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A top Sony executive is suggesting that the high price of Blu-ray high-def discs is slowing consumer acceptance of the new home video format.
In an interview with Reuters, Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics, said Blu-ray player sales will likely fall short of forecasts this year. While many analysts have said dropping [...]
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The number is expected to break a format record.
Warner Bros. is expected to ship a record one million Blu-ray copies of The Dark Knight to retail stores for its release on December 9.
That’s according to an article by Video Business.
Paramount Studios reported in October that Iron Man, the Robert Downey action hit, [...]
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Included with many Blu-ray releases is a small slip of paper which contains a warning that the disc may not play in your player unless your player has its latest firmware upgrade. It suggests that you visit http://www.blu-raydisc.com/forbestresults which contains a listing of all the various Blu-ray players and links to the [...]
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Shortly after the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs. The problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading additional content brought down Paramount’s BD-Live servers, causing delays while loading the disc. Which really makes you wonder what will happen when [...]
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More than six months after HD-DVD gave up the format war, there are several signs that Sony’s rival Blu-ray format is struggling to gain consumer acceptance. According to recent sales data from Nielsen, market share for Blu-ray discs in the U.S. is declining, and Sony and its Blu-ray partners are trying several [...]
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Home theater buffs can resurrect a groundbreaking Cold War-era film format in their homes this week with the new Blu-ray Disc version of How the West Was Won, out today [...]
HDTV Intended Buyers Prefer HD DVD, Are Mainstream
First wave of high-definition DVD owners choose Blu-ray, but next wave to choose HD DVD, research group claims.
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12.17.2007 — Nearly one-third of non-HDTV households intend [...]
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3 Good Reasons To Stick With HD DVD
By most accounts, Blu-ray has surged ahead in the high-def format war. But here are three reasons why HD DVD is still a solid investment.
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Blu-ray and HD-DVD have been fighting it out to see which will become the high-definition successor to the DVD. But now that Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. has agreed to distribute its content on Blu-ray discs, that battle may be over. “We’ve been monitoring the situation with consumers for a while now and they have clearly [...]
Before winning the majority of Hollywood studio support, those partial to the Blu-ray format have primarily relied on a few points to make their case: more storage and rocketing sales at the ratio of 2:1 to HD DVD. Those are bullshit arguments. As consumers, we should have only been looking at what each format [...]