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I gather that the consumers are stupid, then?

Well it makes more sense then admitting that the analysits were stupid and wrong in their claims.

Easier to blame the consumers.  They don't want it because they're dumb.  Not because they don't want it.

Digital downloads/streaming, piracy, price difference, and DVDs are sufficient.

Boy, didn't see this coming.

The only reason I have Bluray player is it was a wedding gift a couple years back. I netflix Blurays all the time, but rarely spend the money to buy one, due to the higher prices. It's certainly easy to see why some movies are better on bluray (scifi, some action movies, documentaries) but most movies, the slightly higher resolution just doesn't add to the enjoyment, therefore, to alot of people, is not worth the investment, even if walmart sells em for $70, you can get a DVD player for $30.

No most consumers are pretty dumb -- so many people believe that buying a HDTV means the picture is automaticly HD and better, even if there watching a DVD using composite cables... and many of the same people believe that blu-ray players either only play blu-ray discs or that there is a risk involved in buying blu-ray.

Ofcourse this dosn't mean that analysits were right, but hey when your job if to make predictions you can't help but get it wrong every now and again (or most the time).

No... but is an analysts job to interpert data... and it was pretty obvious early on that the data the blu-ray consortium was putting out was worrysome and basically framed to make things look way better then they were.

Since the a lot of them are not that tech savvy, they just don't see the difference. One's a disc, and so is another. I guess ignorant would be a better description. Then, again, there is another huge camp of consumers that do see the diff... but that doesn't really negate the first point!

I'm assuming it's because streaming media is becoming more and more popular.  I use to buy movies weekly but when Netflix came about, I rented much more often.  Now that I have Instant Streaming, I don't even rent anymore.

So now we're saying that they both "Don't realize that Blu-ray and DVD are different" and "That Blu-ray players can play DVDs."

Yeah, that's makes much more sense then "People don't give a shit."

Just how people didn't see the superiority of Betamax over VHS?

Or Laserdisc over VHS...

Note they don't have any stats supporting this to be the case... they just assume that's why consumers aren't adopting.

They're just caught in the same spiral of denile that's been extremly common with analysts lately.