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Originally Posted by crazyal
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?
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But that isn't happening. BD is not making up the short fall.
If the numbers come out for 2008 as they stand/predicted - then DVD will have lost $1.4B in sales while BD sold $750M. That is a $650M short fall.
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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.
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Is that what you really want out of BD? New releases and a handfull of catalog titles?