Its simply because some people want Blu-Ray to fail because it associated with the PS3 or because they feel it isn't a significant improvement over DVD.
I don't see any reason to hate a media format. An actual format war can at least justify hating one or the other because it prevents either one from taking off, but hating Blu-Ray now is not that different from hating DVD when VHS came out.
On the practical end of things, PC's will really start to take advantage of Blu-Rays in the next 5-10 years for storage, pirating (yes, pirating really does speed up format adoption), and eventually games.
Blu-Ray will not take over as fast as DVD did, but it will reach a 50% market share within the next 5-7 years, maybe even less if this holiday goes really well for Blu.
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