Blu-Ray not a format for the future
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As a follow up on my last post on the costs of licensing Blu-Ray, I sent a little e-mail to Larry Jordan to confirm that small production runs of Blu-Ray discs are prohibitively expensive. Larry replied that it seems indeed that Sony does not want independent producers to embrace this delivery format.
So, most likely you will not see any lower budget productions on Blu-Ray.
On another front it is not sure whether Blu-Ray will beat the simplicity of downloadable movies. They for sure have a number of advantages: virtually immedeate availability. Scratch resistance (great for kiddies films). No loose DVDs flying around the TV set.
And then looms the question of the logevity of the HD 720p / 1080i format, with professional cameras already moving up towards 2k, 3k and even 4k.
This licencing policy i not going to hurt themselves but consumers too but inadvertantly goen on to buy a player supporting only blu-ray
I think it will hurt Blu-Ray, as there won’t be any small scale runs of Blu-Ray DVDs coming. Thus no companies will need to buy Blu-Ray players. No wedding videos will be made on Blu-Ray. No transfer of home videos to Blu-Ray.
I believe that this licensing policy will hurt both Sony and Blu-Ray’s popularity. Sony seems overly greedy, caring only for big releases.
I for one have no plans on buying a Blu-Ray player. And devices such as the Apple TV seems to be more leading the way into the future, using non-proprietary formats.
Blur Ray doesn’t seem like it will be able to compete as it is just too expensive right now. And the local shops here in my country are charging a hell of a lot more as well, so I am definitely staying away from Blu Ray.