Haha!

And excelent point indeed +1

All the studios in Hollywood are behind Blu-ray, so I'd trust their judgment more than a few haters around here. A few years ago, many said that HDTV would never catch on because they would never be cheaper than $5k, while SDTVs were under $500.

Unfortunately, many around here tend to gauge their support of Digital Downloads vs. Blu-ray on their preference toward Sony or MS rather than what they would actually prefer. People also forget that Sony is also a competitor in the DD market, along with Apple.

 Where are these Wii owners saying this.  You need to point them out to me so I can slap some sense into them because Wii Music is guaranteed to be absolute thrash.

For the longest time BD sales were measured in percentages compared to itself or HD DVD.  When they were selling hundreds or thousands of units (compared to millions of DVDs), they would say, "BD sales are 250% of HD-DVD".  That way they didn't have to admit how badly the discs were selling.

If they were selling good, I gaurantee you you'd see real numbers, not relative numbers from other numbers you don't know.  The point of relative numbers like that is to fool people into thinking sales are good when those people don't even know what the baseline is. 

How can you judge relative sales without knowing the baseline?

The fact is that BD sales are not picking up as expected and people are looking for answers.  The answers seem to be:

(1) HD downloads are gaining popularity faster than BD

(2) Price -- BDs are too expensive even though BD players have finally reached mass market pricing ($199)

(3) Quality -- DVDs have good enough quality that most people think they're HD already or don't see the difference between DVD and BD

The bottom line is that joe average consumer doesn't care about BD the way he cared about DVD.

Yes I want Blu-Ray to fail because of Sony.  I think it is scandalous that they should have made their Playstation fans pay for their format war by forcing them to buy a Blu Ray player because they want PS3.  But I need a way to record HD footage from my HD camcorder and from HD satellite.  It seems a Blu Ray recorder is going to be the only way to do this since the format that offered consumers complete technology at amazing prices has been forced out of the market so all I care about is that Blu Ray recorders get released soon.  I have no interest in playing Blu Ray movies though and probably never will.    

Blu Ray>HD Downloads lmao,

Why?  I have Dish Network, for example, and their new VOD feature supports the same quality and bitrates as BD in a nifty little 25GB sattelite-based download.  And I don't have to pay $35 for each movie.

I like to have  a case to look at and smell when i unwrap the package :)

i prefer the convience of portability.

edit: and before you jump on me about the dish network...i'm refering to DD in general.  I could buy a CD but even if i did i would just convert it to mp3, throw it onto my computer and ipod and never look at the casing again.  that's the convience i want with my movies as well and why i'm a firm supporter of DD.  i don't hate HD...i hate discs because the lack of computerized search functions (a big deal when you have 400 dvds like i do) and the issues storing it in my house (again 400 dvds take up a fuck-ton of space).

My company was giving away a bluray player at the last company event and my freind won it... The reaction both him and me had was..."sweet, 200 dollar resale".

I thought I'd throw it out there...as long as bluray players are priced like this...it will be more worth reselling than keeping for regular joe-schmoes. Even at $299 its a rip off.