Oh noes teh sky is falling!

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by mredman

actually you couldn't be more wrong. If the day comes physical media is done then that will be the day i will stop collecting. And how fun would that be with only digital or streaming. No extras, no unboxing, nothing to show to your friends and family and what a great packaging this movie got or cover. Under the christmas tree a damn code on a paper to a movie on the net-wow how exciting. Internet going down while you watch the movie. Harddisk crashing oops there goes all your movies you collected and money down the drain.
If a blu ray is damaged you just buy another one.

Thankfully that day will likely never come because studios earn so much on physical media incl blu ray. Cd's are still here as well. And streaming is way bigger for music. And if one format of the movie media goes it will be dvd's not blu rays

+1000

[50strat54]

Don't know if anyone posted this link, sorry if someone did:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/567...irment-charges

People who keep pointing to how great bluray did during Black Friday, we're on the outside looking in, Sony is now telling us things from the inside which due to the bad financials they have to reveal to stockholders.

This is a very telling article. $5 blurays? This is evidence that catalog sales are falling. Like music only the HIT TITLES will continue to sell big numbers but not enough to counter the actual falling revenue.

[mredman]

Are you for real you couldn't go 1 page back and see that already 4-5 people already posted that moronic article.

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by mredman

Are you for real you couldn't go 1 page back and see that already 4-5 people already posted that moronic article.

I'm for real, at least I think I am, and as I said in my post I'm sorry. So I'll say it again to you personally, I am sorry that I was too lazy to go back and see if it was already posted.

[wormraper]

Originally Posted by 50strat54

Don't know if anyone posted this link, sorry if someone did:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/567...irment-charges

People who keep pointing to how great bluray did during Black Friday, we're on the outside looking in, Sony is now telling us things from the inside which due to the bad financials they have to reveal to stockholders.

This is a very telling article. $5 blurays? This is evidence that catalog sales are falling. Like music only the HIT TITLES will continue to sell big numbers but not enough to counter the actual falling revenue.

lol, this is just a message to stockholders to not expect the revolutionary profit's they were hoping for. the DVD era will never be replicated, it was an anomaly. and as for Sony.. they are ALWAYS reporting enormous losses, they'r the king of "It hasn't made a profit for 5 minutes so lets dump it. They always have been and always will be. other studios have given much rosier numbers...Also I wouldn't completely trust the verge. they're one of several tech sites who have been proclaiming for almost 20 years that physical media is dead "next year". they're kind of a joke that way.

[mredman]

Originally Posted by 50strat54

I'm for real, at least I think I am, and as I said in my post I'm sorry. So I'll say it again to you personally, I am sorry that I was too lazy to go back and see if it was already posted.

Ok no sweat. i am sorry to

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by wormraper

lol, this is just a message to stockholders to not expect the revolutionary profit's they were hoping for. The dvd era will never be replicated, it was an anomaly. And as for sony.. They are always reporting enormous losses, they'r the king of "it hasn't made a profit for 5 minutes so lets dump it. They always have been and always will be. Other studios have given much rosier numbers...also i wouldn't completely trust the verge. They're one of several tech sites who have been proclaiming for almost 20 years that physical media is dead "next year". They're kind of a joke that way.

+1.

[Blu-ray Neo]

Originally Posted by wormraper

lol, this is just a message to stockholders to not expect the revolutionary profit's they were hoping for. the DVD era will never be replicated, it was an anomaly. and as for Sony.. they are ALWAYS reporting enormous losses, they'r the king of "It hasn't made a profit for 5 minutes so lets dump it. They always have been and always will be. other studios have given much rosier numbers...Also I wouldn't completely trust the verge. they're one of several tech sites who have been proclaiming for almost 20 years that physical media is dead "next year". they're kind of a joke that way.

This is absolutely true.

As a former shareholder years ago, I cannot recall a time of when Sony actually posted a profit. They have their proverbial hands into everything electronic and are constantly researching and developing new technology. From a shareholders point of view, Sony has NEVER been a sure thing money maker. All this article is trying to do is scare the masses into another format...

STREAMING.

The question you should be asking is why.... Why is the writer pushing the streaming format? Something to gain maybe?

For those on the "outside", this is the norm for Sony and it's subsidiaries.

Sony has invested TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars into the Blu-ray Disc format. They're not going to cut it loose anytime soon guys so just relax. It's going to take a while for BD to start posting serious profits just because of the start-up/development costs.

Then you have to consider that the economy is just flat out BAD. Regardless of what the "bought and paid for" media says, it hasn't gotten any better. People don't have jobs and because of that, they do not have disposable income.

I will applaud Sony for selling off their PC division. It hasn't posted a "true" profit in decades. With the competition at the time from HP, Dell, Gateway, Alienware, etc, etc they just couldn't lock down the marketshare.

BD is here to stay. I will say this though. The BDA needs to do some serious marketing if they wanna unseat DVD as the choice for home entertainment. To capture the "Average Joe's/Jane's" money, flood them with advertisements and such showing them how and why BD is so much better as a format and how it will make their HDTV experience blossom. You can't do that by showing a BD commercial on a DVD!

Advise them that their DVD's are compatible with BD.

Let them know about the durability of BD's unlike DVD.


This is just a statement from a former shareholder.

Carry on.

[Blu-ray Neo]

Originally Posted by slick1ru2

I pay for 16/3 from Comcast. I consistently get (with the logs to prove it):

You just got SMOKED!

$44.99 a month (Charter)

[YodasFootPowder]

Apparently, Blu-ray is dying... LOL! I don't think I've ever seen an article with a title so obviously named such, as to get people to read and into a frenzy. Then again, I don't really consider Kotaku a legitimate source for news. They even state in the article that Blu-ray is not dying, yet still, make the article seem like obvious flame bait with the title. I can't believe they would allow one of their people to make such a statement and post it to the site.

http://kotaku.com/blu-ray-is-dying-1570551300/all

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

I'll still be buying the format

[yellowcakeuf6]

While I do believe we are a dying breed, I don't think we are on life support just yet. The Sony financial report does state that the demand for physical media is worse in the European region, and their main cause for concern. Even if the studios back off, there are still plenty of niche labels glad to pick up the slack. We will no doubt be paying more for it, but physical media as a dead format seems to still be years off.

[YodasFootPowder]

Originally Posted by yellowcakeuf6

While I do believe we are a dying breed, I don't think we are on life support just yet. The Sony financial report does state that the demand for physical media is worse in the European region, and their main cause for concern. Even if the studios back off, there are still plenty of niche labels glad to pick up the slack. We will no doubt be paying more for it, but physical media as a dead format seems to still be years off.

I agree. I've read other articles about this in the last few days. Obviously, streaming is getting bigger and it would only seem natural that physical media sales would decline a bit. It just kind of left a bad taste in my mouth that Kotaku would give this article such a stupid headline, obviously, trying to get views and site hits.

I guess Sony, Samsung and LG are just dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into these UHD TVs and expect the average internet user to stream all this data... Who needs physical media? It's dying, after all. Go, Kotaku!!!

Originally Posted by Farid

Is SONY even active in the Blu-ray business anymore??

Well, there is that... if licensing a ton of their titles to Twilight Time counts. LOL!

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

While I admit to streaming on Netflix (which I can hardly find anything to watch on anymore) and HBO Go. I'm still a physical media guy. I don't want to stream everything and if that is the way this thing is going then count me out on purchasing any future stream releases.

The day that Blu-ray goes the way of the dinosaur I will be at the stores scoring sales. Gonna be a Blu-ray hoarder.

[yellowcakeuf6]

Sony and Grover Crisp have given us some excellent transfers (LOA for one), and have shown pretty consistent dedication to quality in the format - yes there has to be some exceptions. I would think Sony will hang on 'til the bitter end.

[Rixx]

Originally Posted by YodasFootPowder

Apparently, Blu-ray is dying... LOL! I don't think I've ever seen an article with a title so obviously named such, as to get people to read and into a frenzy. Then again, I don't really consider Kotaku a legitimate source for news. They even state in the article that Blu-ray is not dying, yet still, make the article seem like obvious flame bait with the title. I can't believe they would allow one of their people to make such a statement and post it to the site.

http://kotaku.com/blu-ray-is-dying-1570551300/all

Apparently Blu-ray died 5 years ago

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/bl...a-job-sony/365

[ol_Dut]

Originally Posted by mredman

Actually you couldn't be more wrong. If the day comes physical media is done then that will be the day i will stop collecting. And how fun would that be with only digital or streaming. No extras, no unboxing, nothing to show to your friends and family and what a great packaging this movie got or cover. Under the christmas tree a damn code on a paper to a movie on the net-wow how exciting. Internet going down while you watch the movie. Harddisk crashing oops there goes all your movies you collected and money down the drain.
If a blu ray is damaged you just buy another one.

Thankfully that day will likely never come because studios earn so much on physical media incl blu ray. CD's are still here as well. and streaming is way bigger for music. And if one format of the movie media goes it will be DVD's not blu rays

I'm not a fan of streaming. The quality is nowhere near Blu-ray. Also, the selection does leave a bit to be desired.

But admittedly, I'm not the guy Netflix, Apple and everyone else is marketing to. I buy books. I buy CDs. I buy blu-rays. I don't buy ebooks, download music or use/purchase digital copies. If the physical media goes away, I'll pick up used stuff online or in dusty old bookstores, pawn shops and the like. But I'm not spending a nickel on digital content.

[Addi-blu-ction]

I guess I'll quit buying blurays

[mredman]

in the meantime SONY is releasing this likely in september - october:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-A...lu-ray/102057/

[Paul H]

Sony may have won the battle against HD DVD, but its Blu-ray format is losing the war against streaming media. Even though the company has yet to announce its financial results for its fiscal year, which ended March 31, 2014, the company issued a warning that its operating income will be approximately 68% lower than it anticipated as recently as February.

From AVS:
Sony's Blames Blu-ray for "Bag of Hurt"