DVD4ME @ Jan 1st 2009 7:03AM

@Xym said ........"It's also worth bearing in mind that the situation for blu ray is absolutely no difference at all from DVD ten years ago"........... do you honestly think the comparisons will continue?? You have to be joking, you can not be serious!
Forget pricing for a moment, what about the FACT that unless you have a 42" or bigger HDTV, there really is no point in buying BR unless you are a fanboy.
And what about the fact that DVD offered massive improvements in functionality, portability, performance and convenience over VHS, coupled with the fact DVD revolutionized EVERY SINGLE EXISTING TV on the planet? ....and DVD had NO competition!
Blu ray, for most, only offers improved picture quality, yet somehow it is comparable to DVD??!!
Either, your drunk from to much new years drinking, or you are smoking something illegal, not even Darren Sony Murphy, prats on like you do how BR will conquer the earth, no one but you continues to bleat that BR is on par with DVDs growth and will continue to grow to the same levels.
DVD wasn't backwards compatible with VHS, everyone had to burn their VHS tapes, yet DVD flogged VHS, do you really think a product aimed straight at the niche male PS3 crowd, that IS backwards compatible with the biggest home entertainment revolution to hit the planet 'DVD', is going to over throw this massive product in the same fashion as DVD did too VHS, your an idiot, plain and simple!
J6 isn't going to bother updating his BR player every second week to keep up with the constant studio paranoia either in order to keep watching movies, J6 will get jack of that very quickly, and as I said earlier, play his $10 cheaper DVD on his BR player and spend the difference on beer and pop corn,

And before you start with the usual rhetoric, grow up cry baby your such a dumbass etc etc, one of DVD's main drivers for massive growth was the PS2. By comparison, blu rays main driver, ie 95% of the market, is languishing in 3rd place behind the 360 and Wii, so the major contributor to BR's growth, is tanking by comparison this generation, PS3 sales currently down 16%.-Fact!
Other then those all ready mentioned, throw in a crippled economy, downloads, many other HD options to choose from, sony itself, and probably the biggest factor again that everyone forgets about, the fact that you can still buy and play DVDs on your BR player unlike VHS.

Blu ray has a strong presence in the young male PS3 crowd, and there is no question it is a quality product, but most people don't care about extra quality, price is king.
Maybe BR will eventually end up with 20-30% market share before something else comes along, but there are just too many factors weighing against blu ray for it to ever seriously challenge DVD's throne.