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Greg, I really like your post; this particular quote stands out to me:

"People just have the wrong attitude toward medias, that they consider should be free."

50 years ago, if a person couldn't afford to go watch a movie in the theater, then they simply didn't watch it. Now if a person can't afford to watch a movie in the theater (or on DVD), they just download it. There is a sense of entitlement which I find disturbing: "I have a RIGHT to watch/own this movie even if I can't pay for it." I can't understand why people feel this way; who ever said entertainment was a right?

It seems people fail to realize that making movies is a business. And in business, the goal is always to make money. People scream, "LOWER THE PRICE," but if the studios lower the prices, then that lowers their bottom-line. And less income for the studios translates into less movies being made.

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The solution to the global economic problem is quite simple: we do away with all money, just like they did in Star Trek.

"Those numbers given by Nielsen are based off of SRP, giving Blu-ray an inaccurately unfair advantage in unit by unit dollar totals."

Good grief, why are people still confused about this?

There are TWO Nielsen numbers that are reported each week. The pie chart in the middle shows Blu-Ray UNIT sales as a percentage of DVD UNIT sales for the Top 20 discs sold that week.

The second number is the TOTAL AMOUNT OF MONEY consumers spent that week on DVD versus the total amount spent on Blu-Ray.

Niether number uses "SRP".

This second number is the only one the studios and vendors care about. Why? Because they only care about their bottom lines. As long as Blu-Ray makes money for the studios, they will continue to release product in that format.

Your argument is terribly flawed. According to your logic, no new technology would ever get adopted because it's always too expensive. DVD should not have been adopted because it was super expensive when it first debuted. HDTVs should have never been adopted because they were too expensive initially. But of course, both of those technologies WERE adopted, and the price on each has gone down considerably. It's a proven fact that the longer a technology is around, the less it costs to manufacture, and the cheaper it gets for the consumer.

Is Blu-Ray ready for mainstream adoption now? No, of course not. It's only a two-year-old format. But it will be adopted eventually. And you know what will drive the sales of Blu-Ray? The tremendous surge in sales for HDTVs. As more and more consumers purchase HDTVs and HD service, they will want HD discs.

@ DeadPlasmaCell

Engadget isn't the one who maintains this data, so asking them to provide DVD vs Blu Ray numbers isn't going to get anywhere. Engadget gets the numbers from Nielson Videoscan, so if you want to complain to someone, go to them.

@ DeadPlasmaCell

Engadget isn't the one who maintains this data, so asking them to provide DVD vs Blu Ray numbers isn't going to get anywhere. Engadget gets the numbers from Nielson Videoscan, so if you want to complain to someone, go to them.

The ONLY reason I chose Blu-Ray was because it had more studio support. That's it. When Warner announced their decision to support only Blu-Ray, I went out and bought a PS3 that same week. This is a market to watch movies. So I picked the one that had the most movies. Simple as that. And it looks like retailers have reacted the same way.