Eventually player prices will drop to the point where the barrier to entry to Blu-Ray is very low. We are already there in many ways.
Movie studios will start giving Blu-Ray legs of its own once it gets more market share. By 2009 or 2010 I would expect some movie studios to release on Blu-Ray weeks if not months before the DVD version. Expect the amount of features on DVD's to drop and the number on Blu-Ray to rise.
People forget how much of a factor retailers played in the adoption of DVD. Best Buy stopped CARRYING VHS's before my parents even bought a DVD player. Retailers make more off Blu-Ray players and Blu-Ray discs. They control their floor space. Expect them to divert less and less shelf space to DVD's because the profit margin on Blu-Rays makes up for the losses.
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
