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there is a lot of blather in this article, but not a lot of fact to support it.
Fact is, bluray sales are going up. Iron Man was the biggest selling bluray disc ever. 20 percent of all retail sales of Ironman were bluray, 50 percent of online sales were bluray.
Market share is growing, and while it has slowed, the price cuts and black Friday should boost that, and it's not shrinking at a rate inconsistent with what is happening in the overall electronics market in general. It's not dead or dying. It could certainly grow faster, though, and certainly I can see it not having the legs of DVD because of downloading (though it took me 12 fricken hours to download Speed Racer HD from Sony, so I still don't think video download is quite there yet from a mass market standpoint). So i think this guy is a being a little too negative without actually looking at the numbers.
And I'm sorry, but upconverted looks good, sure, but not HD good. Dolby HD sound is really noticeably better then 5.1. It's not the jump DVD was to VHS, but it's not exactly a tiny step either.
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