{"id":7895,"date":"2010-10-01T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7895"},"modified":"2018-08-02T21:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:48:11","slug":"ps3-blu-ray-player-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ps3-blu-ray-player-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Player of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9731 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ps3-blu-ray-S-e1429162379297.jpg\" alt=\"ps3-blu-ray-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" \/>OCT. 1, 2010 \u2022 The PlayStation 3 has been the Blu-ray player of choice in the U.S., holding a two-to-one advantage over dedicated players until the last six months. According to a white paper by research firm Centris, 47% of Blu-ray U.S. households now watch their discs on the PS3, compared to 45% on dedicated players. The report also found that 85% of Blu-ray households also owned HDTVs, compared to 62% for DVD households. Viewed from a different perspective, 25% of HDTV households own a Blu-ray player, up from 15% in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Our take has been that Blu-ray would not be a major standout feature for the PS3 in its early years.\u00a0 However, as the price point of the system came down and Blu-ray gained more mass market traction we thought this could change.\u00a0 Now Blu-ray has a prominent presence in retail.\u00a0 In stores like Target there are large sections dedicated to Blu-ray with prominent signs saying these movies will play on any Blu-ray device or PlayStation 3.\u00a0 We think this is excellent marketing for the PlayStation 3 system.\u00a0 In 2010 and 2011, Blu-ray is truly a strong selling point for the PS3.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCT. 1, 2010 \u2022 The PlayStation 3 has been the Blu-ray player of choice in the U.S., holding a two-to-one advantage over dedicated players until the last six months. According to a white paper by research firm Centris, 47% of Blu-ray U.S. households now watch their discs on the PS3, compared to 45% on dedicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[367,78,74],"tags":[396,450,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16749,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions\/16749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}