Marty8370 on 21 October 2008
| arsenicazure said: While i love advances in technology.. it still seems that blu ray is hardly scratching the surface. Nearly every one i know here in the middle east have HDTV's but guess how many households have blu ray players.. zipoo.. none.. nada.. and why is that.. costs.. and thats because current discs at 50gb are too expensive( original movies are around $ 40 here, no one is pushing blu ray burners.. BD-R single layer discs cost around $20).. i cant even imagine the price of a 400 gb disc.. while it would be awesome to have that kinda space.. at what cost is what i wonder.. im beginning to see why HD-DVD would have been a superior format.. by the time people begin to adopt blu ray it would have become too outdated for itself, especially with upcoming technologies like holographic disc and HDV etc. |
Your way off, Blu-ray will fast become the replacement for DVD's. Blu-ray's are becoming more affordable as they hit mass production. More they sell,cheaper Blu-ray will become. Blu-ray is already getting costs down too near DVD production costs.
Holographic disc and HDV are atleast 5 or 6 years off becoming affordable, by the time they do Blu-ray will have hold of the majority of the Hi Def market.
