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Bad Signs For Blu-ray
Ian Lamont writes "More than six months after HD-DVD gave up the ghost, there are several signs that Sony's rival Blu-ray format is struggling to gain consumer acceptance. According to recent sales data from Nielsen, market share for Blu-ray discs in the U.S. is declining, and Sony and its Blu-ray partners are trying several tactics to boost the format — including free trial discs bundled into magazines and cheap Blu-ray players that cost less than $200."
At our local Borders, my wife happily picked up a "dvd" from the dvd shelf. She bought it and had the outer packaging off by the time she realized that it was blu-ray. We went back into the store and found that out of an entire wall of dvds, the movie she had picked was the only blu-ray title. Since the outer packaging was off, Borders initially refused an exchange for a dvd of the same title (which they had displayed somewhere else entirely, instead of on the dvd wall). They claimed (probably truthfully) that even though we had bought it five minutes previously, with the packaging off, they couldn't "return" it or resell it. I politely refused to budge and they eventually let us exchange - their solution for themselves was simply to put the blu-ray version on the "defective shelf."
Boo blu-ray.
Why on earth would I want to buy a blu-ray player? Our dvds work fine and look great on our crappy, ancient TV.
We get it. You want to screw us. You NEED to screw us. Really we get it. But we're not going to take it anymore. Goddamnit you won the format war and you RAISED prices. Screw you burn in hell and I hope all of you and your kids all get ass cancer and die.