lordjedi said:
Not now it won't.

It wouldn't have died even before it reached your magical threshold, but as long as you're satisfied and ready to adopt, that's good.

I also have no doubt that at some point in the very near future, the encryption on the discs will be completely cracked and all Blu-ray movies will be easily ripped. Then we'll all have are nice hi-def media boxes at home playing all our Blu-ray titles.

You can do this now with AnyDVD. Updates are required to keep pace with new titles, but I see the update e-mails in my mailbox so often that it seems like there's hardly any delay.

Where are you going to store all these Blu-ray titles anyway? A $250 Blu-ray player is too expensive, but tossing a couple terabyte drives into a media server to store a modest Blu-ray collection (in addition to the costs of the discs themselves) is somehow reasonable?

I used to be in the same camp. I built several crazy HTPCs and had grand designs of a media center with all my DVDs ripped and stored. Then I realized how much easier it was to put in the damn disc and press play. And then I realized that all my tweaking and other nonsense gave me image quality that was about on par with high-end DVD players that cost as much as my HTPC. I can't believe how much I used to obsess over ffdshow settings. Fucking Lanczos vs. bicubic scaling. Jesus Christ.

Geeks tend to geek out and do things for the sake of doing them and not because they really make sense. Only nerds care about this shit. DRM and media server friendliness have had zero effect on Blu-ray's adoption and will have zero effect on its future. 99.999% of consumers just don't care.