Blu-ray appears to have presided over the premium segment of the video-disc market just as it went down the tubes entirely. These days you can buy used DVDs 2 for $0.99, and Blu-Ray for $1.99 each - super 4x premium market they’ve cornered there.
Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
they did manage to win the Blu-ray vs hd-dvd format wars
They didn’t win them: they bought them. Blu-ray won via payola more than popularity or technical superiority. HDDVD has way better error correction and thus longevity, but you can see why corpos wouldn’t want that at the peak of the planned obsolescence / e-waste years.
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 hours ago
bobgobbler@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Them being cheap means nothing in reference to the quality… and is also a function of winning the war.
If consumers went with HDDVD you would be saying the same thing about them. Price is a function of production and corps aren’t going to produce a tech en masse consumers don’t want.
MangoCats@feddit.it 42 minutes ago
Them being cheap means consumers no longer value them - which is what the wars are all about: value translated to sales and profits. Price is a function of what consumers will pay, which has little or nothing to do with what a thing costs to make.
If consumers went with HDDVD you would be saying the same thing about them.
Absolutely. BluRay was Captain of the Titanic, and is going down with the whole physical media ship. Vinyl LPs are the lifeboats.
avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 9 hours ago
Are we past said peak, then?
scutiger@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The PS3 including a BD drive certainly played a part though.
MS tried to push HD-DVD but required a separate device to use it on 360.
It feels like that was the generation of poor console decisions.