| MikeB said: @ DMeisterJ Blu-Ray sales are not going to just eclipse DVD in one day or anything like that. You are of course right and I think most people understand this, but many are just playing ignorant. It took DVD 6 years to capture a majority share of just movie rentals compared to VHS in leading technology adopting countries like the US and the UK. At the current pacing it looks like the transition will happen faster for the Blu-ray format, but is greatly dependent on HDTV penetration as well, if there's going to be a unforeseen economic decline it could take longer. |
Someone stop the thread! Someone actually remembers that it took DVD that long to overcome VHS!
"The first Blu-ray Disc titles were released on June 20, 2006."
@NJ5 It is the beginning of AUGUST which means Blu-Ray has been out for 2 years and barely a month and a half. I don't know where you get three years out of that, unless your raging hatred of all things related to Sony has warped your sense of time.
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
