Some of his statements are really strange...
"Why would I want to buy a Blu-ray player and Blu-ray movies, which are more expensive than DVDs, when I can get the same basic experience (if not quite as enhanced) for little or no additional cost?"
The problem in this sentence is "the same basic experience". Ok... whether the guy is half blind, or has a poor TV set and a 2.1 sound system... Ok, let's say visual quality and sound doesn't count. The interactivity in bluray is NOT what I would call a "basic experience". And it will get better and better as time goes. So NO you won't get "the same basic experience", you get an enhanced experience, no matter what he says.
"Worse, why would I want to buy my library of movies all over again, once Blu-ray becomes the de facto leader in disc media? That's an added expense I'm not willing to incur."
Who said you had to buy you movie library again??? Bluray players play DVDs, and are often very good at it.On the other hand DVD players can't play VHS, and guess what? DVD still succeeded.
FAIL!
"Mobility is a key reason why DVD is such a success. You can buy a portable DVD player or pick up some movies, and play them practically anywhere you are. At this point, you simply can't do that with Blu-ray."
Yes... sure... I remember pretty well when I bought my first DVD movie, I could bring it to my friends and play it in their DVD player... sure... There were dvd players in every computer out there... sure... And a DVD player wasn't expensive at all...
This is only forgetting that Bluray is in its very first years. FAIL!
Well... all this article from CNET is a huge fail... I see the bluray shelves in stores growing bigger each time I check and it's selling better than DVD on it's launch.
Bluray won't disappear anytime soon, all the big movies release as bluray, and it lives very well side to side with DVD, so I really don't care of its sales.
Once again, this article just suck, and is probably written by a disappointed HD-DVD enthusiast.
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