New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray
New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray
To be honest, I’m not surprised. I have an insanely large next-gen disc collection, and the pain and hassle of trying to watch a DRM encumbered disc is not worth the extra lines exhibited.
As you can see from my Delicious Library, I continue to buy large numbers of next-gen media. But the truth is that if I hadn’t bought and installed AnyDVD HD on my main home theater PC, it would be a complete puzzle of technologies and rights restrictions before I had even a single hope of playing a movie on my big screen.
Bottom line is that before Joe Sixpack will embrace Blu-Ray, it has to become transparent. No region coding. No mandatory online digital restriction management. Mr. Sixpack wants to put a disc in the drive, and watch a movie in 15 seconds.
Oh, wait. Blu-Ray has every single one of those restrictions. It takes at least 90 seconds for a factory fresh Blu-Ray disc to play. There is no way Blu-Ray can compete with upconverted DVD when they take over 90 seconds to display a single trailer you cannot skip.
Even with AnyDVD HD, it takes at least a minute for me to watch a movie. Will the studios ever learn?
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