Amazon.com go there, they've got a buy two get one free sell going on RIGHT NOW and the CONSTANTLY have sales so the price argument is pretty null when you can buy three movies for $40 (about $13 each) on amazon with NO TAX and FREE (super saver) Shipping.

I've got 28 Blu-ray movies and ive only spent over $20 on ONE of them.

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Thing is. Sony and company are eventually going to cut the price by half, around DVD price. Ive read in a few places that the target date for that is by the end of 2010. They are also planning on having studios re release BR movies that have been out for over 2 years by that time, for $10.

There is to much emphasis on this "Internet streaming" bs its never gonna take off. Look at the ps3 there movie service has been live in the states for 6 months or more still hasn't crossed over to Canada yet. The reason why is our copyright laws are different and thus is why its so hard to control digital media. What stops me from dling a movie for 9.99 and burning 100 copies for all my friends so they don't have to buy them.

And for the record I also run multiple hard drives with huge amounts of storage and stream all my media to my ps3 via tversity. Im still not gonna go out and spend money to get no sort of anything in my hand.

When I purchase things i want something physical in my hand not something i can lose if my comp crashes. To say they are going to do away with physical media is really really stupid. Exactly what #16 said cd vs. mp3 e-book vs. news paper.

People need to stop assuming everyone knows everything they do and start looking at the world the way it is!!! filled with freaking idiots that still don't realize its the 21st century

Obviously some of you argue that 1080p doesn't look THAT much better, but the majority of current BluRay releases are of older movies that were filmed with lesser technology. If you check out the latest films, like The Dark Knight, then you'll see what all the fuss is about.

Yeah but the average consumer doesn't know squat about that stuff, they can hardly use Windows. If they knew all about using HDDs and PCs, they'd be downloading Ubuntu and/or the free antivirus stuff instead of buying Windows and Norton AV.

Most consumer want a box they can push buttons on that has a little blue "on" LED and looks good in their hifi cabinet. The most complicated they wanna get is a TIVO/HDD recorder.

Blu ray is so 3 years ago…..

You're a n00b. Optical media IS NOT the future. Physical drives are, anyone who says it isn't is following out of date technology like blu-ray! You're the one clutching on to the past i'm afraid.

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they won't do that is that will make the prices alot cheaper.

when DVD was new, they were advertising it that it can hold bajillions of hours of video on 1 disc. same with Blu-ray. BUT THEY'RE NOT DOING IT!

IIRC, they still release trilogies and such in box sets. I know they could have just packed everything on 1 disc. but more discs for them means more money e.g. 1 disc = 1 movie as they usually price it per disc and not per series or per set. screw them.

http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/annual/2008.php

Dark Knight sold almost 12 Million copies on DVD (that does not include Blue-ray according to the site – they only carry standard DVD figures at the moment)

Dark Knight sold just over 1 Million on Blu-Ray? That's 1 Blu-Ray disc for every 11 or 12 standard DVDs sold. I don't see "market penetration" in those figures, do you?

I'd like to see "Market Penetration" the pr0n movie, but that's another story altogether.

What I'd REALLY like to see is multi-episode standard DVD formats put on a single Blu-Ray disc. Like the entire series of Firefly on 1 disc. All LOTR movies on 1 disc. All Carl Sagan's COSMOS on 1 disc. An entire series of Blackadder on 1 disc. That sort of thing.

Then more people may think of buying into Blu-Ray. Not only for the quality (which is of questionable value), but also for the convenience. Who wants 100 DVDs taking up space? Have all your precious series' and epic films on single discs!

If they gave us the ability to COPY direct from DVD to BluRay (ie. insert DVD#1 -> insert BluRay to burn -> insert DVD#2 -> insert BluRay to burn -> etc until BluRay disc is full) then that would make me buy one. To consolidate my huge DVD collection and save space!

From an online report by UK business paper The Times, on the 10th Jan 09:

Time is running out for Blu-ray discs, the high definition (HD) format that are supposed to be replacing the DVD.

Despite the launch of new Blu-ray players and talk of rising sales at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, manufacturers know they are in a race to make a real impact on the market before the new kid on the block, downloading or streaming HD films directly from the internet, consigns the format to a footnote in video history.

Blu-ray discs have the same physical dimensions as a DVD, but provide better quality sound and pictures for HD movies, thanks to more expensive laser technology. They were launched nearly three years ago but only became the preferred medium after winning an HD format war a year ago.

Blu-ray has just had an impressive year of growth. Consumers are looking to take advantage of the rise of HD TV programming by broadcasters before the coming switch to digital TV and in the US they are buying more HD TV sets than standard definition sets.

At the Blu-ray Disc Association press conference at CES, chairman Andy Powers listed the US Blu-ray statistics: with more than 1,100 movie titles now available, 24.09 million discs were sold in 2008 compared to 5.67 million in 2007.

The Dark Knight batman movie was the standard bearer for the format, becoming the first million-plus seller on Blu-ray in America.

Sales of Blu-ray players are also climbing fast, helped by huge Christmas discounts in America which saw the cost of players drop below $200. Eight per cent of US household are now estimated to have Blu-ray hardware, including Sony's Playstation 3 consoles which can play the discs.

But the problem for Blu-ray is that these figures still mean that Blu-ray is a high-end niche product, bought mainly by early adopters who can afford to pay the higher prices of the discs and the players – still about three times the price of a DVD player

Full report here: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article5484923.ece

I've watched Blu Ray and it doesn't look THAT much better.