BBC News: "How the PS3 led Blu-ray's triumph"

[donaldheil]

There's a good article published by the BBC, entitled "How the PS3 led Blu-ray's triumph", which is an undeniable truth.

Something that called my attention is what is mentioned in the end:

"Yet while...sales of Blu-ray players and discs will now take off, other analysts say the format battle is meaningless.

They say this is because a growing number of consumers are already turning their backs on DVD players to download their movies via the internet instead, or from their satellite or cable television provider.

Adding that electronics companies are wrong to assume that viewers want ever better picture quality, they point to the failure of high fidelity music formats Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio in the face of the explosion in the popularity of music downloads.

While typical digital music formats such as MP3 have reduced sound quality compared with even standard CDs, their convenience has more than won over consumers.

The future of high definition DVD players may very well be Blu-ray, but whether they can make a dent in the face of the growing march of computer downloads is quite another story".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7252506.stm

I'm afraid this is somehow right. I'm a fan of SACD and DVD-Audio, and for me is frustrating to see how people rather have their music diminished in size and quality, than support the new technologies, which have caused them to virtually stop.

Will this happen to blu-ray? Do we fans think that it's the next big thing, but in reality it won't be embraced sufficiently??