Sony: "Blu-Ray discs cost too much", lowers expectations on player sales

[Comrade Tovya]

LordTheNightKnight said:
"The answer is simply making it easier for that 98%."

And that is why DVD was such an intuitive leap over VHS. You would have to actually deliberately design a player to force someone to rewind a movie in DVD before it would play back. In most players, the ease of use is built in.

 

I agree.

Plus, like I said about the jump from B&W to color TVs, the upgrade to DVD was simple.

Plug it in the wall, and into the A/V port on your TV, put in a DVD, and you had a new movie experience. 

The high-def upgrade isn't near as easy because of complicated HD TV settings and HDMI errors & issues.  Plus most people see the upgrade from one disc format to another as a small upgrade. 

The upgrade from VHS to DVD was more than just a visual upgrade, it made their life easier by upgrading... plus the asthetic reasons as well.  Big bulk tape vs thin disc last generation to thin disc vs thin disc this generation.