UltraHD Blurays and players will start coming by Christmas 2015. Still buying blurays

[dannydeez]

Originally Posted by I KEEL YOU

Well, the logic behind the argument that Ultra HD blu ray can be a success is that there are people who care about quality (blu ray owners) and those who don't (DVD owners). Those who invested in blu ray (for example us as the members of this forum) care about picture quality and because ultra HD blu ray offers better picture quality than ordinary blu ray, there will be enough people willing to upgrade from the slice of the market that cares about picture quality.

Now, the results of this poll in which there are almost 400 votes seem to indicate that only 10 percent of blu ray owners will be willing to upgrade to UHD blu ray, nevermind the fact that the members of this forum aren't even ordinary blu ray owners, but also blu ray aficionados since they discuss the format on a forum. But let's say that that number of 10% is misleading and doesn't tell the entire story, which it probably doesn't because the question of the poll doesn't mean that just because they won't stop buying ordinary blu ray that they also won't upgrade to UHD... So let's just say that some of the people who voted "No" will be willing to upgrade anyway because they don't know the full benefits of UHD yet, etc... So let's double, or even triple that 10% number. Hell, to make it a nice and round number, let's just say that 50% of blu ray owners will upgrade to UHD instead of the measly 10% from this poll. So that's 50% of the owners of the blu ray format that is already niche and has around 30% of the market compared to DVD's 70%. So even from the most optimistic perspective, numbers of people who will be willing to upgrade to UHD doesn't seem to be high.

You said it right. The poll doesn't give enough answer options. My vote would have to be "no" BUT as soon as UHD blu rays are available I will be switching to that, and upgrading some of my favorite titles.

I don't know why DVDs are still made, and who would even want them these days. I could understand years ago when blu ray players cost upwards of $800 but they're under $100 now. DVD is dead, IMO. They need to stop making them.