Thats nice...........

5? The Red Box is $1 and lasts till 8pm the next DAY. The only reason I haven't bought a blu-ray player is because the Redbox doesn't do blu-rays yet.

We have blu-ray players for $88 at Wal-Mart, so I see the adoption rate going higher.

Yeah, I dont argue with these people anymore,  they claim they will start buying Blu-rays when the price drops, but anyone paying attention would know that it already has.   People like this have no intention of buying Blu-ray anytime soon.

Well It's only a matter of time when people buy one. Regular DVDs are still dirt cheap. We recently features new Blu-Ray DVDs for $8 including older titles like Cujo and Chaos. The cheaper Blu-Ray gets the more adopters will follow. It's all about price.

Me personally just waiting for redbox to have blu-rays, and I will buy the occasional title on Blu-Ray. Probably Avatar.

Couldnt be more true.

PRICE is all that matters.

When the Blu Ray prices become competitive in a few years time sales should pick up.

Genuinely thought the take up would be a lot faster than this for BR but I guess the recession and high cost of entry is putting most cost concious consumers off.

I don't know... Would u consider these films to be expensive on BD, cause these are the BDs I have bought through Amazon recently;
Heathers $5.99
Immortal 6.99
The Rundown 9.99
Traitor 8.99
Ink 13.99
Halloween 9.99
Point Break 9.49
50 dead Men walking 12.99
Wolf 10.99
500 Days of Summer 12.99
The Runnig Man 11.99
The Fountain 11.99
Super Troopers 9.99
Wedding Crashers 9.99
Ferris Bullers Day Off 12.99
Big Trouble in Little China 12.99
NearDark 9.99
The Monster Squad 9.99
Night of the Creeps 9.99
Stir of Echos 9.99
Red Heat 7.99
Battle for Terra 11.99
Wyatt Earp 9.99
Out of Time 9.99
KickBoxer 9.99
Fletch 9.99
Body Heat 8.99
Beowolf & Grendel 9.99
The Boondock Saints 9.99
True Romance 9.99
Splinter 9.99
Revenge 9.99
King of New York 9,99
The Proposition 9.99
American Pyscho 9.99
Total Recall 9.99
Out for Justice 9.99
Nicko Above the Law 9.99
The Warriors 9.99
So I Maried an Axe Murderer 10.99
RunLolaRun 9.99
Dawn of the Dead 8.99
Day of the Dead 8.99
EvilDead II 8.99
Triangle 14.49
Whip It 14.49
Dark Blue 9.99

All irrelevant.

For a comparison to be valid, you must compare like with like.

So in any given store not withstanding specials what is the markup diff between DVD and BR.

Using the UK supermarkets as a guide BR is anywhere from 90 to 200 percent more expensive.

Well in the US the difference is around 20-30%

Blu-ray + DVD = 30 dollars

Blu-ray = 20 dollars

DVD = 16 dollars.

Week of release Blu-rays = same price as DVD...

how is it about price?

@Max King of the Wild

"Week of release Blu-rays = same price as DVD... how is it about price?"

New releases on BD and DVD are usually this close in the U.S;
The Narrows BD $26.49
The Narrows DVD $22.99
Grumpy Old Men / Grumpier Old Men (Comedy Double Feature) BD $14.49
DVD $13.49

And, here is an example where BD can be cheaper;
Staten Island BD $15.49
Staten Island DVD $17.49

I've been collecting films for a long time, and went throuh all the Laser Disc and DVD prices from their beginnings. BD prices are relevent to what they were around the same ages of those formats. People then too complained endlessly about how expensive DVDs were. The thing is tho, prices of BDs seem to be comming down faster and being release much faster, aslo.