There are enough manufacturers in the mix that Blu-Ray should have no problems. Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Sharp, Funai, Lite-On, as well as smaller niche companies have already made and/or currently have plans to make new Blu-Ray players.
Hell, HD-DVD was able to do pretty well with just one manufacturer behind it, Toshiba. Their scorched earth pricing policy prevented anyone else from following them. The BDA is smarter about letting prices come down naturally rather than drastically. You have to have the Consumer Electronics manufacturers on your side, which was one of the fundamental flaws with the HD-DVD strategy.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
