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Javier, You could have read that on this forum as well, more than a month ago. Even in this same thread! Read post #28, where Sarah says/asks the same. Some of the later replies confirm it. Yes, BD sales are up, but unfortunately cannot fully make up yet for declining DVD sales...

But one problem is, Stephen, you are looking forward to the prospect. Some of us definitely are not. Cees

??? Your post says exactly the same on hundreds of monitor screens of different readers of this forum. Even on the same screen if someone decides to read your thoughts again the next day. Even when someone emptied his cache. Cees

But 30 fps for TV in the US is based on the 60 Hz period of the main power systems in the USoA, giving rise to 60Hz / 2 = 30fps (because of the even/odd interleave) NTSC specs. In Europe, where the power voltage has always been higher, the frequency was (and is) lower, namely 50Hz, so PAL has...

Those interested in streaming video may be a different demographic than those interested in collecting films. For instance, when a movie I'm highly interested in comes out on Blu-ray (or DVD), I may buy it - and when I just saw it shortly before, I may put it in my collection and not...

The format war also did permanent damage to HD DVD. More. Cees

Scott, Excellent point. The sales of the two formats should not be added to predict the success of the BD format. All it says is, that the Blu-ray sales don't make up for the diminishing sales of SDVD - yet. And only the amount of discs bought, I guess. Currently, BDs are about...

I buy more blu-ray discs than the number of DVD I bought in, say 1999 and 2000. If it's a movie (or TV series) I really want, I always pre-order; if it's a movie I already have on DVD (and not in my very-top-must-own-list), I may wait for some discount. The exception are most Criterion...