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Originally Posted by Robert Crawford

I've been campaigning for a price adjustment for over a year now. These studios are hard-headed. I think Warner and Sony understands it, but the others like Fox and Disney don't get it that titles like Sleeping Beauty and various comedies are not selling as they hope is because the pricing is too high?

Originally Posted by John Hodson

For those of us who have been buying DVDs from around the world, thanks to multi-region players, BD is also posing a few problems.

Choosing a BD player that will player Blu-ray discs from any regions means not only restricting yourself to a few models that can be modded, but then paying through the nose for it. Not a popular choice right now.

Of course, some studios - Warners spring to mind - have not been restricting the majority of their titles to one region. But Fox is sticking to coding (closing off revenue from many overseas BD owners), and on older titles, sticking to a policy which has irked DVD owners for some time - while they will include an original mono track on many of their Region A classics, they've been refusing to do so on their equivalent Region B titles.

Originally Posted by Mike Frezon

There certainly IS a search function here.

And, frankly, my expectation was that if you are going to make a point criticizing Gary for reviewing too much Blu-ray for your liking, I would think it would be incumbent upon you to back up your "disappointing sales" statement with your own proof rather then tell the readers to find it themselves.

I have read a number of articles on Blu-ray sales...especially in the last quarter of '08 that seemed to indicate Blu-ray was getting a good toe-hold in the home video market--which, to me, seemed to indicate that BD was going to become a "player" in the mainstream market rather than just a "niche." Personal observation at my local Best Buy was enough to tell me that, as well, since the Blu-ray aisle was continually jammed this holiday season and product was flying out of that store.

Robert (& Simon) were kind enough to post the links to present evidence on sales figures. If the article Simon posted is the one (from Variety) that you referenced I certainly don't see anything in there to indicate that Blu-ray is in any major trouble of becoming a dead format. Robert's claim that purchases in general are down is certainly backed up in every current article about the economy. The reports of sales of Blu-ray copies of The Dark Knight were crazy!

But I make no claim to be an economics expert and say tha Blu-ray is here to stay or simply a stop-gap measure between SD-DVD and some future digital medium. But Blu-ray is here now and for many HT enthusiasts is their medium of choice.

You just can't assume that everyone else on the forum has read the same threads/articles that you have. If you are going to start a dialogue in a given thread you need to be able to provide whatever evidence you have to back up your claim.

It might also have served you better to simply ask Gary if his site could review more SD-DVD material...maybe because you and many others have not yet made the switch to HD (like PaulP) and are having a hard time finding reviews of the products in which you are interested. Instead of criticizing his site for what they are doing (and doing well) you might find a better reception to your cause by asking for help rather than laying down a cloak of criticism based on an argument you seemed ill-prepared to defend. Bees are attracted to honey....and so forth.

Originally Posted by Robert Crawford

You don't have to take my word on this, but titles like "Casablanca", "The Searchers" and "The Third Man" look so much better in high definition than they do on SD DVD. The first time I watched "Casablanca" on HD DVD, I had tears coming out of my eyes and it was like watching it brand new all over again. I did a "A" versus "B" test with the latest SD DVD and Ingrid Bergman never looked more beautiful than she does in high definition whether on HD DVD or BRD.





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Originally Posted by Robert Crawford

Originally Posted by BillyFeldman

You'll pardon my responding to two posts that were put in my direction. I thought that's what this site was for - discourse. It's fine to move on, but if others make posts surely one can respond to them - if not, I'm not sure what I'm doing here, really.