QUOTE(mlmadmax @ Jun 10 2008, 12:31 PM)
I find this very hard to believe, who are these people again?
It just seems dvd was everywhere very quickly and blu ray just isn't.
Nope, it took a while for DVD too.
QUOTE(Chancer @ Jun 10 2008, 01:20 PM)
The bit I find laughable is trying to quantify this based on the sales of 21 Br machines as opposed to 17 for DVD.
How in goodness name is this representative of anything.
I'm not clear on this either. I guess it would help to know how many discs per quantity of time these machines produce and how long the machines are on to see exactly the difference. I'm betting the difference is larger than one would initially think. Even then, this seems more directly representative of retail adoption than consumer, as these discs could very well be sitting on shelves or in a warehouse for all we know, assuming the manufacturing companies are actually selling most of what they produce.
This post has been edited by Kamasutra318: Jun 10 2008, 07:03 PM
QUOTE(Chancer @ Jun 10 2008, 06:20 PM)
The bit I find laughable is trying to quantify this based on the sales of 21 Br machines as opposed to 17 for DVD.
How in goodness name is this representative of anything.
I used to work at a manufacturing plant, and the machines we had were quite productive. I want to say we only had 4 (at least when I worked there), and they could easily churn out 50,000 discs between them during a 12hr shift (maybe more). If the BD moulders work at a similar rate (I don't see why they wouldn't), then it's quite a bit of production increase.
The thing to notice, however, is how much quicker we've gotten older movies on Blu-ray than we did on DVD. Granted, I expect it'll be quite a while before I see 2-minute commercials advertising a Shirley Temple BD, and let's not forget how some movies weren't HD'd correctly (such as Alien Vs Predator is getting a re-make later this year, Pirates of the Caribbean had a bad transfer on it's release, etc). We're also still early in the HD technology cycle. The quad-def units (2160p @ 120Hz) may exist, but aren't expected to be out until 2015, when we'll also be introduced to Super Hi-Vision (7680 x 4320, which 480 happens to be a common denominator of)...
I feel the adoption rate is a bit faster, but it's going to be rehashed to us much quicker.