doesn't include the ps3 in the figures. what about movie sales?

this isnt the time to be talking sales of anything. NPD numbers are showing what we already know. PPL are not spending the money right now. Be it on TV's or entertainment needs like movies.

Just give it a few years to see where blueray ends ups. Its like the ppl on this site think everything needs to happen RIGHT NOW

you want to know why ppl cant see the difference in blueray and DVD! Its because ppl dont have the TV for it yet. It will take time for ppl do go out and buy a brand new 1080p TV when they just bought the 1080i 3-4 years ago.

Its not just about movies bladeguy. Its about storage space that BR offers.

i dont like paying 30 bucks a movie. In fact i wont. I did buy Planet Earth but that was different

anyway

time will always bring down prices. The tech is barely a year old

I have a top of the line HD-LCD TV. I bought it for next generation video games. I wouldn't mind buying Blu-ray Movies but not at $24 - $35 a pop. With DVDs averaging $10, I'd rather buy 3 DVDs.

Anything to make the PS3 look bad, no matter how small.... it'll get frontpaged. Meanwhile you practically bury anything even HINTING at negative press for the 360.

And DVD's affordability makes ALL the HD formats unecessary at the moment.... even the dearly departed HD-DVD format... you know... the one YOUR console was backing?

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............. want a tissue?

I think it is almost unethical to charge $35 dollars for a blue ray. They must be out of their $#@$ing minds if they believe that will work. Perhaps it is part of their strategy though. They WILL go down in price eventually. But they need to go down to $10-20 dollars or digital distribution will have a reason to appeal to the masses.

I'll die before I pay more than $20 for a blu-ray movie. Blu-ray movies need a drastic price drop, and soon.

And yeah, prices need to fall. Blu-ray movies should be at $24.99, max. HDTV prices are falling as well. Blu-ray hardware is pretty expensive to manufacture at the moment though (just like HD-DVD hardware was), but they'll obviously slim down the size and prices as the year goes on.

Nothing to get alarmed about.

Its down to the fact that is too soon for most people to be up grading again, people have massive dvd collections and they dont really want to be replacing them all again, plus alot of people i know dont even know what blu ray is there has been many times when people have asked me about it etc and i only know about it because of my frequent visits to this website

I guess fantards in the "gamer zone" know better than companies despite the fact that they are gamespot employees, or amateurs in a tech consultancy firm AT BEST. Call me when the Blu-ray consortium actually calls you guys. Until then, get bent.

Blu-ray prices do have to drop, but it's not the end of Blu-ray if they don't drop them today. DVD was very expensive for the first few years, Blu-ray is still young.

sheit..the prices went up for stand alone blu-ray players..and the person that said the ps3 is keeping blu-ray alive is right.....I also wondered why there were no comparisons between regular dvd and blu-ray and found out why... as we speak blu-ray is at 6% a week against regular dvds 94% as of april 20th.....
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtb...

I would of tried to post the results but im quite sure they would not be approved anyways...
hell.what sucks is that netflix will start charging 2 dollars extra to rent blu-ray movies.

Obviously consumers are still waiting for Paramount and Universal to release on Blu first, They'd think we have no choice but to wait if i can't buy my new .. 'There will be Blood' (universal & Paramount titles) on Blu then DVD still has the majority of new releases.
Doesn't have to be picture that everyone needs to compare and see a difference, I found that the sound is much much better with Blu especially once the PS3 allowed DTS-HD Master Audio decoding.

Until then, we will not see sales pick up drastically unless it is a holiday season and at the moment, sales seem on par with the price points these players are at.

$35 for a new release is just stupid. Only the hardcore movie buffs will pony up that much money for a Bluray tittle, and even then, only for the good movies. Unless they drop the price down to $15-20 Bluray will never penetrate the mass market.

Another fluff article that fails to look backward,

If Blu-Ray sales mean it should be canned, then in retrospect DVD was dead in the water for nearly a decade.

Blah, blah blah, cost... great argument but adjusted for inflation DVD'd when they premiered cost a lot more than BD now, as did the players.

Think anyone could tell the quality difference from 480 to 480P(the only real advancement due to DVD)? Nope, but they felt it wasn't worth the switch then, yet now.... see a lot of VHS tapes on the shelf?

blah, blah, blah The "Average Joe" cant tell the difference, big whoop the "Average Joe" has an IQ of 95, a visual acuity of less than 80%, justifies owning a house @ $2000/month vs. renting the same place for $1050/month because he might make %2 off of it in 15 years, and still thinks Bon Jovi was an awesome band, if the world of technology revolved around what the "Average Joe" knew we would all be f^&ked, hunting for food with sharp bits of metal and wiping our a$$es with our hand. Face it, tech has never been sold to "Average Joes" It's been sold to "Magnificent Merovees" who the "Average schmoo" longs to be, and in a vain attempt to better themselves they model their spending habits off of those of the technologically savvy.

and is hardly necessary for movies...definitely not worth the money, especially since it's BluRay that won, considering they've been more expensive from the jump. I'm not paying $30-$35 for a damn movie that I may watch once. And the price of the players.......get outta here! Upscaled DVDs on my 360 and I'm sure on the ps3 look superbly crisp. Plus, going from VHS to DVD was a huge leap, but from DVD to BluRay, not so much....at least not enough to care right now.

Right now the only BD player selling is the PS3.
We've got 10-20 of each BD standalone just sitting on the shelf collecting dust now.
We need a buy 1 get one free offer or something.

Most these days are doing well to buy a HDTV and HD programming.
The economy isn't helping BD one bit.

Blu-ray won the format war.
/it's over