Actually Deeznutz what's 'old' is your tedious assertion that anyone who criticises Blu-ray hasn't gotten over HD DVD departing the field.
What a ludicrous thing to say.
The facts are exactly as I said, Blu-ray has a minute presence in the mass-market and despite some admirable price-cutting that continues to be the case. Nielson does indeed show Blu-ray sales bumping along at a mere $10million a week (and you better hope they have a few 'Batman' or Iron Man' movies, that are decent enough to sell, to stand a hope of matching last year's numbers).
It is also very well know that Blu-ray's R&D costs were enormous and stand about zero chance of ever being recouped.
So, with players now selling at $150 and more than a few catalogue discs now discounted down to DVD levels how can there possibly be any real margin for anyone to make money on it?
That being the case why would Toshiba bother with it?
With the state of the economy it's perfectly clear that Blu-ray is stuck with tiny growth prospects for another year and probably 2 - and even that's largely dependent on whatever new and existing PS3 owners can be attracted to bothering with it....like as if the general public could care less about collecting large numbers of movies anyway.
So, that'll be 5 years (and still counting) going nowhere and all the time digital distribution grows and grows.
Between Netflix, Xbox XBL, even the PS3's PSN and the other services (practically a new one is posted up here every week) it's clear the space for Blu-ray to grow into is shrinking every passing month.
Sorry, try again, not one bit of this has anything to do with HD DVD.
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Actually Deeznutz what's 'old' is your tedious assertion that anyone who criticises Blu-ray hasn't gotten over HD DVD departing the field.
What a ludicrous thing to say.
The facts are exactly as I said, Blu-ray has a minute presence in the mass-market and despite some admirable price-cutting that continues to be the case.
Nielson does indeed show Blu-ray sales bumping along at a mere $10million a week
(and you better hope they have a few 'Batman' or Iron Man' movies, that are decent enough to sell, to stand a hope of matching last year's numbers).
It is also very well know that Blu-ray's R&D costs were enormous and stand about zero chance of ever being recouped.
So, with players now selling at $150 and more than a few catalogue discs now discounted down to DVD levels how can there possibly be any real margin for anyone to make money on it?
That being the case why would Toshiba bother with it?
With the state of the economy it's perfectly clear that Blu-ray is stuck with tiny growth prospects for another year and probably 2 - and even that's largely dependent on whatever new and existing PS3 owners can be attracted to bothering with it....like as if the general public could care less about collecting large numbers of movies anyway.
So, that'll be 5 years (and still counting) going nowhere and all the time digital distribution grows and grows.
Between Netflix, Xbox XBL, even the PS3's PSN and the other services (practically a new one is posted up here every week) it's clear the space for Blu-ray to grow into is shrinking every passing month.
Sorry, try again, not one bit of this has anything to do with HD DVD.