See, this is what gets me about blu-ray. Everyone talks about players reaching a PRICE threshold. I think you are always forgetting to mention the QUANTITY threshold. I wouldn't care about buying a blu-ray player at $50 or $250. What matters to me is the fact that there are only 500+ titles out there!
Let's get real. Assuming you had access to rent all 500+ titles (Netflix, etc) there are always invariably going to be titles/generes you don't want to see. So I mean, why would I go to buy a player when the selection sucks? I find tons of movies on HD television, and the only premium one I get is HBO. And even then, most of the blu-ray coming out are movies that were recently out, so I've seen them anyway.
I say, once you start lookingat blu-ray with 5,000+ titles, including TV shows and older movies (80s and before) that I wouldn't mind revisiting for the HD quality, then let me know (and I'm sure players will be even cheaper then, lol).
This is a stupid argument. We'd still all be on wax cylinders if our criteria for buying into a new format was that it had as many titles as what it's replacing. New formats always start from 0 titles and increase from there. At some point they either flop or they supplant the old format. DVD was no different. Neither was VHS, compact disks, audio cassettes, LPs, 78s etc.
What matters is that the price, features and selection of titles is sufficient to attract new owners. Each group has different criteria for buying into a format. Early adopters have a lower buy-in threshold than the early tech savvy mainstream, which has a lower threshold than the conservative mainstream, which has a lower threshold than the stragglers. With Blu up to 1000 titles and more affordable players its appeals is going to be greater than was last year. It'll probably take years to surpass DVD but it's fairly likely that it will when players also happen to be backwards compatible.
It takes a bit more brains to see that the titles are a lot more not to mention that they will get even more after a few weeks. Get a life (or go shoot yourself) ;P
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See, this is what gets me about blu-ray. Everyone talks about players reaching a PRICE threshold. I think you are always forgetting to mention the QUANTITY threshold. I wouldn't care about buying a blu-ray player at $50 or $250. What matters to me is the fact that there are only 500+ titles out there!
Let's get real. Assuming you had access to rent all 500+ titles (Netflix, etc) there are always invariably going to be titles/generes you don't want to see. So I mean, why would I go to buy a player when the selection sucks? I find tons of movies on HD television, and the only premium one I get is HBO. And even then, most of the blu-ray coming out are movies that were recently out, so I've seen them anyway.
I say, once you start lookingat blu-ray with 5,000+ titles, including TV shows and older movies (80s and before) that I wouldn't mind revisiting for the HD quality, then let me know (and I'm sure players will be even cheaper then, lol).
This is a stupid argument. We'd still all be on wax cylinders if our criteria for buying into a new format was that it had as many titles as what it's replacing. New formats always start from 0 titles and increase from there. At some point they either flop or they supplant the old format. DVD was no different. Neither was VHS, compact disks, audio cassettes, LPs, 78s etc.
What matters is that the price, features and selection of titles is sufficient to attract new owners. Each group has different criteria for buying into a format. Early adopters have a lower buy-in threshold than the early tech savvy mainstream, which has a lower threshold than the conservative mainstream, which has a lower threshold than the stragglers. With Blu up to 1000 titles and more affordable players its appeals is going to be greater than was last year. It'll probably take years to surpass DVD but it's fairly likely that it will when players also happen to be backwards compatible.
It takes a bit more brains to see that the titles are a lot more not to mention that they will get even more after a few weeks.
Get a life (or go shoot yourself) ;P