I'm not saying it would be fixed by the writable-layers trick, I'm saying that if they're going to overhaul Blu-ray anyway, then there's scope for adding new features such as the writable-layers thing.
The major block to mass consumer adoption at the moment is that it's a poor fit. It's not compelling in the same way as, say, DVD was over VHS. So yes, there are things wrong with Blu-ray that are preventing mass consumer adoption, if there weren't... well, mass consumer adoption might be happening. Let's stop pretending it's about player prices, anyone who can afford a $1,000 HDTV can afford a $300 media player. It isn't because it's competing with HD DVD, 'cos that's not happening any more. It's not because of a lack of content, there's been plenty of major releases for the last few months and frankly it's getting hard to find any movie released in the last three or four years that isn't on Blu-ray.
It's just not compelling. It's so uncompelling that for around three months earlier this year, Blu-ray sales started to drop as a percentage of DVD sales, suggesting people who tried out BD after the HD DVD rout found it just wasn't worth it for them.
There are things wrong with it. As I keep saying, if Blu-ray supporters want their format to succeed, they have to stop burying their heads in the sand and criticize its flaws so the flaws get fixed.
Either Blu-ray 2 will happen, or it'll simply never take off as a mass market format.
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I'm not saying it would be fixed by the writable-layers trick, I'm saying that if they're going to overhaul Blu-ray anyway, then there's scope for adding new features such as the writable-layers thing.
The major block to mass consumer adoption at the moment is that it's a poor fit. It's not compelling in the same way as, say, DVD was over VHS. So yes, there are things wrong with Blu-ray that are preventing mass consumer adoption, if there weren't... well, mass consumer adoption might be happening. Let's stop pretending it's about player prices, anyone who can afford a $1,000 HDTV can afford a $300 media player. It isn't because it's competing with HD DVD, 'cos that's not happening any more. It's not because of a lack of content, there's been plenty of major releases for the last few months and frankly it's getting hard to find any movie released in the last three or four years that isn't on Blu-ray.
It's just not compelling. It's so uncompelling that for around three months earlier this year, Blu-ray sales started to drop as a percentage of DVD sales, suggesting people who tried out BD after the HD DVD rout found it just wasn't worth it for them.
There are things wrong with it. As I keep saying, if Blu-ray supporters want their format to succeed, they have to stop burying their heads in the sand and criticize its flaws so the flaws get fixed.
Either Blu-ray 2 will happen, or it'll simply never take off as a mass market format.