sorry - movies will not decide a format 'war'
Retail DVD sales have plummeted. Why?
why:
1. Piracy
2. P2P, and the ability to satisfactorily compress a movie to a today 700mb
3. 'day and date'. Movie studios are coming to realise there is a huge demand to release films to home subscribers the same time they hit theatres. I think it is an excellent initiative - alot of families, disabled, isolated and elderly persons havent seen a new release in years.
what is keeping DVD going
*piracy - blank discs sell like hotcakes at every compy market I go ot
*games. thinge like trade in incentives and low cost 'platinum' titles reduce the urge to purchase pirate dcopies or go the P2P route
I like to quiz fellow game system builders at various Lans etc. 90% (out of the good 2 hundred plus Ive queried) have said "blu ray!" Why ? Capacity. With the advent of quad core CPUS, directX 10 gaming devs are simply going to have more canvas to paint on on a blu-ray disc. When you buy a PC game nowdays - do you get the 6 cd set, or the 1 dvd-rom set??
astro