You don't have to buy your media all over again. DVDs play just fine as it is. Of course if you're buying new movies, there is little reason to favour a DVD over BD unless the studios get too greedy. I think that is a real possibility.
Otherwise, the reason it will become standard can be seen by just visiting any electronics retailer. Visit comet.co.uk for example and you will see they sell 143 LCD / Plasma TVs and exactly one CRT TV. And of the 143 LCD / Plasma sets, 129 are HD-Ready. It's getting harder and harder to find an SD set.
The same will happen with Blu Ray players in time. The retailers and CE manufactuers will discontinue sales of DVD players and people will buy Blu Ray as a matter of course. Partly because stores predominantly sell them and partly because it makes sense to buy them.
I expect stores might stock a few DVD players for the cheapskates just like they do with TV sets, but how much profit is to be had in those people anyway?
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You don't have to buy your media all over again. DVDs play just fine as it is. Of course if you're buying new movies, there is little reason to favour a DVD over BD unless the studios get too greedy. I think that is a real possibility.
Otherwise, the reason it will become standard can be seen by just visiting any electronics retailer. Visit comet.co.uk for example and you will see they sell 143 LCD / Plasma TVs and exactly one CRT TV. And of the 143 LCD / Plasma sets, 129 are HD-Ready. It's getting harder and harder to find an SD set.
The same will happen with Blu Ray players in time. The retailers and CE manufactuers will discontinue sales of DVD players and people will buy Blu Ray as a matter of course. Partly because stores predominantly sell them and partly because it makes sense to buy them.
I expect stores might stock a few DVD players for the cheapskates just like they do with TV sets, but how much profit is to be had in those people anyway?