| disolitude said: The thing about bluray is that its great technology. Its awesome to have a 50 GB storage capacity on a optical media... what isn't aweosme is that they are trying to push this technology on the normal/average consumer. The technology will come to light when its affordable enough and ready for the mainstream. I suspect it will have far move practical use in the computer world than in the Movie world as Indiana Jones:the crystal skull is an average movie no matter what resolution you watch it at... But Sony should have waited for the mainstream push until they could give us blank disks for 5 bucks a pop and burners for 100 bucks. |
Err... in actual fact its the norm for technology to release before the mainstream is ready. Cassette tapes - expensive (at first), CDs - expensive (at first) and recording your own, sorry you'll have to wait for that, VHS - expensive (at first), DVD - expensive (at first) and recording your own, sorry you'll have to wait for that.
BR is no different. Eventually it will get cheaper, you'll get BR recorders, etc. But no way would the electronics giants wait until they got it all affordable - that's simply not how the market works nor how its ever worked.
New tech = expensive for first 2 years and early adopters only, then mainstream adoption (if its succeeds and doesn't disappear). The point being made in the OP is that BR, given this cost and looking back to DVD adoption, seems to be growing at a more than acceptable pace vs previous formats such as DVD adoption over VHS format.
I know a lot of gamers didn't want the PS3 with BR because they didn't want that cost but at the end of the day businesses like Sony make their choies and you vote with your money. If you don't want it at all you don't buy, if you want it at a lower price then you have to wait the 2 years or so that normally takes, if you want it now you buy it now.
When I think on how much the first Betamax and VHS players cost vs their specs... never mind the cost of the first CD and DVD burners...
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
