The tech news is full of tales of Blu-ray's disappointing performance & it's coming demise right now.
Whether that's actually true or not is hardly the point right now.
It's the impression it creates amongst the wider general public and here Blu-ray has a serious image problem along with a series of unhappy circumstances which will do nothing to help it.
Not only are the benefits Blu-ray can offer highly marginal for those with small 720p/1080i HD TVs and who do not have some fairly high-end audio kit but there is also the unlucky 'x-factor' at work here.
A global recession & a mass-market already seriously indebted.
The general public across the 'western world' face the forced belt-tightening this recession is bound to impose. Then factor in the highly relevant point that savings are at an all-time low and most are already right up to their necks in debt.
A mass take-up of the relatively expensive Blu-ray format is highly unlikely in in these circumstances.
By the time the economies pick up again it will be too late - especially as Govs across the west are planning to use additional public spending on infrastructure projects as a means of reducing the most severe aspects of the recession/credit crunch. This is particularly relevant here as it means optic fibre projects just got a huge boost and will bring forward the day when digital downloading is widespread, convenient and fast.
Blu-ray's a niche product and staying niche, it may well only have the 5yrs the Samsung guy mentioned. Get over it.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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The tech news is full of tales of Blu-ray's disappointing performance & it's coming demise right now.
Whether that's actually true or not is hardly the point right now.
It's the impression it creates amongst the wider general public and here Blu-ray has a serious image problem along with a series of unhappy circumstances which will do nothing to help it.
Not only are the benefits Blu-ray can offer highly marginal for those with small 720p/1080i HD TVs and who do not have some fairly high-end audio kit but there is also the unlucky 'x-factor' at work here.
A global recession & a mass-market already seriously indebted.
The general public across the 'western world' face the forced belt-tightening this recession is bound to impose.
Then factor in the highly relevant point that savings are at an all-time low and most are already right up to their necks in debt.
A mass take-up of the relatively expensive Blu-ray format is highly unlikely in in these circumstances.
By the time the economies pick up again it will be too late - especially as Govs across the west are planning to use additional public spending on infrastructure projects as a means of reducing the most severe aspects of the recession/credit crunch.
This is particularly relevant here as it means optic fibre projects just got a huge boost and will bring forward the day when digital downloading is widespread, convenient and fast.
Blu-ray's a niche product and staying niche, it may well only have the 5yrs the Samsung guy mentioned.
Get over it.