It doesn't matter.. DVD's penetration and adoption rate is not comparable to Blu-ray because we live in a different age. When DVD was released it was so new, people were not getting it and it was much better than VHS. It was actually much more expensive too. $600 DVD player then and $600 Blu-ray today are way different. It was a small fortune back then. Today $600 it's still expensive but not as much as it was then, not to mention the fact that it doesn't improve as much as VHS over DVD.
Look at it realistically. Blu-ray is not revolution, it's an evolution and as such it shouldn't be priced through the roof and with holding a small premium over DVD it should be adopted faster because technology in general has advanced a lot more over the course of past decade.
But the reason it's not being adopted fast is price vs features. If your upscaling DVD player from a lower brand is $50, considering that a Blu-ray player is nothing more complex than that player but holds a slightly different laser, the lower brand BD player shouldn't be more then $75-$100. If a good brand name upscaling DVD player is $100, your brand name BD player shouldn't be more then $150-$200. Same goes with media. Blu discs shouldn't be more then $2-$3 premium over DVDs, yet they are.
All of this and the fact that studios want to use Blu-ray to make money to compensate for DVD loss is what causes issues with Blu-ray adoption.
All they have to do is price it normally and realistically and should buy. But today, there are more problems for adoption then just lowering prices if you wish to discuss it.
Mainly that people are not willing to spend a lot of money on buying discs. They want to rent because they've been collecting and spending insane amounts of money on discs for the past 10 years and they really see no benefit today to do that all over again. In addition, we have alternative means of getting content too. All this is playing a roll in adoption and rightfully so.
So no, DVD situation and Blu-ray state are really not similar at all. One builds upon the other but is in no means revolutionary as DVD was.
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Bozster @ Jun 25th 2009 9:55PM
It doesn't matter.. DVD's penetration and adoption rate is not comparable to Blu-ray because we live in a different age. When DVD was released it was so new, people were not getting it and it was much better than VHS. It was actually much more expensive too. $600 DVD player then and $600 Blu-ray today are way different. It was a small fortune back then. Today $600 it's still expensive but not as much as it was then, not to mention the fact that it doesn't improve as much as VHS over DVD.
Look at it realistically. Blu-ray is not revolution, it's an evolution and as such it shouldn't be priced through the roof and with holding a small premium over DVD it should be adopted faster because technology in general has advanced a lot more over the course of past decade.
But the reason it's not being adopted fast is price vs features. If your upscaling DVD player from a lower brand is $50, considering that a Blu-ray player is nothing more complex than that player but holds a slightly different laser, the lower brand BD player shouldn't be more then $75-$100. If a good brand name upscaling DVD player is $100, your brand name BD player shouldn't be more then $150-$200. Same goes with media. Blu discs shouldn't be more then $2-$3 premium over DVDs, yet they are.
All of this and the fact that studios want to use Blu-ray to make money to compensate for DVD loss is what causes issues with Blu-ray adoption.
All they have to do is price it normally and realistically and should buy. But today, there are more problems for adoption then just lowering prices if you wish to discuss it.
Mainly that people are not willing to spend a lot of money on buying discs. They want to rent because they've been collecting and spending insane amounts of money on discs for the past 10 years and they really see no benefit today to do that all over again. In addition, we have alternative means of getting content too. All this is playing a roll in adoption and rightfully so.
So no, DVD situation and Blu-ray state are really not similar at all. One builds upon the other but is in no means revolutionary as DVD was.