BluRay struggling to take off [Article]

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hanafuda said:

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Oh - and kill the hating comments - they are unacceptable and YOU know it. Its not my problem if you can't handle the reality of the situation BluRay is in now :P

I'll get back to your points, but not until you answer one simple question:

Do you own a Blu-ray player?

Thought it was obvious from my previous posts - no. I barely buy DVDs (all my purchases $10AU or less), don't have a 1080p TV (1080i though), and have an upscaling DVD player that does nice 1080i output (and a USB slot at the front).

Most of my purchases revolve around entertaining others - not myself. Hence the "ease of use" thing is critical for me. Convince me that a BluRay player is significantly easier to use than a normal DVD player, and I'll consider getting one.

(our next big purchase will be *some* device that allows online movie access + playback - we have a decent enough internet connection to make this feasible. For me the "ease of use" of being able to choose one of many titles at will, outweights the benefits of physical media/disadvantages of downloadable content. My wife watches a lot more YouTube on our TV than anything else. I don't know what the device will be - maybe a 360, maybe a Tivo, maybe AppleTV thing, etc. If the Wii online movie store thing came to Australia soon and worked - we would just use that. But chances of that are zero IMO.).