Blu-ray booms

Price is still a deterrent for wider adoption, the major sales were likely of the very old classic titles that are now finally selling close to the $15 range, the mediocre new titles for $30 are likely still clogging shelves. However titles like DarkKnight, Hulk, Ironman, etc. are worth paying for so those two sides of the sales coin move disks.

The question remains, where the heck are movies like Aliens, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars? Get those to BR and you'll see another boost in sales.

'Til then this isn't really surprising, especially if the figures are year over year, since the HD war was still on at this time last year.

Gotta move faster if they plan on keeping pace with HD downloads.

What's the total amount of movie sales in total and what is the total amount of movie sales on blu-rays? That way we can really see what's REALLY going on... damn man where's all the logic gone in the Inq...

With the best selling Blu-Ray disc shipping 281,000 copies in the UK to the best selling DVD's 5,000,000+ I can really see it being a competitor...
Not!
Come back next year & try again.

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Whenever stuff gets cheap, people buy it. With Blu-ray players at like $90 USD, people love buying overhyped stuff. It makes them look rich... personally I don't see what the fuss is all about... I can tell the difference between Blu-ray and DVDs, but not at couch distance, well at least when I have my HTPC making DVD look better on a 40" TV. Personally, I'm gonna skip Blu-Ray, if possible.

It'll be ages before many of the truly big film releases come out on Blu-ray, aka Aliens, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars. Why? Well the studios will want to see loads of Blu-ray penetration (and I'm not talking about porno) before release to maximise their profits. If they release now with limited market penetration by the time there are loads of Blu-ray players out there they'd be discouting the product out because it'll have been available for a long time. The release of Star Wars on DVD was a case in point. Look how long Lucas strung it out for.

I think one of the biggest issues is that if you go to www.bestbuy.com or the like, blu ray discs are 34 dollars (or more) for a new release movie and the dvd is 20 bucks or less. Not a lot of incentive to switch over. If you do some searching on the internet though, you can find cheap sites selling blu rays. the one I like is www.sigelectronics.com usually they are never over 22.50 ea.

All retailers need to lower the prices on the discs to help with the demand fo r the players.

I predict that the lowering price and higher adoption will keep feeding each other until Blu-Ray becomes the dominant format.

Lower prices are not the only reason Blu-Ray is doing better. Stores have finally started showing actual Blu-Ray content in stores (instead of those blurry fake HD videos they used to embarrass themselves with). Once people see the difference, they get excited about it.

To those who say they can't tell a difference between Blu-Ray and DVD: it depends on the movie. Some are more HD than others. Older films that are transferred from blurry film, or even recent movies like The Golden Compass, look rather blurry for Blu-Ray (although not as nauseatingly bad as DVD), while movies like Pirates of the Caribbean or The Dark Knight really show off Blu-Ray's resolution. Especially the scenes in the latter that were filmed with IMAX. Another thing to keep in mind is that Blu-Rays don't replace vision correction; if you can't see the screen, then you can't see the detail on it. I'm sure that acute myopia is rampant in the the "not much of a difference between DVD and Blu-Ray" crowd.

I remember when DVD first came out and we were paying the same price as BluRay Discs are now. It's just the process the industry goes through. Once a certain critical mass is reached the price of BluRay Discs will drop (just as happened with DVD) and the mass will take it up. The BR Players are no different. I love it :)

with a guy I know that is a total movie addict. His video library counts over 500 titles (bought, not downloaded), and he has a Blu-Ray player.
He just told me of his experience with his latest film purchase. He brought the film home, turned on his Blu-Ray player and . . waited 2 minutes for the player to be available.
Then he put the disc in and . . waited 2 minutes for the disc to be recognized.
Then, when he wanted to start the disc, the player told him his player was missing the latest Java patch and he needed to download it.
After downloading said patch on his PC and burning it to a bootable CD, he restarted his player, updated it and rebooted again, and was able to finally play the disc.
Except that, of course, there was 15 minutes of non-skippable, non-fast-forwardable commercials to run through first.

My thoughts :
a)
DVD cold boot to film time : 20 seconds.
Blu-Ray cold boot to film time : over 4 minutes.
Blu-Ray loses big time. And yes, I know that might change, but I'm not in a hurry to find out.

b) Java updates on Blu-Ray.
My thoughts on this matter are very much unfit to write in public. Suffice to say that it involves using a vary large oblong object full of nails on some part of my anatomy before I accept having a Java machine control my film experience.

c) Blu-Ray library : is, for the moment, a collection of upscaled DVD titles that I have already. There is next to no titles that have been filmed in native HD that are available on Blu-Ray, and of that, none interest me anyway.
My TV set upscales beautifully well already, so I have no need for Blu-Ray.

Conclusion : Epic Fail for Blu-Ray. I'll review that technology in ten years time.