MikeB on 10 October 2008
@ crumas2
I agree with most of this, but I have to wonder... how good is good enough for the average consumer?
Blu-Ray takes full advantage of top 1080p HDTVs and supports 7.1 lossless audio. So that's enough for currently sold audio-visual setups.
And is everyone in the US replacing their TVs with HDTVs right now?
Not all at once of course, there may be some black & white tellies in use somewhere. It's a gradual process.
t's a normal upgrade path, so I would think this will be stretched out over the next 5 years.
It took DVD 6 years in the United States to overtake VHS movie rentals, so yes it will take a while for Blu-Ray as a movie format as well. But DVD has been much acclaimed for it's remarkably fast consumer uptake.
