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Blu-ray takes off
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Price drop blamed
Fri Jan 30 2009, 09:09
BLU-RAY SEEMS TO BE TAKING OFF Down Under with more than five per cent of Australians owning a player.
According to the Australian Visual Software Distributors Association the high definition movie format is gaining significant traction now that players have dropped below $400.
More than a million copies of Blu-ray movies have been sold in Australia despite there being only 29 titles on the market. µ
L'Inq
AP
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I thought they left it there as no australian can count past the number of fingers and toes they commonly have.
I love the various sites talking up the adoption rate of BluRay. Does the 5% owning a Blu-ray player include PS3? (where many have never seen a blu-ray movie?)
There's one site comparing the rate of gwowth of DVD players vs bluray players. He obviously includes all PS3 sales, but when I asked if he included consoles that play DVD's into the DVD player sales... I got a 'why?' WHEN I asked if he counts all computers sold with a DVD player... he stated... well that is probably not what people bought the computer for. I then asked if it was possible people bought a PS3 with intention of, I don't know, maybe playing games, and not watching blu-rays and how is that any different then counting PS3's into the bluray sales? (I got no response)
I then asked about cars with DVD players! (He found this amusing) Bottom line statistics can easily be twisted and in this case the #'s released for blu-ray players almost always include PS3 players while correspondin DVD #'s count only DVD players. The #'s are inflated and not compared to like #'s in order to 'convince' the public (or an unsuspecting INQ writer) that Blu-ray is taking off and everyone should go out any buy one.
The author is just passing on 'information' which he probably has no insight into or he would have expanded on the information presented here. The fact that he has no idea how misleading or (in)accurate the #'s may be, should leave the readers to draw their own conclusions about the quality of the author (and the quality of the INQ editors).
Seems Americans aren't the only ones who lack a snese of humour...
Seems like they are becoming more and more like americans... reading everything literally.
Maybe there are more than 29 titles, who cares... it's all a total fucking waste of money... but there are enough suckers who'll buy this "home entertainment" shit to keep Gerry Harvey laughing all the way to the bank.
This '29 titles' crap is exactly why I'm leaving this site for good. I've never seen such repeatedly shoddy reporting across the board from any huge range of 'reporters'.
INQ, you cam cram it where the sun doesn't shine. Your articles are now endlessly biased and humiliatingly inaccurate. I'll laugh when you feebs are all out of jobs.
29 titles? Huh? Try at least 635 according to one aussie retailer http://www.ezydvd.com.au/mech/search.zml?ps=1&se=Blu-ray
Hell I nearly have 29 in my collection alone.
How did you calculate 5% ?
step 1) 1000,000 movies sold
step 2) Divide that by population 20 mil
step 3 = 5%
(Asssume everybody who has a player buy only one blu-ray movie)
There are a lot more titles released in Australia! Hundreds in fact. Do some research.
New Zealand waited to see which format would come out on top and really is kicking up bluray at the moment. In a lot of shops and rental places. Every new release coming with a blu version and they seem to be selling well.
Not many players and I think the players are still quite pricey though.