Quote Originally Posted by E-Stat
Which remains exactly my point. You have hit the nail on the head. There are many who do not care and buy DVD instead. While you and I and others prefer the higher quality and buy all new content in the BR format, it remains an obvious statement that there are others who do not. As long as DVD players are sold and DVD content is available, people will continue to buy the less expensive and lower quality product. I'll repeat something I've said before. I couldn't care less if the studios changed their marketing policy today and stopped releasing in the DVD format.
If you could care less, then why do you continue to beat this drum?

If the market for the cheaper players was getting larger(or even holding steady), I could see your point. However, the market is shrinking yearly in double digits. With BR players and disc sales growing, there is obviously less and less people who no longer care less about BR. And with DVD players and disc sales falling, there is obviously a growing number of people who no longer care about mediocre picture quality, lossy audio, and basically zero interactive extra content. The growth of HDTV has pushed the growth of BR. The growth of BR is basically killing DVD.


Indeed it does. Well, it bears it out. If all folks really wanted the higher def, then the adoption rate would be 100%. It is not!
You are taking on the same lame stupid argument that nightstupid takes. It is stupid as hell to think that the transition from one format to another happens overnight. There is no precedent for that in history. First, they could not manufacture enough players for an overnight transition, and neither could they produce enough discs. Stores could not just replace their entire inventory of players and disc overnight. Based on these realities, it is stupid to judge the success of a format based on an overnight transformation. The success of a product is based on the how quickly the public adopts the product over time, not if they adopt it en mass overnight. The fact that BR has been the fastest CE product to achieve mainstream penetration shows the power of the formats success. The fact that the DVD business has shrunk by 20-25% in five years is a testament to how quickly a video format sales can fall when the market is saturated with the product, and when something better comes along.


Observing reality is not an indication of being out of touch. It is you who fail to grasp that which occurs in a segment of the market. Look around! DVD is still on the market! Do you get that? Sheesh!

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Get this in your thick fat head E-stat. Nobody is saying that DVD's aren't around. What I am saying is the support for the format in every way is shrinking. When it shrinks to a certain point, it dies. Whether it is a slow death(VHS), or a fast death(DVD IMO) it is going to die eventually. Now you can stay stuck with this format like you have done with two channel audio, but the reality is, it is going bye bye.

HD DVD players and disc are still on the market, does that mean the format is still healthy? Laserdisc players and discs are still on the market does that mean it is still viable format? Being on the market tells you nothing about the health of anything. Your perspective on this issue is shallow at best. Everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) related to DVD points to format death, even if it is currently on the market.

Transitional period, look it up.