Thread: Blu-ray sales slow despite of lack of competition
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Old 05-11-2008   #58 (permalink)
Mickactual
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Originally Posted by Mr. Snakey View Post
The royal screwing the Music and Movie industry have given the consumer over the last 20 years is coming back to haunt them. They are taking it right up the ass without grease. I love it.
So true.
O/T, but....am I the only one who remembers when CD's came out in 1983? We jumped from $3.99 LP's & tapes to $15.99 CD's. The excuse the record companies gave then was that there were only two plants pressing CD's (1 in Germany & 1 in Japan), and the supply couldn't meet the demand - hence the price jump. We were promised that CD's would lower to the price of LP's and tapes as soon as more CD manufacturing plants were operational. ...So the new plants opened - the supply met the demand - and... I'm still waiting for those CD prices to drop 25 years later! They never did! ...And look at the predicament their own greed has forced the record companies into today (and PS - the greedy bastids deserve it!)!
I often wonder how these record companies can possibly justify $15.99 - $18.99 CD's with 40 min. of audio-only, while big box retailers are selling DVD's with hours of (usually 5.1 channel) audio and video for under $10 in many cases? After all, the press cost of a 5" plastic coated aluminum disc is the same, regardless of whether it's CD, DVD, or Blu-ray.
The studios, on the other hand, rolled out DVD in a far smarter manner. Once DVD became mass manufactured, player prices & many (tho not all) disc prices became an affordable step up from VHS for home video. People could actually build affordable home video collections that were superior to the more expensive VHS.
...But now it sadly looks like, with Blu-ray, the studios are going the screw-the-consumer route the record companies did with CD. I hope I'm wrong. I hope the players size & prices, and the disc prices will drop as the technology builds steam.