Blu-ray discs to overtake DVDs, Disney says

[frank108]

Well....if Disney plans on including Wal-mart Blu-ray software sales in their plans to overtake DVD in two years, they, as well as the other studios, have to do some serious Blu-ray price reductions and soon. I saw Iron Man selling for $30 along with plenty of copies at my local Wally. Blu-ray movies priced at $30 just ain't gonna cut it there.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by frank108

Well....if Disney plans on including Wal-mart Blu-ray software sales in their plans to overtake DVD in two years, they, as well as the other studios, have to do some serious Blu-ray price reductions and soon. I saw Iron Man selling for $30 along with plenty of copies at my local Wally. Blu-ray movies priced at $30 just ain't gonna cut it there.

You would be wrong.

[Anthony P]

nice catch and I don't think Disney's assertion is optimistic. Take it this way if we assume Iron man sold 20% BD, 80% DVD (like some say) and a doubling every year (even though BD has been more then doubling ) and we assume DVD does not drop (unrealistic, since people that buy BDs would have most likely bought DVDs if they did not own a BD player) we get 20*2=40 and 40*2=80 so BD and DVD would be equal.

Now obviously this is simple math and the world is not that simple but I think it shows that the assertion is most likely true (but obviously this could be title dependent, but as penetration increases the target market for BD will shift to more main stream)

Well it definitely more and more popular. Iron Man sold out the first week in Montreal everywhere and this week Sleepless Beauty was sold out at 16h30 everywhere.

Last Wednesday I went to FS, Archambault and then Metro and got a copy of IM as well as a few other movies. This week I have not gone blue shopping yet (will go tomorrow) are you guys saying I won’t find Sleeping beauty? I hope they restock it, it would be a shame not to have it for thanks giving. Is the Omen collection and the Ray Harryhausen Collection available?

[Kyo28]

Just like DVD eventually supplanted VHS, so too will Blu-ray supplant DVD. I think Blu-ray will really take off once HDTV's have become more common.

To give an example, starting 2010, Japanese stations will switch to HD-broadcast only. That means that anyone who doesn't have a HD or HD-ready TV can't watch TV anymore. That will push consumers towards HDTV's and in turn will mostly pull people towards Blur-ray.

So I think it's just a matter of time.

[arush5268d]

This is just more speculation.

Sony could say this could happen in 18 months. Would you believe them?

It's all just speculation - there's no way that they can say which will be the dominant format in two years.

[Bokchoy]

Originally Posted by arush5268d

This is just more speculation.

Sony could say this could happen in 18 months. Would you believe them?

It's all just speculation - there's no way that they can say which will be the dominant format in two years.

Speculation? Really? I could have sworn that Disney came from the future to tell us this wonderful news.

[Johnny Vinyl]

2 years is way too optimistic, especially with the financial crisis that is happening almost everywhere around the globe. I think you might see a softening of HD hardware sales as people are becoming increasingly more worried and will want to hang on to their savings.