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Originally Posted by keirarts  It's generally a lot more expensive to release stuff on Blu-ray. Sales are never going to be what they were thanks to streaming, so releases tend to be niche. Sony seem to have given up on the format and are either dumping their back catalogue on mill creek or through Twilight time with little or no regard for foreign territories. Add to this Blu-ray was unfinished when released and given the number of people who dropped the format when I was working at Blockbusters thanks to the continual need for firmware updates, I don't think Blu-ray was ever handled that well from the get go.
Personally I kind of wish HDDVD had taken off instead.... |
As you say the costs involved are much greater than those associated with DVD and the Blu-Ray market is smaller than the former. The fact that we are talking about niche titles also further limits the potential sales figures.
I too had hoped that HDDVD would win the format war.