Originally posted by: Thraxen
Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
I think there are way more people out there like you and me that could care less about blue-ray or hs-dvd. Upscaling DVD players work fine. I'm not rebuying 300 dvds I already have and I have no interest in paying the larger price for Blu-Ray disks. It just isn't worth it to me and never will be. I guarantee when I buy my PS3 in a couple months, I'll never buy a blu-ray movie for it.
I see this reasoning all the time yet it's horribly flawed. As RagingBITCH points out, what makes you think you have to re-buy all your current DVDs? Blu-ray players all play DVDs too. I've picked up a few of my favorite movies in BR, but for the most part I'm just renting/buying new movies on BR. And, yeah, the players are pretty expensive right now, but the movies have been cheap online. You're making a mistake if you're paying $30 at retail B&M stores. Granted, most of the BOGOs and such were likely due to the format war, but I've probably spent $10-12 on average for all my BR discs so far. Even with the format war ending you will likely be able to find good deals online. Hell, just sign up for Netflix and rent everything in Blu-ray. If you have an HDTV you're just wasting its full potential by being stubborn about sticking 100% with DVD.
I just don't care that much about the quality of tv and movies. I only bought my hdtv for gaming. I just don't think blu-tray is ever going to catch on. I think downloadable hd content will surpass it sooner than later.