| Euphoria14 said: #3 - No need to repurchase your DVD collection since BD players are DVD compatible. |
And that's one of the problems that BR will face that DVD didn't. Most people owned very few movies on VHS (unless they recorded them off TV). Since DVDs were often cheap, people bought bunches of them and have built up a big library. But where the DVD question was "do I want to own this movie", the question for BR will be "do I want to buy this movie again".
I can say that I will not be upgrading the vast majority of my DVD collection. And even if they come out with, say, Jaws on BR tomorrow, I might not buy it. OK, I probably won't buy it because I don't have a BR player - but I will by the end of the month, and at that time I still wouldn't buy it. Why not? Because I, like so many others, got burned repeatedly by studios double, triple and quadruple dipping their movies on DVD, we just know they will do it again on BR.
These two factors alone are going to surpress the sales of BR discs considerably as compared to DVD.
