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Originally Posted by partridge
For me the whole argument boils down to price; 3D blu-ray's are stupidly expensive compared the 2D blu-ray which are similarly too expensive compared to the DVD. Most DVD players will upscale and that gives the majority of consumers out there a perfectly good experience for their money.
Sadly, films are following in the footstepts of music. Music has gone from high quality CD to "ok" MP3 and only now, well over a decade since the MP3 arrived, are high quality digital music options arriving for mainstream consumers (but will they care?)
Convenience always wins over quality. When films cost sometimes over 100 million to make, it's no mystery why the studios are throwing the retail version at consumers in a multitude of ways to try and make a profit on their investment (and why the blu-ray is becoming more and more vanilla - they don't all come with a digital copy anymore, some don't even have much in the way of extras)
Say what you like about Netflix but their top quality stream looks and sounds amazing; does it rival the blu-ray? probably not, but honestly, I'm not seeing much difference and that's the killer. There isn't enough of a difference to persuade most consumers that BR is worth getting into.
For about 70 quid a year I get access to a selection of great tv and films. For the same money I could only pick up 4 or 5 blu-ray movies!!! 4 or 5! What a joke.
Studios MUST wake up and considerably lower disc prices. But they won't, we know they won't. So the collector suffers, the film fan suffers. Do any of the big releases get as many extras as they used to? And only the really big franchises get a special collectable edition these days.
Studio's don't care, they just want to shovel the goods in our direction and get whatever cash they can.
Blu-Ray should be the very best way to enjoy films. But more and more people are going digital and watching films on tablets and phones simply because it's convenient.
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Sigh. You get what you pay for. If you want the best, you pay more simple as that. Should gourmet food be priced the same as Taco Bell? Go enjoy your lower quality streaming movies but be aware there are those who will gladly pay for something better because they can appreciate the difference in quality. If there weren't such people then Blu-ray or 3D wouldn't exist, wouldn't it?
