Blu-ray here to stay?

I don't see Blu-ray dying out anytime soon.  Yes, streaming will grow over time, but not until bandwidth is increased or data packaging changes.  I have enough trouble with Netflix's quality, let alone something delivered HD.  I'm not even sure how they would include all the bonus material found on Blu-rays. 

Plus, people like to own things, still.  To hold them in their hands.  To show them off to friends and relatives.  Ownership is a form of self expression. 

I hope it stays, I've bought a lot of blu-ray movies so it would suck if it failed.

I would say blu-ray will last for a good 10 years before downloading becomes to only format.

I don't think Blu-Ray will last as long as DVD has/is, but it'll be around for a bit.

I don`t think it`s going anywhere, I love my bluray's and PS3, it would suck hard if it died.

I'll always like having on my shelf, so I hope it's the new VHS or DVD. I'll never feel like I own something digital.

I hope it stays!  Counting the little blue cases on my shelf, I have exactly 10 Blu-rays now :)  Wall-E looks so badass!

I just hope the price comes-down soon.  Also re-buying all my anime is probably not going to happen, as they all look fine on upscaled DVD, and were already way too expensive enough.

I just wish they had some program where you could take-in all your DVD's, and trade-'em-up for Blu-rays... paying the difference for what the DVD costs now :p

What the fuck are you talking about?  I dont know when I will get an internet connection that can stream 720p or 1080p much less or when places like Netflix will have 1080p movies streaming on day one.  No, no, blu ray has its clear advantages.  Seriously, Laserdisc failed cuz it sucked and who the fuck would take care of such a huge CD?
I am hoping the prices of movies comes down too.  It used to be you could get  a new DVD for 16 bucks on day one, they need to get day one blu rays down to 20 bucks instead of 30 or 35 like they do now.

"What the fuck are you talking about?  I dont know when I will get an internet connection that can stream 720p or 1080p much less or when places like Netflix will have 1080p movies streaming on day one.  No, no, blu ray has its clear advantages.  Seriously, Laserdisc failed cuz it sucked and who the fuck would take care of such a huge CD?I am hoping the prices of movies comes down too.  It used to be you could get  a new DVD for 16 bucks on day one, they need to get day one blu rays down to 20 bucks instead of 30 or 35 like they do now."

I think it 'll be here for a while.

Well right now, in the near future, for companies like netflix, first they have to have the content, and they dont and wont have it day one like I said.  Also, yes, that is peak speeds we are talking about but a blu ray movies needs what, 30Mbps?  So Yes it can be possible, no question but that requires lots of people have such fast internet connections, and the move to universal broadband is still on going.  Also, the badnwidth that providers to have to have to provide that is also not there, I mean, how many times do servers get hit with too many users that downloads and streams are pretty bad?
I do believe it is possible but just not gonna happen any time soon, maybe in ten years.  Or maybe when the blu ray is on its deathbed.

Yeah, I can see that its not exactly going to come tomorrow. All I will say though is the way speeds have improved over the past 10 years has been pretty drastic. Hell, less than 10 years ago I was on 56k. I can still hear the modem trying to dial out. I just wouldn't rule Blu-Ray out of being quite a short-lived luxury -- I say luxury because I reckon DVD and DVD upscaling will put up a good enough fight for a long enough time that Blu-Ray won't be taken into mainstream viewing for a little while yet, I wouldn't bet on the discontinuation of DVDs for at least another couple of years.

hey, good blog.
here in ireland, i dont think we'll have to worry about streaming hd videos for a while...the fact that sony have released a psn game over here on blu-ray just shows how far behind we are..

i dont think it will replace DVD though - too little difference for too much price difference

"i dont think it will replace DVD though - too little difference for too much price difference"

"people like to own things, still.  To hold them in their hands.  To show them off to friends and relatives.  Ownership is a form of self expression.  "

 A way to get round that then would be for you to have full license to modify the format of whatever you have digitally bought. You can watch that single copy of The Dark Knight you bought on your iPod, Xbox, PS3, Phone and TV set top box and show it off easily that way.

Unification is the key, I don't think it would be practical to have to buy something 4-5 different times to get it on the formats you want, and I don't see that happening forever.