Blu-ray, Read This, We Demand...An Open Letter...

You might have won the war blu-ray, but that doesn't mean that you can continue screwing us the consumers. I, like most of us who post in this site, LOVE MOVIES, we enjoy watching movies, whether it might be Citizen Kane, Lord of the Rings, or Superman IV: Quest for Peace (shut up, it is entertaining, more than SIII), Star Wars, you name it, good or bad movies, we love them, and we surely love to have them in discs.

Remember, DVD gave us the right to demand quality, and quality is what YOU SHOULD deliver. If I wanted SD extras, I would buy SD DVDs, not high-def discs. DVD also gave us audio commentaries, deleted scenes, featurettes, making-ofs, multiple audio feeds, multiple subtitles, trailers, to say the least.

Blu-ray, stand up and show your true capabilities we the consumers, DEMAND top-notch Audio AND Video quality, as well as all special features in HD, at least 720p. Make those 20 gigs worth.

Blu-ray, prove us HD DVD fanboys wrong, whow US that you can deliver all the goods for once, at very reasonable prices. It is your chance of making all of us who dislike you for one thing or another, to shut our mouths and to say, 'I am here as the proud and RELIABLE successor of DVD'...

Let's hope, for I want to watch ALL the Pixar movies in HD...

Well said,

Blu has to get a fully 2.0 compatible and future proof player to the masses ASAP, and not the PS3 (although I love mine.)

That needs to be priority 1 for sony. Meanwhile the studios have got to begin Ironing out the special features as you mention. Also, Can we get some titles? I have about 30 Blu ray movies and dont plan on buying anymore until we get some decent releases.

markleville, I don't see that happening right away. Why would Sony want to obstruct possible sales of the PS3. This has been the problem with BR from the beginning. BR success = more PS3 sales = more incentive for developers to make games.

Who knows how long it will take for an affordable 2.0 player to be available, and who knows if Sony's strategy will pay off or blow up in their face.

Oh, and mvckalel, I second that motion!

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Who knows how long it will take for an affordable 2.0 player to be available,

Thats sort of a sinking fear I have as well. It wouldn't kill the format per say but, would anyone really be shocked if we didnt see a 200 dollar blu ray player until christmas 2008 at best? IF then?

Sony has taken a ton of losses promoting the PS3 and Blu ray, PS3 being their future cash cow they are going to want to use its blu ray capabilities to make bank.

Anyway, just my 2c. Wont be shocked if we dont see an affordable player until this christmas.

All very good points, mvckalel. That is why I am not going Blu anytime soon. Like I've said before, I'll be find with my HD VMD player/upconverting DVD player, SDVDs and my HD projector.

Which brings me to another point...If Sony is the one 'dominating' the hi-def format, shouldn't we be afraid they will actually NOT lower prices? I am interested in investing in blu-ray, but the PS3 for me it's not the answer it is a $400 'gaming console' that doesn't have many titles worth it.

I hope Sony doesn't become even more greedy and stops lowering prices, because it is not my fault that they had to lower prices in order to sell their PS3s...

With consumers no longer able to choose between HD DVD and Blu-Ray Sony has no reason to do anything but leave things as they are now.

Yeah they do, getting people to buy Blu-ray is reason enough. Just because there isn't a format war doesn't mean blu-ray has won.

They won the hi-def disc war, not the hi-def war overall. Me myself, I don't like downloads, I Love having the discs as a collection and show them off, something I can't really do online...I love the shiny discs, the horrible artwork, and those awful flip discs, lol...

I just hope Sony doesn't screw us, they've already stoped the 5 free blu-rays by mail, so...

just to let you guys know, most catalog titles that were avail with tons of extras on special edition dvds .. on blue have just the movie. alot of fox titles too. they expect you to double dip and but the bluray special edition. lol

W@nkers