Thread: One more consumers aren't buying Blu

Originally Posted by charper1

I think the main two; if not only two factors are:

1. Economy vs cost

2. Lack of Awareness vs DVD

So I really don't know why they constantly try to manufacture other reasons past these. Heck they said similar things about CD and DVD.

DVD actually was a leap ahead. Moreover, DVD players became dirt cheap. The BDA has already said they are keeping China out to keep the profits in the players.

Originally Posted by charper1

2. Lack of Awareness vs DVD

I may have to differ with you here a little. I don’t think $ony wants J6P to know what an upconverted DVD movie looks like next to a BD movie. Would be bad for business. At that point most couldn’t/wouldn’t justify the expense. Right now HDM is marketed and thus perceived as a huge leap forward and that’s just the way $ony wants to keep it.

The true huge leap forward was DVD from VHS.

IT is all about the money people. UNtill Blu-Ray comes down on price to comparable dvd players and the price of blu-rays come down substantially to around $5.00 more than a dvd , you will see no adoption of this technology as the new medium. In poor economic times as these, it is very hard to justify buying an almost $400.00 blu-ray player and then spend anywhere from $24.99 -39.99 for ONE blu-ray dvd. Especially when you go to Wal-mart and see them selling regular dvds at the price of 5.00 - 9.00 on a roll back price. You can buy an upconverting dvd player for only 40.00 - 50.00 bucks. Why would you need to pay more for the same movie. The thing that pisses me off the most with blu-ray dvds is when I play them I get black bars on the top and bottom of my screen ,even when I select 16x9 FULL screen. I can watch that same movie in my upconverting dvd recorder and the picture can be zoomed to fill and the picture looks almost as good to me as the blu-ray. I HATE BLACK BARS ON MY PICTURE. I have a 57"hdtv and I want to see all 57inches of it.

Here's something to ponder speaking of consumer awareness. Last night on Jeopardy during the College Tournament one of the questions was...not exact wording...

For what was Bestbuy giving consumers who bought one a $50 rebate? and one of the students said HD-DVD.

So...somebody knows something

My experience is of course is with my peers/age group/demographic. Within that group there is one current BD owner, one HD DVD owner (me), one former HD DVD owner who (now regrettably!) dumped all his stuff when the winner was crowned, and about 20 more who know what HD and HDM are all about and don't care. Those are folks with ample means who are simply not interested in investing in HD/HDM at this time and have no definite plans for doing so in the future. All of them have DVD in some form and seem content with that. What I take from this is that the whole of HD is still "nichy" enough that until more folks make the move to HD, the ratio of DVD to HDM will remain essentially the same. Since only 1/3 of the 2,500+ polled above have adopted HD, isn't that pointing to the real wrench in the gears for BD ?? (In "my" group it's still a whole lot less than 35%!)

BD needs a lot more than just the win over HD DVD in order to make substantial gains in market share...!