Is the importance of Blu-Ray overstated?

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Rock_on_2008 said:
You are incorrect, Blu-Ray is really important to the PS3. Blu-Ray will significantly improve future games in regards to both visual and audio and the storage capacity of Blu-Ray is around 50GB on PS3 games. DVD's maximum storage capacity is only 8.5GB.

Technical superiority definately is the reason for Wii to beat PS3 in sales. Well, this would be the case in order to make your claim true. @makinmusic: Your reply was ignorant, since it ignored 95,5 percent of worlds population for the rest 4,5. The thing is, that even mobile network offers DSL speed downloads, while all the new mobile devices (with apparently exception of i-phone) are made to support these speeds. And networks around the world are too made to support these speeds. So the channel for DD is quite ready, or at least will be in the future. Now, let's take Bollywood for example, which apparently is the most productive in the world in the movies industry. Their domestic market is big, but poor, and only a few movies get to international distribution, since the distribution channel isn't ready to invest required amounts of money into Bollywood movies. The same could be said about every smaller countrys films industry, even the movie would turn out to be a hit in its own country, international distribution requires the amount of money that a) the domestic distributor can't afford b) big international distributors don't want to invest, since investing in the big hits keeps costs lower and competition smaller. So, DD is not just new distribution channel, but an industry revolution (goldmine for the smaller players), which is something that the current distributors don't want to happen. Although, looking at music industry, i don't think the movies industry wants to be the one to oppose DD, since it's definately going to take over, but the real question is, that how fast it's going to happen. BD will definaly take over DVD in time, but will it happen before DD takes over both, after all, people aren't hurrying to update their players (although, BD may find a new market being the medium to store the DD content).