According to this article, Blu-Ray discs only account for 4% of US film sales, despite massive backing and huge advertising over the last couple of years. You’d have thought that after defeating HD-DVD it would go from strength to strength, but this has yet to happen. I have to admit that I can’t see too much difference between DVDs and HD-DVDs when I watch them through my housemates Xbox. Is it that much clearer? I’m not a convert, as yet. And if the upscaling DVD players are as good as the article says, I don’t see a massive rush for consumers to replace their current players. Is Blu-Ray doomed like Betamax? Perhaps the Minidisk is a more apt analogy, because that format really is technologically superior to CDs, but never really caught on. I loved Minidisks a few years ago, but only really used them to create compilations from my CD collection. I don’t think I ever bought an album on Minidisk, just blank ones.
Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony!
