I along with millions of normal non HD geeks feel BR is obviously not worth jumping into we can quite happily get away with upscalers or even existing dvd players quite happily. BR is a niche market plus with competing formats such as digital downloads, subscription services like sky and not to mention just downloading stuff off the net are all here now and were not even a consideration when DVD was in its infancy like BR is now. Next generation when Microsoft and Nintendo cold shoulder BR will be another blow. Too niche too un-neaded and just too damned expensive considering an HD TV costs what between $500 and well anything up to $3000 and then a BR player for another $100 and then $30 a shot for movies! No way the average Joe will be put off at step one
"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)
Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.
""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""
