"Also people need to get off the game system thing. Either the PS3 is selling well and contributing to the adoption of bluray or it is selling poorly and having no effect. It can't really be doing both."
Why cant it be both? It's sold more than any other HD player, which indicates clearly why _both_ HD disc formats are in trouble. Its sales spurred a lot of BD sales vs hddvd, and yet when you look at the #s, the attach rate is horrible (1.7 million consoles sold but 600k discs?).
The market is not really ready for HD discs. Its expected that in 3 years, 1/2 of US households will have HDTVs. Given that the bulk of these purchases will be recent, and they will be spending $700+ on a new TV, its unlikely they will have the money handy to then spend another $400 or so on a different disc player, particularly when that $400 would better serve consumers to spend it instead on a better tv, or on a home theater so they don't listen to HDTV broadcasts through the crappy tv speakers.
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h0mi @ Mar 18th 2007 2:18PM
"Also people need to get off the game system thing. Either the PS3 is selling well and contributing to the adoption of bluray or it is selling poorly and having no effect. It can't really be doing both."
Why cant it be both? It's sold more than any other HD player, which indicates clearly why _both_ HD disc formats are in trouble. Its sales spurred a lot of BD sales vs hddvd, and yet when you look at the #s, the attach rate is horrible (1.7 million consoles sold but 600k discs?).
The market is not really ready for HD discs. Its expected that in 3 years, 1/2 of US households will have HDTVs. Given that the bulk of these purchases will be recent, and they will be spending $700+ on a new TV, its unlikely they will have the money handy to then spend another $400 or so on a different disc player, particularly when that $400 would better serve consumers to spend it instead on a better tv, or on a home theater so they don't listen to HDTV broadcasts through the crappy tv speakers.