09-23-2008, 02:58 PM
Mike Sellers wrote:
Uhhh, has it occurred to anyone that the reason Blu-ray disks haven't taken off is because they still cost twice as much as a regular DVD? Who cares how cheap the player gets?
That's part of it, but not the whole story.
One could always rent, and the cost is the same.
Blu-Ray is perceived by most as 1.) a slight incremental improvement over DVD (compare and contrast with VHD -> DVD) and 2.) yet another "interim" format that the PTB want us to pay big bucks for, which will be eclipsed by a downloadable or streamable format soon enough.