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Originally Posted by vikingfan
Feel free to show a quote where WB says BD has to offset a sales decline in DVD due to its exsistence. For every BD sold, WB makes more than it would have on the equivalent DVD sale, and may also generate sales from people who would not have bought it on DVD but will on BD because its in HD. So it would lead to equal or greater sales of a title than just dvd alone.
If you and Bruce believe BD, by just being in the marketplace, is dissuading consumers from buying titles on DVD. You'll have no problem providing a link.
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No problem at all. Here you go:
http://www.contentagenda.com/blog/15...190019619.html
And the relevant part we are talking about
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"Not only did neither [high-def DVD] format really take off as expected in fourth quarter, but standard-def was softer than expected given the release slate," Sanders said Friday, shortly after the studio announced that it will drop is support of the HD DVD format and release its high-def titles exclusively on Blu-ray starting in June. "We’re seeing research now that shows that consumers are starting to delay purchases because of the format war, not just on high-def but standard-def purchases as well. That’s very alarming.”
As part of its ongoing tracking research, Warner has been asking consumers for months whether the format war has had any effect on the regular DVD purchase habits.
"They're waiting for something to happen," Sanders said. "They're waiting for the whole situation to become clear so they know what to buy. If you look at the historical conversion ratios of box office into DVD sales, several titles this fourth quarter underperformed where they should have been."
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So Warner DID say that the HD format war WAS hurting SD DVD along with both HD formats. Now we are seeing that SD DVD sales are dropping a lot more, so it is easy to see that Warner could be looking at BD hurting SD DVD while not performing as well as was hoped.
I am not saying Warner will drop BD or anything, as they have no where else to go other than back to the already mature and declining SD DVD format. What I am saying is that Warner may be thinking that BD alone now may be hurting SD DVD (bread and butter format right now) while people wait for BD to be more affordable. I think BD player prices are fine now and the problem is the studios with the slow (compared to SD DVD) movie release schedule and also the high BD movie prices compared to SD DVDs.