[Jmouse007]

Headline is totally misleading. Netflix will not kill Blu-ray, it is just another option to receiving content. As for me, I would rather own a high-def Blu-ray HARD copy of a film rather than a DVD or a downloaded compressed file of the movie saved to a hard drive. The last time I checked, hard drives CRASH and there goes all of your "saved" movie content. Also, the quality of video streaming via Net Flix et, al comes no where near the quality of a high-def Blu-ray disk.

"Nail in the coffin"... hardly

[03A3]

Agreed.

[RayChuang88]

I agree 100%. People forget that the data rate for H.264 video on a Blu-ray disc is 25-35 megabits per second, and unless you live in South Korea, parts of Japan or a small portion of Europe, there's NO WAY you can stream that high-quality video over an Internet connection. Besides, with download caps imposed by many Internet Service Providers, that could limit the appeal of streamed video viewing, too.

As such, Blu-ray will continue to thrive, especially with the price of players continuing to drop and the price of discs almost the same as their DVD release counterparts.

[krb]

The last time I checked, hard drives CRASH and there goes all of your "saved" movie content.

The condition of your hard drive has nothing whatsoever to do with streaming services like Netflix.

I think the point is that while people like you will always prefer nice, durable plastic that will last about 10 years for your movies, the HD-BD battle waged on so long that an alternate approach that is perfectly acceptable to a lot of other people took over. Bluray discs will, sadly, never ever reach the level of success that DVDs achieved.

Perhaps next time a battle like this looms on the horizon, the industry won't decide to kill itself.

[Sans-Culotte]

"Nail in the coffin"... hardly

I agree. I stream Netflix via my Blu-ray player; but it is mainly old TV shows. I enjoy being able to watch the Dick Van Dyke Show or Have Gun-Will Travel without having to collect all the discs (and I will not watch those shows repeatedly, anyway). The quality is not near Blu-ray. Even HD stuff I have archived on my DiSH receiver (and its extra external hard drive) is not Blu-ray quality.

I don't know why there is always someone trying to spread FUD about Blu-ray. Remember the Toshiba upconverting DVD player that was supposed to spell the end of Blu-ray? Besides, Blu-ray is cheap now.

[shotgun]

The blu-ray nail in the coffin for me is the need to update my systems firmware to watch the ever changing format coupled with the fact that over 90% of my Netflix bluray rentals always had some serious glitch during the best part of the movie. Maybe it is my POS Sharp player but after about 6 months in I changed to standard DVD format and have no problems...