Home Video Asylum

TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Home Theater systems and more.

But is Blu-Ray the new UMD?

You know, about 18 months ago I was so sure Blu-Ray was already the winner, what with the much broader industry support and Sony's hot Playstation 3 poised to be the trojan horse that got Blu-Ray into millions of homes disguised as a hot game console.

But I've since come to the conclusion that:

-PS/3 seems to be selling more slowly than expected due to price and a dearth of must-have exclusive games

-The spike in Blu-Ray movie sales was probably due to promotions (free movies with PS/3) and PS/3 owners trying to find some use for their $600 brick, but this won't necessarily translate into ongoing movie sales.

-The situation with movie studio support can change fast if they sense they're pouring money down a bottomless pit: Universal Media Disk (UMD) also started off with major movie studio backing, but this evaporated pretty quickly

-I already wanted a DVD player that could scale standard DVD video to 1080p, and $400 doesn't sound like an unreasonable price for that, plus the HD capabilities.


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