Part of the reason there is a slowdown currently in BOTH the Blu-Ray and DVD markets is more than likely due to the recession in the U.S. and other parts of the world are in.
Honestly, if Blu-Ray is only that far behind DVD, 11 billion vs. 16.3 billion discs, then that is pretty impressive considering there was a format war and DVD was running unopposed. It did not also require that users upgrade their TV to fully experience the product.
Although Blu-Ray player prices are actually cheaper than DVD player prices were in many of the same timeframes (not adjusting for inflation at least).
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
