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Read more.The Blu-ray Disc Alliance (BDA) has pooh-pooh'd claims that demand for the format is slowing under the recessionary pressures.
I'll give you a couple of reasons why BluRay sales are starting to ramp up
http://www.dvd.co.uk/landingpage_690.htm
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/navigate.do?pP...8_blurayoffers
Simple. The prices are starting to come down.
You can also order them from about $9.99 from the US, but with shipping and the weak Sterling exchange rate it isn't as good a deal as it was 6 months ago when I was importing HD-DVDs.
To me it sounds like more of the same 'boom' talk i.e. "things are great!". Think back to Enron as well. I think organisations have gotso used to hyperinflating everything because they had to compete that even now everything must have a positive spin put on it.
If you consider the UK disc sales, the revenue they must have made from that is really not that great. Maybe at £30 a disc in November the entire market made £13m. In 2008 that's not going to cover the bills let alone be making lots of money.
I wonder how many houses are blu-ray ready with a player/PS3 and a HD ready tv. I'll go out on a limb and guess 1 in a 100.
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Now that BD+ has been broken, I'm more interested in the technology.
Once there's a nice fuse based mechanism for accessing encrypted discs in Linux, I'll be adopting.
Until then, they can eat my shorts.
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The thing that still nigles at me abiout the HD formats is the lack of an open system for the menu and interactive content. This means that apps like MediaPortal can't use the disks natively and have to rely on external helper applications. Now, Ulead could make the PowerDVD codecs and libraries available as DirectShow filters, even the navigation components, but no, that would be far to easy for the consumer (it might be the licensing that is preventing them, so they do escape some of my annoyance).
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That pretty much echo's what I was thinking too - can't see much point in a film coaster that only plays on one player in the house. Which, in turns, means I've gotta wait for Eastenders to finish before I can see Hard Boiled, Iron Man, etc.
Plus for me it's pretty academic because the only HD-capable h/w I've got is the computer stuff, not the TV.
If there is a huge upswing in folks buying BR then they're doing it online, because I've yet to see anyone heading to the cash desk with a BR disk in their mitts.
Is this perhaps the BR folks trying to 'talk up' their format so we'll all race out and buy it for Christmas - or am I just being very cynical?
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At up to £30 per disk in the shops, it's no surprise that people don't buy them over the counter.
The prices are definitely coming down though, which no doubt does account for any sales increases. I've bought 8 this month alone, though that's not a common thing for me, and I got £50 free at work which paid for 4 of them.
BD+ has a new variant out now, which is taking some time to crack. Slysoft estimate 1-2 months which is still pretty good considering. Quite a few of the new Fox releases are encrypted with it: Bender's Game, Planet of the Apes collection, Firefly etc.
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