Even if you hate the PS3 or sony in general, you have to give an ode to the Blu ray. It took awhile but it is a hit, and will become the dominate media source in the coming years. And when microsoft releases the the next Xbox it will have to have Blu Ray capability. Congratulations Sony.....And whoever said that Blu ray is dead is ignorant so think twice next time

The Next X console doesn't have to have Blu Ray considering there are already several competing mediums that surpass Blu Ray's capacity.

For movie playback, it can retain DVD playback and do just fine. Blu Ray, though doing OK, will never replace DVD completely as its ubiquity is something Blu Ray simply will never match.

Sure Blu Ray beat the HD DVD format (thanks almost entirely to the PS3, but don't crown it a winner just yet. Especially with a global recession bearing down on it.

BD will replace DVD in a few years jsut like DVD replaced VHS.

It didn't happen over night.

With the 400 GB blu-rays from Pioneer, I'm not sure anyone will have to be concerned over lack of storage in the coming years...

No, it will not.  There are far to many circumstances that will prevent Blu Ray from surpassing DVD as the storage and media standard.

It was a good move, always pushing to advance technology.

Beta is similar to today's Blu-Ray. Beta was superior than VHS but VHS won. DVD I believe will hold off Blu-Ray and DVD will out live Blu-Ray. In a way history repeats. Format with a well established market dominance holds off the new comer until the next technology will be introduced in the future.

With BD's slow reading speeds, I doubt any next x console will be using it.

You can say the samething to DVD few years ago.

Did DVD launch with 16x reading speed?