So was this directed at me or someone else?  I assume you ment me so here is my response.  I am not willing to pay over $200 at one time for any media player. (I actually got the HD DVD player for $100 when I bought the TV)  I may or may not spend the extra $200 in the future for a Bluray player, but I am happy with what I have now.

P.S.  I still haven't seen any post a link to data showing that Bluray is doing better then DVD's.

If you were not aware of it warner's decision was claimed to be based on sales of it's blu-ray and Hd-DVD disks they did publish both formats and wanted to choose the most popular one.

And from this website which tracks amazon's sales charts for hd formats

http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/index.cfm

Every Blu-ray title outsold it's HD-DVD counterpart by a considerable advantage on amazon and probably elsewhere too so they droped the loosing format.

Now paramount and universal have joined blu-ray expect sales of PS3 just as a player to be over 5 million this year alone.

Sony should sell a 40gig -PS3 pack with a Blu-ray remote control specifically aimed at these new customers. (mabey even drop the sixaxis from the pack).

Aparently the casino-royal disk sold 100K copies 2 months faster than the fastest selling DVD did when DVD was first released was 9 months instead of 11 months. Not much faster than DVD but certainly not slower either.

Blu-ray had competition from HD-DVD also. Now with HD-DVD dead Blu-ray will accellerate even faster.

Consumer electronics are cheap a BD player (like PS3)  is a minor cost when upgrading your entertainment system to handle 1080p.  Those big flat TV's are very popular items. And the price of Blu-ray disks is only a little more than the same SD disk for full cinema quality images i only get blu-rays now! and soon they will be the same price.

Those people who claim that up-scaling SD disks gives real 1080p HD quality - Save your posts for April fools day.  I can hardly believe people are gullable enough to fall for this up-scaling rubbish.

If up-scaling worked you could shoot movies at 160*120 resolution then simply up-scale them to 1080p cinema quality ! .  Why buy an 8mega pixel camera just get a cheap toy 640*480 camera and upscale the images to 20 Giga pixels, then watch your freinds jaws drop when you show them your 50 dollar webcam produces better images than their expensive 8Mega pixel camera's. If you believe that do i have a deal for you hehe.

 Yes, I being one of them.  

There's no doubt that Blu-ray's victory has increased PS3 sales but they were already rising before that.. and I think that, more than anything else, the RROD has been a huge disadvantage for Microsoft. Lets not forget that the 360 was handily beating the PS3 week after week before large numbers of people started getting RROD. Microsoft has done well, replacing them.. but who wants to buy a console that will just have to be replaced a year later? Its a hassle even if its free.. and it has really been the achilles heel of the Xbox 360.

people didnt want to get burned, period. so they waited. and now ps3 is the only future proof blu ray player and its the next playstation to boot. next gen games plus next gen movies is a great combo right now.

I sure as hell was.

Yea, but it's only us nerds who knows stuff like that, so the spike won't last.

and at a great price if you ask me.  it's basically the price of an xbox 360 with one year subscription to live.  $400.