Sony prez admits DVD upconversion good enough for most people, Blu-Ray would never have market penetration of DVD

Interview With Sony Electronics Prez Stan Glasgow

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Looking ahead, you're only just getting into Blu-ray. How do you see the future penetration of the format compared with DVD?
Glasgow: That's a good question. DVD took 10 years to really penetrate. We're now in the second year of Blu-ray. My guess is it will probably happen a little quicker in terms of penetration. The pricing is already coming down more quickly than DVD came down. I don't think it will take as long as 10 years, but I don't think it will penetrate to the same percentage because there's a couple of conflicting forces. Certainly, people that want the best picture are going to want it, without a doubt. People that are OK with upconverting DVD players, which is somewhere close to 600, 650, maybe 700 (lines of resolution)--that's not a bad picture either. So a lot of people may be happy with an upconverting DVD player. And (Blu-ray) may not turn over, it may not penetrate to the same extent, because (DVD) was such a big medium change from tape.

But I see it being the major format. It's won the war, that's done. Now it's a matter of: Can we provide an exceptional experience? Can we provide a social part? And can we involve the overall community in, let's say, designing applets and coming up with new things that we can't even think of today?

Why are you still here?

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]Why are you still here?

Even Sony President doesn't think Blu-Ray would be as successful as DVD.

Did you read the rest of the article? Of course not. You only read what you want to read, and then highlight certain excerpts to post here just to give us your own twisted spin on things.

I ask again. Why are you still here? Nobody cares about your posts anymore, and it's fine that you don't like Blu-ray. But if you don't like it, then keep quiet. Nobody is twisting your nipple to buy into the format, so you really need to get a life. You are so obsessed with Blu-ray it's pathetic.

Look, I don't like Bette Midler, but I certainly don't go out of my way to find Midler forums and do the idiotic stuff that you are doing. So grow up already.

What the...

Nobody twisted my nipple when I got the PS3. Man I feel cheated.

i want some one to twist my nipple too!

can i get the nipple special even tho got wrid of my ps3?

lol. Maybe we can get one on credit. :p

I agree that Deadmeat is rather extreme in his dislike for Blu-ray, but he's allowed to express his opinion like everyone else. I'd prefer to hear the widest range of opinions on a subject, rather than just the positive. Besides, I haven't seen Deadmeat attack anyone, only the other way around.

Bruce, I see your point but when you lie (which he does and I've caught him in one) and twists the truth to support his "opinions" then that's something else. I loved Blu-ray from the time I've first seen it but you've never read a post from me that lied about HD-DVD. He only does this to get people angry which is cleary against the rules, spamming which is clearly against the rules, trolling also against the rules, and he is tring to gain notoriety by diong this on every site he joins therefore he is a shill as well. He does'nt contribute to movie, audio equipment, or any other helpfull topics. Everything is anti-Blu-ray. After I caught him in his lie I just learned not to respond to him.

Questions for Deadmeat: What is it that you want from people? Why do you post the same info about the samething? Is it that you want us to go out and buy SUC players? Do you realize that everybody here already has a upconverting player in one fashion or the other? Do you realize that we heard you after the 5th time you posted?

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I agree that Deadmeat is rather extreme in his dislike for Blu-ray, but he's allowed to express his opinion like everyone else. I'd prefer to hear the widest range of opinions on a subject, rather than just the positive. Besides, I haven't seen Deadmeat attack anyone, only the other way around.

But he's not sharing his opinion. He's not even creating valid arguments in a positive manner. He's just doing what he's doing to be a troll, and I really hope with his latest moronic post that he's going to be finally kicked off this site. We don't need this kind of crap here.