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Originally Posted by ack_bak
Read the whole article. It is enlightening. According to Nielsen DVD sales are off 9%. That is approx $1.4 billion. I can see why the studios are worried as there is no way Blu-Ray and downloads are going to make up that loss unless they have a massive Q4.
Do or die seems more like positioning yet again from the studios. Especially when you read Universal's comments in the article which are definitely not doom and gloom.
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I'm sure there's more profit in BD than DVD (don't know how much though). But studios could be looking at the fact that DVD sales are down by about the same amount as BD sales are now. they could be worried that what we are seeing is a shift of buyers from one format to the other. I'm sure they were hoping that BD would draw in new buyers. That's just a guess but as prices drop and profit margines equal DVD then what would be the point of having BD?
IMO I don't see BD going anywhere, at worse we will see what we are seeing now, new releases and a few select older titles. What will happen is if sales are strong on BD studios would be more willing to open up the vault and release the movies that people like myself and boby would like to see.