Biggest threat to Blu-ray is not HD-DVD but DVD - Blu-ray Forum

Cyan · 09-07-2007, 05:42 PM

People will buy HD because, at some point, the studios will force them to, by not releasing DVDs, or at least not at an effective price point. Everyone thinks that the consumer has so much power over everything, but that is a myth. People want to buy movies for their home collections. If their choices are A)buy a new movie player to be able to buy new releases or B)stop buying new releases, people will upgrade. All of these arguments were made when DVD first came out(and BR players have seen a quicker price decrease, by a fair margin, than DVD did initially). Hell, I remember buying Gladiator on DVD for like 30 bucks. If it were on BR now, it wouldn't even cost that.

People won't be really quick to upgrade movies that they already have, I don't think, but that part comes with time. As soon as the format war is over, the studios as a conglomerate(so to speak) will make their move. As much as I hate not being able to buy certain movies on BD, the current time period is greatly beneficial to BR fans(not really to HDDVD fans, which rarely see sales, and when they do it is only on Amazon), because we get cheap movies. You're not going to see $12.50/$13.50 BR discs once this is all settled, even if it is movies like Big Fish and House of Flying Daggers or w/e. Buy as many movies as you can now, while they're cheap.

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09-07-2007, 05:42 PM	#9
Cyan Active Member Member since:Jul 2007	People will buy HD because, at some point, the studios will force them to, by not releasing DVDs, or at least not at an effective price point. Everyone thinks that the consumer has so much power over everything, but that is a myth. People want to buy movies for their home collections. If their choices are A)buy a new movie player to be able to buy new releases or B)stop buying new releases, people will upgrade. All of these arguments were made when DVD first came out(and BR players have seen a quicker price decrease, by a fair margin, than DVD did initially). Hell, I remember buying Gladiator on DVD for like 30 bucks. If it were on BR now, it wouldn't even cost that. People won't be really quick to upgrade movies that they already have, I don't think, but that part comes with time. As soon as the format war is over, the studios as a conglomerate(so to speak) will make their move. As much as I hate not being able to buy certain movies on BD, the current time period is greatly beneficial to BR fans(not really to HDDVD fans, which rarely see sales, and when they do it is only on Amazon), because we get cheap movies. You're not going to see $12.50/$13.50 BR discs once this is all settled, even if it is movies like Big Fish and House of Flying Daggers or w/e. Buy as many movies as you can now, while they're cheap.

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