Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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I don't think blu-ray will ever replace DVD. It'll remain a niche format like Laserdisc. At least until everyone in the country has an HDTV. Either way I will continue buying BDs until the next best thing comes out. If I was old enough during the Laserdisc days I would have probably owned a Laserdisc player too.
niche? by your comments, it seems you are also calling HDTVs a "niche", despite the fact that between 17-30%+ of households in the US have one, depending on the source.
How many of those have an HD signal on those sets? I've read here ~50%. Of the 50% who do have HD signals, how many can tell the difference between Blu-ray and an upconverted DVD? Proably halfed again. So whipping out the old calc.exe shows 4.25% to 7.5%. Still probably a bigger market then Laserdisc.
And Bose sucks
A few facts about the niche Laserdiscs, that absolutely DO NOT APPLY to Blu-Ray.
- Many, many Laserdiscs also cost over $100.00. Yes, the LaserDISCs, not the players. Any time you had special features, you were paying over $50.00 per.
- Video quality depended heavily on the Player Quality. I had two players from Pioneer, the lower end one -- which cost $500 couldn't even touch the $1000.00 one.
If you wanted LaserDisc you had to be willing to pay a TON of money. In and out the door. There is no comparison between Blu-Ray costs and LaserDisc costs, not on players, and not on media.
-Pie
I've said it before, if BD wants to grab a huge part of the market, and make an impressive dent in DVD (at least until more people acquire HDTVs) they need to release SD movies on BD and increase the number, for example: release and entire season of Seinfeld or Lost on ONE disc. Everybody who doesn't know/care about HD would be blown away by having 20+ hours of content on one disc. This could easily be done with movies as well, just put all Harry Potter movies on one disc, or come out with catalog releases of 3 or 4 movies on one disc. Say goodbye to the "niche" market if the studios would do that.