I think I’m almost envious of you Netflix guys.
There was an article I read recently that I’m trying to find. has anyone else come across it? It pretty much had a bunch of “experts” repeating what I said earlier in the thread about how consumers will lose due to the end of the format war. I can afford ridiculously priced Blurays so I personally can’t wait until they’re ALL 35 bucks a pop with no sales incentive just so I can say I told you so.
:u: There are lots of articles that say that. Most/All of them are written by former HD DVD supporters, like Rob Enderle (who happens to be an MS shill. Whoops). The facts, though, completely disagree with that FUD.
-BD is not owned by a single company (like with HD DVD and Toshiba).
-Many CEs will compete with each other for competitively priced players (again, unlike HD DVD with Toshiba being its sole player manufacturer).
-The same didn’t happen with DVD.
-BD still needs to compete with DVD.
hd dvd isn’t owned by a single company either
it is owned by toshiba and NEC and a bunch of smaller companies
it’s pretty funny though how American Gangster was #1 selling title after Toshiba pulled out and it looks like it’s going to be #1 this week again [maybe HD DVD will even 1/2 with Beowulf as the other spot]
shows just how small and insignificant the HDM market currently is
oh yea where were the B1G1 the previous two weeks 
Hasn’t been one in 2 months!!
anyone seen any bluray specials online or w/e?
i really want to get tekkon kinkreet without having to pay $30 for it =(
Does anyone have an idea if/when they’ll drop Terminator 2 Ultimate for Blu? I know they’re releasing one for HD on import but fuck… I want the Ultimate Edition!
And again…my 5 free Bluray disks are delayed again, this time with no ETA.
Fuck that, I still want them, take your time I said…it’s free anyway.
See sigley’s post
The pricing of the players doesn’t affect me since I have one and has nothing to do with the BOGO type deals we’ve been getting on the media.
DVD was competing with a format that wasn’t backward compatible with the previous media (VHS). People needed incentive to go make a choice that pretty much rendered their library useless. BR doesn’t have that problem.
I disagree. The markets are separate. As we spoke about before, the average consumer isn’t going to buy a BR player because they can’t take advantage of it. So they will continue to buy DVD’s for quite some time regardless of the effort on BR’s part.
You know why
:u: You love Blu-ray, and you know it. Sorry you bought HD DEAD though.
no country bluray makes me really want to buy a ps3
Just bought No Country, great quality (didn’t know it was Buena Vista)
Also, Amazon.com 50% off sale on select Blu-rays… not a large selection, but definitely some nice deals that are worth a look.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Ffeature.html%3Fie%3DUTF8%26plgroup%3D1%26docId%3D1000205241%26pf_rd_m%3DATVPDKIKX0DER%26pf_rd_s%3Dcenter-4%26pf_rd_r%3D0M4JHBP4MM0J9CJMDRJ0%26pf_rd_t%3D101%26pf_rd_p%3D370855901%26pf_rd_i%3D130&tag=inevitboredo-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
My Sukiyaki Western Django came in from Amazon today and picked up No Country For Old Men as well.
My No Country and Appleseed should arrive tomorrow. Enchanted next week. :tup:
Seeing how long my first Best Buy shipment took from my order, I’m expecting Enchanted to arrive in April :mad:
I wish I got some Amazon GCs on my birthday.
One thing that Blu-Ray and DVD has in common: Each format had the task of achieving growth and mass adoption.
-DVD had to win the consumers to persuade film companies to produce more films on its format.
-DVD had to persuade film companies to produce a wider variety of films on its format to win the consumers.
Blu Ray is under similar circumstances that DVD was once under, and I imagine that they will take the same approach: Larger consumer base -> more films produced on Blu-Ray -> Larger consumer base -> rinse/repeat. So, now with HD DVD out of the picture, to say that there is no longer an incentive for Blu-Ray to lower its prices is a pretty hasty conclusion. I wouldn’t jump the gun just yet. Blu-Ray has quite a few hoops to jump through in order to achieve mass adopton and they know damn well that they’re not gonna pull it off with current prices.
If anything, HD DVD’s demise has helped accelerate the process of high-definition physical media finding its way into people’s homes. As long as both were alive and consumers were confused over which one to buy, the industry’s growth was stunted. This was the basis by which Warner made their big decision: In order for the industry to grow, one of the formats must die.
I think that the only people who believe otherwise are HD DVD early-adopting wishful-thinkers who are crossing their fingers for Blu-Ray to crash and burn, just so they could say “I told you so.”
:woot:
It’s about God damn time.
batman begins on blu july 8th, i didn’t really care for the movie but i know a lot of people waiting for it
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/index.cfm?sec_id=2&newsid=12310
Two Blu-ray editions are in the works: a single-disc version at $28.99, and as part of a limited-edition gift set at $49.99. The gift set also includes a Batman Begins motion art lenticular, exclusive photos, script pages, storyboards, five collectible Batman Begins postcards and $7.50 in movie cash toward a Dark Knight ticket. Both the standalone version and gift set Blu-ray releases include an exclusive comic book prologue to The Dark Knight.
There is a god.
I finally got my 5 free BD’s…well, 4 of them at least.
They replaced one of my choices with Blazing Saddles…WTF???