Is Blu-ray the new Laserdisc?Next-gen optical format promises to revolutionize the industry with features unavailable to previous formats... but it runs afoul of corporate infighting, high prices, and consumers uninterested in changing formats. Eventually they decide, en masse, to stick with what they already know.
Sound familiar? That's what relegated Laserdisc to an oddball obscurity back in the 1980s, and it's an uncanny description of the current situation with Blu-ray today.
Well, I kind of
said this months ago. Plus, I'm still not sure that downloaded movies are going to replace hard media when it comes to movies. Least not anytime soon.