Blu-ray Hits Key Milestone Faster than Standard-Def 280
An anonymous reader writes "Slashdot has already reported on the go-go sales for the 'Casino Royale' Blu-ray on Amazon, but now comes news that the same Blu-ray disc is the first high-def disc to ship 100,000 units within the United States. It took standard-def DVD eleven months to reach that retail milestone (in 1998 with 'Air Force One'), but with 'Royale,' the nine-month old Blu-ray format now has done it two months faster."
Great.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Right now I can do a lot with standard def DVDs fairly easily. I'll need that functionality before I buy into any HD format. To me that functionality is worth a lot more than the extra resolution.
9 Years Later (Score:5, Insightful)
Population growth stupidity (Score:4, Insightful)
My response was that Ralph Nader got more votes than Abraham Lincoln.
Better format or... (Score:2, Insightful)
Channel stuffing (Score:1, Insightful)
Depends on your definition of "Key" (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:PS3 owners? (Score:3, Insightful)
It's easy to ship when you're giving them away.. (Score:5, Insightful)
All this says is that a number of PS3 owners have registered online for their 'free' disk.
It's like Nintendo claiming to have won the console wars because of the 1-1 sales of Wii Sports..
Vista me this (Score:3, Insightful)
Accidental? (Score:4, Insightful)
Well..... (Score:2, Insightful)
It's a marketing spin, and maybe, just maybe, Sony won't repeat the betamax/minidisk/whatever format stumbles they've done in the past. But, based on the companies history alone, you'd get good odds that blu-ray ends up a niche market product.
So what? I'm still not buying HD.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Wake me up when that happens.
Re:PS3 owners? (Score:4, Insightful)
Shiped but not Sold? (Score:5, Insightful)
So how many people actually "bought" the movie?
Re:No surprise (Score:3, Insightful)
hmmm (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:PS3 owners? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Great.... (Score:3, Insightful)
As I said elsewhere, I'm not even getting into this fray until the DRM BS is over. I don't need a babysitter telling me where I can and cannot watch the movies that I buy. I'm also not into buying revocable rights that are controlled at the whims of greedy technophobes who think that me paying $20 of my hard-earned cash for their product is somehow ripping them off.
Don't forget! Sony promised not to start using the really nasty features of AACS until 2010. Their hope, I suppose, is that people are so deeply invested in blu-ray players and movies, that they'll have no choice but to upgrade to new TVs.
This is the most anti-consumer product line I have ever seen.
Re:Broken audio on Casino Royale DVD (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:IMO, don't rely on a Playstation to play movies (Score:4, Insightful)
So what you are saying is that the moment someone finds out how to get around the anti-customer protections that prevent you from using the player to play backups Sony can slip in a 'fix' without your permission?
Thanks but no thanks. I have a rather extensive movie collection and I take care of them. Discs are just too fragile, especially children's movies. I have a backup of each of my hundreds of discs and I have needed those backups numerous times. I also have a number of movies that I digitized from VHS and encoded to DVD. I'll pass on any player that I can't safely hack on without having to worry about repercussions from an anti-consumer vendor. Especially one like Sony that doesn't merely cater to the vile music and movie industries but is actually a part of both.