Failure of Blu-Ray and what this means for the PS3

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29 Dec 2008, 9:28 am

SilverStar wrote:

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j5689 wrote:

Am I the only one that think it's a really bad time for the U.S. to switch to Digital exclusively?

Then again, I'm not the one paying for it yet, and EVERYBODY I know has Digital now so it's really time for my dad to stop bein a cheapass and be forced to get Digital anyway.

The switch to digital signals is really only for TV signals sent over terrestrial radio waves, in order to free up some of the signaling bandwidth, and has nothing to do with the economy...

I agree. The switch to DTV was planned years ago, and it will mostly affect people with those ancient TV's. These people will either have to get a cheap converter box if they want cable, or a digital antenna (which is supposed to pick up stations better than analog). The only downside, would be to all of those people stealing cable off their neighbors. :lol:

Actually, if you have cable at all, you don't the convertor box. The only TVs that are affected by the switch are ones that use the old rabbit ears to get a signal.

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01 Jan 2009, 5:45 pm

Woops, I think i got it confused. :wink: Your right, the converter box is for people with rabbit ears or rooftop antennas. I think they also have a smaller, digital antenna that you can hook up to the DTV box instead of the older, analog ones, if you want (I might be wrong about this though).

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04 Jan 2009, 9:58 pm

Blu-Ray will not die for the simple reason that you won't be able to get DVD's in the near future. BR is a new technology, and once it has a few years under its belt, the technical glitches will be taken care of. Then, people will compare the two and the DVD will go the way of the videocassette.

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04 Jan 2009, 11:31 pm

steelback wrote:

Your forgetting that the world recession can always get much worse, and people will turn towards lower end cost items to meet their luxury desires. The fact is Sony couldn't have picked a worse time to try to get people to adopt a new format its just not a viable market right now.

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06 Jan 2009, 1:37 am

That_Other_Guy wrote:

Anyone remember laserdiscs? Betamax?

and minidiscs, and atrac3, and memory sticks, all launched by Sony.

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06 Jan 2009, 12:37 pm

philosopherBoi wrote:

You are forgetting that in hard economic times, 2 areas do quite well- movies and alcohol. Also, Blu-ray is not significantly more expensive than DVD. I just bought Wall-E off Amazon for $19.99, the DVD was only $5 cheaper (and had less features!)

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06 Jan 2009, 9:59 pm

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philosopherBoi wrote:

Sorry I must disagree, while movies may do good they are not going to do great in these tough times on a NEW FORMAT, yes they may do good on DVD but Blu-ray nope I don't think so. Also the movies on blu-ray I have seen are at least ten dollars more expensive and I am sorry but in the area of the world where I live people don't have the money to buy a blu-ray player or PS3 along with more expensive movies to be played in the Blu-Ray player. So I stick with what I said before Sony couldn't have picked a worse time to tempt the people with the Blu-ray.

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06 Jan 2009, 11:33 pm

philosopherBoi wrote:

Also the movies on blu-ray I have seen are at least ten dollars more expensive and I am sorry but in the area of the world where I live people don't have the money to buy a blu-ray player or PS3 along with more expensive movies to be played in the Blu-Ray player.

It probably varies by location. People keep talking about how bad the economy is, but I still see people in Walmart buying things they don't need.

See these IGN articles on units sold. The 360 article has total sales numbers while the PS3 article has percentages.
PlayStation 3 Sales Booming? A Sony VP says holiday business was good.
Xbox 360 Sales Withstand Woeful Economy Millions and millions sold…

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13 Jan 2009, 10:04 pm

Blu Ray has not failed haha. It will slowly replace DVD. It will probably even be the format of choice for the next generation of video game consoles, I would imagine.

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14 Jan 2009, 5:13 am

5264443377776444844 wrote:

Blu Ray has not failed haha. It will slowly replace DVD. It will probably even be the format of choice for the next generation of video game consoles, I would imagine.

That is a possibility but their is another possibility which is just as likely besides it not replacing DVD, the way things are headed it looks CDs might be going the way of the dodo, because of the ability to download, music, movies, programs, video games and so forth.

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15 Jan 2009, 6:30 pm

philosopherBoi wrote:

5264443377776444844 wrote:

Blu Ray has not failed haha. It will slowly replace DVD. It will probably even be the format of choice for the next generation of video game consoles, I would imagine.

Yeah, I thought about that. But I honestly don't see games being exclusively downloadable from the internet come 2011 which is when the first next gen console is expected to be launched. I mean, the internet is not nearly reliable enough for that currently. It isn't even available in some places.

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15 Jan 2009, 7:39 pm

5264443377776444844 wrote:

philosopherBoi wrote:

5264443377776444844 wrote:

Blu Ray has not failed haha. It will slowly replace DVD. It will probably even be the format of choice for the next generation of video game consoles, I would imagine.

However the internet is rapidly growing some years it grows faster than others and you never know it might take a notion to grow a great deal faster this year.

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