You can’t win them all. Just don’t get sucked into buying a bunch of stuff that costs more than you thought it would and then not being able to use it.
Sony is probably still losing people to Microsoft and Apple, even if their new console is half the price of the last one. The latest PlayStation 4 is still a great console but a few months after launch it seems that you can pay $50 to get a Blu-ray disc player for $40. Of course, the price of the disc drive is the same as a new Blu-ray.
This is a fair point, but the fact is that the price of the Blu-ray disc player has gone down in price by about 90 percent since the launch of the PS4. That is, most of the people buying a Blu-ray disc player have already bought the console, so its really not a huge expense. The disc drive is a big expense, though, so if you can get a better price for it then you can do it.
The Blu-ray disc drive and Blu-ray disc are both great, but they don’t compete for your attention. Blu-ray is a digital media format, so its just a container for a bunch of bits and pieces of information. It doesn’t have a lot of value, and a Blu-ray disc player is one of the few media players for which you can get the disc drive separately.
The fact is that Blu-ray is a format that does really well against other formats. Since it comes in a container that is not a tangible thing, you can play it on a Blu-ray player and the disc drive will read the disc and play it just fine on your machine.
Sony owns a few Blu-ray players, but they’re mostly not useful enough to be worth buying, especially since blu-ray has been a pretty bad format. Sony has been losing a lot of money since the digital video format it bought in 2006.
A couple years ago, Sony was losing just $20 million a month. Now they are losing $1 billion a month. I’m not sure about you, but I don’t think Sony could sell Blu-ray in the way it’s being sold today. The format may be more mature now, but it still has a long way to go before it can compete with HD, 720p DVDs or even 4K TV sets.
Sony has had a little bit of a rough patch though. It is trying not to make the same mistakes as it did with the PS3. It is moving away from the PS3’s 2K resolution and HDR capabilities, and it is giving away the Blu-ray Disc format. It is also trying to make the best possible TV sets it can, which is a pretty big gamble.
The last time I checked, Blu-ray was still in its infancy and Sony needed more time to perfect the format. It is still struggling to catch up with the PlayStation 4, but it is also trying to make the best possible TV sets it can. It even has plans to support 4K UHD Blu-rays. The only reason Sony is still making Blu-ray discs is because disc manufacturers have been producing them for a decade.
