Not really.  It's actually pretty standard sized.

With only 5 or so million PS3s sold in America, and a population well over 300 million, a size of 1000 people is not too conclusive.

Well considering last month was the 1st time ALL major studios had Blu Ray releases and next month will be the 1st time that ALL major and ALL mini major studios will have Blu Ray releases and will all be on the same format and won't be confusing consumers, I say the adoption is going pretty good.

Yep. Very hard to say this is a fair comparison. We still don't know how many people are buying PS3s for the BR as opposed to the games, while, for example, we know that when the PS2 debuted the Japanese market used it as a DVD player almost exclusively for a year. And to me there is a big difference between a person buying a game console that supports a given video format, versus a person who makes a conscious decision to support a format by buying a dedicated player.

Remember the studios pushed hard for the BR format (or HDDVD) so that they could "solve" the piracy problem they have with regular DVD. While the studios will continue to support DVD, I suspect most of them would like to see BR become the new default format sooner, rather than later, and won't be surprised to see them take steps to "nudge" the market in that direction.

I look at it this way because I think it makes a hell of alot of sense as to why BD will eventually overtake DVD.

#1 - Prices will drop and be = to DVD player prices, we all know this.
#2 - Disc prices will drop and be = to DVD disc prices, we all know this.
#3 - No need to repurchase your DVD collection since BD players are DVD compatible.

So when people go into a store and see a BD player for $80 and a DVD player for $80 some of you actually think people will buy the DVD player? At the same time they see a new movie on DVD for $15 and the BD version for $15 they will once again buy the DVD version? This also doesn't include the fact of what will happen if and when studios decide to release on BD first or possibly... BD only in the future.

What about when new home theatre systems are released that include a BD player as opposed to DVD players, once again seeing as BD is DVD compatible.

Jeez.... can I borrow what some people are obviously smoking?

You guys can stand still if you wish. Only I think it makes no damn sense.

If my opinion is somehow seriously flawed, please let me know.

I have the DVD collection of Planet Earth. It has 5 discs, with 2-3 episodes per disc, about 50 minutes per episode. Math tells me there's more than 500 minutes of footage (and what's "actual" footage anyway?).

It is if it's a representative sample.

That and from what i've heard Blu-ray royalties are lower then DVD Royalties as everyone got their asses handed to them on what DVD charged for DVD royalties.

And that's one of the problems that BR will face that DVD didn't. Most people owned very few movies on VHS (unless they recorded them off TV). Since DVDs were often cheap, people bought bunches of them and have built up a big library. But where the DVD question was "do I want to own this movie", the question for BR will be "do I want to buy this movie again".

I can say that I will not be upgrading the vast majority of my DVD collection. And even if they come out with, say, Jaws on BR tomorrow, I might not buy it. OK, I probably won't buy it because I don't have a BR player - but I will by the end of the month, and at that time I still wouldn't buy it. Why not? Because I, like so many others, got burned repeatedly by studios double, triple and quadruple dipping their movies on DVD, we just know they will do it again on BR.

These two factors alone are going to surpress the sales of BR discs considerably as compared to DVD.