It's only a matter of time before Blu Ray dominates.
As Blu Ray players become cheaper and cheaper, Blu Ray disc sales will pick up.
The problem is that studios want to milk DVD sales as much as possible. They do make a ton of money off of DVD sales. And shifting to Blu Ray too soon will limit their profit potential of DVDs.
DVDs were really a stop gap when they were introduced in the late 1990's. The High Definition standard was already developed and 1080i existed (although it required amazingly expensive upsamplers to get there). The problem was that there was no disc technology that could hold or read the bandwidth that HD needed. In 2000, scientist finally isolated the violet laser beam and were able to use it to read really small pits of information on disks; thus, began the evolution of HD disks (HD DVD and Blu Ray).
I have a great OPPO player that upsamples to 1080P and I have a Sony PS3 hooked up to a 42" Samsung LCD HDTV. Hands down the PS3 with a Blu Ray disk is way better. Upsampling video makes it look too soft.
I do not think America is ready to not own there media. Especially since Home Theater has exploded. Since the VHS and Betamax days, we have always been able to own our movies. It is going to be difficult for the movie industry to get us to convert to that way of thinking (especially with the prevalence of TIVO). Interestingly, I have read that this is the way movie houses want us to go. They want the pay each time you play. They want to be able to control their product absolutely. I am not sure however they will make more money in the long run if they stopped selling media outright. They have gotten so addicted to the income from this, they will have a difficult time adjusting. Especially considering all the digital recorders out there. People will just order the digital broadcast of a movie and then tape it with a DVR. Hard drive space will be so cheap, that people will have huge movie collections all on hard drives.
Keith
As Blu Ray players become cheaper and cheaper, Blu Ray disc sales will pick up.
The problem is that studios want to milk DVD sales as much as possible. They do make a ton of money off of DVD sales. And shifting to Blu Ray too soon will limit their profit potential of DVDs.
DVDs were really a stop gap when they were introduced in the late 1990's. The High Definition standard was already developed and 1080i existed (although it required amazingly expensive upsamplers to get there). The problem was that there was no disc technology that could hold or read the bandwidth that HD needed. In 2000, scientist finally isolated the violet laser beam and were able to use it to read really small pits of information on disks; thus, began the evolution of HD disks (HD DVD and Blu Ray).
I have a great OPPO player that upsamples to 1080P and I have a Sony PS3 hooked up to a 42" Samsung LCD HDTV. Hands down the PS3 with a Blu Ray disk is way better. Upsampling video makes it look too soft.
I do not think America is ready to not own there media. Especially since Home Theater has exploded. Since the VHS and Betamax days, we have always been able to own our movies. It is going to be difficult for the movie industry to get us to convert to that way of thinking (especially with the prevalence of TIVO). Interestingly, I have read that this is the way movie houses want us to go. They want the pay each time you play. They want to be able to control their product absolutely. I am not sure however they will make more money in the long run if they stopped selling media outright. They have gotten so addicted to the income from this, they will have a difficult time adjusting. Especially considering all the digital recorders out there. People will just order the digital broadcast of a movie and then tape it with a DVR. Hard drive space will be so cheap, that people will have huge movie collections all on hard drives.
Keith