Blu-ray adoption extremely slow
Posted by Dimitrios Matsoulis on May 5, 2008
Was Toshiba right to state that Blu-ray is not going to replace the venerable DVD on the way to movie downloads and VOD? Judging by Blu-ray player sales, it now seems like a very possible scenario.
Still being happy with DVD discs, I have supported that there are many good reasons to not adopt the Blu-ray format. And that was before HD-DVD’s sudden end… But apparently, getting HD-DVD out of the way was the easy part and the hard job is to convince consumers that Blu-ray devices and discs are the road forward. According to NPD numbers, player sales fell 40% January to February and rose by only 2% February to March. (continued)
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