I don't think It will stop people for buying DVD's yet. Because bluray movies are still too expensive compare to DVD's. Average bluray disc is still about $27.99 and DVD's are $17.99.

Looks like Bluray will be one of the big sellers this coming Holiday season. I might be tempted, my stepdaughter keeps leaving the PS3 controllers down for the dog to chew up! ARRRGH!

At least I can buy a universal remote for ten bucks.

I think i would rather wait and get a PS3 if they drop in price. Play sweet overly expensive games and watch sweet overly expensive movies too! yay!

Its too bad HD-DVD prices were there almost 18 months ago (before the forfeit). I'm not bitter just don't believe in overpaying for something. With any luck I might actually buy one this holiday season.

$17.99 for a DVD? Where the hell are you buying those at? I'll have 4 DVD's shipped to my door for $18.

Silly that everyone focuses on the player prices. I have a PS3, which I bought mostly for blu-ray. Yet I own 2 blu-ray titles: Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Band of Brothers. Why only that? Because they're way too expensive; Netflix is where I view my blu-rays. Drop the prices of discs, and Blu Ray WILL catch on...but if they remain almost $30, it doesn't matter how cheap the "players" get.

Yep - for $30, you could just take your family to the theater, watch the movie on a 40ft screen, and have some popcorn.

Having everything in your house just makes you a hermit. Go outside. Socialize.

Except the quality of the image on that 40ft screen is craptacular, and I'd have to pay $30 again to watch the movie more than once.

This marks an important milestone in the price of players, but until you can no longer buy 3 disks for the price of a player Blu-Ray just won't become mainstream.

I mean if you buy it in retail like Wal-Mart or Target of course.

$27.99 for a Blu-Ray disc? Add few dollars onto that and you can buy no-frills DVD player. So it figures $100 is $50 too expensive for a player.

I'm predicting that one of a blu-ray players can be even cheaper when the next Black-Friday's arrived. But I don't know if thats gonna help the consumers.

At this point I couldn't even afford to pirate and burn blu-ray movies. So I certainly have no intentions on switching.

I have used my Blue Ray Player one time, rented a movie and was not that impressed since my PS3 upscales any regular DVD to 1080P anyway.
The last time I burned a DVD on my computer was to image Debain 5 that is 4.3Gb. As far as using a Blue Ray for a backup medium I have to say this. Newegg just had 1Tb hard drive on sale for about $70 with the promo code, put that with a external enclosure and you have yourself allot of reusable backup space for about $100.
I think movies are over rated anyway and do not collect them, even a good movie is old after watching it a couple times and I don't want to see it again.

How often do you watch a movie more than once? Other than kids movies, I find that we rarely, if ever, watch a movie more than once. 99% of movies do not have good replay value.

Convert them to 1080P AVCHD with AC3 (448kbps) and burn to DVDR. Problem solved.

I watch movies a few times but usually with a significant time in between in which to forget alot of it. Besides, if the movie is probably not much good (and often even if it is good) I'd rather spend $4 hiring it on DVD and $2 on popcorn than $30 at the cinemas.

A $100.00 player sounds good but the thing won't last. I have the Samsung BD-UP5000 plays both formats Blu-ray & HDDVD, all the output options of video & audio. A sweet player i had for about 1 yr 3mo but it cost $599.00. With 2 firmware updates it has never failed to play any disc of either format load times are good to great have at least 300 hrs on it so far. My Pioneer Elite DV-37 DVD player has 12 yrs of very high use and made in Japan, never a problem it was on sale for 699.00 back then MSRP was a grand. Funny i thought Curtis Mathes was long gone i bought a CM branded NEC tv from them 18 yrs ago along with a CM branded Panasonic HI-FI dockable portable VHS recorder, they closed their doors around 2 yrs later. Goodfella's & The Godfather are very worthy repeats at least for me.

point one: i am not nor will i ever pay the price they want for these blu-rays over the price of dvd

point two: as this article states you all can just look at the piece of krap you get by spending a full $100 compared to the decent $100 DVD player you can buy.

It will be big news when a BluRay player also plays PS3 games for $100.

Wow, I bought my UP5000 used for only $300 about a year ago, you kinda got ripped off... although, to be fair, the disk drive quit and I had to send it into Samsung, they didn't charge me for it though.

Thank you China!

DVDs aren't going away soon. On an upconverting DVD player, they still look fantastic on a 1080 resolution TV. And most people aren't die-hard audiophiles to the extent that they notice that DVDs contain compressed sound. And every week the Target, Wal-Mart, and/or Best buy in my town almost always have $5 DVDs - popular ones too. That's about the same price as it is to rent! For me, BRs are cool and the picture is amazing, but for the best value, I still buy a lot of DVDs.

The day I read about a $100 Blu-Ray player that has as many features as my $96 HD-DVD player, including ALL the Internet capabilities, I'll consider getting one. I do have one HDMI-compatible HDTV in the house, so unlike the PS3 which would need analog output for the intended set, it'd get a little video use.

$200-300 for a decent Blu-Ray just isn't as important to spend now as the $350 I paid for my first crappy Toshiba DVD player. The Gee-Whiz Factor is NOT as high as the BR people would like to think...

I bought an HDDVD player XBOX attachment with 6 movies for $50. Since then I've spent another 50 a have 10 more movies. All bought brand new.

So 16 HDDVD movies + player for $100.
Blue ray... $100 for player(or 300 back when I got the HDVD) and $300-500 for 16 movies.

I'm glad I've saved hundreds and hundreds of dollars avoiding blue ray.

I don't know why people are buying bluray anyways. The discs are terribly expensive. Just download a 1080p rip and playback using something like a WDTV or Popcorn Hour and don't worry about discs.

At the time i got mine at Best Buy it was the last build dates for the BD-UP5000 Blu-ray/HDDVD combi player. The last builds had the bugs worked out of them like dts/DD master audio streams. The HDDVD pickings are getting pretty thin but at is height of bargains following the war,you could get titles for $10.00 to $15.00 at Circuit City and online. I dont think anyone makes a new model combi player for home theater systems.