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."

Comments

Re:I got one of those "Trial" discs.

[amRadioHed]

Maybe they should consider putting free trial Blu-Ray players in magazines. I'd consider giving them a spin of they did that.

Re:I got one of those "Trial" discs.

[Tingler]

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!

Re:Noone likes DRM

[Goldberg's Pants]

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"?

Re:From one consumer's perspective...

[lubricated]

Finally the typical movie buyer speaks up.

Re:Noone likes DRM

[Paua Fritter]

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!!

Re:Noone likes DRM

[dgatwood]

Indeed, Pounds are the problem---the players start at something like 190 Pounds... and the discs at 15 or so.... :-)

Re:Noone likes DRM

[BronsCon]

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."

Re:Noone likes DRM

[hobbit]

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!