Last weeks poll was asking wether you would purchase a Blue-Ray or a HD-DVD drive when available in your country. Poll results seem to reflect the current overall situation in the market. Blue-Ray has a small lead with 33% of all votes followed by HD-DVD with 29% and None with 29% as well. A smaller margin will be waiting for hybrid drives (11%) and 9% will buy both formats.
The small lead that Blue-Ray has in this poll could be explained with the fact that Sonys PS3 will ship with a build in Blue-Ray drive. Almost a third of all voters will not purchase either of the drives which has surely numous reasons: The most important reason to stay away from those next generation drives could be that they are DRM infested. Copy protection all over the place laying the burden on the user is probably not a good way to sell the product to the user in first place.
Second: No one needs a Blue-Ray or HD-DVD drive if his tv is not able to support the high definition, which means everyone who does not have a high def tv will not buy such a drive.
Let me know about your reasons please in the comments of this article.
This weeks poll is a direct results of the article I wrote about Apple iTunes movie prices which will be 14,99$ for new movies and 9,99$ for older ones. I think this is way overpriced and would like to ask everyone what they would be willing to pay for a dvd download on the internet.
How much would you be willing to pay for a DVD download of the Internet ? DVD download assumes it is a new complete DVD.
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I think $5-$7 would be the absolute maximum price for a DRM infested, movie download, if I’m allowed to at least burn it to a DVD at least once.
If I can only watch it on the computer, in a special crappy player provided by the DRM vendor, then I would not even pay that much. Not when I can get a perfectly good, high quality DVD rip out there for free.
Hehe… seems we te cheap are a strong majority. Not a shock really…
It is a real good question. Who would purchase a dvd that must be downloaded for the price of a dvd taht you can purchase in a store ? I think only the uneducated and the ones with not enough time will do that.
i’d rather buy the dvd in store rather than download it, to much hassle (take time to download, corrupt download, video wont play, etc)
$5-10 seems reasonable, the lower the better :P
Another idea is that such a service would do brilliant in th porn business…
Hybrid drives are the only way to survive for both formats.