When enthusiast sites fail to show any enthusiasm...

[TheRealBob]

Originally Posted by Grubert

We aren't talking about a thread here (which would be stuff for the "Rant thread" over in the off-topic section).

I'll talk about whatever I want to when I'm hijacking your thread.

But, seriously, I was responding to that post, not your original post, which I mostly agree with.

Originally Posted by Grubert

Here we see that the administrators of a site, the week after Blu-ray won (and also the week after HMM gave space to the editors of thedigitalbits.com and hollywoodinhidef.com) submit an editorial for publication in the following issue and rain on Blu-ray's parade:

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ques...php?startid=12

Yep.

I do think the issues are tied together. I think there was a lot of bitterness in this war and some of the sour grapes are spilling over into irrational anti-Blu-ray sentiment.

I think a lot of these analysts were rooting for HD DVD, and they got as polarized as a lot of other people did, so now that their favorite lost they're talking up vaporware downloads as the next big thing.

I think the sooner we get to a new reality where BD is just simply the high-def successor to DVD, the sooner some people are going to take a hard look at BD vs. downloads and realize that BD has much more to offer. I think the bitterness that still rages on the Blu-ray side is slowing the transition to that new era.