Re: More Research Asserts that Blu Ray Adoption Isn't Apt to Surge
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Originally Posted by Nick Graham
The possibility that Blu-Ray only hits an LD sized market concerns me - does that entail the possibility that software and hardware prices might rise instead of fall once it becomes clear it hits that point? If DVD had flopped and LD had remained king of home theater media, I never would have been able to get into home theater to begin with based on the hardware and software prices.
It was really disappointing to see Panasonic release the BD50 at such a high MSRP. I realize the dollar is weak and investors need to be coddled to, but I would think they would realize how potentially dangerous it is to the success of Blu overall to be asking $700 for a player at this stage in the game. |
I don't think you can tell this early in the game whatever it's going to do. Now it's the battle between DVD and Blu-Ray, and if Blu-Ray is going to take as long as it took DVD to become the standard (I don't know how long it took in the US, but here it was at least a year of four) you'll have to wait. The prices will drop, eventually. I remember buying Star Wars Episode I (please, don't comment
) for about 57 dollars, converted (of course, we have different currency now, so I don't know what the actual price would be). That was the normal price for new dvds. I'd definitely wouldn't want to pay that now, even for Blu-Ray.We'll just have to wait.
Actually, I'd think only cinephiles care all that much about "excessive" censorship, and in that case, they/we would probably need to import from other countries to get around censorship anyway. The rest (of the majority public) probably wouldn't complain much, if at all, about lowest common denom type of censorship (along w/ using language dubs and such instead of subtitles in many cases).
