Comments on: Blu-ray wins — and everyone loses interest

By: Episode #11 - Flavored Gravity

Episode #11 - Flavored Gravity — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:55:17 +0000

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By: Ed Maurer

Ed Maurer — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:06:17 +0000

The picture made me laugh. So true, Blue Ray, Yawn!

By: Zaki Hughes

Zaki Hughes — Sun, 04 May 2008 03:30:58 +0000

My view on this. People do care if the HDTVs are over 720p. I personally love blu ray and I can get movies for like the price of DVDs on amazon.com. The thing that is interesting is that even though HD is better, cable companies are still using analog type methods to get our quality signal. In my opinion I stopped using cable ad vod and just buy movies that I can hard earn keep. And when comparing the warriors to the blu ray version, the blu ray version is much better. It just depends on size, and above all resolution.

By: MG Siegler

MG Siegler — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:08:27 +0000

@jason – you misread that line. I was saying that HD television signals are simply not that big of a quality upgrade. The point being that Blu-ray is — if users can see it side by side to realize it first-hand.

your point on the costs is definitely true though, there are those pesky hidden costs like HDMI cables that make an upgrade even trickier.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:04:26 +0000

“…it’s simply not that substantial a quality upgrade from DVD quality on their big screens”

Are you serious? On my PS3 and 1080 HD, blu-ray movies look incredible! Way better than any regular DVD. Granted, some blu-ray movies aren’t light years better than standard, but Spiderman 3, and especially the Planet Earth series, are just incredible.

I think the reason that blu-ray will be slow to grow is that the average person drops $1,000 – 2,000 on a new HDTV, then gets jammed with $30 more per month on their cable bill, then has to buy a couple $35 HDMI cables, then realizes that they need a surround sound system for $500, and then blu-ray falls to the bottom of the list.

Digital downloads are even farther down the list. With VOD from cable, and the need to drop another few hundred on an Apple TV for downloads, and people get too frustrated.