01-31-2010, 10:46 PM
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
1) Blu-ray has already taken off, to the tune of $1.5 BILLION in sales last year, a 200% increase from the previous year.
Yep. It's really taken off!
Doubled its 2008 marketshare.
That puts it at 6% of the home movie market.
At this rate, it'll be the dominant market player by 2025 for sure!!
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
mp3s played no part in the failure of MD.
Absolutely! Except where they were responsible for totally slaying Sony in the market for portable media players.
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
I honestly don't know why MDs failed to take off in the US
A series of seemingly deliberate blunders including buggy proprietary software, inadequate storage, lousy compression, difficult and expensive point of entry, difficulty for consumers to move their digital music back and forth... It was basically built to be a disaster. What's so hard to understand about that?
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
3) Until the bandwidth required to download 1080p movies in real-time is available to EVERY resident of the US at an economical price, there will be a market for Blu-ray.
Hulu looks great on my TV at 390p and 480p.
My DVDs look spectacular upscaled on my tv and the 5.1 audio sounds great.
Tell me why I need a native 1080p video source. 'Cause I don't see why I should blow my hard earned cash on it.