@ Viper1

but not software^^

Which is what all you xbox fanboys say is most important right?

 i dont want to speak to you personally.....but it seems all of the folks NOW switching their tune to downloadable movies were firmly entrenched in HD-DVD's camp and simply just go with the flow to whatever is competeing with Blu-ray regardless of the odds of success or plausibility......not talking about you but speaking on the subject.

Its time for people to just face it. digital distribution will NEVER happen. Sure it would be nice to get HD quality downloads into a nice 100 terabyte box under my TV, but thinking of whats required, the hard drive space, the bandwidth, the large market of folks who arent tech savvy etc.....but it will NEVER replace brick and mortor sales or disc sales. The studios just wont allow it, theres too much money to be mad.

Downloads will 100% no doubt supplement disc sales, as we see my digitcal copy and DisneyFile. Studios are embracing, realistically, the effect and potential of downloadable media....but people that know their shit arent stupid enough to believe downloadable media will EVER in our lifetime trump disc sales.

No...you just suck at making posts

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.

@ FishyJoe )

In other words your single objective with your first post was to insult a user ? Wow, you're a nice mod.

I think you are wrong...because you are talking movies. Gaming world is different... I'm already downlaoding 2 gig demos for my ps3 and waiting another 15 mins for them to install. Why couldn't I download 8 gig games in 2-3 years? Most PC games that are pushing over 20 gigs can be zipped down to a dvd9 if they come in an install file... So if they made a mandatory hard drive in next gen console systems (larger the better), with madatory game installs, you really don't need bluray media for gaming. If youre talking movies...maybe you are right...

DVD had a lot going against its rapid adoption, players started out at over $1000, laserdisc was a very similar format and was widly considered a failure, it lacked many of the features of the format it was replacing (recording), and it wasn't included in a mainstream consumer device (read gaming console) for several years after it was released. Basically, most formats will have faster early adoption to DVD.

1. cant lower the price if no one buys it.

2.Normal Average customer are not buying it yet so whos forcing you? i never saw sony put a gun to your head.

3.Have you seen Indy? has the most prettest forests and tress and backgrounds and waterfalls i have ever seen. Any person who says It will look like the DVD clearly has a standard def TV set. and no 5.1 or 7.1.

4. Again lower price only comes when people buy it. (or in HD-dvds case when they dont). The price will come down then you can buy it.

I love it when people say sony is forcing you lol. You have a ps2, wii, 360, psp, DS, to chose from to play your games. DONT buy a ps3 if you dont want one........

mid-May, said spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien. That's cheaper than most alternatives but a hefty price hike from a typical $50 DVD player.

The format also faces sales challenges that DVDs did not when they took over from VHS in the late 1990s. It doesn't save any space compared to DVD, and there's no need to replace a DVD collection even once you buy a Blu-ray player because it will play your old discs.

There also is a proliferation of direct-to-home offerings appearing on cable, satellite and the Internet that threaten to stop Blu-ray growth in its tracks. Blu-ray backers say, however, consumers prefer physical copies of movies over virtual ones, especially when some online rental services impose a time limit.

And Blu-ray's adoption curve is similar to -- maybe even faster than -- that of DVDs, backers say. Blu-ray players, now available for three years, cost $100 less than DVD players did at a comparable point in their life cycle, said Dorinda Marticorena, a senior vice president at Warner Home Video, a unit of Time Warner Inc.

"DVD was exactly the same thing. Players were expensive and there were not many titles. Lo and behold, the awareness went up and demand went up," said Andy Parsons, chair of the association's U.S. promotion committee. "It'll happen in good time."

Blu-ray still has a long, uphill climb. Last year, more than 101 million U.S. households could play DVDs, compared to 3.7 million that could play Blu-ray discs, including those with PlayStation 3 consoles, according to Adams.

But that's double the 1.6 million DVD devices that were in U.S. households in 1998, the comparable second year they were available. By the end of 2008, 14.4 million U.S. households are expected to be Blu-ray compatible, compared to the 9.4 U.S. million households that could play DVDs in year three.

@Dno

I can't play MGS4 without buying a bluray player. I call that forcing it on a consumer.

Indy may have pretty trees but HD can't mast the lackluster story and 2 dimensional characters.