I really don't want to get into a DVD vs. Blu-Ray argument in the first place since the only reason I brought up the DVD articles was because of some of the information they had about Blu-ray growth.
Yes, you all are right, Blu-ray is not at the same place DVD was at this point in its lifecycle. I have no problem admitting that. Now that the format war is over and all the studios are releasing on Blu-Ray that really doesn't matter to me anymore since the film studios are looking at Blu-Ray as an important part of home video's future.
But the VOD market has still constantly underperformed in relation to analyst expectations, mostly because a lot of people who would be interested in VOD also know how to download those same movies for free online.
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
