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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?
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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Well what I think we are seeing is that despite BD player prices getting to the mass market levels we have two things keeping BD movie sales from also getting to mass market levels. The first is the economy, and the second is the BD movie prices are too high and even the CE companies are now saying despite much lower BD player prices, the players are not selling as well as they should because the BD movie prices are holding consumers back. The ball is in the Studios' court now as I said over a month ago.
I think another thing at play now is that with BD player prices now on the consumer's radar, but the BD movie costs keeping them out, many are just not buying the SD DVD versions now because they hope with BD player prices now reasonable for them they are just waiting for BD movie prices to become reasonable to buy the BD version of the movie instead.
This is part of any format transition, but is exasperated by the economy. The problem is that it seems the studios want to lay the whole problem on the economy and not on the overpriced BD movie costs as the last remaining stumbling block for the BD format. Greed is good for businesses, but not when they kill the future revenue source because of it.