Was Blu Ray a mistake?

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Hus said:

nice bs.

watch a Br movie watch dvd... and find out why they will choose the HD one.

what do 3rd world markets have to do with anything ? of course they buy the crap vcd, look how much money they make.

Im not actually talking about poor people - Im talking about wealthy people (you should have seen it :P). They still don't care.

And the difference between a BluRay / DVD is irrelevant compared to a VCD / DVD (IMO). I think you need a REAL nice screen to take advantage of BluRay/HD-DVD - and that's just another thing most people will not have. Ive seen BluRay movies. Yes they look nice. Yes they cost 2x as much. And yes, most movies are such CRAP I have no interest in owning them on any format.

Until the price of players come down to something reasonable (something Toshiba is actually make happen with HD-DVD players), BluRay will remain a niche format. Even 60mill players (PS3's) is basically nothing worldwide.

It will be something like this:

40% movies - not worh owning

40% movies - worth owning on VCD

18% movies - worth owning on DVD

2% movies - worth owning on BluRay/HD-DVD

Whether people are either 1) stupid 2) have too much money.. and waste money on BluRay - well that's their problem ;) People waste money on all sorts of things these days.

EDIT - for interest, I have 10 DVD players in my house at the moment. 3 PC's, 2 laptops, 2 DVD players, Xbox, 360, PS2 (this isn't all mine - shared between 4 people). And no BluRay players.