Jay said:
At this point, Blu-ray hardware manufacturers have moved so many units that Blu-ray's future as a format looks very bright. I don't see it ending up like laserdisc at all.

Then you're not paying attention. Blu-ray units moved pretty well when the price was under $200. Now that most places have the players back above $200, sales have slowed again. I haven't been able to find a single profile 2.0 player for less than $250. And with a slowing economy, people just aren't interested in buying something that, to them, doesn't look that much different from their upscaling DVD player.

As much as I would love to see Blu-ray really take off and become more mainstream, it's starting to seem more and more likely to remain a niche format.

Remember that laserdisc didn't die either. But it didn't supplant VHS. It just became a videophile niche format. Even after DVD came out, plenty of places still carried laserdisc.