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Blue Ray still not on top, even without HD-DVD

ibloom said:
http://www.thestandard.com/news/200...iscs-cheap-players-and-declining-market-share

Carpe Diem Jim!

IBloom
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I ALMOST feel bad for Sony.

FYI - not exactly related - but I have been polling producers and companies (East coast) on what would be more exciting to them - Blu Ray dailies, DCP dailies, SD dailies or m4v iPhone dailies.

Overwhelming response was:

#1: iPhones dailies
#2: DCP dailies - IF they could have a cheap server solution
#3: SD dailies

and LAST was Blu Ray dailies
 
Mark, what about h264 720p dailies to an iTV solution? I forget the fellow's name who spoke at the Reduser party (the guy from NZ I think, Red in the 20s somewhere) who said that was his method.
 
jedi666 said:
well its for producers and other execs maybe not looking for the same issues as a director but for performance and to know they got what they need.
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Fair enough. But on a such a small screen? I suppose I hate the iphone and viewing video on anything smaller than a 7" LCD anyway so it does not matter.
 
This is unsurprising and doesn't necessarily mean very much. It took DVD something like seven years to overtake VHS, and that's considered one of the most successful consumer format adoptions ever. Blu-ray sales are off a bit at the moment because early adopters have mostly already bought in, but mainstream adoption hasn't started to seriously ramp up yet. It could still be another year or three before that starts to happen seriously, and that wouldn't really constitute failure.

Now, there is some danger here, for the format. If Blu-ray takes as long to become mainstream as DVD did, that would have it accounting for a majority of sales and rentals in around 2013. It's not impossible that electronic distribution will the dominant force in the market by then, and nobody will really care about disc formats.

But one can't say, at least so far, that poor Blu-ray sales mean people are perfectly happy to stay with DVD. One could have as easily said in 1998 or 1999 that poor DVD sales demonstrated everyone was perfectly happy with VHS....
 
I don't think all the gloom and doom means much at this point. DVD had its share of growing pains in the first couple years too. Magazines and stores giving away free movies, etc.. So called "experts" predicting its demise.

...I don't feel bad for Sony. When I walk into Wal-Mart or Target and see the average Blu-Ray movie is $30, some as much as $34 and the "bargain" ones are $24, it's no wonder the sales are not picking up. WTF... Sony "wins" the format war and what do they do? raise prices? ...whatever.
 
Jason Diamond said:
also iphone/ipod touch files can't really be broadcast but blu-ray dailies run the risk of being stolen or lost and leaked in many ways/formats even with watermarks etc...
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Are you serious? You're talking about a device that has access to wi-fi and cell phone networks and you think that is more secure than a physical medium?

For someone on the go, I think the iPhone dailies are better than not getting a chance to watch them at all. I hope no serious director would base his decisions on that, but I do think small screens have their place.
 
Bought a SONY 46" LCD this past weekend and they GAVE me a Blueray player with it. I have a feeling it will be collecting dust.

We do a lot of corporate work and have not ONCE been asked for a Blueray disk yet. Since we edit everything in HD, it's painful how we still have to deliver SD. The quicker we can get over to HD, the better.

For home based stuff, I'm a huge fan of the AppleTV. No reason to go out and rent, if I can do it from home...
 
well it is just the past few months that Bluray has gotten to the $250-$200 sweet spot. I am looking into one but not until the spring unless some great boxing day sales happen
 
I just purchased the Panasonic BDP-55 Blu-ray player and the video looks amazing.
SD DVD up-conversion is OK.
We delivered a multi-cam HD project daily to a client (5 cameras w/TC window in the center) and they were blown away by the clarity (even with 5 16x9 video sources on the screen).
What I do not understand is why Apple is not supporting Blu-Ray in their DVD-Studio program, I believe they are a (or were) part of the Blu-Ray manufacturers group.
 
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