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TRios_Zen on 19 March 2009
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Loud_Hot_White_Box said:
heruamon said:
Ail said:
heruamon said:

It's an interesting read, and sure to get alot of disagreement from the some, BUT, it's interesting to point out that we didn't see this expect massive increase in brd sales over the holiday season, as many raved about for months leading up to it.  It really a question of how sustainable this format can remain, without WW support.  Sure, it's doing well in Japan, but with electronics makers around the world reeling financially...how interested are they going to be in investing further to push the format?  Time will tell....

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/963/963916p1.html

Companies make profits on their blu-ray players.  The diodes aren't very expensive anymore.

IGN's article is deliberately provocative.  It's also easy to quibble with.  Blu-ray is just a stop-gap before downloads?  DVD was always a stop-gap before Blu-Ray and downloads.  DVD players can upscale?  PS3 and other blu-ray players are awesome upscalers.  Some movies you can't get on blu-ray?  Good luck finding FFVII: Advent Children Complete on DVD, suckers.

Not sure what you are saying there about DVD, it's been the defacto standard for >7 or 8 years now, but okay, believe what you want.

As to the rest of your points, I'm sure every consumer that wants a DVD player or Blu-Ray player is going to think about those things before buying...the $200 dollar difference wont affect them at all.

Look I'm not saying Blu-Ray sucks, I have a player (Sony BSP something or other) and love it...I'm just not sure you can generalize your passions to the rest of the DVD player buying world.