Sherwood bringing two new Blu-ray players to CEDIA

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squiggleslash @ Aug 28th 2008 3:19PM

Yeah, there'll be no DVD. Because the studios would rather earn a fraction of what they're earning trying to prop up an unpopular product than sell to everyone.

The optimists are suggesting that Blu-ray will be even with DVD in 2012. That's four years away, at a time when online downloads are beginning to become credible. The only way Blu-ray is going to pull even is if DVD becomes a niche product, with everyone switching to downloads for their primary source of content.

Seriously, pull your head out and look at the real world. Blu-ray isn't going anywhere. It needs a massive take up of HDTVs just to be attractive to a majority of the population, and still has to overcome the increased competition it's going to get and the fact BD disks are unattractive to anyone with SD TVs anywhere in their infrastructure. With the economy as it is, that's improbable.

It's the wrong format at the wrong time. Let's hope the BDA ignores the Blutards and actually fixes the problems.

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