This one is for you JT, stay strong

[Snackcakes]

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/sony_s_blu_ray_win_not_paying_off_yet_americans_love_their_old_dvd_players

[thrun]

Blue ray the next minidisc?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc

[Troyer]

Hah!

[Armonde]

I've still got my old 1987 Daytron television , high def next gen dvd players mean nothing to me, HA!

[thrun]

I've still got my old 1987 Daytron television , high def next gen dvd players mean nothing to me, HA!

I have a coby DVD player and a TV I bought of craigslist for 20 bucks. 

[Kith]

Can't say that I am surprised.  Regardless of what people think about Blu-ray, the economy is in the pooper so luxury electronics sales were bound to take a big hit.

[Reddawn]

hahaha varg....you failed with Sony

[Stallionite]

So I got up at 4am on Black Friday to spend $200 on a player for nothing.

[Reddawn]

pretty much

[Jim Tressel]

That's awesome.

When HD-DVD was torpedoed by the cocksuckers at Sony, I was unsure what to do.  On the one hand, I like high def so I thought about getting a BR player.  On the other hand, I didn't want to re-buy all of my HD stuff on BR, so I was going to buy a hd/br combo player.  Then, I realized that within the next 5 years, all content will be available in a high definition, digital, streaming format and that physical media is a thing of the past.  So now I buy nothing, enjoy what I have, and watch the Netflix instant queue library grow.

Fuck Sony.

[Snackcakes]

lets keep this thing going, here's another log for the fire

http://www.pcworld.com/article/155483/is_sonys_ps3_really_a_sinking_ship.html

[Reddawn]

recompile the kernal

[Varg]

Yea, sales are a bit slow for the format. But there are no other alternatives (except to be a xbox fanboy and cry about HD lolz)

When players are affordable and the Bluray discs are not overpriced they will see a sales jump. Lots of HD tvs will be sold this Christmas and before the digital conversion (due to asshole best buy employees telling old people they need a 50 inch plasma to watch public television).

What I think will be interesting is if services like netflix on xbox and comcast video on demand edge physical sales out of the picture, sort of like what itunes and mp3 did to the cd. The netflix watch instantly service is ahead of its time, and has a long way to go, but its inevitably the way things will progress.

[Rakrarr]

I'm with JT about physical media old news.

Of course i've always been a renter as opposed to a buyer.  I don't want to pay 20 bucks for a movie i watch once, and not having a hugh stack of dvd cases in nice too, especially when you live in 628 square feet.

I haven't purchased a dvd in at least a year maybe two.  I will probably never buy a blue ray.

I've been using Nexflix instant view.  havent done the direct to TV thing yet but you can now even download it to your tivo, and tivo has video on demand through amazon, so, I'm all about the video on demand throught multiple sources.

Edit
I just read some of that first acticle.  I love how they call it the difinitive next generation player.  Well, maybe but thats gonna be a short generation.  To me that whole HD vs BR fight seemed like something that would have made the winner a shit load of money like 10 years ago.  I hope they didn't spend too much money winning that one.

Does anyone know how much they spent?  all I found was a 3 billion loss from initial discount ps3 sales.

[Jim Tressel]

Sony paid Warner half a billion dollars to go BR exclusive which was the deciding factor.  Yes.  $500,000,000.00.  They didn't win on audio/video quality (HD is arguably better in both regards), the technical merit of their players (BR still doesn't require manufacturers to make all players support all features which Toshiba did from the start), time to market of media (BR format takes much longer to master and produce), or cost (HD players were very much cheaper.  The PS3 is still regarded as the cheapest, decent BR player). 

Sony torpedoed HD, and now nobody wins.