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Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony
- gamble 18y agoI've long felt that Blu-ray is destined to be a niche videophile product. I'm happy to buy them, but I've got a high-end HDTV and sound system. Even then, most titles aren't dramatically higher quality than upsampled DVDs on my Oppo. Most people, on an average home theater, would have a hard time noticing the difference. With today's economy and the ubiquity of DVD players, it's difficult to imagine that there are many more people willing to buy a new player and pay 50% more for media. I suspect Christmas sales will be very disappointing for Sony.
- jleyank 18y ago>I suspect Christmas sales will be very disappointing for Sony. Man, the way things look right now, I suspect Christmas/Holiday sales will be bloody horrible for pretty much anybody. Tough to have consumer frenzy when everybody's wallowing in red ink. Somebody better come up with an amazing must-have thing, or the media better change their strategy of scaring people to sell news.
- axod 18y ago"16 months ago I called the HD war for Blu-ray. My bad. Who dreamed they could both lose?" Come on. That was absolutely obvious! People have leapfrogged HD/Blu-ray and gone to digital.
- markessien 18y agoRotating mechanical disks are dead. Why would anyone want to use such a format when we can be using smaller and non-rotational multiple-write devices like Flash Memory on USB sticks or SD-Cards? Discs of all types are dead. They will be replaced by non-moving part memory sticks.