Digital Home Thoughts: A Poem to Blu-ray: Let Me Count The Ways In Which I Loathe Thee...

"Blu-ray player sales are sucking wind as well they should. According to Cnet, sales of the DRM infected format players are dropping like rocks. The not so bright people out there had expected sales to skyrocket once the format war was done, but it didn't. They thought was people would ignore the massive defects of Blu-ray and buy like the dumb sheep that they are, handcuffing themselves to the Sony bank account. Surprise, it didn't happen. US consumers are still dumb sheep, but this time they are realizing what is being done to them and they aren't biting. Sony's hope of having 50% of disc sales this year be Blu-ray are more likely to happen because of falling DVD sales than rocketing Blu-ray."



It's official, Charlie Demerjian is my new hero. Why? Because he wrote this article that, with all the subtlety of a wolverine tearing into a pack of bacon, points out (with a sharp, bloody stick) the problems that Blu-ray has. Some of these are similar to what HD-DVD struggled with (high disc prices, marginally better quality), and some are uniquely Blu-ray issues. This delightful article will be sure to get your blood boiling if you're a big Blu-ray fan, though if you are, I'd love to hear your counter-points.