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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Truth Teller @ Dec 28th 2007 7:24PM
Blu-ray continues to underwhelm mightily.
Tough luck for them it's all happening right at the point, Q4, in 2007 where just about everyone said they would be looking closely at what happened.
A 10:1 + advantage in players equates to a paltry 1.56:1 advantage in movie disc sales!?
Hilarious.
It's just a matter of time, a couple of months, until the wave of $100 HD DVD players hit.
Game over.
(and no, Blu-ray does not have anything remotely like a similar 'strategy' in place to answer the tidal wave of DVD replacing HD DVD players that are a mere couple of months off.
CES is going to be a good one.
Count on it.)
JimC @ Dec 28th 2007 7:43PM
Truth Teller, what a pathetic display of denial...to comfort yourself you spin PS3 players (even though they are game machines) to make it "appear" as though blu-ray is somehow not as strong as HDDVD? Forget players, title sales is what counts, and as long as blu-ray sells more titles than HDDVD, you can spin all you want, but it won't help HDDVD win. They need to sell discs, not explain away why blu-ray has not really won another week....spin spin spin....I'm surprised you're not dizzy and vomiting by now...
borland502 @ Dec 28th 2007 8:56PM
"A 10:1 + advantage in players equates to a paltry 1.56:1 advantage in movie disc sales!?"
See, this very, very, very, very, very, very, old argument makes some big assumptions: That standalone blu ray players don't have an equal attach rate. The PS3 is going to have a horrid "movie" attach rate as I'm sure the PS2 did for DVD. Yet, I'm sure even you can credit the PS3 with the Blu lead.
Another assumption is that Blu CEs are spending much more on player manufacturing. It's the same tech buddy with a different aperture size. Don't you find it funny that Blu Ray players come down in price exactly when HD DVD players do? They don't come down to the same price, but they don't have to...they maintain that 1.2:1-3:1 lead. Why subsidize when you don't have to?
The last assumption I'll mention is similar to the last. You assume that Toshiba is making those players with dirt cheap parts. Notice that most of their players remain above $199 and even the vaunted "Chinese" player is above $150. I've heard the price argument for the entire year...but yet Blu remains ahead.