Good for blu-ray.

1997. $35 for a DVD version and $15 for a VHS version of the same movie. Most people obviously pay $20 less in favor of the picture quality and convenience of no rewind.

A few years ago, I would have been sent to a mental hospital for telling people that CRTs were going the way of the DoDo.

As I've said about BD. It's not being adopted as fast as DVD software-wise, but it's no where in the same region as LD, UMD, VCD, etc. - no matter others try to tell you otherwise. When 16-18% of some movies are being sold in the early years of a format, it's not a failure. All the "Blu-ray is doomed" article before BF that were frequent always failed to mention actual sales statistics and typical format adoption time lines.

Xbox 720 - definitely expect it to have a BD drive. Why? Games will need more space and optical media will definitely be the cheapest for a while. As you know, MS concentrates on taking any advantage away from Sony that they can, while Nintendo does it's own thing.

You are so wrong, Xbox 720 dose not need BD as by the time come DVD will be even more cheaper than BD and that is where MS making their money from the amount softwares they sell.

erm...wtf?

That doesn't even make any sense

DVD is already cheaper than Blu-Ray, and games are starting to need more space than whats available on DVD

What's the cost difference between CD and DVD as far as hardware and disc production go?  Probably negligible at this point.  When DVD was just introduced - huge.

I know everyone thinks this is funny, should MS use an opitical media next time around, it probably should use HD DVDs. I mean, Toshiba abandoned it, so there are virtually no licensing fees because the consortium fell apart...

It doesn't matter that it fell apart as a movie medium, because it still provide more than enough space for enormous games...

They could have a Chinese company make the optical drives for virtually nothings (especially a few years from now) and the discs can be pressed in the same factory that makes DVDs now...

That's what I would do. I wouldn't be paying Sony everytime I sold a game by using BD technology.

^^^actually,,the disk will have a high price since the manufacturer stopped producing it(the have to contract an entire manufacturing line to start production again for disk and optical)

also no use for movie watching.(no support)

also they still have to pay Toshiba for using their technology.

A) It would be no more expensive than how Nintendo does it with their optical drive technology... and it is only used in the Wii (and previously the GameCube)

B) You can't watch movies on a Wii, and it's still destroying MS & Sony.  Obviously people don't care it can't play movies.

C) The royalties for HD DVD were very small during the battle between Toshiba & Sony, and now that Toshiba has abandoned the technology, the royalties would be even less than before... but the cost would be negligable.

Well it sure hasn't been a hit with any of my friends or family. A few do have a PS3 though they use it play games and when it comes to movies just use ondemand from comcast. Only physical media I buy are video games.

It's a possibility, although it may not go with the consumer as well if they made that statement (thinking 3-4 years from now).  Sony does not have complete control over BD (they can't alone reject or accept licensees of the format).  It is not as proprietary as people think it is to them.  I can't see it being much different than the Xbox 360s ability to play CDs (a format co-patened by Sony), or PS3's capability to play WMV/WMA.