Can Blu-ray save Christmas for Hollywood?
November 15, 2008 By RYAN NAKASHIMA , AP Business Writer(AP) -- Movie studio executives on Friday presented the best-case scenario for a winter holiday surge in the purchase of high-definition Blu-ray players as their best hope to keep the U.S. home video market's decline from accelerating past 3 percent or 4 percent this year.
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The same was said for DVD's and they did all right.
I think the biggest issue is not the cost of the player, it's the cost of the disks (and the seeming inability of the studios to give-up the practice of trying to make-up for half-ass box-office movies by releasing them on blu-ray BEFORE the stuff we really want to see.)
Manufacturing costs can't be double that of the standard DVD so why are the prices high (aside from greed.)
No way lol, the jump from VCR to DVD was huge. No rewinding, perfect quality, skip scenes etc.
Jump from DVD to BluRay? Uhh.. ?? NOT MUCH!