Comments on: Redbox Competitor to stock BluRay Discs in its Kiosks

By: RJK

RJK — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:42:56 +0000

Redbox will not stock blurays in the near future because the market is not large enough to justify losing out on more profitable space, ie standard resolution dvds. However, as more people get good size tvs (32 at least in my opinion, depending on viewing length) with 1080p resolution, and a good home theatre system (hate on them all you want, but the Lifestyle systems are incredible), they will come to depend on blurays for providing superior enjoyment. I “geeked out” and got a ps3 (Got it from a website in lieu of a check lol) because for $400 you get the bluray and game platform, as opposed to $450 for a straight bluray player, and I’ve got to hand it to Sony, they make a quality system. I personally can’t wait till blurays become more mass produced and dvds are phased out, it’s not worth paying the spiked price at blockbuster, but $6 a month from netflix is a good deal for an avid viewer. Well that’s my take on this topic.

By: RJK

RJK — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:32:11 +0000

Absolutely not a fad. There is a vivid difference in 1080i and 1080p, especially on 32in+ screens. After the war of hddvd vs bluray, with bluray obviously winning since it’s a brand new technology, they will become more prevalent in homes. Right now the economy is doing poorly, so with circuit city filing for protection and bestbuy experiencing very poor sales, we may expect significant sales around the holidays, after all operating on a loss for a given time frame is better than not operating at all. If you’re viewing bluray on a small screen 720p resolution screen, you’re obviously not going to see a difference, but if you’re got a decent system, it’s like night and day.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:14:16 +0000

Blu-ray and DVD is not like Beta and VHS. You’re a moron. One is night and day superior to the other, not just an alternative. Can you store 25, 50, let alone 400 GB on a single DVD? No, not even close.

And it’s not like minidisc either. If you’re going to compare it to anything, LaserDisc would be the closest thing, and even then you’d be way off.

By: daniel644

daniel644 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:21:45 +0000

OK for starters if you want to talk about didgital media vs blu ray you need to take into account the large sizes of hd video files on a computer and most people do not have large hard drives and the average person (not me, i can) doesn’t know how to install internal hards drives, then also what happens when your drive fails and you loose all that content (as this has happened to me before but I had already backed up much of my drive to DVD-R’s) if you want true longevity disc are still the best for the mainstream, there are still many people (I know several) that don’t even have a computer in there house, let alone one capable of playing back HD content?

By: Bdub

Bdub — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:41:20 +0000

About Bluray: Anyone have minidiscs? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

It’s all hype. I think we’re a lot more likely to see online media displace DVDs than Bluray. That’s exactly what’s happening with CDs, thanks to Apple and the iPod. (Had record companies not been so greedy a decade ago, they might have embraced mp3s and led the charge, rather than allowed Apple to snatch the obvious market.) Why buy yet another physical object that takes up space, clutters your house, can get dirty, be scratched, or break, when you can just have it stored magnetically on your already existing computer–which most people are a lot more likely to take good care of than a disc? Networking people’s existing electronics is the logical next step, not adding another gadget to an already full house.

By: greg

greg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:28:48 +0000

OK! now wait a minute… Blue ray and DVD is like the battle between VHS and Beta; at the end the VHS won the battle. It is true that the blue ray gives a high definition picture just like the Beta did back in the days, but it did not stop people from liking VHS more since the VHS player was more popular at that time. In Business there is something called switching cost. People will not stop using their DVD player because the blue ray is a high quality image. The reason behind it is that what they gain in term of quality is not as high compare to what they would lose in term of getting rid of their DVD player. Also people has other options out there. The newest DVD players can convert the standard DVD into HD picture.

I will never buy a blue ray or invest my money into it. Mark my words, the blue ray will be just like another beta out there. Red box will do just fine if it says focus on DVD, but if they would like to attract the gamers, they can always have a small inventory of blue ray. Red Box should not lose its focus. They should continue on with what they are doing. I can’t wait to buy stocks from their comapany. they are the new wave in the movie rental industry.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:00:08 +0000

If redbox doesn’t start offering blueray they will soon start losing a lot of business. Charge 2 dollars and you will still be better priced than blockbuster and you will earn the business of all the current and future Blueray customers. I was a constant user but since getting a blueray player I now have a bluckbuster account, once you go high def you can’t go back !!!

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By: jag

jag — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:24:07 +0000

I don’t have a BluRay HD player and it will be a while before I even consider buying one, so I’m against it, but I wouldn’t mind if they gave us a choice of both so that those who have the new HD players can use them.

By: ang

ang — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:51:08 +0000

SE Washington. In po-dunk, USA ;)