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LonnieDvD @ Nov 19th 2008 5:26PM
I think it is both desperation and keeping CBHD from getting support. Blu-Ray is nowhere near what the BDA thought it would be at this point. They thought they could wipe DVD out in 2010, now 2012 looks to be the year that DVD fades out.
Multi-format-mayhem @ Nov 19th 2008 6:37PM
"now 2012 looks to be the year that DVD fades out."
Really?!
On what basis could anyone honestly say DVD looks likely to be in any weaker position with the public between now and 3yrs time?
The movie & CE industry can carry on hating DVD cos their margins are squeezed tighter than a flea's chuff but who cares about that or them?
Besides they make much of it back on sheer volume of sales.
DVD will be chipped away at by downloads and VOD via TV services & DVRs, I agree, but I can see no reason to imagine it'll be anything substantial.
DVD will remain for a long time the king in movie distribution,
the 'step change' (a lá VHS - DVD) just hasn't happened yet.
I really wouldn't expect too much change.
On the otherhand things could have changed and high definition could have become the new standard.
Sadly for the CE industry, that relied upon sane heads realising that high def needed to simply become a new attractive feature (some additional 'added value') for very little extra on the price.
Naturally the blind greed of the industry ensured that they would not accept this and so they chose to go for a high premium on the new tech and now suffer a public who couldn't care less, not at the prices they want.
Afterall, they've been endlessly told that between upscaling on their DVD players and their HD TVs they are getting HD or very near to HD quality as it is.
So why bother paying any of the expected premium the industry insists high def ought to demand?