No kidding Wes. What happens when consumer entertainment development is not the largest reserach sector in the world as everything out there is already good enough looking or sounding. Companies could have to start innovating the way we interact with media or we as a society could start caring more about social issues like poverty, education of children, human rights or countless other things than entertainment media.
A very sad day indeed.
In regard to Brian, I understand what you mean. Most people have 37-42" tvs. Not a lot of people have 72" or 60" TVs with the latest feature sets were blu-ray really starts to shine over traditional DVD upconverted. For a lot of people, upconverted dvd is good enough if it costs 1/3rd or 1/2 the cost.
Now that sad thing, this whole survey was back in April. Before the Economic Issues and Financial Worries about big-ticket items and spending on luxury items. I wouldn't be surprised if that 7% planning to invest in Blu-ray this year might have dropped down to 4-5% or less. I believe this too was before Hulu's big watch-anything-anytime advertising campaigns on all the major networks during primetime too that's been going on. Maybe that'll be another -0.2%.
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No kidding Wes. What happens when consumer entertainment development is not the largest reserach sector in the world as everything out there is already good enough looking or sounding. Companies could have to start innovating the way we interact with media or we as a society could start caring more about social issues like poverty, education of children, human rights or countless other things than entertainment media.
A very sad day indeed.
In regard to Brian, I understand what you mean. Most people have 37-42" tvs. Not a lot of people have 72" or 60" TVs with the latest feature sets were blu-ray really starts to shine over traditional DVD upconverted. For a lot of people, upconverted dvd is good enough if it costs 1/3rd or 1/2 the cost.
Now that sad thing, this whole survey was back in April. Before the Economic Issues and Financial Worries about big-ticket items and spending on luxury items. I wouldn't be surprised if that 7% planning to invest in Blu-ray this year might have dropped down to 4-5% or less. I believe this too was before Hulu's big watch-anything-anytime advertising campaigns on all the major networks during primetime too that's been going on. Maybe that'll be another -0.2%.