PS3 launch to jump-start Blu-ray movie market

**The News Bot** · 20-10-2006, 8:10 AM

In an attempt to jump-start the Blu-ray movie market, Sony has announced that the first 500,000 Playstation 3 consoles to hit the US market will come bundled with the 50GB BD release of the comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, when it ships on 17 November (the movie solo does not go on [...]
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*Pooon* · 20-10-2006, 10:39 AM

Clutching........At.........Straws

Rasczak · 20-10-2006, 4:49 PM

Good going Sony. People buying a games console are being fobbed off with (effectively) a DVD instead of games because it will prevent the bundles from being priced at silly prices

Ironically this could harm BluRay more than anything: if 95% of people plug the PS3 into a non-HDTV they may well not see any benefit in the new format and simply avoid buying further discs. Especially when they find the disc won't work in their other DVD players/PCs/laptops/Macs etc.