TVPredictions.com:David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, says that Blu-ray player prices have finally hit the "sweet point" which should generate significant momentum for the high-def disc format.
Studies have indicated that consumers have been reluctant to buy Blu-ray players largely because of their relatively high prices. Until recently, an entry-level Blu-ray player was priced at $399, triple the amount of a standard-def DVD player.
However, retailers have slashed the price of some Blu-ray players to under $200 and early holiday sales reports indicate that the move has paid off. The high-def disc player has been dubbed one of the holiday's hottest items.
"As is evidenced by the sell-off of Blu-ray players over Black Friday weekend, I would say we hit the sweet spot regarding price," Bishop told Home Media."Some stores were sold out by 9:30 a.m. (on Black Friday). Clearly, it is a top gift item. There will be more price-point-oriented promotions throughout December and that momentum will continue."
Bishop said the recent Blu-ray release of Hancock sold nearly 300,000 units in the first six days thanks to the Black Friday sales. He added that a strong holiday season for Blu-ray players should trigger an equally strong January for Blu-ray movies.
"The positive in all this is the momentum we are getting from Blu-ray. It is continuing to grow and 200% to 300% year-over-year, and the ratio of Blu-ray and DVD sales continues to rise," he said. "That calls for optimism. For anyone who said that people would just go to digital and skip Blu-ray that has certainly been proven not to be true. Even if you took Blu-ray separately as a revenue stream, it is probably 20 times larger than digital revenue."
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
lets see how people spin this article.
Since you bots think of yourselves as smart and stated that Blu-ray is Doomed, lets see you guys spin this article.
Digital downloads and low quality no high bar having netflix Hd movies is the way to go... upgrading disc formats is STUPID.. well except for like.. floppy.. to cd.. to dvd.. but DVD is the perfect medium, and after DVD.. we shouldn't even need optical discs anymore, just keep manufacturing more dvds!!!!
uh,, (grasps at more straws) There is no point in having more space ona disc. Jst like theres no point in having a high capacity Mp3 player. Who needs 80+gigs when u can just keep using 128mb mp3 players .. and just keep deleting and refresh..
uhm..
I just plain hate the PS3.
fu*k netflix its only in the U.S so fu*k netflix i say. and not every one has fast internet and i only can download 60GB every month and when i go over it cost me $1.50 per GB. until there is faster internet and no download limit for the whole world there will never be just Digital downloads. so blu-ray wins.
As long as the public are buying stand alone Blu-Ray players and not that piece of Sh*t PS3 i'm happy so far.In this console war ps3 will remain 3rd place i know its sad and i feel your pain droids but Hey cheer up i know ps3 put up a good fight.As for Microsoft (XBOX360)the world is its oyster.