Report: PS3 The "Primary Driver Behind Blu-Ray Sales"
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The Entertainment Merchants Association just released their annual report, and it concludes that the PlayStation 3 is "the primary driver behind Blu-Ray sales, with 87% of PS3 owners watching Blu-Ray movies on their console." This may not come as a surprise to some of you, until you realize that in 2008, 60% of PS3 owners supposedly didn't even know their machine could play Blu-Ray movies. Now, the current prediction is that Sony's next-gen console will be "the main force behind Blu-Ray disc sales until 2009, when standalone Blu-Ray players are expected to outpace the sales volume of the PS3." In addition, the study found that the average age of the gamer was around 33, and 24% of the group are over the age of 50. ...obviously, we're not about to agree 100% with such findings until we know exactly what this study's definition of "gamer" was, but we've certainly heard that 30-year-old average before. That may actually be close to the truth. As for Blu-Ray, Sony has often said the PS3 was instrumental in the rapid adoption of the new format over HD-DVD. It seems the "Trojan Horse maneuver" worked out quite nicely.
At some point, Blu-Ray will replace DVD as the standard movie format, but we're probably a ways from that. Even so, it's clear that both the PS3 and Blu-Ray have had positive impacts on one another.
7/6/2009 John Shepard
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b3mike
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 12:35:22 AM
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Ricochet
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 2:13:17 AM
You should've previewed a Blu-ray movie in an HDTV screen so she can truly see the difference. Maybe she'd thought it's just another disc format?
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jmo_INDY_Repub
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:12:47 PM
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CONTRABAND
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:14:02 PM
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ffrulez
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:17:26 PM
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Robochic
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:18:57 PM
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BikerSaint
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:50:35 PM
And don't forget to tell your folks that thePS3 comes with the browser too(although it still needs a much needed re-working).
Oh, and that the PS3 will also connect to every other Sony product in one of the upcoming FW updates.
BTW, I also read somewhere a few months back, that one of Sony's big honcho's(forget who) wants the PS3 to be able command everything else in the house in the future too(all non-Sony products).
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WorldEndsWithMe
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:19:46 PM
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Wage SLAVES
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 1:43:06 AM
Blu ray is amazing. I saw Transformers 2 and was thinking the whole time, "Damn, I wasted $30 bucks. This would look waay better on my Hdtv."
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Silent_J
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 9:54:11 AM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 12:44:49 PM
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photo K
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 2:10:27 PM
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d_lang
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:25:44 PM
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BUT FOR ME IM NOT ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT GOT THE PS3 FOR THE BLU RAY CUZ I DAMN NEAR BARELY WATCH MOVIES AND IF I DO ITS PORN OR AT THE THEATHERS LOL. DONT SEE ANY PORN ON BLU RAY THESE DAYS.
BUT THAT NICE TO KNO AND ITS ALL WAYS BETTER TO PLAN FOR THE FUTURE AND JUST IN THE MOMENT. M$ THINKS ABOUT THAT FAST CASH BUT THEY NEVER SEEM TO GET MY CASH. AND MY CASH IS WAY MORE WORTH THAN YOUR CASH.
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:27:08 PM
And maybe the reply could be more civilized.
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d_lang
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:29:37 PM
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ninja_gamer
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 1:47:48 AM
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Zemus101
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 1:53:52 AM
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jmo_INDY_Repub
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:29:03 PM
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jmo_INDY_Repub
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:41:12 PM
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Bugzbunny109
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:42:26 PM
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jmo_INDY_Repub
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 11:06:41 PM
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BikerSaint
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 11:07:35 PM
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I'll just look at my PS4 and say...."MEDIUN RARE"
A nicely marinated 2" thick juicy filet will pop out, along with a sour cream & chives smothered baked potato & some holindaise sauce drizzled over a bunch of tender tender asparagus shoots, and followed by a couple glasses of a nice red to wash it all down with.
I'll just have figure out what desert I'll want my PS4 to make afterwards...
some strawberries & whipped cream for my girl sounds good
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BikerSaint
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 11:12:38 PM
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Damn, I must be doing something wrong, cause I've been trying to get Helena of Troy thee ole chariot ride back to my crib for months.
Well a man's gotta try, and ya know what they say..."When in Rome, do as the Romans do"
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Andysw
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 11:22:14 PM
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Jed
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 @ 8:54:36 PM
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TheHighlander
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 11:24:21 PM
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PS3 is the main BluRay seller so far - well with players costing $200+ and PS3 costing $399, why the heck not? Makes sense to me.
However BluRay players are dropping in price, and should retail for below $150 by the end of this year, and in sales and discounts they should go below $99.
The discs need to come down in price a bit. I think the biggest issue is that as long as new DVDs for main features come into stores at $15-20, the BluRay equivalent has to come in $5-10 above that purely because it isn't the same, it's six times the resolution/quality.
If DVDs were to migrate to the $10 mark for new releases and BluRay were to start occupying the $20 price point for new releases, BluRay discs would start to sell far better. In some ways, the content producers themselves have to push this transition by altering their price structure. This is what happened with VHS and DVD. Sony cannot make this happen on heir own, they need the other content producers to make the move to BluRay as their primary format.
As others have said, it will happen, it just takes time.
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Zemus101
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 1:57:20 AM
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TheHighlander
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 2:01:44 AM
Yep, I've had to hold my BluRay purchases to very few full priced 'must haves' - OK there was only one of those, and the rest are discounted at Amazon or other online retailers.
Once BluRays drop to a realistic price on retail shelves things will improve.
Part of the problem is that the price of the player has been high enough for people to pause and wonder whether they should or not, and in the end I think many have chosen not, or have chosen to spend a little more and get the PS3.
With players going south of $150 (USD) at retail, far more people should choose to purchase instead of pause.
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Scarecrow
Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 11:29:26 PM
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ps3's gonna pass the other console in a couple of years
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Kai200X
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 12:46:20 AM
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Kangasfwa
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 12:53:39 AM
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Seriously, WTF?
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b3mike
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 1:24:28 AM
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Bugzbunny109
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 10:44:53 AM
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b3mike
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 1:14:07 AM
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"But blu ray doesn't matter, it's done nothing for gaming"
***RANT***
If Microsoft is so righteous and they feel such idiotic statement holds any merit then how come they didn't use CD's to store their games when they released the first Xbox? Instead they ripped off Sony and went with DVD's. But wait................doesn't a blu ray disc hold more data than a dual layered DVD? In term of storage capacity for gaming, doesn't that make a blu ray disc better? The same comparism can be applied to the storage capacity of DVD's and CD's. Microsoft and their double standards along with their lies, bullying and greedy business tactics are ruining the gaming industry. Can you image the thought of playing an rpg with 200+ hours of gameplay? The possibilitites are endless, but such project will likely never see the light of day thanks to Microsoft. At least not from a third party developer. Why? Because they know their inferior piece of hardware wil not be able to handle it and they will try to make the experience "equal." Microsoft and the legions of sheep they've created are the cancer of the gaming industry.
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Bugzbunny109
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 10:47:20 AM
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Wage SLAVES
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 1:36:15 AM
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BikerSaint
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 3:29:06 AM
Hell, nothing wrong with 50, I've already passed that 1/2 century mark myself, almost 6 & 2/3 years ago. LOL
And f*ck using a senior card, I don't want anything that will make me think I'm old.
Anyways, I have 12 gaming systems to keep me young, with 3 more coming within the year.
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Wage SLAVES
Thursday, July 09, 2009 @ 6:48:02 AM
And your right BikerSaint you guys were the ones that carried gaming and made it cool...much props!
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Ricochet
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 2:18:00 AM
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Ultimadream
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 2:51:03 AM
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Thrill Kill
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 9:08:40 AM
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Ultimadream
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 10:37:48 AM
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TheHighlander
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 1:15:29 PM
Explain please how this is "not a as grand as Video to DVD". Because that's patently untrue.
Scaled DVD is nice, but it's still scaled DVD, no detail is added, everything is smoothed and anti-aliased. For an illustration take a standard 640x480 image and scale it up to 1440x1080, then compare it with an image that is taken natively at 1440x1080. If you can't see the increase in quality, have your eyes checked as you may be suffering from some disorder of your vision.
Alternately get a DVD and BluRay version of a movie, and play them both back on a 46-inch screen. Pause the image at the same point in each and have a look at the screen. The fuzzy out of focus image is he DVD, the crystal clear image is he BluRay. You can try the same thing on a smaller screen, say for example a 22-inch monitor. The difference will be less apparent because the monitor is quite small. But the difference is still there if you look.
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Ultimadream
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 1:31:56 PM
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TheHighlander
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 2:10:37 PM
I still think you are underplaying the difference between DVD and 1080p BD.
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Beamboom
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 4:29:54 AM
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http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/campaign.html?campaign=7243&cid=4825904
I've ordered loads of bluray's the last few months, not paying much more than I would for the dvd version.
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OriginalSin
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 5:54:53 AM
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And it's actually cheaper renting a Blu Ray than buying tickets for a movie anyway. You can also lounge on the couch and have a nice cold beer while you at it (okay maybe not WHILE you're lying down but still).
I'm quite tall as well so the cinema seats always gets uncomfortable after a while. I remember watching Transformers 2 (on IMAX which was awesome) but half way through my ass was numb and neck felt like two viagra's got stuck in my throat.
I'm really happy with what it offers ME personally so it was definitely the right buy in my opinion.
I think the PS3 and Blu Ray would definitely not have been what they are today if they didn't agree on this partnership... And I still don't get why anyone would want to buy a stand alone Blu Ray player? Maybe oversees yes but down here the cost almost the same. Makes no sense to me. Unless of course you have no children and you're definitely not into gaming at all, but even then I would still get the PS3 as an Entertainment unit for movies,photo's, music,internet browsing and so on.
But then again if Sony actually market the PS3 in a better way, more (non gaming) people will actually know it has a lot more uses. And that's probably my only negative point with Sony is that I see almost NO advertising and marketing for the PS3.
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Jed
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 @ 9:06:07 PM
I would much rather watch a Blu Ray at home with a cold one.
One thing that I think Sony should be pissed off about is how the Xbox logo pops up at the end of commercials for multiplat games.
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shaydey77
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 10:00:01 AM
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People keep saying that there is so much space on these disks..yet we still have all the mandatory updates...
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BikerSaint
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 10:43:01 AM
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Walmart usually has some BD's that are between $10 to $20.
I picked up Tropic Thunder, The Patriot(extended cut version) & The Punisher(director's cut version) BD's for only $10 each there
Also if you have a used CD/DVD store like the store "CD Warehouse" that we have here, you can pick up used BD's for as low as $8.00
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TheHighlander
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 11:19:50 AM
Apart from the obvious increase in quality of image and sound, I think the most significant aspect of BDs so far has been the scratch resistance which is nothing short of excellent.
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RadioHeader
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 7:23:36 PM
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Jed
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 @ 9:11:35 PM
I have never had to turn down someone who wanted to trade in a PS3 game. They are always scratchless.
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Alienange
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 12:02:08 PM
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fluffer nutter
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 1:16:53 PM
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King James
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 @ 9:12:24 PM
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Jed
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 @ 9:07:55 PM
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b3mike
Thursday, July 09, 2009 @ 7:44:00 PM
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BIG_E
Friday, July 10, 2009 @ 3:40:26 AM
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player yet.I say this because it is capable of an upgrading to 1440p res,via update.Or just a 120hz 0180p update.Just get this cable http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3940978&sku=A85-1002
Then tell me what you think.
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Dancemachine55
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Monday, July 06, 2009 @ 10:04:15 PM
The difference between Transformers on DVD and bluray is freakin huge!!! Picture and sound quality is unbelievable!!!
I really am hoping that bluray will become the popular everyday medium once 1080p plasmas and LCDs with HDMI input becomes the average medium.
MS laughed at Sony for including bluray, but the way the industry is heading, who's laughing now?