http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/ Engadget HD Comments for Blu-ray forecasts slightly lower due to wild economy http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/Nov 19th 2008 2:33PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/
Hardware sales will likely see some movement up but the software up tick is not going to do $250 M in 1 month. No way.]]>Nov 19th 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/Nov 19th 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/
What I'd hope is that the industry would take a step back and ask the question again "How do we sell movies in 2010? What's the best way to get content into people's hands?"

They dropped the ball when they dropped HD DVD. It wasn't perfect, but it had all the components in place for an infrastructure where you'd be able to buy them on disc, download them over the Internet and burn them to disc, stream them over the Internet, and even keep virtual copies on local storage servers, all of which is missing from BD.

What I'd like is to see the DVD Forum and BDA actually work together, and try to come up with something that works for everyone. But as long as everyone's at war with one another, and Sony doesn't even answer the DVD Forum's mail (I'm not kidding, in the past it's refused to sign for DVD Forum communications), I don't think that's going to happen.
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Someday they'll figure it out....I hope. You'd think the fact that the rental market for Blu-ray movies is probably about 10x what the retail market is would send them a message, but you'd be wrong apparently.]]>Nov 19th 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/Nov 19th 2008 5:32PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/
Sony CEO expects Blu-ray to take 50% of the market in 2008

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200815/663/Sony-expects-Blu-ray-to-hold-50-market-share-in-2008

Naturally it's difficult to say precisely how minute the Blu-ray share really is
(what with the BDA terrified of telling anyone just how badly they have done since all the
bragging when they were fighting HD DVD - it's an interesting concept tho,
crying off disclosing any verifiable facts on the basis of market confidentiality in a market of 1,
I wonder how long their investors will put up with that sort of laughable BS).

Last time anyone sensible talked about their proper market share
(ie the more serious & less obviously fanboy media outlets like the NYT)
they mentioned something around 3 - 4% of the total movie disc market.
.....and even that was generous given that DVD sells 1.7 billion units in the USA alone annually.]]>Nov 19th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080407PD201.html

They wouldn't even have been able to ramp up replication efforts this year to achieve 50%. I guess you believe everything you read though?]]>Nov 20th 2008 4:07AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/
.....and even your own link says exactly what mine says.

(maybe you meant to post up something else?)

Or perhaps it's just that you prefer to believe any old sh!t that makes excuses those laughably ludicrous claims?

Maybe you feel that speculative word of some unknown blogger means more than a reputable news site? ]]>Nov 20th 2008 5:57AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/
Not that I'm saying there's any likelihood that Sony achieved that (though the PS3 makes the question interesting, and certainly makes it plausible they may have come close), but it's a massive difference between "One vendor that's heavily pushing BD and willing to subsidize it thinks it'll have half of its DVD/BD sales be BD" and "Half of all DVD/BD sales from all vendors, most of which are less willing to subsidize the product, will be BD".]]>Nov 20th 2008 9:11AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/Nov 20th 2008 4:15AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/19/blu-ray-forecasts-slightly-lower-due-to-wild-economy/Nov 20th 2008 4:26AM