BD Players JUMPED to a staggering 400k for the first part of 2009!! Wow! :O

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Luney Tune said:

Soundwave said:

I think it'll "win" by default. Why the hell would you buy a DVD player when you can buy a Blu-Ray player, that still plays every DVD, for $149.99? $129.99? $99.99? Eventually it'll get down to that price and you won't even be able to find DVD-only players at stores anymore.

But will people still care about disc based media by that time ?

The audio CD wasn't replaced by DVD-A / SACD, but by mp3. I think it's inevitable that DVD will slowly be replaced by various low bitrate streaming / downloadable video alternatives, not Blu-ray. And it's going to happen faster than most of us think. Even Sony have largely admitted that their future focus is the Playstation Network, not Blu-ray.

Blu-ray will likely end up a niche format like LaserDisc. Popular among home theater enthusiasts and well supported by the movie industry, but with zero mainstream appeal outside of Japan.

For an avarage consumer there are no real deference between MP3 and not compressed audio. Still difference between Bluray and DVD is obious if you got HDTV.