Why have you not switched to Blu-ray?

I just don't watch a lot of movies at home. All of my tvs are HD but I don't see any reason to get blueray. DVDs still look good enough and i can get hi def pay-per-view.

I'm going to hop on the stream everything off of computer/internet train instead of having yet another physical media to have to deal with.

Too expensive for sure... I don't want to spend a lot of money in technology that is going to be superseded by digital downloads in the not so distant future. The quality will rival Blu-Ray eventually, and it's already good enough that most non-luddites can't tell the difference with a DVD.

There needs to be an option "I refuse to buy BD because they make it difficult to copy the movie to my computer/ipod/whatever"

None of the above? I don't care about the format. I'm paying attention to the next generation which is online distribution. I don't want to buy, for even $5 ea., blue ray disks that are going to look a lot like my DVD's in a few years, obsolete.

Just my two cents. Nothing to click on above that fits for me.

No BluRay for Macs... I watch my movies in my laptop, so no bluray for me...

My vote is b/c the technology will be dead soon as I'll be getting my movies in HD from the cloud. I'm not going to spend the scratch on a format that may not last more than a few more years.

I'd only go to BluRay if I wanted to keep a movie collection, which I don't right now. Frankly I'm sick of having piles of plastic discs everywhere. I don't buy CDs any more, and now I get most movies on DVD from Netflix (and they look great on my Samsung HDTV via my Xbox 360). BluRay would just be another frustrating physical medium with which to clutter my apartment, and it will be obsolete in 5 years anyway. What's the point?

Where's the option for other? I parted ways with physical media awhile ago.

I rarely buy DVDs and am a happy Netflix subscriber. They have less Blueray availability--fewer titles available and fewer disks of an available title. Plus the Bluerays are apparently more easily broken in shipping. Not worth it at this point.

It's not the players that are too expensive (that's generally a one time expense) - it's the films that cost too much! (That and I do have a collection of 600+ dvd's to replace).
I really wish they had a system where you would buy a license to a certain film, and then depending on which media / format you wanted it in you had to pay an appropriate extra ammount - so upgrading from dvd to blu-ray (and any future formats) wouldn't cost a ton.

You can download HD movies online? Granted on 1080p right now but perhaps sometime in the future.

I say "It's still too expensive" because I can obtain HD video on demand from multiple different broadcast services as well as online. So, the expense is simply buying the hardware when I don't need it to view it. Clutter! I love tech, but I prefer it to be functional and hidden. I don't really like seeing it when it's not really meant to be seen. (not the video, the discs and players and wires and blah blah blah).

What about the unwritten choice #7: "Contempt: I don't want to support the unethical under-the-table deals for BluRay to kill the more consumer-wallet-friendly HD-DVD?

Most of the movies I want I've either already got or can get online in good enough quality. While there is the odd exception (wall-e, transformers, earth...etc) where the difference is really noticeable, for the most part, I'm not going to watch many movies being released today enough times to make it worth the investment. If anything happens to my current collection then maybe I'll trade up, but as of yet I'm in no hurry...

I think the survey completely misses the real issue. In my opinion, it's not the cost of the system itself keeping the format down, its the bloated price of the media (the bluray movies), at a time when you can buy most DVD's in the $10-12 range, I can't justify paying $25-30 for a movie I'm am only likely to watch once. I do have the PS3, but I rent bluray movies from Netflix instead of purchasing the discs at retail. I think the format would take off if they lowered the price of the discs to the $15 range. If not, they can practically give away the players and I don't think that will help much with adoption of the format since purchasing only 3-4 movies puts you at $100. I don't think most people are willing to pay more than a just a few dollars extra for bluray discs over the cost of DVDs.

Even though the players are cheaper, its way too expensive for a bluray dvd or even bluray dvdrs

I'm going on web stream bandwagon as well and skip physical media altogether.

Answer: Expensive
Explanation: Its the discs, not the player, that is too expensive.

Didn't vote. Need category for - too painful to switch.

- need to use hdmi
- too hard to copy
- lots of other HD sources avail (cable / TiVo / amazon / iTunes / torr)
- DVDs look good enough for the occasional rental

None of the above. I can rip DVDs, I can't rip Blu-ray discs, and the marginal improvement in quality isn't worth losing the ability to rip and watch where I want.

Same here, I'm on the streaming/digital download bandwagon with my TiVo HD.

I also do not want to pay for a physical media, and the fact the the newer new physical media will come out and demand I toss out my blu-ray disc for their medium. I just realized that it is also very green of us not to be buying all this physical crap as well. Digitize everything and allow the consumer to choose on which platform they would like to use it.

I'm going to skip this totally unnecessary home entertainment phase. Digital media stored on hard plastic disc is anathema. Home servers and media extenders or even completely streaming solutions will so quickly supplant BluRay as to make it an 8-Track blip in history.

holding out for digital distribution. The spinning disc is a relic, propped up by sony and hollywood studios to keep the dream of the good old days alive...

Neither the original Star Wars series nor the LOTR series is on Blue Ray. So what's the point?

I don't always watch movies on disc, but when I do -- I watch Blue-Ray. Oh, and I really only occasionally drink Dos Equis.
Honest, for both!

Other - I use my PC for watching things, and I do see a difference between BR and DVD, but what I see is that BR makes things look even less real, rather than more - something about the way they're airbrushing makeup and postprocessing everything, maybe. Overall BR is, to me, like MiniDisk - nice tech for someone, I'm sure, but not me, ever.

Maybe if it stored more than 100GB I would use it for storage...

Blur Ray Disks are just to expensive. $20+ a disk? It's hardly worth it. I also don't feel like buying a new blu ray player. Even if they are $200 I still think digital downloading is the way to go. I'm actually digitizing my dvd collection as I write this message. It's so much more convenient being able to browse my movies in Windows Media Center or load up boxee from the couch. You can call me lazy but I find it extremely sweet being able to search through my movies without scanning them one by one in their packages. It's not about laziness. It's the cool factor of technology.

Physical media are over.

Agree with the majority above - major missing item in the options is waiting for digital distribution or satisfied with the current digital/download options. I like taking my movies, and they fit better (and are easier to "loan") on hard drives than on physical media.

The main reason I haven't switched is that I see the future of video content being in streaming on-demand video. Since I spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars over the last decade building a library of a couple hundred DVDs, I don't see any point in spending all that money again to migrate my library to BluRay, only to get burned when the paradigm shifts to streaming on-demand HD content in a couple more years.

+1 for streaming movies from the cloud. I've no interest in Blu-Ray at all.

I've got to say that I'm surprised that Giz failed to have this as an option on this poll.

I can't make blu-ray backups yet. So I won't get one until my computer can back them up.

Because by the time it comes out on bluray I've already seen it and I very rarely watch films twice. Although, occasionally I'll just download a blu-ray rip of a really great movie and watch that.

In regards to a home computer, Blu-Ray is excellent for backups -- 50GB to a dual-layer disc!

As far as movies -- half our collection is Blu-Ray -- only the movies that we care to watch over and over (besides, the extra's are in Blu-Ray and are really excellent).

It's all crap. No matter how good it looks crap is crap.

The discs themselves are still too expensive. They need to be on par with DVD. Otherwise, I am fine up-converting my normal DVDs. I know I lose something compared with BR, but they extra $10-$20 for a BR is not worth it.

Optical media is over with. Spending money on it is a waste.

I don't mind the price of the players, but the discs are still too expensive.

I think it's great, But you better be good at electronics
because the update of the firmware on the Blue -Ray is gonna drive you Crazy! LOL But I still Love the clean picture quality.

It's too expensive in the sense that a) I don't want to replace all my DVDs AGAIN, and b) I am not certain this is the final step in the HD home video race and don't want to spend money on an interim solution. It's that simple.

Blu-ray players have backwards compatibility issues with CDs