Blu-ray Market Too Reliant on PlayStation 3? ABI Research notes that the Blu-ray market is "heavily tilted" towards the PS3, and while that may be good for Sony's console, it's not so good for the overall Blu-ray market.
Posted by James Brightman on Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Sony's Blu-ray format finally triumphed over HD DVD earlier this year, but a victory dance may be a bit premature according to ABI Research. "Blu-ray cannot rest on its laurels. A bright future for high-definition DVD is not a foregone conclusion," the firm said.
Indeed, the argument from many pundits has been that the winner of the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD battle would ultimately gain little as digital distribution slowly takes over for DVD. In the meantime, DVD users see little reason to upgrade to Blu-ray it seems.
"We are starting to see an increase in the number of DVD players with built-in upconverters, and the video processing is getting better with each new generation," noted ABI principal analyst Steve Wilson. "Today about 35% of all DVD players sold include upconversion. ABI Research expects that figure to climb to about 60% by 2013."
The other problem, according to ABI, is that the Blu-ray market itself is "heavily tilted" toward's the PS3. The market for standalone Blu-ray players has not been very encouraging, ABI said. "The studios better hope that people are playing movies on their PlayStations. Otherwise there's very little installed base," Wilson explained. "In 2008 about 85% of the Blu-ray players in the market will be found in PS3s; the dedicated consumer electronics and PC-based types of Blu-ray players won't catch up in terms of market share until about 2013."
In an effort to spread Blu-ray beyond PS3, optical disc manufacturers are lowering prices and the PC manufacturers are starting to offer lower-cost configurations, but it may not matter, Wilson said: "If you're only going to spend $500-600 on a PC, are you really going to spend 40% more for a built-in Blu-ray player?"
In order for Blu-ray adoption to take off, the prices on standalone players have to come down, but so far the manufacturers have kept them fairly high. "The studios had hoped to have settled the war," Wilson concluded, "but I think they're going to be disappointed when they don't see the volumes of players going up they way they would have liked."
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Thats sweet why dont we get them??
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Because they are trying to make us AMERICANS jealous since we ROCK!
^^^ Right now, and at this price, it is definitely a luxury. Just give it time though, once players reach that $199 mark, I'm betting sales will take off. Hopefully it doesn't take too long for prices to drop.
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Thats sweet why dont we get them??
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Because they are trying to make us AMERICANS jealous since we ROCK!
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Doing digital, not HD. No more analog broadcasts (OTA).
Also, I remember this article from 2000, except it was about the PS2 and DVD.
Really, it's been what, 2 years for Blu-Ray? Under that, really, and these nay sayer fuck tard idiots are pretending they actually understand what they are talking about.
Here's a hint: It took DVD a long fucking time to catch on, it sure as fuck didn't happen in 2 years.
Doing digital, not HD. No more analog broadcasts (OTA).
Also, I remember this article from 2000, except it was about the PS2 and DVD.
Really, it's been what, 2 years for Blu-Ray? Under that, really, and these nay sayer fuck tard idiots are pretending they actually understand what they are talking about.
Here's a hint: It took DVD a long fucking time to catch on, it sure as fuck didn't happen in 2 years.
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Well, they have a point in that the standalone sales are quite dismal, but hopefully that equates to consumers actually being intelligent and realizing there is more value in a PS3 that also does Blu-ray for $399, than just a standalone player for $399...
But I digress, like you said, this shit doesn't happen over night. People just need to give it some time.
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Originally Posted by blackdelsol94
Thats sweet why dont we get them??
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Originally Posted by Kabooki
Because they are trying to make us AMERICANS jealous since we ROCK!
so going digital? does that improve the quality on it if im already with a satellite provder?
No, it's just the signal that will change. It is still up to each individual station as to whether or not they want to broadcast in SD or HD.
Edit: Stations that actually broadcast in HD might look better than your satellite provider, only because the stations will not recompress their stuff as much, resulting in a better picture.
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Originally Posted by blackdelsol94
Thats sweet why dont we get them??
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Originally Posted by Kabooki
Because they are trying to make us AMERICANS jealous since we ROCK!
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