Judging by the space given to blue ray discs in my local HMV ther appears to be considerable consumer resistance to Blue Ray technology. Is this just because of the price differential ?
I think you will find that the blu-ray will still be in robust health long after HMV has gone extinct. Who has enough money to shop there?Clearwater said:Judging by the space given to blue ray discs in my local HMV ther appears to be considerable consumer resistance to Blue Ray technology. Is this just because of the price differential ?
The_Lhc said:I only buy books in real shops, I'll buy CDs and so on online but books, no, I want to go into a shop and smell them...
Andy Clough said:I think the bigger question here is whether Blu-ray will be the last disc-based format for films. In future will we all be streaming them from a virtual cloud, or do people still want to own something tangible?
I am in exactly the same situation as you and I agree, the internet connection is not up to the job yet. Also, I can take my blu-rays on holiday with me and there are a lot of places with no (or very expensive) internet connection.chebby said:Andy Clough said:I think the bigger question here is whether Blu-ray will be the last disc-based format for films. In future will we all be streaming them from a virtual cloud, or do people still want to own something tangible?
That's fine if everyone has a suitably fast (and reliable) broadband connection and if all the streaming infrastructure were reliable too. (I recall a BBC/Sony Bravia glitch that took out iPlayer for all Bravia users for four days last October.)
I have a reasonably fast and robust internet service (10meg Virgin cable) but I wouldn't entrust all my movie viewing to it.
Andy Clough said:I think the bigger question here is whether Blu-ray will be the last disc-based format for films. In future will we all be streaming them from a virtual cloud, or do people still want to own something tangible?
The_Lhc said:I only buy books in real shops, I'll buy CDs and so on online but books, no, I want to go into a shop and smell them...
Andy Clough said:I think the bigger question here is whether Blu-ray will be the last disc-based format for films. In future will we all be streaming them from a virtual cloud, or do people still want to own something tangible?
Jase Brown said:The_Lhc said:I only buy books in real shops, I'll buy CDs and so on online but books, no, I want to go into a shop and smell them...
Love this comment.
Andy Clough said:I think the bigger question here is whether Blu-ray will be the last disc-based format for films. In future will we all be streaming them from a virtual cloud, or do people still want to own something tangible?
Andy Clough said:Agreed, the internet infrastructure isn't there yet and I suspect a lot of people still like to own a physical disc, whether it be for music or movies.