Bitrate lower?  The bitrates are even.  They only made one encode, porting over the HD DVD encode to Blu-Ray.

Oops. I mean why the bitrate is lower than recent blu-ray releases.

People are aware enough about High-Def formats, its word of mouth and advertisements that change things.

At the end of this year when lots of people will be upgrading there TV's they will be getting HDTV's. Retailers will let them know that Blu-Ray is the ONLY high def format disc, and will bring out the power in their HDTV's.

With one single format, HD discs can now finally come down in pricing, and take off in sales.

(The PS3 will drop in production costs as well )

Hello, couldn't help but to join and respond in this thread.

Warner Bros. supports Blu-ray now, well this format war is 90% complete and blu-ray has this.

Jandre02 said: People are aware enough about High-Def formats, its word of mouth and advertisements that change things. At the end of this year when lots of people will be upgrading there TV's they will be getting HDTV's. Retailers will let them know that Blu-Ray is the ONLY high def format disc, and will bring out the power in their HDTV's. With one single format, HD discs can now finally come down in pricing, and take off in sales. (The PS3 will drop in production costs as well )

http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/31/hdtv-owners-holding-out-on-format-war/

Ready for your fortnightly (give or take a few days) dose of analyst conjecture in the drawn out format war? According to new numbers from NPD Group, just 11-percent of HDTV owners surveyed "strongly intend to buy a Blu-ray or HD DVD player by next spring," and moreover, nearly 75-percent of those consumers noted that standard DVD was "good enough for them." Ross Rubin, director for industry analysis at NPD, even went so far as to say that both players may "emerge as a premium, luxury item," rather than a successor to DVD. All in all, we'd agree that the average joe / jane isn't apt to pick a side in a deadlocked battle when prices are still comparatively high (for players and titles alike), and considering that the war is still so close after 1.5 years of feuding, it seems increasingly likely that a bona fide winner may not actually emerge. 'Course, we tend to think that one side will eventually gain the upper hand, but as of now, your guess is as good as ours as to which camp that will be.

Most people don't give 2 craps about Bluray and only support it because they own PS3's and Sony screwed their gaming fans by forcing us to help them fight a freakin format war in order to play PlayStation 3 games...

Well of course most consumers would rather stay standard and keep or buy a DVD player.

Where as some consumers that have an HDTV would want the next format to take full advantage for their movies and HDTV.

Okay, so this is how you quote...

I agree, I'm more interested in using Blu-ray as a gaming disc but not for movies right now. They rushed the next-format way to quickly and as a result confusing consumers and a war that is tough for movie production studios.

Sucks for all the people who bought harry potter 1-5 on hd-dvd.

I won a PS3 and was for blu-ray (I own about 20)
Glad to see Warner bros join the team. Hopefully universal will be nxt.

You clearly skimmed the article I posted. It was not about most consumers, but HDTV owners, where it was of those owners that the support is just 11%.