Universal Studios under pressure to support Blu-ray?

[Anthony P]

As far as your last comment, BR will probably not overcome DVD within its lifetime. Look how long its taken DVD to get where it is and when it first was released, EVERY household could make use of it. Right now less than 40% of households can. Its going to be niche until its replacement arrives. We'll probably need new TV's for that too though

that is wrong. Back in 97 many people had TVs with only antenna input, in order to see DVD you needed to either get a TV with inputs or a modulator. As for BD you are wrong there as well. Let's take the worst case scenario, someone has an old TV with just RF, he had his DVD connected so he bought a modulator that takes composite as an input, can he connect a brand new BD player to that set using the same modulator? the answer is yes.


so simply put anyone that can watch DVDs today on their TV can watch BD (not the best setup but they can watch) anyone that had a TV and just bought a DVD player might have needed something to connect.

The other difference is that anyone that used the VCR for more then just movie watching (which is everyone) still needed a VCR even if he bought a DVD player (because DVD was none recordable at the time) since then the VCR has dropped in importance (HDD recorders.....) and so “playback only” is not as bad as it used to be (not to mention that in some areas you can already buy BD recorders if one wants a do-all device)