So anyone think it's still 'too early' to buy into Blu-ray?

[phatrat1982]

I have been talking to some people I know any they keep telling me they want Blu Ray but it's still too early for them. I got to thinking about that and at first your natural reply is well there are already plenty of movies out and plenty coming all the time, but I actually gave 2 people who do look at the releases all the time and continue to say they still don't see enough they would personally be interested in to make the plunge, yet.


I even bought a Blu Ray player for one of these people, my sister, for Christmas, and she has yet to buy a single Blu Ray because she swears either their just aren't enough movies that interest her, or the ones that do are still over priced. I asked her to make a list of all the movies already on Blu ray she would buy and she said that would take too much time, since she is a stay at home mom I gave her that one. So I made up a list of movies I knew she would be interested in and it wasn't a very big list.


I did the same thing for my dad and for a friend of mine and my friend had the most movies on his list that were available but he is unemployed at the moment so he can't afford to go Blu Ray just yet, I offered to buy all of his DVD's and upgrade him to Blu Ray with the money, he was at first ok until we went through the list of DVD's he has and only found 10 that are on Blu Ray, out of 120 movies. And he has a ton of recent hits not all old shit either.



So I started making a list of all the movies that *I* want on Blu ray and comparing that to the list of available titles and even I found that my list does not match up even now. Sure I currently own 46 movies on Blu Ray and at last count there was something like 60 or so more available I am interested in but it got me thinking if someone like me, who believes in the format has trouble finding movies, maybe it really is too early for people who have different taste that the studios aren't meeting their needs.

My sister did indicate that she would for sure be buying 10 Things I hate About You on Blu Ray, just as soon as her local Walmart has a copy for her to buy.