Is a BR-DVD movie worth $5 or $10 or $15 more than a regular DVD movie?
That's the burning question.
So long as there is a meaningful price differential between the formats, DVDs will be the format of choice of the "average" consumer (not the tech-savy consumer as represented on this board).
But even a tech-savy person may see advantages to having DVD over BluRay. To fully enjoy a BR-DVD, one must have a high-ended (or at least medium-end) home theater set -up. That might be fine for one room. But it is not as good for bedrooms or traveling right now. Thus, many people are likely to get an upscaling DVD player for the high-end room so they can use a regular DVD in all places.
There have been a lot of high-end formats that have not succeeded in reaching the mass-market (i.e., reel-to-reel tape for 1960s audiophiles). There have been a lot of technologically superior formats that lost out to lesser formats because of convenience (i.e., Beta). BluRay may be both (loser to DVD and downloads).
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