Sony President Talks Up Blu-ray

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Some interesting predictions and statements from Stan Glasgow:

Glasgow Touts Sony’s Share Gains, Blu-ray, Green Efforts

Blu-ray prices should hit $299 by the end of the year and probably $200 by 2009. While Glasgow won’t go into Sony’s Blu-ray market share he did estimate that there will be 5 million standalone players sold this year worldwide with 75 percent to 80 percent sold in the United States. And as for HD broadband downloads hurting Blu-ray, he added that the infrastructure isn’t yet available to make a major impact anytime soon in the United States, and “you have the issue of a movie being an overnight rental that you can’t move and don’t own. [Broadband] will happen, but it won’t derail a packaged format for a decade.”

Gary

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Just depends if people want to spend loads of cash on Blu though really. Over 60% of the market consists of people that only want to watch the movie, not own it. Talking to people at work, they agree Blu sounds better on paper, but they are not willing to pay the premium over DVD for the privilege of ownership.

My ex boss who owns his house, owned a Ferrari 512 Testarossa in the past, never watches a movie more than once and his only Blu is Casino Royale which he got free with the PS3 he bought. He has no intention of buying a movie ever. Those people will always go for the DLC option everytime. A market exists for both blu and DLC, albeit that DLC is a future prospect rather than a current one.