High costs and few feature benefits will stall Blu-ray

**The News Bot** · 30-04-2008, 8:10 AM

The high cost of Blu-ray players will stall then mainstream adoption of the format. So predicts a new report from US-based research group* Applied Business Intelligence. With few BD players able to display advanced features such as Bonus View and BD Live, retailers have little to sell when it comes to format benefits, they conclude. [...]
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RLT · 30-04-2008, 1:05 PM

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The high cost of Blu-ray players will stall then mainstream adoption of the format. So predicts a new report from US-based research group* Applied Business Intelligence. With few BD players able to display advanced features such as Bonus View and BD Live, retailers have little to sell when it comes to format benefits, they conclude. [...]
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So it's going to take 5 more years before it catches up to where HD-DVD was before it was dumped !

Upholder · 30-04-2008, 4:53 PM

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So it's going to take 5 more years before it catches up to where HD-DVD was before it was dumped !

If it hasn't already gone the same way...

stranger · 30-04-2008, 4:54 PM

Maybe HD-DVD will turn out to be a Phoenix

amalarul · 16-05-2008, 8:56 AM

So basically for Blu-ray it's expensive players, expensive discs, region coding, bad features, BD Live not living upto expectations and waiting for another five more years to get its act straight.

HD-DVD with cheaper players, good features, no region coding (right upto the moment of its demise), really good movie menus and double sided discs.

I can see where people and movie studios chose to switch to Blu-ray the superior format......(Irony well and truly intended).