One reason for this is Space 200 GB of space on a blue ray disk. When the hell are you ever going to use that much space for anything but a server size backup...(just use a hard disk.)
I dunno about you, but I have a 500GB hard drive that's about 83% full, and another 500GB external firewire drive that's about half full. A 200GB disc sounds awfully nice to me.
Second 6o to 70 dollars a piece for BD-Rs' (Blue disk recordable) and $30's a piece for HD-R's.
Where are you getting that information? Around here a single BD-R will cost you $19.99, and that's in Canadian. I have yet to see a
single store carrying blank HD-DVD media... not to mention burners. There are a few Blu-Ray burners available from various stores around here... Lite-On's 2x rewriter for about $670... LG's 4x rewriter for $650... and one from Sony for $900. Obviously, the Sony one is a rip-off, but the fact remains you can get a Blu-Ray burner for not much more than dual-layer DVD burners cost a few years back... and BD-R media for about the same price DVD+R DL cost in the same period; I imagine it will go down rather quickly. I know that if I decide to go with Blu-Ray, my first purchase will be a computer drive, not a standalone player... it seems like a much better deal to pay $650 for a burner instead of $1200 for a TV player.
Third the concept of having that damn much space on a disk that is that easy to scratch is just Stupid...
That's a bit out-of-date. Blu-Ray discs have held up better to scratches than HD-DVDs (which are just as vulnerable as DVDs) ever since the Blu-Ray Alliance got a hold of that special coating from TDK or whoever... apparently you can take steel wool to them and they'll still play fine.
Fourth and this isn't to be harsh to anybody. You can barely perceive 1/8 the colors given off by your digital TV. When you go High def with SDDS sound you can only hear 1/12 of all frequencies prevalent in SDDS. And the colour of HD TV passes into ultra violate and beyond...
I'd check into that, if I were you. It would seem a waste (and stupid; perhaps even harmful if UV comes into it) to build TVs that give off
that that extraneous radiation into invisible wavelengths. Also, I'd say 99.999% of TVs (or rather, the speakers connected to them) don't generate very much sound either above or below the average human aural capacity of 20Hz to 20,000Hz
So all of that space on the Blu-Ray that gets used by the most long length full featured film is only about 40 GB or less perfect for HD-DVD ridiculous for Blu-Ray...
I assume you've heard of special features? I won't even buy a DVD unless it has copious amounts of special features, and at least one commentary (preferably more)... this is also one of the reasons I'm waiting on the new formats. So far, the vast majority of releases have had very poor bonus features compared to their equivalent DVD versions.
However if Sony wanted to keep there Satanistic Blu-Ray disk's They could always Load Entire game series onto one disk. Like the entire Digitally masted (gone threw and completely remade with now a day tech)series of Final Fantasy...
Then I would put money into something with blu-ray...
You know, when blind hatred of Sony is the primary reason behind someone's attack on Blu-Ray it just comes off as generally stupid. Sony is only one of
many companies behind Blu-Ray, and it's silly to attack the entire format because you don't like Sony. I don't like Sony much either, and I'd surely never buy anything other than a TV from them (if that). Nearly all of their products are little more than mid-range equipment pretending to be high-end with an inflated price. However, I wouldn't let that blind me to Blu-Ray's advantages... which are many, in terms of technical specifications, over HD-DVD.