[Neil Weaver] "DVDSP has a ... lack of Blu-Ray authoring which really should've been addressed by now and just haven't."
Blu-ray? I don't know if you have been noticing, Neil, but Blu-ray's sales numbers are really just slightly above pathetic. Why? The new "Divergence" issue of Creative COW Magazine (that is at the printer now and will shortly be released), tells many parts of the story.
A large and growing part of the market has moved WAY BEYOND optical disc-based formats and broadcasters are finding that the future is not going to be Blu-ray or any other high-priced format that tries to sell the same old titles in a new edition for another $24.95 or more.
The Divergence Issue looks at many new means of both distribution and the devices that handle them, and Blu-ray is hardly a mention.
My bet is that in another couple of years, Blu-ray will enjoy even smaller sales numbers than it is today.
As some here have mentioned, their customers are not even asking for discs anymore.
You are right, Neil: it IS 2010 and things have changed and that change is accelerating -- unfortunately, not in the direction of
any optical disc-based format.
For more of the story and why, check out the new Divergence Issue when it is posted in the next week or two (we like to make sure our first class subscribers get their issues in the mail before anyone else).
Ronald Lindeboom
http://www.creativecow.net
http://www.creativecowmagazine.net 
