Analyst: PS3 a Crutch to the Blu-ray Market

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Reasonable said:
I still think BR players will take over simply because they will be able to play BR and DVD (and upscale too) and so long as the price comes down you simply get more choice.

Plus all the studios have to do is make the DVD versions 'skinny' and shove best extras on BR versions to encourage the film fans to go BR with new purchases while keeping existing DVDs.

Why on earth would studios do that?  The primary reason for a new DVD market (the high-definition) market was to increase the ability of manufacturors to make money.  Studios rely on the physical sale of discs.  What possible reason could they have to discourage people from buying DVD's at a time when Blu-Ray players, by all accounts only a small evolution over DVD players, are beyond the price most consumers can afford, in the midst of an economic slowdown?