[quote name='thrustbucket']Graphically it won't be better. But it has bluray included! How can you not want that?![/QUOTE]
1. DVD works just fine for me.
2. I don't notice a huge graphical improvement between DVD and the new HD standards. It's there, it just doesn't look like an enormous improvement to me.
3. I just started buying DVD's in 2000. I'm not ready to start buying all my movies all over again.
4. DVD's offered a huge amount of improvements over VHS tapes, which was why I willingly switched:
-No rewinding movies
-Chapter select, jump to a scene
-Extra features, making of, commentary
-Multiple language soundtracks
-Occasionally computer content
-No moving parts on the media
-Non-magnetic storage
-Digital content which (potentially) makes for easier storage.
-Better picture quality.
Blu-Ray, on the other hand, offers:
-Better picture quality (we'll come back to this)
-Higher storage capability
-A host of "features" which benefit the manufacturers but not me. (we'll come back to this also)
5. I just bought a HDTV last year, and it's already obsolete if I want to use Blu-Ray. My TV uses DVI, and HDMI is required for the new standard. If I manage to plug in my PS3 or Blu-Ray player into the TV with S-Video or RCA cables, then I've kind of lost the benefit of having a Blu-Ray player. I'm not interested in buying:
-a new TV or a set-top box
-an expensive Blu-Ray player
-expensive HDMI cables
.....just to get the latest and greatest "benefits" of HD.
6. The higher storage capabilities of the Blu-Ray discs will be used for 2 things.... storing the higher information density because of the Hi-Def standards, and storing extra commercials and trailers. It won't be used, for example, to sell me the entire Neon Genesis series on 1-2 discs. Why would they do this when they can parcel ou the purchase over 12-15 discs, thus improving the perceived value of what I'm receiving? Also, want to take odds on what percentage of movies will allow you to skip past the trailers and commercials? So, why do I need this higher storage capacity?
7. Image Constraint Token. Look this up, if you're not familiar with what it is. Many movie studios apparently have a secret agreement not to implement this "feature" until 2012, when most homes will have Blu-Ray players. Every player will have the feature built-in, though, from day one. Your shiny new PS3 included.
8. Cryptographic Token Revocation. The Blu-Ray standard involves a "feature" whereby, if a manufacturer's set of crypto "keys" (installed on every player) becomes compromised, the industry can revoke all of that manufacturer's keys, thus rendering your Samsung player useless. How can they revoke the keys inside your Blu-Ray player? Well, that leads us to number
9. Unauthorized firmware updates. In order to make sure that the consumers are playing by their rules, they plan on including firmware updates on future movie releases. Scenario goes like this:
-Samsung(for example) somehow has some of their crypto keys leaked to a hacker group, who begin to distribute Blu-Ray unlocking software.
-Blu-Ray Association requires a firmware update to go out and patch this vulnerability.
-Update rolls out on Mission Impossible 5 disc, which you rent from Blockbuster.
-You put the disc into your player, and without asking your permission, it tells your player to update and change the way that it works. This particular change "revokes" all existing Samsung crypto keys, so the update tells the player to erase its keys.
-Your player now can't work; at least, it won't read Blu-Ray discs, which is what you bought it to do.
I think I've covered a few reasons on why someone could not want Blu-Ray.
May have missed a few, though. This was off the top of my head.
ing goad people into your way of thinking that new technology is useless.
