumer survey recently released chronicles the woes of the winner of the hi-definition format war: nobody wants it. While consumers were very happy to embrace the DVD standard when it came about because it brought a huge jump in quality over VHS, the pros of switching to Blu-ray are not as obvious. From the article: 'In contrast, while half of the respondents to our survey rated Blu-ray's quality as 'much better' than standard DVD, another 40% termed it only 'somewhat better,' and most are very satisfied with the performance of their current DVD players." Another reason cited was that a Blu-ray investment also dictates an HDTV purchase, something consumers are reluctant to do.'" Maybe it's also that line-doubling DVD players can be had for less than a hundred dollars.

Comments

Re:It's being pushed anyway

[Jabbrwokk]

I also like apples and oranges. How about that?

My reasons for why I dislike Bluray..

[nawcom]

This is a little story on why I'm not buying anything Bluray anymore; not for a long time at least.

I just bought a decent porno video, bluray edition, and I was all excited. You know, it was going be more realistic with the high definition, and I had to take care of things before the girlfriend gets back home. I started it up, and let the dumb plot intro finish up, and I was immediately disgusted with what I saw when the camera zoomed up a little closer to the face of the woman as she was.. um... doing an oral presentation. Zits. Discusting zits. All over! "This wasn't on the DVD version!" I thought. What the hell? Later in the video I actually noticed more visible stretch-marks, and a scar on this once-attractive 22 year-old female.

Lesson learned: Save those VHS porn tapes men, for you will if not now, then in the future, miss the porno where the truth wasn't as vivid as it is now becoming. *shivers*

Re:My reasons for why I dislike Bluray..

[Anonymous Coward]

How does an inflatable doll "get back home"?

What is Blue-ray

[xednieht]

is it something new?

Re:When Is Perfection Too Much?

[philspear]

When I hike a mountain at 5,000 meters, it's freezing, breathing is hard... I snapped a picture, but you can't see what experience it was.

If you're wondering why no one wants to come over to see your pictures of your latest hike, maybe it's cause you're turning the AC way up and partially suffocating your guests?

Re:DVD is poor by comparison, but is "good enough"

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey the economy is not tanking, we are doing better then we ever have in America. McCain 2008! I'm going to go run out and buy three HDTVs and load them all into my H2.

Re:Lack of HD TV sets would cause this as well

[blahplusplus]

"I don't care how good it looks if the game sucks, and if it is a good game then stellar graphics are hardly my concern."

The big problem is with consumers though, what people buy vs what people rent makes a huge difference and many people buy games on hype and graphics more then gameplay, because most people are simple minded.

Re:DVD is poor by comparison, but is "good enough"

[SBrach]

Up converted DVD is probably "good enough" like you say but SD television compared to HD is a big difference. Especially given that in the last few years 4:3 aspect ration TVs became very rare. Watching a SD 4:3 source on my 1080p capable TV stretched to 16x9 is just painful. So when you buy a new TV you are most likely going to buy a HD set and if you want to utilize that HD set you need to spend around $100 on a decent up-converting DVD player. At this point you already spend at least $1500 on the TV so the extra $200 over the up-converting DVD player to get Blu-Ray is not that big of a deal.

Re:DVD is poor by comparison, but is "good enough"

[Tarlus]

I'm a certified geek, but I don't have any motivation whatsoever to get Blue-Ray.

If you were a certified geek then you'd know that it's Blu-ray. Not Blue-Ray. :P

It's the Content, Stupid

[greysky]

I honetly think that it has more to do with the content than anything else. The last couple summer blockbuster seasons saw few movies that were all that spectacular. You can tell by the way the box office numbers were down. I'm not talking about 2008 mind you, but the movies that are now available on BR disc. Add in the massive about of reality TV programming (who wants to see that in HD?), and you're left with not a lot of quality content. Perhaps when movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight become available you'll see a boost in the sales of players.

Re:When Is Perfection Too Much?

[Anonymous Coward]

um, yeah I'd really like to feel that "experience immersion" with certain kind of er.. 'educative' movies

Re:When Is Perfection Too Much?

[razorh]

Sort of like why does anyone want a 4 GHz Pentium processor for Microsoft Office, is that really useful?

*sigh* unfortunately, yes.

Re:DVD is poor by comparison, but is "good enough"

[Joe Snipe]

My computer screen IS my tv screen, you insensitive clod!

Re:Rotational Media is so 20th Century

[Anonymous Coward]

You can use that to store the first twenty seconds of a Blu-Ray quality HD movie. Great plan.