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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ben @ Dec 31st 2008 2:37PM
Not sure how you think you can make things up and that will convince me of anything. I love how I quote stats that you call unfair, while you make things up like "people rent more instead of buying." Or another great line that is totally unsubstantiated, "digital downloads even today, are in much higher number of presence among consumers then Blu-Ray." Lets see some facts.
Now you can make these up and I can just as easily say they aren't true with the same amount of evidence, but lets look at facts instead. The Dark Knight sold a total of 13.5 Million copies and 1.7 million of those were on Blu-ray. Care to tell me how many people actually bought one and how many of those were purchased with the intent to rent them? Now I'm not good at math, but by my calculations that is over 12%, and no that isn't revenue. Show me how many people waited another three weeks to watch TDK on Vudu Apple TV or any other VOD service. Oh, you can't because no one publishes the numbers. You can say what you will, but I'll say it's because they are embarrassing.
Now I never said that one day discs won't go away, because they will. I'm just saying it isn't going to be anytime soon because I believe most Americans aren't stupid enough to give up the rights and privileges that come with packaged media for lower quality, more expensive content, with more strings attached then a marionette. Just so they don't have to get up and put a disc in.
You can call me biased or any other name you want, but in reality I have a realistic perspective of the industry and while you're waiting on the future, I'm enjoying the highest quality movies ever available in the home.