Part of the problem is Blu-Ray is still relatively new, although consumer awareness is rising. All major electronic retailers are heavily pushing Blu-Ray, which will help, because it gives them a much better profit margin.
Part of the problem is movie selection. DVD had about 100% to 66% more (once again too lazy to drag up the figures now).
Part of the problem is studio support. Within the last few days Universal released its first Blu-Ray film. Paramount is barely ahead of them. Weinstein has yet to release any.
Part of the problem is the HD TV set upgrade.
But Blu-Ray biggest obstacle to mainstream adoption, a rival disc format in the form of HD-DVD is out of the way. Now it just has to beat off the DVD market, which will probably take about 4-5 years (maybe as many as 7) until Blu-Ray has a greater market share.
But believe me, retailers pushing Blu-Ray because it makes them more money (just like what happened with VHS) is Blu-ray's biggest Ace in the Hole.
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
