PS3 is only 'bright spot' for Blu-ray, says report

[Domicinator]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Domicinator said:
I have been excited about BluRay since way back when it was announced. But I'm sure as hell not going to buy one until they're under $200, maybe even $150. And if I do buy one, it will be a drive for my PC. Why? Because I only want to use them for storage. I'm not a movie collector. I get my HD movies via my OnDemand service or XBL. I really don't care if I have a physical disc for a movie or not.

I think the general public is starting to shift this way as well. You can get any HD movie you want now without having to leave your house, and you don't have to wait for Netflix to send it to you in the mail anymore either. You can order it up right from your cable box or computer and have it streaming in immediately.

THIS is what's hurting BluRay.

I did the same for DVD, the first unit I had was a DVD +-R/RW for my PC, I bought it when price dropped under  100€ and I got a player for the living room more than one year later. And the same I will do for BD, except perhaps this time I'll wait for the price to be under 80€, you know, oil crisis, prices skyrocketing and I have a new SATA DVD rewriter for my next PC, I must reduce expenses whenever I still can, so if food, fuel and energy get more expensive, I'll eat more pig and less beef, I'll keep my old car longer and change it only if I find a great offer for a low fuel consumption model, and I'll postpone not essential PC upgrades. And I'll keep on buying games when they go budget and I won't buy a Wii until it's under €150.

Graduating won't change much this, as the wage will be quite low for the first 2 or 3 years.

 

I think for me personally, the best option may be to get an external read/write BD drive.  I often hook my laptop up to my HDTV and use it as a monitor via the VGA port.  If I was in a situation where I had to watch video on a disc, I could do it that way and still use the drive to write discs from my laptop.