Come On! Where are all these new Super Dooper New Blu Ray Players?

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Has Blu Ray died a death I wonder.

Hardly any new players have hit the market save perhaps more recently the Samsung BDP 1400 and how good that is I don't know though I have read it's qute hopeless playing normal DVDs.

I also don't see as many Blu Ray Discs in the high street shops and I'm sorry bit I still maintain that something like a DENON DVD 1940 gives the current crop, if outdated, Blu Ray players a run for their money save perhaps Pioneer's top end £700-800 Blu Ray albeit non BD/Java compatible player which is a bit of a relic in that sense

So the masses are flocking to buy Blu Ray in all it's entiretly? I think not! So where's this all going to end? Will DVDs be around for another 10 years or more?

Where are all these wonderful new Blu Ray players that millions of us are queing up to buy in the shops?

Long live DVD's especially those going for a FIVER now ! Long Live DVD players!

Off to watch The Day after Tomorrow which I got for £3.00 in HMV on my wonderful budget SAMSUNG PS42Q97HDX Plasma TV via my wonderful budget DENON DVD 1940.

On Blu Ray it's £18

 

[Andrew Everard]

As Clare has pointed out, there are players on the way in the next few months from the likes of Marantz, Pioneer and Sony.

But I did say some time back that the end of the format war would at last show just how great was the public appetite for HD players and discs, and by association how dissatisfied people are with DVD-V.

We shall see...

 

[laserman16]

I am going to wait until the manufacturers get all the final profiles sorted and there is some more choice in the marketplace. At the moment there is not that much choice for the consumer out there.

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="Tallyho"]
Has Blu Ray died a death I wonder.

Hardly any new players have hit the market save perhaps more recently the Samsung BDP 1400 and how good that is I don't know though I have read it's qute hopeless playing normal DVDs.

I also don't see as many Blu Ray Discs in the high street shops and I'm sorry bit I still maintain that something like a DENON DVD 1940 gives the current crop, if outdated, Blu Ray players a run for their money save perhaps Pioneer's top end £700-800 Blu Ray albeit non BD/Java compatible player which is a bit of a relic in that sense

So the masses are flocking to buy Blu Ray in all it's entiretly? I think not! So where's this all going to end? Will DVDs be around for another 10 years or more?

Where are all these wonderful new Blu Ray players that millions of us are queing up to buy in the shops?

Long live DVD's especially those going for a FIVER now ! Long Live DVD players!

Off to watch The Day after Tomorrow which I got for £3.00 in HMV on my wonderful budget SAMSUNG PS42Q97HDX Plasma TV via my wonderful budget DENON DVD 1940.

On Blu Ray it's £18
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You are looking at the wrong market, the UK is insignificant!

There have been 9 million BD movie sales in the US, 3 million of those since the New Year. That's right, 30% of ALL Blu-ray sales in the first THREE MONTHS of this year alone.

In the first five days of its release, 9.8% of No Country For Old Men's total sales were BD. Hitman generate 12.6%. Michael Clayton generated 5.5%. 30 Days Of Night generated 8.9%.

Fox estimate $1 billion in sales for 2008.

Adams Media Research estimate 2.9 million dedicated players, plus 8.4 million PS3s by the end of 2008.

The figures speak for themselves, we are at the BEGINNING of Blu-ray taking off not the middle and I'll enjoy my 1080p movies now, not in two years.

 

[Sliced Bread]

[quote user="laserman16"]I am going to wait until the manufacturers get all the final profiles sorted and there is some more choice in the marketplace. At the moment there is not that much choice for the consumer out there.[/quote]

Agreed.