Blu-ray sales update

[SvennoJ]

brendude13 said:

kowenicki said:

I'd put a blu-ray in if I was them, but perhaps they believe downloads/streaming will take off even more in the next few years. 

There is really no reason for them not to put a blu-ray in now that others have taken the financial pain of gaining some adoption in the market.

Blu ray will be needed more for game capacity than movie playback IMO.

I completely agree, and it's pretty sad to be honest. I love Blu-Ray films, I love having a physical copy that I can buy in store and I love having the best quality, but digital downloads and streaming will probably take over Blu-Ray really begins to dominate.

Nah blu-ray will stay. It's making the industry plenty of money. The margins on dvd's are crap, blu-ray is for the people that are willing to pay a bit extra to get the best version. I don't think they want it to replace dvd as that would see those lovely price markups for 1080p, lossless audio and 3D disappear.
Digital downloads and streaming will hurt dvd sales more then blu-ray. People that buy blu-ray are not going to settle for lesser quality and no extras for a little bit of convenience.
Laserdisc survived alongside vhs way into the dvd generation. Blu-ray is far more popular and established then Laserdisc, it's not going anywhere. Even if we get full 50gb movie downloads with all the extras there will still be money to make of people that want to own a physical product. 200gb blu-rays or hvd will come eventually. We're still a long ways of from lossless video, it will come one day.