Your blog highlights some very valid points, particularly on the apparent lack of interest in blu-ray from the consumer.

I have no interest in buying a Blu-ray player for the sole fact that there does not seem to be any buzz like there was when DVD format first came on the market. When comparing video to DVD the difference is dramatic, unlike the HD versions we have now when compared to DVD

Also, the argument against buying a PS3 over an XBox360 also seems like a no-brainer, pay twice the price (up to £150 extra) for a games console which is barely graphically superior, but for the sole fact that it plays Blu-ray.....No thanks!

There wont be marked interest in Blu-ray unless the cost of both the hardware and the disks drop considerably, and fast. Other competing formats just around the corner, plus downloadable content on increasingly faster download speeds may well kill off the need for any removable media entirely and orientate the market towards media storage devices.

Excellent points. I really feel that blue ray fans are damn annoying. My neighbor has spent thousands of dollars worth of purchases to make his high-definition home entertainment center. He brags about it every damn day. "I have blue ray!" My $599 home theater standard-definition system works great, and I didn't have to go into debt to get it.

In my opinion, blue ray is for rich people who have a compulsive need to have top of the line everything.

Blu-ray fans are agonizing! One of my coworkers has blu-ray parties once a month. What a freakoid! I swear, it seems that every day he pesters me to look at getting a blu-ray player. First off, I don't have oodles of dollars, second off, most of the movies available in blu-ray are awful. My current set of DVDs are fine! Please give it a frickin rest blu-ray fans! Your cherished blu-ray is going to be dead in a few years anyway.

I have a PS3 but I do not have any Blu-ray discs to watch. Eventually, I will start my collection of Blu-ray disc once I have my HDTV and when I do, I will not buy those movies I already owned in DVD, just the upcoming movies and/or movies I don't have in my DVD collection.

The whole blueray/ dvd/vhs thing reminds me of the vinyl/ cassette/cd thing.
I was suckered into replacing all my vinyl with cassette, then my cassettes with CD's.
I have spent a small fortune buying the same music 3 times over. But I won't be doing the same with blueray.
Yes, blueray is great, fantastic, super etc.
BUT my blueray discs will only play in one place in my house - on my PS3. That is why I only have 4 blueray discs. My 200+ DVD's will play in my study, on the TV/DVD player in front of my treadmill, on my portable DVD player when I travel, and on my laptop at work in my lunchbreak.
I can also afford to feed my reg DVD players - prices for good older movies are about ones sixth the price of bluerays.
And at the end of the day when you have seen a movie you have seen it. Movies, imho, do not stand up to repeat plays like music does. I sometimes wonder why I even own so many DVD's.

I wonder if you are missing the point, as it were. HD is driving Bluray, and not the other way around. HD TV analog/digital broadcasts, STBs streaming HD, etc. offer consumers a visual/auditory experience next to none, compard to SD TV. Once the consumer commits to an HDTV, with its associated costs (cables, speakers, a new STB, etc) the cost of replacing a perfectly capable upscaling DVD player becomes trivial. We have a multiplicity of TVs at home, only two of which are HD, and those two have HD STB from Comcast and Bluray DVD players. When the other 4 TVs in the house are replaced with larger HDTVs, it makes little sense NOT to replace the DVD player. The costs of individual Bluray DVDs are plummeting and the players themselves are now in the $250 range, not a major expense compared to the HDTV itself (medium to upper bracket sets, not noname 720p models). I agree that Bluray adoption will be much slower than that of CDs, but there's a long way to go before streaming HD video is either practical or affordable, or has the PQ offered by Bluray. I would not sequester Bluray in the corner with SACD, DVD-A and the like quite yet.

If you have front projection blu ray is awesome, you def notice the difference, 50 inch tvs, not so much

blu ray disc players are coming down in price all the time.i recently purchased a
blu ray/vhs player and it works great and has other capabilities.i also upgraded
to a 32 inch 1080p hdtv at a very nice price.bottom line,it's all good!i can now play my old vhs tapes with upscaled picture.also have 7.1 audio.that is a good
thing.mainly,i do not intend to replace all of my standard dvds as it is cost prohibitive.i will only buy the blu ray movies that i really want and don't have
already.i think a person has to have some degree of discipline when obtaining any new technology.computers are now coming with blu ray drives and burners.
being that the blu ray disc has eight times the capacity of dvds it makes plenty of sense if one is concerned with storage of whatever data is important to that
individual.i think that is the part of blu ray that most people overlook in their overall assessment of the medium.sure,tomorrow we may awake to find there
is a new technology.doesn't mean we have to jump right on it.for those who can.
more power to them.speaking for myself,i can not afford the latest thing as soon
as it comes out,but if it is something i am interested in i will in time acquire it.
watching hi-def tv with blu ray is very easy on my eyes.i can watch movies for
hours with much less stress and strain on my eyes.when i get a new laptop,you
can bet i will include blu ray drive and burner and every other bell and whistle i
can afford.in the end,most people will purchase whatever it is they want when
the time is right.