Re: Transformers on HD-DVD becomes fastest selling high-definition title so far
- From: Doug Jacobs <djacobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:24:54 -0000
Big Daddy <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So when DVD was in its infancy what was the comparison between it's sales
and VHS? Yet we know where that battle ended.
Except that the high-end market had embraced DVD quite unanimously. There
wasn't a format war, and it was clearly the superior format compared to
both VHS and LD.
True, it still took DVD the better part of a decade to overtake VHS' hold
on the marketplace, but there was really no doubt in anyone's mind that
this would happen. In fact, DVD took off faster than VHS or CD did,
mainly due to aggressively priced players and movies.
Right now, the HD market is so small because most of the people who are
even capable of taking advantage of it, AREN'T. They're waiting for one
format to die off, or at least for a hybrid player to arrive.
Think about it...right now, if you want to watch both Transformers and
Spiderman in HD, you'll have to buy 2 different player. That means 2 sets
of cables, 2 inputs on your TV or receiver (and most don't have that many
HDMI ports to begin with) and there's a darn good chance that at least one
of those players will become nothing but a paperweight you spent several
hundred dollars on.
It's stupid. Neither format offers any clear advantages over the other
from the point of view of just being able to store and playback a movie in
HD with surround sound. Asking consumers to make a choice between which
studios and movies(!) they want to watch is just stupid. I'm really
surprised there hasn't been more of a backlash yet.
I honestly think that downloadable content is what people will prefer.
Please. Practically NOBODY wants downloadable content other than a handful
of technical geeks. The infrastructure just isn't there to support it (if I
want to watch a movie right now I'm not going to wait 15 hours for the HD
version to download so I can watch it tomorrow). Aside from that people
want to OWN the content on a physical media.
Downloadable media will be fine for the PPV and Netflix crowd. True, if
you want to OWN the movie, you'll want a physical disc. However, even
there, downloadable media could offer a solution to let you burn a copy to
disc. Yes, you would need to buy a burner and blank discs, but if you
could download & burn a movie for $10 vs. paying $20 in the store, don't
you think some people would be interested? Yeah, sure, the afficianado
high-end crowd will want pristine store bought versions, not burned ROM
discs. Then again, the afficianado high-end crowd won't mind spending
more money either.
Whether Blu-ray or HD-DVD wins (and I'm sure Blu-ray already has), both are
superior to downloadable content.
No one's won until the loser is no longer sold in stores, except as $5
bargin bin trash.
We've got at least another year of this "war" and right now things are
tied pretty evenly between the two.
--
It's not broken. It's...advanced.
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