I dont see it ever happening. They say that it looks so much better but to me I just cant see enough difference to buy a whole new player and all the discs just so I can see them again at higher resolution.
Poll: Will Blu-ray ever replace dvd?
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No. The reason DVD overtook Video, was because it was prettier, had better access to the film (skipping and such) and could easily be hooked up to an existing t.v For blu-ray requires a whole new media set up. I doubt people wanna spend close to 2 grand for a slightly better picture.
Most people who are even vaguely AV inclined have an HDTV. Blu-ray players are coming down in price quickly.Simriel said:
And it's not 'slightly' better. It's ALOT better. Plus it's very easy to be backwards compatible. That's certainly a thing going in its favour.
Did the DVD largely replace the CD? Yes. Therefore I predict change in the future. Maybe not tomorrow, or the next day, but eventually.
No.
Simple as this, A blu-ray playeris only worth the money with a proper HD tv and a proper sound system. With the cost of Blu-ray, HDTV, and everything else you make a huge barrier to middle to lower class customers. Rich people have never set these trends. Thus it will take a huge amount of price cuts that HDTV players are the same or less than standard TVs are now. See that happen? AND you need to have the blu-ray players AND the blu-ray disks be the same or less than regular DVDs. Do you see that happening? The quality of Blu-ray vs. the Quality of DVD isn't as obvious as the quality between DVD and VHS. For most people out there DVD looks really fucking nice.
Plus if you ever talk to any normal person, 96% don't know what the hell they are doing with a HD sytem or a Blu-ray player. Electronics stores get a huge amount of returns because customers don't know what they are doing. One of the biggest hurdles Blu-ray has, is that the average customer is retarded. PLUS DVDs are used virtualy everywhere, old computers dating several years, cheap players, your PS2 and Xbox can play them. You can play blu-0ray on what? A blu-ray player, or a PS3. Tough choice, play DVDS everywhere, or Blu-ray on one or two places.
By the time Blu-ray gets over the above hurdles, know what else will have happened? an exponential increase in Internet connection speeds, hard drive spaces, and general computer power. Know what that leads to? digital distribution. By the time blu-ray gets to be where it wants to in knocking out DVDs, digital distribution will knock Blu-ray into uselessness.
Simple as this, A blu-ray playeris only worth the money with a proper HD tv and a proper sound system. With the cost of Blu-ray, HDTV, and everything else you make a huge barrier to middle to lower class customers. Rich people have never set these trends. Thus it will take a huge amount of price cuts that HDTV players are the same or less than standard TVs are now. See that happen? AND you need to have the blu-ray players AND the blu-ray disks be the same or less than regular DVDs. Do you see that happening? The quality of Blu-ray vs. the Quality of DVD isn't as obvious as the quality between DVD and VHS. For most people out there DVD looks really fucking nice.
Plus if you ever talk to any normal person, 96% don't know what the hell they are doing with a HD sytem or a Blu-ray player. Electronics stores get a huge amount of returns because customers don't know what they are doing. One of the biggest hurdles Blu-ray has, is that the average customer is retarded. PLUS DVDs are used virtualy everywhere, old computers dating several years, cheap players, your PS2 and Xbox can play them. You can play blu-0ray on what? A blu-ray player, or a PS3. Tough choice, play DVDS everywhere, or Blu-ray on one or two places.
By the time Blu-ray gets over the above hurdles, know what else will have happened? an exponential increase in Internet connection speeds, hard drive spaces, and general computer power. Know what that leads to? digital distribution. By the time blu-ray gets to be where it wants to in knocking out DVDs, digital distribution will knock Blu-ray into uselessness.
Except for people like me who like to be able to hold things in their hands, you make very good points though.stiver said:
It's going to phase out DVDs. Blu-Ray stores infinitely more than DVDs ever will and boasts higher quality (it's subtle, you gotta stare at two movies in both formats to see them but they are there)
The difference in quality between DVD and HD is noticable. BUT not worth the vast expense of a blu-ray player or of a PS3. Unless the technology gets cheap, and fast, blu-ray will be replaced with either digital downloads, or with the next disc technology ("better-than-blu-ray-ray" as I like to call it).Cid SilverWing said:
VHS was pretty crap overall - the tapes where small, crap quality, and degraded over time. DVD vs Blu-ray, we get....well, a noticable but not huge increase in quality. For vast expense.
Add to that, Satillite TV (Sky HD), digital downloads, and so forth, are alternative, cheaper, easier ways of getting media....well, Blu-ray is pretty screwed at the moment.
Yes I am the same way for somethings. But since getting lots of hard drives I prefer to just store movies in on my hard drive, but I refuse to download any games because I don't feel like I have it. That is why I don't use steam for games, when I can just buy the game itself.SmilingKitsune said:
That being said, There is a shift towards digital content, and it is easier for retails to sell games through systems like this, and the profit is much higher than when they sell it through, say a store. So while I dislike the system itself, there is going to be a shift towards the Digital distributive system so I have to live with it.
Wow, I rarely buy blu-ray for my PS3 because they're so damn expensive here, even used they're like three times the price of a dvd.Chibz said:
