Some Blu-ray statistics. "It's popular, not getting cheaper"

[Nick]

thismeintiel said:

Nick said:

ssj12 said:

Orca_Azure said:
The price isn't justified just yet for me to buy one

you can';t afford $23 for movies? (Amazon prices)

Being able to afford something and justifying your purchase are completely different things. 

I can easily afford blu-ray, but I cannot justifying spending money on blu-ray.

Either you haven't really got to watch one, or you don't have a big TV. And that is in no way a jab at you, a lot of people don't.  All I know is it looks great on my 52" TV.  Way better than even the higher end DVD's upscaled, not that they look like crap.  Plus you can find a lot of Blu-ray movies brand new at Wal-mart for like 10 bucks.  Granted they are the movies that are a few years old. 

Really DVD didn't catch on till the PS2 came out.  Which is why I think it was smart of Sony to debut Blu-ray and the PS3 about the same time.  That's what has lead to the faster adoption rate over DVD.  I just hope to God they don't start up with this Special Edition and Normal Edition discs crap, like DVD does.  That would just be pointless with 50 GB's of storage space.

I actually have both a nice tv and seen blu-ray.  I still don't find justification in spending money on it.  I already have a couple hundred movies on DVD and it looks just fine upscaled to me that I don't have any intention or desire to change.  I have better access to renting DVD's and can generally find bargained DVD's at the store for next to nothing.  The list of things I'd rather spend that money on would be so huge that I don't think I could even create it.  That is the reason that I could afford it, but couldn't justify my purchase.