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I'm starting to see a pattern everywhere. Everyone who questions anything Blu-ray or puts a comment about is a disgruntled HD DVD fanboy.
What's actually sad is that it really doesn't make sense. Why would anyone want BD to fail just because they won (one way or the other).
Here's what I think. A growing disdain towards Blu-ray is the way BDA and all companies and press who are somehow either dependent on them or are actually paid by them are constantly spreading half-baked and cherry picked stats and future estimates that are nowhere near facts or real life.
I think there wouldn't be such an outbreak of dislike if they just kept their mouth shut and actually improved the technology and finally finished it to be up to some standard instead of making statements in some percentages that are only selected to create an illusion of amazing growth. Anyone with high-school education can see that increase of 200% out of something tiny sounds impressive but it still remains tiny. It's normal that the smaller the numbers the more impressive percentages will look with some growth, which takes us to the real life situation.
Is Blu-ray growing? Sure. Is it growing anywhere fast enough to fulfill the numbers estimated by paid shills of BDA? Nope and it's going to be nowhere close to replacing DVD in at least next 5 years and after that the DVD market will shrink so much that the spin on Blu-ray taking 50% of DVD market will take effect without actual logic that by that time DVD market share will nowhere look the same is it does today and the spin and misleading numbers will keep going.
In the end though, it will become evident to everyone. Optical media is dead and it's just a matter of time when it will be replaced. Maybe 5, maybe 10 years but it's happening and in the meantime we will only see DVD or Blu-ray or any other optical media sales number shrink and anything internet based (be it VOD, digital downloads, streaming subscription service and websites) will grow. They already say that by 2012 or so digital downloads/streaming/VOD will take 25% of the market and it will only go up more rapidly from there.