Blu Ray is a corrupt scam. When PS 3 came out, it was backwards compatible. But when people continued to buy PS 2 games, SONY got dirty and stopped making PS 3 backwards compatible. Right now Nintendo and X BOX have kicked PS 3 down. Good for Nintendo and X BOX.

The biggest store I know of has less than 1/10 dedicated to Blu Ray. Not exactly a big thing.

Sony is so corrupt that they would gladly stop making Blu Ray backwards compatible.

Even people who have Blu Ray aren’t happy witgh it.

Micro Soft and Apple refuse to back Blu Ray and I take my hat off to them.

True, Blu Ray had a brief spurt in 2010, but it has been losing its way since. DVD lost about a 3rd of its sales and Blu Ray (which didn’t have much room to fall) lost 40 %.

Why? Streaming is taking over.

SONY and Blu Ray can both fall to the gutter, and that’s fine with me.

I’m not sure where you live, but the statistics are saying the Blu-ray is finally taking over. The retailers and studios may be pushing that, because when I go to Best Buy or another major store., there are now 1 or 2 isles of DVDs and about 5 to 10 for Blu-ray.

No one says that you have to upgrade. I’m not dumping my DVD collection, but when a new movie comes out that I like, I look for a Blu-ray price under $20. Blu-ray players do improve the visual quality of DVDs, and the players are currently very cheap. Whether you use Blu-ray or not, it can be worthwhile to upgrade your player. Standard DVDs work with all Blu-ray players and the quality is improved due to upscaling.

There actually were several movies shot in 3D going all the way back to the 1950s, but the new Blu-ray 3D standard has only been out for about 2 years. Prior to this you had to wear colored glasses and the 3D effects were not very good.

It is expensive to upgrade to the current 3D standard and it is not doing very well with consumers because of this. I do think it was a dumb move on the part of the manufacturers to require consumers to buy an entirely new system just to watch Blu-ray 3D movies.

By the confession of Blu Ray owners, it doesn’t even make sense to look for a Blu Ray version of something that was made before 2002. (Since anything before 2002 wasn’t shot in 3d.)

+ Why would I want to buy a twice as expensive disc that won’t play on my computers?

It’s not just about quality. We know DVD was very consumer friendly. The question is: “Does Blu Ray satisfy the need of the customer, or does it create problems for the customer?”

In my opinion, it creates problems. And like many other consumers, I’m starting to resent the industry expecting us to buy our films over each time a new format comes out.

But I’ll be fair. You want me to upgrade? Then have your format SOLVE problems. NOT create them. Offer me a good reason to upgrade. Is your product less expensive? Is it more convenient?

Blu Ray can fall to the gutter, and that’s fine with me. DVD is good enough. Maybe I will look into streaming. But Blu Ray is an in-between and un-needed format, that will probably be passed over. All data says people are going right from DVD to Streaming.

The industry of course expects us to stop at every step. But why should we stop at Blu Ray when streaming is already the next big thing?

This is a very old post from 2008. Today, Blu-ray sales are taking off and DVD sales are dying. It is not the industry that is forcing that. It is choices being made by consumers. Like I said in 2008, when the prices for Blu-ray players get reasonable and the cost for movies dips below $20, people will start buying. The same thing happened with VHS tapes and DVDs.

You make a good point about the industry repeatedly changing formats and phasing out the old ones, but that is the way that all technology works. DVDs are far superior to VHS tapes in quality, durability and longevity. Blu-ray simply improves the visual quality of DVDs. A better mouse trap will always come along and take over the market.

The upscaling feature in all Blu-ray players does do a good job of improving the quality. We still buy DVDs for most movies, but we buy Blu-ray for the action movies where the quality does make a difference. In perhaps 2 years DVDs will be obsolete and something better will come along that will start to replace Blu-ray. It is called evolution.

I don’t see Blu Ray pushing out DVD. And I do feel consumers are starting to resent how the industry keeps wanting them to buy the same film over and over on a different format.

Oh wait, and there are choices! A DVD Upgrader eliminates all these problems and gives better quality. And we have the choice of streaming now! Granted, some people prefer a physical media. But dvd is good enough for most people. In my opinion, the best blu ray can do now is hope for a small percentage of users. (And it will probably do a lot worse!)

Also, Sony hasn’t even finished developing the Blu-Ray player yet. I’ve heard stories about people wanting to watch a quick movie but first having to get the upgrades – which are usually a load of bells and whistles with nothing to do with watching movies. Or even being interrupted in the middle of a movie with a demand to upgrade. Why should I buy a player that hasn’t even finished development yet?

Range of movies is another issue. New movies are coming out on Blu-Ray. But I don’t see box sets of TV shows coming out for them. And the reason for that is the Blu-Ray’s loading time. You can’t just sit down and watch a 20 minute episode of The Simpsons on Blu-Ray; you’d have to wait 5 minutes to get to the title screen. Even if you didn’t have to spend 10 minutes with its upgrades.

And that’s a matter of even if TV box sets started coming out on Blu-Ray. With the disks at current prices, they just wouldn’t sell. A box set of a season of The Simpsons is about £40 in shops (without discounts). Will you really feel like paying about £80 for it?

Sure, you can get Blu-Ray a lot cheaper on places like Amazon now. But they’re still not cheaper than DVDs on Amazon. And they still lack the same choice.

Several companies, including Netflix, already offer streaming media players for watching movies, but good quality high definition is not yet available. If Internet connectons can be improved, Blu-ray discs could fall by the wayside.

Blu-Ray quality, even at its best, isn’t a whole lot better than an Upscaled DVD. And then there’s the fact that no movies shot before 2002 will have been shot in HD anyway – and not all of them after that. Your choice is drastically reduced – as is the range of movies Sony will be able to sell.

Prices are too high, and while I can see them coming down, I can’t see them coming lower than DVDs are now. So even when Blu-Ray DOES come down it will still have to fight the lower prices of DVD. It’s not just a battle against regular DVDs either – Blu-Ray also needs to win against Upscaling, which is considerably less. When I replaced my broken DVD player, I did so with an Upscaler. Nobody who has decided that upscaling is enough for them will care to go for Blu-Ray.

It’s not about comparing frozen screens. It’s about comparing playing movies with sound.

It’s not about the quality of the picture. It’s about all the nasty little restrictions that Sony has added to their Blu-Ray discs and players for no reason other than the Purpose Of Making Money.

It’s not about comparing the price of a DVD player vs a Blu-Ray player. It’s about comparing the price of an Upscaling DVD player vs the price of a Blu-Ray player, new discs, a 40 inch HDTV, and a new sound system.

It’s not about sales of players. It’s about sales of movies – you only buy one player, but you buy many, many movies. The PS3 won the first format battle for Sony, but it’s unlikely to win the war.

Eventually something will come along that will replace both DVDs and Upscaling-DVDs. But it is unlikely to be Blu-Ray.

And to ppl that think there is no difference, BIG difference!!! Especially while viewing on a 100′ screen, But HD @ any size is fantastic! But they must come down in price. THanx for this site.