Are You Ready to Replace Your DVD Player With Blu-ray?

Waiting for disc prices to come down to reasonable levels

im not buying a bluray player, i find it arcane now to be concerned about purchasing entertainment on a particular media as opposed to online, seems like a waste of $$ to me

I don't know the last time I rented or purchased a DVD, and the same thing would happen if I bought a Blu-ray player.

Will switch to blu-ray when I can buy a player that will record blu-ray disks from standard input AND when a 9" portable blu-ray player costs under two hundred bucks.

Media is dead.

I will buy a blu-ray player when it is compatible with my non-hdcp monitor. Because of HDCP I guess I'm just gonna be forced to pirate them. Ahhh, Irony. You didn't think about that did ya, a perfectly willing paying customer forced into piracy by your pathetic schemes to prevent people from copying movies. Oh and the Audio quality crap is what really gets to me. Why can't I listen to SACDs through optical, huh? Afraid that instead of just ripping the SACD I'm gonna record it?

Yes, let's not enjoy movies in the greatest format available as of right now for whatever reason. Film fan huh?

Idiots...

Waiting to find a region-free player.

I am not going to buy a Blu-Ray player but I am going to buy a Blu-Ray drive to put into my PC so that I can rip Blu-Ray movies on to my media center PC and pipe the stored movies to any TV I want.

But that wasn't an option, so I picked "Other"

Where's the "media prices are too *$&@ high" option? I don't think I've ever paid as much for a DVD as Blu-Ray discs are going for, and I was an early adopter... I got my first one when you could still buy new Laserdiscs.

The thing I have discovered is that after the first 2 minutes of "gee wiz!", I find that the contents are so much more important than the media. Unless there is something distracting in the media, I enjoy a story the same whether it's on DVD, VHS, or hi-def.

When the MOVIES are reasonably priced, then I'll add a BD-ROM to my HTPC setup, bit I will not move until the Blu-Ray tax is a thing of the past. It will cost me plenty to upgrade... one of the monitors on my HTPC is apparently not HTPC compliant, which makes it even more frustrating to have to pay twice - once for hardware and again for each movie I buy.

I think we all know that the HD tax is a joke: it likely costs a few pennies more to mass-produce HD media, and yet we see a retail difference of $5,$10, or even more.

Of course, we got similarly shafted at the beginning of the DVD revolution. DVD's cost less to make than VHS, and we paid a $5 premium for those at first. (consequently, I only bought DVD movies on sale.)

Yes, I am usually an early adopter, but I see the shaft here, and I'm not an idiot.

I got a PS3 and later bought the Blu-Ray of the Dark Knight... never got the HDMI cable that I needed to watch it in high def. It's still a good movie. I should probably buy that cable one day though.

Other.

Was an early adopter - VGN-AR190G laptop.
Can play DVDs or Blu-ray.
All new movie buys are on Blu-ray.
Why buy 'ok' when you can buy 'great'?

I have a PlayStation 3 which has a Blu-Ray + DVD-player + Game Player in one.
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The PS3 is the best Blu-Ray player out there (due to the ability to upgrade the firmware) but the actual drive has a high fall over rate. Sony needs to address this and repair for free as a manufacturing fault