1. Disc prices need to drop. 2. BD releases need to be more useful than their DVD counterparts. 3. Encouragement needs to be given to give the format greater usefulness outside of movie distribution. For example, BD-R prices need to plummet, and BD burners need to drop below $100 4. BD's "showstopper" flaws, such as BD+, need to be deprecated with an aim that every BD release will work on every Blu-ray player. Given the comparatively small number of players made, studios need to TEST EVERY TITLE ON EVERY PLAYER before pressing discs. 5. An infrastructure needs to be added to ensure BD doesn't compete with online downloads, it becomes a part of it. A simple way of doing this would be to incorporate the HD DVD high level standards into BD (that is, Advanced Content, Mandatory Managed Copy, etc.), but I'd be happy with someone just coming up with a technical equivalent as long as it's open. 6. Something needs to be done to help independent vendors ship discs without having to pay well above the odds. There's no reason why it should be virtually impossible to ship training videos in HD without charging the Earth for them, for example. This might be fixable simply by allowing the online infrastructure integration thing above. 7. Something that disassociates the "fixed" Blu-ray from the failed format should be done, if only rebranding it "Blu-ray Plus" or something. 8. Blu-ray player prices need to come down, and I don't mean "Clearance items". There are no non-clear out BD players right now with an MSRP significantly under $250. Let me repeat that because some jackass right now is probably going to respond with "Yu ur lyeng. I bought a first generation Sony for $50 from Discount Electronics Mart only duh odduer day." There are no **NON-CLEAR-OUT** BD players right now with an ****MSRP**** significantly under $250. I want to see sub-$100 players that support the features above (either directly or upgradeable)
As long as Blu-ray is expensive, unreliable, and competes with online downloads instead of embracing them and being a part of them, it's not going to stand a chance in hell. Most people I know are way more interested in what Netflix is doing than they are in Blu-ray.
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1. Disc prices need to drop.
2. BD releases need to be more useful than their DVD counterparts.
3. Encouragement needs to be given to give the format greater usefulness outside of movie distribution. For example, BD-R prices need to plummet, and BD burners need to drop below $100
4. BD's "showstopper" flaws, such as BD+, need to be deprecated with an aim that every BD release will work on every Blu-ray player. Given the comparatively small number of players made, studios need to TEST EVERY TITLE ON EVERY PLAYER before pressing discs.
5. An infrastructure needs to be added to ensure BD doesn't compete with online downloads, it becomes a part of it. A simple way of doing this would be to incorporate the HD DVD high level standards into BD (that is, Advanced Content, Mandatory Managed Copy, etc.), but I'd be happy with someone just coming up with a technical equivalent as long as it's open.
6. Something needs to be done to help independent vendors ship discs without having to pay well above the odds. There's no reason why it should be virtually impossible to ship training videos in HD without charging the Earth for them, for example. This might be fixable simply by allowing the online infrastructure integration thing above.
7. Something that disassociates the "fixed" Blu-ray from the failed format should be done, if only rebranding it "Blu-ray Plus" or something.
8. Blu-ray player prices need to come down, and I don't mean "Clearance items". There are no non-clear out BD players right now with an MSRP significantly under $250. Let me repeat that because some jackass right now is probably going to respond with "Yu ur lyeng. I bought a first generation Sony for $50 from Discount Electronics Mart only duh odduer day." There are no **NON-CLEAR-OUT** BD players right now with an ****MSRP**** significantly under $250. I want to see sub-$100 players that support the features above (either directly or upgradeable)
As long as Blu-ray is expensive, unreliable, and competes with online downloads instead of embracing them and being a part of them, it's not going to stand a chance in hell. Most people I know are way more interested in what Netflix is doing than they are in Blu-ray.