According to a press release out today, even the record-breaking sales of Avatar haven't lifted Blu-ray out of the doldrums. Screen Digest reports that, "A combination of a slower-than-expected fall in retail prices and the impact of the worst economic recession in living memory ensured that – unlike in the US – sales of Blu-ray hardware failed to live up to expectations in the key international markets in 2009. Furthermore, those homes that did acquire a BD player or PS3 by the end of the year bought fewer Blu-ray Discs (BDs) than anticipated – less than 1.5 titles per household on average. For many people, it seems, DVD remains ‘good enough’ for most titles and the additional cost of opting for a hi-def BD version simply cannot be justified in the current climate of austerity."
doesn't really matter in the end. blu-ray isn't going to be stopped at this point.
doesn't really matter in the end. blu-ray isn't going to be stopped at this point.
Heh it's already being called the laserdisc of this generation due to its niche market.
As long as blu-rays are ridiculously overpriced, yeah. You have to wait for firesales with this stupid format.
doesn't really matter in the end. blu-ray isn't going to be stopped at this point.
Heh it's already being called the laserdisc of this generation due to its niche market.
I go to Wal-Mart all the time and rarely find sub-$15 Blu-ray discs that aren't garbage.
As long as blu-rays are ridiculously overpriced, yeah. You have to wait for firesales with this stupid format.
As long as blu-rays are ridiculously overpriced, yeah. You have to wait for firesales with this stupid format.
it's the only physical HD format. How is that stupid?!
As long as blu-rays are ridiculously overpriced, yeah. You have to wait for firesales with this stupid format.Yep. Not gonna piss away money for a marginal increase in fidelity. I've got better things to spend my money on, like video games and drugs
That is because you're old and your vision sucks.
doesn't really matter in the end. blu-ray isn't going to be stopped at this point.
Heh it's already being called the laserdisc of this generation due to its niche market.
by who exactly? random bloggers? yourself?
The Dark Knight set the first-day Blu-ray sales record of 600,000 back in 2008. Avatar sold 1.2 million copies on Tuesday. By Thursday that number had climbed to 2.7 million, surpassing The Dark Knight's 18 month sales total of 2.5 million. And keep in mind that these are sales of the bare-bones edition. We still haven't seen the deluxe or 3D editions.
James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar has broken the UK record for the biggest opening-day sales of a Blu-ray disc.
The film sold 222,824 copies on Monday, selling more in one day than previous record-holder The Dark Knight sold in its first week.
In one week, Evangelion: 2.22's 357,000 Blu-ray sales have already topped all the Blu-ray copies of Michael Jackson's This Is It that have been sold in Japan so far (351,000 copies). Evangelion: 2.22's is also now the top-selling Blu-ray in Japan since Oricon began keeping records in this category in July of 2008. (James Cameron's Avatar film sold 198,000 copies on Blu-ray in Japan since April.)
How about you stop region locking and make them cheaper?
I remember when my mother got an HD cable box for the first time. Knowing her I was surprised that she would do it as she not very big into new technology. When I came over I found out she hadn't actually wanted it but her man friend had wanted it. So I tried to explain to her why HD was so much better than regular TV.I've discovered if they can't see it, then I don't point it out. I feel distinguished mentally-challenged doing so. Seriously, some people just can't see the difference unless it's something like Avatar or a Pixar movie or on a really awesome tv. On most TV's though, I discovered most people only notice it after a while of watching just HD content. Then when you switch to DVD they're all surprised.
She really couldn't see it and didn't care. I was reduced to flipping between the HD and non HD version of a channel and saying, see that writing on the toaster in the background. On the HD channel you can read the writing. But on the non-HD channel you can't.
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(http://www.behindthehype.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/desperatelyseekingsusan1.jpg):lol
ogod if only it was on blu-ray so I could watch it again and again without any pixelation on Madonna's personality or a truly HD mastering of the classic 80's score
Why do keep seeing "titles" as "titties"I was just about to post this
The article posted here only covers some indeterminate number of foreign markets, and it actually implies that adoption of BluRay in the USA is going well.
"Heh it's already being called the laserdisc of this generation due to its niche market."
:lol Oh no, some people on the internet are talking shit about something -- that must mean it is doomed!
Now, we know that the studios are working hard to try to differentiate Blu-ray from standard DVD with consumers. And we know that all the studio marketing departments probably have market research that shows "average" consumers really like all those bells and whistles, and that's what attracts them to Blu-ray. But here's the problem... in the middle of a recession, those "average" consumers aren't buying Blu-rays right now. They're renting or sticking with DVD! The people who ARE still spending money on Blu-ray at the moment are film enthusiasts - the same guys who have spent the most money on elaborate DVD special editions and box sets over the last decade. And while the consumers polled in focus groups at places like the Mall of America might like their mobileBlu and Focus Points, what film enthusiasts really care about - what will get them to buy a Blu-ray or not - is absolutely first-rate HD video and lossless audio quality on their favorite films. That means NEW high-def transfers for catalog titles, so the BD releases can take full advantage of the latest mastering technology. Recycling HD transfers done 5 or more years ago amounts to an EPIC FAIL for catalog BD fans! And this whole "digital remastering" thing is WAY out of control. The studios need to have someone in charge of catalog mastering with real film restoration experience - someone who understands that grain isn't inherently a bad thing, and it shouldn't be wholesale scrubbed away with Digital Noise Reduction. We can safely guarantee you guys in Hollywood that there's NOTHING film enthusiasts hate more than seeing their favorite films from the 60s, 70s and 80s polished to death for Blu-ray release to the point that they look as if they were shot on HD video yesterday. How many times do we have to say it?!
BROSFIST BUMP
I was about to respond but then I'd be writing a serious response to a Manabyte thread :'(
Is it to justify Lucas dragging his feet on an HD release of the Star Wars movies?One of these two
Did Disney prefer HD-DVD?
For me, the Blu-ray killer app is the Lost collection. I will buy that, and a HD TV and Blu-ray player all in the same day. No joke.
For me, the Blu-ray killer app is the Lost collection. I will buy that, and a HD TV and Blu-ray player all in the same day. No joke.(http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/gifs/arnoldnotsureifserious.gif)
I'm not getting Blu-Ray until LOTR shows up
and i get a job
i just found out there's a kelly's heroes + where eagles dare double feature blu ray pack for $20, i'll probably buy that since those are two fuckawesome eastwood movies i would watch over again
I'm not getting Blu-Ray until LOTR shows up
and i get a job
It showed up already, moran. I bought them a month ago.
i just found out there's a kelly's heroes + where eagles dare double feature blu ray pack for $20, i'll probably buy that since those are two fuckawesome eastwood movies i would watch over again
That's the WW2 movie where Donald Sutherland has a speech about none of them knowing what they were fighting for anyway, right? I know the cliche about war movies reflecting the time they're made more than the war they're about, but that was still pretty jarring when I saw it the first time.
These are my BRD titles, I don't even have a player anymore:
Goodfellas: Amazing transfer