Sorry, guess I missed that alternate reality where laser disk was relevant
It was more relevant than BD is now, and certainly more relevant than your comment.
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It was more relevant than BD is now, and certainly more relevant than your comment.
It was more relevant than BD is now, and certainly more relevant than your comment.
Remind me again how many laserdisk players were moved in the first 1.5 years of its life? How many disks did it sell? Overall revenue?
More than .7% of yearly sales.
Prove it. And then cite revenue in dollars. Percentage of the overall market means little if the size of the market is vastly different, as is the case here.
No, success is relative. Blu-ray may have potential but its far from a successful format yet. If they canceled it tomorrow, most people wouldn't know or care. The only thing I'm certain of at this point is that blu-ray has lost more money than laser disc ever did.
<edit> and I was never calling laser disc successful.
I never mentioned success, you stated laser disk was more relevant and then cited B-r market penetration figures yet have failed to do the same for laser disk when prompted, instead attempting to redefine the discussion. It's silly to think B-r will do anything but grow. Will it replace DVD? I don't know, but it sure as hell will make more money than laser disk ever did.
Obviously the key to rapid DVD adoption was the fact that it was locked in life-or-death struggle with competing....????? format.
You're not worth the effort to look up the stats, it was before your time, but it was quite popular in Japan. In fact there's still a bunch of titles that have only ever been released on laser disc format.
It's not certain. I would say its likely blu-ray will grow, and perhaps even become the dominant format (I still think this unlikely) in 10 years or so, but so far its impact has been minimal.
perhaps you could look it up on the internet? It seems someone has shown you how to enter messages here, perhaps you could use a search engine.
Here's a clue... DVD didn't push ????? out of the way until the price was right.
Please tell me that you are not trying to draw an analogy between BR/HDDVD and DVD/VHS.
No I never was, the jump from VHS to DVD was much more signficant, I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish in this thread, perhaps you could share.
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