Kasz, why is the Wii selling so well to the mainstream audience if such a taboo on videogame systems exist? Also, without a realistic way to prove that the "average consumer" considers videogames to be a game for stoners, kids, and nerds, you might as well have not posted that. It's inaccurate and trolling.

On Topic: So what are the actual number sales of Blu-ray now?

Blu-Ray packing is neither ghastly nor ugly. It's just blue and has different dimensions from DVD packaging.

Jeez, picky at all?

 Maybe he likes the color red better....

It's Blu-Ray, not Red-Ray. It makes more sense to me to have blue packaging. Anyhow why should the package matter THAT much?

It shouldn't. That was my point.

I was referring to HD-DVD. Anyone who has a problem with packaging (that looks nifty) is just nitpicking reasons not to like it.

Hey, I'm a film student. Movies are my life, or at the very least my livelihood. I'm also a collector of movies and books and comic books and LPs and CDs, so packaging matters to me. And a dinky blue (or nearly nay color) transparent plastic case is ugly as sin and classes tremendously with the box art.

Compare this:

(full cardboard digipack)

to this:

Blech. And Batman Begins has a great poster. It's just the damned blue border that makes that picture look so stupid and unappealing. At least DVDs have a black case with no border on the front side. It's completely unobtrusive. Hopefully once more people get into the Blu-Ray business (if it does indeed take over) better packaging will take over.

I have no problem with the idea of Blu-Ray as a medium. Indeed, I'm all for higher quality picture and osund for movie viewing. I just want my fetish collecting objects to look good on my shelves is all. It's a small thing, but damnit, I care.