{"id":1825,"date":"2009-11-11T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/11\/11\/blu-ray-safely-hits-home\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T18:27:53","slug":"blu-ray-safely-hits-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/11\/11\/blu-ray-safely-hits-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray safely hits home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Blu-ray.com, major studios are making a significant push to further the appeal and adoption of Blu-ray by enticing consumers with low prices.  Several examples were cited in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blu-ray.com\/news\/?id=3700\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.blu-ray.com\/news\/?id=3700', 'article');\" target=\"new\">article<\/a>, but the kicker is the prediction that DVD is finally headed out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adams projects 9 million Blu-ray ready homes at the end of this year, up from 3 million at the end of last year. He said the format still has less than 10% market penetration, after discounting those PS3 gamers uninterested in buying movies.<\/p>\n<p>Once the number of homes hits the 25 million to 50 million range, Adams said, studios should be able to safely phase out DVD completely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much like the PS2 spurred DVD forward; the PS3 is doing the same for Blu-ray adoption.  Now that the PS3 has hit the magical $299 price point, this trend will obviously continue.  I think we are still a while off from true digital distribution that is viable based on bandwidth and HDD space.  Seriously, some of those Blu-ray releases have a heck of a lot of material stored on the shiny disc.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Blu-ray.com, major studios are making a significant push to further the appeal and adoption of Blu-ray by enticing consumers with low prices. Several examples were cited in this article, but the kicker is the prediction that DVD is finally headed out. Adams projects 9 million Blu-ray ready homes at the end of this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/11\/11\/blu-ray-safely-hits-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blu-ray safely hits home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-blu-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}