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Originally Posted by Dyne
Yeah, but now you have more interactive menus, picture-in-picture, and online functions.
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Just not the same as the jump from VHS to DVD.
Case in point, there are plenty of people (in fact, millions) who still have the crappiest standard definition TVs (including me) who would be willing to pay more for a new DVD player than pay less for a VHS player -- even several years ago when VHS was still an option (point being that DVD made VHS obsolete for a reason, and it wasn't high-definition TVs). You do not have the same thing for Bluray or HD-DVD. Angrist is absolutely right there, and like Bube was trying to say, Bluray is an evolution, while DVD was a revolution. This is pretty commonly held belief.
I think the adoption of Bluray will become the norm over DVD when both Bluray players and Bluray movies are equal to the price of DVDs. Will that ever happen? I doubt it, at least for a very long time.