While many people expected sales of Blu-ray disc players to spike when Toshiba decided to drop out of the high-definition HD DVD market in February 2008, according to a new Harris Poll, it seems that the recently resolved high definition format war is not motivating consumers to purchase the advanced DVD players any time soon. The Harris Poll® of 2,529 U.S. adults surveyed online between April 7 and 15, 2008 by Harris Interactive® found that...
My response to BluRay winning the format 'war' was to go out and buy a second identical Toshiba HD-A3KU for $99.00 as 'insurance' should my first HD player fail anytime soon. I have about a dozen HD DVD's, most of which I haven't even watched yet. I will depend on the HD DVD player to give improved performance on my SD DVD's. Everyone to his/her opinion, but my opinion was that the Toshiba player was the best. I have no interest in BluRay. I will wait until the next 'newest thing' beyond BlueRay comes out
I will wait until the next 'newest thing' beyond BlueRay comes out
Which may be sooner than expected. Right now, Mitsubishi is touring Electronic Expo stores, demonstrating 3-D home theater. With OnDemand and cable currently providing me with HD content, i may not need ever bother with BR. (I love how they are touting the "community-viewing experience of BD-Live as some breakthrough...forgetting that HD-DVD offered the same thing last year for HARRY POTTER, but at hundreds of dollars less!) But I'll be watching to see how the 3-D hardware/software market evolves.
With HD VOD I will NEVER buy Blu-ray. Sony and their cronies can keep their expensive format and make office furniture out of the cases of unsold units.
Directv and cable HD VOD is going to be the dragon slayer and I can't wait to see them win.
I purchased my Toshiba HD DVD player in November, and at that time I was unaware of any "war". BluRay and HDDVD's were selling at about the same rate. I presumed bluray sales were tied to PS3 sales. I love the upconverting feature, and I own several HD DVD's. Unfortunately, I'm not drawn to bluray, because I've already made my investment. I've purchased a second player in case the first one stops working. It's been a disappointment. I'm not ready to spend dollars on an expensive bluray player. Why can't both exist?
DirecTV just this past Friday came out and installed free upgrade of HD Receiver and replaced my 3 LNB dish with the new 5 LNB dish. Maybe the Dragon Slayer will arrive sooner than expected. :shock:
Directv and Tivo are in the process of bringing out new technology that will not require purchase of new equipment. They have finally mended their fences and are going to spoil us all.
I don't mean to be rude, but ... Of course there is plenty of interest in Blu-ray from retailers ... they can sell us the same movies they've sold us all over again. But the main point of this thread is that even though there is now "focus" from these major retailers on the Blu-ray format ... consumers aren't buying!
The two don't "play" the HD discs of each other - - - so, the Movie Producers had to make "double" versions of every single show!
MUCH too costly . . . even "IF" this struggle had NOT happened prior, the on-going Global Economic Mess certainly would have ended one! Apparently, SONY happened to have {THEN} had the most money/ outlasted Toshiba ?
Besides, with national unemployment now ~ ~ 10% - - there simply isn't the GOBS of surplus monies around now for those $30 DVDs as there was back when . . . .
I will also check out Wikipedia. I might even learn something. I try to learn something new every day.