Is Blu-ray on it's death bed?

[Jonathan Bird]

Interesting article

http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=365

[sorvju-f]

Interesting article

http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=365

This question is more like "how the business been done".

Sony gave the possibility to play BD disks in their Playstation 3 console. You can get Playstation and BD-player in one shot...also price wise. How stupid...if you at the same time trying to sell BD-player to replace DVD-players.

Truth is that, when you create possibility to get better quality to your screen...some day everybody have that or the system which have same or better quality.

I myself have seen the difference...my opinion is that BD is future and I am not even trying to do something else than HD-quality. To get HD to disks needs more memory space...now BD is 25GBit to 200 Gbit. Something new can come, but at the moment BD is only real alternative.

I understand that to sell to mass media HD-quality is not so attractive...only couple of channels are able/willing to send it out. But I know also from the business that in competition you have to follow the trend.

Jukka

[Jonathan Bird]

The problem is that Sony has made the licensing so expensive that small producers can't afford to have a BD mass produced.

Jonathan