Very OT: How wide is consumer acceptance of blu-ray in your experience?

[Frank Gothmann]

We never had anything rejected with Google for the Play store. Still, there will only be a max of 10 VOD outlets in the end, compared to thousands of physical stores now. And a book store, used book store, library etc also carries other value in our culture than just a place where you buy/rent. All that will be gone with digital.
For iTunes: the worst about it is the bullying that extends to all areas. They only accept Prores. Why? There is no enterprise level encoder out there than can only ingest Prores. No other VOD supplier accepts only one format. It’s one thing if a company in a certain segment tries to sell specific hardware but Apple wants to be computer/mobile/entertainment hardware/film-tv-book-music-comic distributor/software/world-domination company and they go out of their way to force anything without an Apple logo on it to not be usable on the preparation and consumption side. They are much, much worse than Microsoft ever was in the old days.

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[Steve Connor]

[Frank Gothmann] “And a book store, used book store, library etc also carries other value in our culture than just a place where you buy/rent. “

Physical Books are things that people can be passionate about, I don’t imagine book stores will disappear entirely, just like vinyl records

CD’s DVDs and Blu-rays don’t really hold any emotional attachment for people, I would think they will be easily replaced.

Having thousands of stores to sell through is great, but physical distribution of media has always been a nightmare especially if you want to sell globally.

Steve Connor

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[James Ewart]

I have a DVD of Terrence Malick’s ‘Tree of Life’ and a Blu Ray.

Wonderful movie photographically (and in every other sense) so I bought them both as a test.

The difference in quality on my decent HD Panasonic Plasma TV is marginal.