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Fuzzy Logic Is Blu-ray losing its shine, despite format win?
Fuzzy Logic Is Blu-ray losing its shine, despite format win? | Is Blu-ray losing its shine, despite format win? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 03 May 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Offering Blu-ray recording units paired with terabyte hard drives at consumer friendly prices could also set off a boom in consumer high-def video recording, but unless these units can smoothly integrate with cable and satellite TV equipment, and are affordable, they won’t help in the short term. That all said, Blu-ray recorders are slated to arrive in the US later in 2008, but if history is any guide, prices will be astronomical. Blu-ray’s success will lie in prices for players and discs dropping to DVD prices, especially in a global financial downturn – who has the spare cash to splurge up to US $50 on a new Blu-ray movie, when the same film on DVD is much cheaper? Some still believe Blu-ray just needs more time to gain traction, but time is a quantity Blu-ray is running short of when the Internet video revolution grows ever stronger. With Blu-ray meant to win once HD DVD was vanquished, the sales figures simply aren’t very encouraging, the publication of which may well be giving its backers a serious case of the blues.
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