I noticed a lot of people download illegal rips of blu rays to watch on their computer but don't buy them in stores. Great for capitliism that (sarcasm), stealing and not actually paying into the industry and economy because they either hate sony or just feel they deserve things free.
Most Blu Ray disc titles are extremely affordable. It is the players that are not coming down in price quick enough. The only blu ray titles that are expensive are japan imports, anime from bandai, or Studios that sell boxsets or people like Paramount who like to gouge price.
That thread lordjedi linked to is obviously the support of HD-DVD camp. Comparing blu ray to laserdisc could not be more inaccurate. HD-DVD is more like Laserdisc because it is also a dead format. The only accurate statement would be that blu supports lossless PCM just like laserdisc. Buying Laserdisc players and keeping them in working order and buying laserdiscs is still more expensive than buying into blu ray, i would hate to burst the bubble of unreality these people seem to have.
They are offering these players for very expensive technology at next to nothing in todays dollars of inflation. X-box 360 and PS3 can't be given out any cheaper they are already losing money on the machines for charging less than the parts and labor they cost to make. Well actually that is true of the ps3 and not for microsoft 360, because The Xbox uses standard DVD technology with upscaling on HDTV sets. Unless the upscaling makes the system so much more which i doubt.
Apparently Americans want something for free yesterday,lol. And now their excuse is that bush devalued the american dollar and wrecked the economy.