Everything is pricy when it first comes out. Remember $6000+ plasma tvs with image buring problems. But now we see HDTVs everywhere, no crts in site.

Same will happen with blu ray players since they can already play DVDs as well. After you have the hardware, the software will come naturally.

Every new release that I want to own is always on blu ray, because I want to get the most out of my hardware, and the $5 dollar difference does not hurt after going to watch the same movie twice in theatres.

Plus players are vastly improved, no problem with playability or speed. Prices are coming down. Even blu rays can be found for cheap, I bought dark knight on blu ray for 22.50, which is worth it for sure.

Its just a matter of time. Online will never take over because people still want a disc in their collection, they want box art. Plus ISP providers are already capping internet connections.

Some of us just took a leaf out of the Sony viral handbook.

We are legion.

(and DaveBG is a joke on known PS3/Blu-ray fanboy who frequented many sites until his name got, er, abused)

It seems like you have something personal against Blue-ray. Do you get a paycheck from Microsoft or are just an a$$.

I mean, if Mike was right that “it is starting to look like the transition from DVD to Blu-ray is going smoothly”, BR players should’ve outsold DVD players by 13:1 since it launched (don’t count PS3 for BR player please because any PCs, Xbox 360, or PS2 should be counted as DVD players too). The reason is that DVD players did that (Since its launch in 1997, DVD players had outsold the VCR by 13 to one and the CD player by four to one by the time Matrix DVD was released.).

1.) The players are (horrifically) expensive.
2.) Blu-Ray discs are more expensive than their DVD counterparts.
3.) Most people will not notice a significant different in quality.
4.) The content and extras availalbe on a Blu-Ray disc are simply not that much better than those on DVD.

This is completely different than the DVD to VHS transition which occurred in 1999. The benefits of DVD over video were absolutely amazing and the Matrix was one of the first films to really exploit all of the advantages of the new system.

Unfortunately, I agree with most of the commentator community. I doubt very much that Blu-Ray will have any real success. I am not even sure if it will have penetration in the PC market as an archive medium. Rather, I think it substantially more likely that digital delivery will quietely take its place.

DVDs are likely to live the fate of Windows XP, that is, they will be healthy money makers well into the future.

What’s up with just admitting you got carried away on your own prejudices?

Admit you made a mistake.

We all do it so it’s no big deal.

Just come on out & admit that your claim that “Blu-ray movie sales account for…..past 30%” in European is not only well wide of the truth but laughably incorrect.

We all know it is.

The simplest gauge of this is that the BDA themselves would be howling it from every rooftop imaginable if it really were so.

Plainly it is not and you got caught out trying to spread porkie pies.

Be a man, not a fanboy, Mike & admit the truth.

Did you say something silly & get called on it & now you can’t back it up?

That seems the most likely explaination the longer you don’t answer you know.