Thanks, Michael. I was going by the weekly sales charts on Digital Digest (link below) that measure packaged media in general, and you're right, blu-ray is growing (as is 3_D and HDTV) but not nearly enough to make up for the fall of DVD sales. BD marketshare is flat relative to users of DVDs and the white elephant in the room, streaming online.
My point that I should have made clearer is that Blu-ray isn't replacing DVDs, or winning over more than a percentage of the customers abandoning DVD. http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=86912&page=23 There will be a place for blu-rays in the foreseeable future, but no where near the depth we have been enjoying up to now. Cheers, - - Roger Brown Manager UCLA Instructional Media Collections & Services 46 Powell Library Los Angeles, CA 90095-1517 office: 310-206-1248 fax: 310-206-5392 [email protected] > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 19:31:25 +0000 >From: "Logan, Michael" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Videolib] [videolib] Blu-ray >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Message-ID: > ><f25311054dbcd74ebc04409634fb4c510a4d6...@cty-xcn01.all.co.humboldt.ca.us> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >I agree that the number of older titles on BD will never approach the >number on DVD, just as DVD never approached the number of titles released >on VHS. But I'm questioning the assertion that BD sales have "already >gone flat." Perhaps I'm misinterpreting it, but this post (which cites >IHS Screen Digest, FutureSource, and the NPD Group) indicates that BD >sales are still on an upward trajectory. > >As for the smaller producers and distributors whose product currently >comes on on DVD-R discs, I don't see why they won't transition to BD-R. >All of the technology (HD cameras, BD burners and burnable BD-R discs) is >out there, at reasonable cost. > >On a personal note, I'll admit that on a smaller screen, there isn't much >of a difference in visual experience between DVD & BD. But seeing many of >Criterion's BD releases projected at 1080p on an 8' screen absolutely >knocked my socks off. Anyone who values the cinematic experience, and >doesn't live somewhere where classic 35mm films are publicly shown, needs >to see (and hear) BD to believe it. > >My $0.02... > > >Michael Logan >Acquisitions and Technical Services >Humboldt County Library >(707) 269-1962 > > > >Roger Brown wrote: > >I suspect that blu-ray releases are an attempt to skim the cream off an >increasingly smaller purchasing impulse and the back catalog will never >see the light of day on this new format. Blu-rays have already gone flat >in terms of sales. > >Formats are disappearing faster and faster. Blu-rays aren't replacing >DVDs so much as selling HD monitors and TVs. > >- - >Roger Brown >Manager >UCLA Instructional Media Collections & Services >46 Powell Library >Los Angeles, CA 90095-1517 >office: 310-206-1248 >fax: 310-206-5392 >[email protected] > > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 19:33:20 +0000 >From: "Logan, Michael" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Videolib] [videolib] Blu-ray >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Message-ID: > ><f25311054dbcd74ebc04409634fb4c510a4d7...@cty-xcn01.all.co.humboldt.ca.us> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Oops, then I go and forget the link: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=6294 > > >Michael Logan >Acquisitions and Technical Services >Humboldt County Library >(707) 269-1962 > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
