What did I tell you? Fission mailed.

@ Guy with Heath Ledger avatar:

Cherrypicking unlikely scenerios that magicly fit your arguements does not work in real life. Firstly about the cost of bluray, prices are going down not up. You don't always need to buy a bluray you can rent them from blockbuster or Netflix. And also if downloading movies was the way of the future then why was MS selling a HD-DVD add on for the 360?

Or did you forget so soon? Are you saying that Microsoft was purposly milking X-Box 360 owners to buy a tech they knew was going to be dead within a year?

Let's also remember that PS3 had a video downloading service months before 360,that itunes has had it for a years and VOD has been around since the 90's. There's a reason you don't find is nessisary to download HD movies on your X-Box and find sub-DVD quality SD dowloads "sufficient". 1. It takes forever to dowload some compressed "HD" video while shutting down your internet. 2. How many Gigs of space do you want to waste on a movie when a 60 GB 360 HDD cost $100? The Bluray comes in the Mail and I simply pop the disk in the PS3 and get the best movie quality possible outside a movie theater. 

And finally some people want a physical copy of a movie that they can hold on to. Imagine a digital download Christmas: "Look Jimmy! I downloaded transformers for you! I printed the recipt it's under the tree wrapped in a nice little bow." Yeah right.  

Honestly I think that Blu-Ray is going to be one of the last forms of tangible media sold in this country. It's been on the market for years now and is barely maintaining its own bottom line let alone climbing in sales.

I also think that Sony fans need to stop taking Bad Blu-Ray news as knocks towards their system. It really isn't.

If anything, its a testament to the increasingly high demand for downloadable content to be made the mainstream venue. With downloadable games available via both PS3 and soon Xbox360, people are going to find this as the preferrable method for both developers and consumers. Now instead of waiting outside a Gamestop until 12:01, you will be sitting on your couch waiting for the illustration of the cover art to unlock.

So honestly, I don't think its a matter of the Blu-Ray failing. The tech industry is just evolving and some divisions need to catch up faster than others.

I think any survey done on HD technology, that doesn't use actual sales figures, or break into people's houses to examine their setup, is going to be terribly inaccurate.

So many people are horribly confused on everything HD-related. Case in point: my Grandma thinks she is watching HD. After checking out her TV, it turns out that she has a 15 year old crap TV, hooked up to an HD satellite reciever by SD composite cables.

I've known people who think they have an HD-DVD player, but only have an upscaling DVD player.

And I've seen plenty of Wal-Marts playing Blu-Ray vs DVD comparison discs on a nice HDTV, but hooked up to the BD player by SD composite cables, windowboxed by the player, and then stretched from 4:3 to 16:9 by the TV.

And more than once I've gone to a friend's house to see a nice HDTV, and an Xbox 360 hooked up to said TV with that switchy-box thingy set to SD, and then god-awfully stretched, mamied, letterboxed, pillerboxed, and zoomed in. (I'm sure plenty of people have their PS3 set up retardedly, but I don't know anyone else with one. :( )

orly? more than doubling in sales for the second year in a row is slowly? That's news to me.

And your one to talk about skewed numbers. This poll is skewed. It doesn't have 2 major options. "Already got mine" and "most definitly getting one"