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The cynic in me: they needed something big to market the higher priced special editions, so take out the opener, which is also a fan favorite, and there you go.
Really weird. Breathe live from the Rosebowl is a bonustrack.
Is it so hard to just put it in front of GOYB like it was at the show,.
I'm annoyed that the 'Super Deluxe' version uses the old technology. Why can't they do a 'Super Deluxe' Blu Ray version? The only answer I'm seeing is that they hope die-hard fans will buy both. And that ain't nice
Seems many of the releases of kiddies movies, the deluxe has both. So there is one for home Blu-Ray home theater and one for the SUV DVD player to keep the kiddies busy while on long drives.
No reason that can't be the same for SUPER Deluxe version for the Pasadena DVD.
Lardence, anything you can do about that?
holy cow, I'm sure I can see myself... i was wearing a red top hat that night and waving it around at various times during the show!!!!! If you look just to the left of bono/center stage and between two front speakers/prompters/whatevertheyare, you will see a red top hat
see look
I'm annoyed that the 'Super Deluxe' version uses the old (DVD) technology. Why can't they do a 'Super Deluxe' Blu Ray version? The only answer I'm seeing is that they hope die-hard fans will buy both. And that leaves me feeling a bit used and ain't nice
Because the majority of the people don't care about Blu Ray yet and have an 'old' dvd player?
Yeah maybe but they could at least have a Blu Ray option for the Super Deluxe set. To make the posh option available on yesterday's technology only is a bit lame... unless your point about majority not having Blu Ray yet means there just would not be enough demand?
I think it's slightly early to be calling DVD "yesterday's technology", it's at a transitional period, so the demand isn't going to be as high.
But U2.com has announced that the Blu Ray owners will have access to downloads throughout the year from the tour
According to Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray sales continue to climb while DVD sales continue to slide. Consumers spent $20.96 million on Blu-rays the week ending February 28, 2010, up 76.89 percent from last year. Meanwhile, consumers spent $137.44 million on DVDs last week, down 26.34 percent from last year. Total packaged media sales are down 20.17 percent from the same week last year, however.
And now that Blu Ray players can be bought for as little as $60 DVD really can't have all that much longer left. I certainly won't be buying any DVDs.
According to Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray sales continue to climb while DVD sales continue to slide. Consumers spent $20.96 million on Blu-rays the week ending February 28, 2010, up 76.89 percent from last year. Meanwhile, consumers spent $137.44 million on DVDs last week, down 26.34 percent from last year. Total packaged media sales are down 20.17 percent from the same week last year, however.
And now that Blu Ray players can be bought for as little as $60 DVD really can't have all that much longer left. I certainly won't be buying any DVDs.
The cynic in me: they needed something big to market the higher priced special editions, so take out the opener, which is also a fan favorite, and there you go.
Every single last non-Rose bowl show was filmed, well enough to be broadcast.
But DVD sales outweigh Blu-Ray sales by 6.5:1, based on the figures in your post. And there is backward compatibility with Blu-Rays and DVDs (in that Blu-Ray players also play DVDs).
It's a bit strange that people keep talking about Blu-Ray as "the next big thing" when it's really just a dying physical format.
This is so true. Funny how people don't or want to believe this.
Well, it's not true for one.
It's going to be at least 2 years before live streaming even gets close to where Blu-Ray is today.
Which means Blu-Rays were the "format of choice" for roughly 2-4 years before becoming obsolete. DVDs were around for a lot longer than that.
We sell components into the streaming and blu-ray markets, not only is the Blu-Ray market a significantly higher percentage TODAY, it's actually forecasted to grow at a higher rate for at least the next 18 months.
With X-box live running in many homes, people downloading files and multiple computers running, there's a bandwidth squeeze already going on.
It's going to be at least 2 years before live streaming even gets close to where Blu-Ray is today.
Apparently you missed the part where I said Blu-Ray was still growing.
In 2-4 years Blu-Ray will become and then still be the de facto standard for home theater AND PC use for who knows how long, pretty much the opposite of obsolete !
Streaming and Blu-Ray will co-exist peacefully, one will not replace the other. The main market which will be threatened by Streaming video will be the rental market, some of which are already adapting by embracing rather than fighting the advent of streaming. Netflix for one.