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Bad Signs For Blu-ray
Ian Lamont writes "More than six months after HD-DVD gave up the ghost, there are several signs that Sony's rival Blu-ray format is struggling to gain consumer acceptance. According to recent sales data from Nielsen, market share for Blu-ray discs in the U.S. is declining, and Sony and its Blu-ray partners are trying several tactics to boost the format — including free trial discs bundled into magazines and cheap Blu-ray players that cost less than $200."
Don't Rely on the Market?
Yeah, Washington DC says that all the time.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Digital Restrictions Management?
Though, I don't know if 190 pounds is enough to be considered "masses".
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
Maybe they should consider putting free trial Blu-Ray players in magazines. I'd consider giving them a spin of they did that.
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Oh, so that is what that was. I saw 'Sony' on it, so I ripped it out of the magazine and threw it away. I thought someone rootkitted my magazine!
Careful, someone in Hollywood heard you.
You'll get remakes which will be nothing like those movies. Don't worry, they'll make the Great Space Coaster and Different Strokes first.
That's nearly as worrying as seeing "Eraser" at the top of the sales chart in the article.
No sig today...
thats when I'll buy into something new but only because no new stuff is coming out on DVD. Untill then DVD is perfect and dacades ahead of what VHS tapes were.
Cheap movies
Cheap dvd players
???????
I just saved a lot of cash plus I didn't even have to contact Geico
Oh and being a Sony creation I can't support it.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
I said All the consumer sees is the movies are more expensive and in pretty blue boxes.
So that's what I just said. Now can you say "Polly want a cracker"?
Agreed. Was going to post the same thing :P
The cost to get decent benefit out of the upgraded sound and video is just exorbitant.
Rubbish! I spent $3000 NZD to get (brand new) a nice 42" 1080p panel, a decent Onkyo Amp, and a full Wharfedale 9.6 surrounds with 9CM center with a SW250 Sub surround sound setup, including all cables. Then I spent $150 on a damaged MacBook that I repaired for a media center (XBMC) with SPDIF out, etc. Seriously, how is that exorbitant? It sounds and looks amazing with Blue-Ray, and I definitely notice the difference. If you shop around, you can get some great deals, and you end up with a system that you really enjoy.
I guess it's worth it for some, and not for others
$3150 is not a small amount of money, even if it is in Pacific Pesos (NZD) ;-)
We don't believe in radical loony monotheistic religions from the middle east -- we're Christians.
Or re-enact Tron.
Finally the typical movie buyer speaks up.
It has been statistically shown that helmets increase the risk of head injury.
If the concept of $10-20 movie for DVD (Players for $40) vs $40-50 movie in Blu-Ray (players for $300-400) is puzzling corporations, on why Blu-Ray is not selling...
I really cannot help them.
Internet Retail spaces are wonderful. Get over it!
DRM is irrelevant to 99.999% of Blu-Ray owners because it doesn't effect them.
Affect; not effect.
Man, I've seen this so many times recently it's starting to seem rediculous!!
Indeed, Pounds are the problem---the players start at something like 190 Pounds... and the discs at 15 or so.... :-)
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So that's what I just said. Now can you say "Polly want a cracker"?
I don't get it.
Do the crackers come in blue boxes?
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
To be pedantic, the original poster is technically correct---DRM doesn't cause those people to come into being---but almost certainly was mistaken in his/her word choice.... :-)
Well, I suppose DRM could effect a person if somebody gets so annoyed by it that he throws the DVD player out the window and goes out for a night on the town, meets the perfect girl, then one thing leads to another, and the next thing you know, a DRM-effected child is born, but... thats about as likely as a pig flying without a trebuchet....
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So we need them to figure out that "Disk go in here, disk maybe play, maybe not. If not, me spend more money and disk maybe play, maybe not. If still not, me lose money and get frustrated and go to thepiratebay.org and now it play. Me write letter to company, tell them they steal from me, I steal from them, we even now."
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Check your carpet. Once the DRM gets into the carpet padding, you have to tear everything out and start all over.
moox. for a new generation.
With the minor exception of the PS3, sure none of them do that.
That's a valid point, but if I wanted to play my media in a George Foreman grill, I'd load some frozen boneless chicken breasts.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I actually have a 37" EDTV that I got from a friend for a song, so 480p is the best my screen can do anyway. Looks great, and it keeps me from buying an expensive BluRay player that I don't need.
Note to theGratefulNet:
We can make DVDs look worse, you know.
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So, is this just Sony-branded products? If so, there's PLENTY of Blu-Ray players (and movies) from firms with no association with Sony.
Or is this also about Sony's patents on the Blu-ray disc tech? If so, you also have to stop using CDs & DVDs, since they (and Phillips) played a major part in developing both.
Enjoy your VHS tapes. They make 1080i upscaling VHS players, right?
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Everything was great up until recession. I worked in a film company for a few years and they're banking on the recession to make BluRay happen.
Here's why....
Jim Bob, your average Walmart employee is actually their #1 sales target. In fact, they depend on Jim Bob for quite a few reasons :
- He couldn't figure out how to pirate a film even if you gave him incentives like threatening to break his beer fridge on his porch.
- He places strange values on entertainment. After all he spent $200 on his new truck, $500 on his fake chrome wheels, $99 on his new paint job, but $1500 on his high end audiovox stereo system with three 18" subwoofers.
- He's lost his job to those [insert derogatory name for a minority group here] and now that he's receiving his pay checks from the unemployment office once a month instead of every week, he gets much bigger amounts in each payment. So, now he finally has enough money in one go to buy that 42" plasma and BluRay combo which will free up nearly 2/3s of his living room in his trailer, so he might be able to fit a couch next to his lay-z-boy imatation recliner. So he can even invite friends over to play XBox and drink beer.
- He realized that he can be the hottest thing at the local bar when he says "I just watched that at home on my new HIGH.... DEF... TV and Blu-Ray". When the other guys then say things like "Yeh, I heard about them things... I heard the movie is like much better on that".
I can go on and on like that forever, but the company I worked for knows one thing... it's only the middle class that spends less on entertainment budgets during recession, the lower class actually spends more since "It's too expensive to go out to the bar right now, I'll just (rent|buy) a new movie and a 6-pack for the house".
Your a grammer nazi.
Meep.
No, that was "talk like a pirate day". "Talk like a parrot day" is this week. Next week it'll be "talk like Poirot day". Mon dieu!
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
I don't want to be a grammar nazi, but I just plainly couldn't keep reading what you wrote after the word "irregardless."
Please note the prefix "ir" means "not" and the suffix "less" means "without." That, my friend, is both a double negative, and isn't a word.
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