http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/27/2012-the-year-blu-ray-will-overcome-dvd-sales/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:43:43 -0500 hourly 1 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/27/2012-the-year-blu-ray-will-overcome-dvd-sales/comment-page-1/#comment-750323 Paul Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:19:50 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=28935#comment-750323 Your old DVD collection is safe, as Blu-ray is backwards compatible. This is fundamentally different from the VHS-to-DVD transition. Personally, I'm not replacing many of my DVDs with Blu-ray, but all new movies I buy are Blu-ray, so it's a steady migration. I do agree that HD adoption and Blu-ray adoption rates are directly related. Hopefully once the digital switchover occurs, more people will upgrade their TVs. As for physical media versus download... don't get me started. Your old DVD collection is safe, as Blu-ray is backwards compatible. This is fundamentally different from the VHS-to-DVD transition. Personally, I’m not replacing many of my DVDs with Blu-ray, but all new movies I buy are Blu-ray, so it’s a steady migration. I do agree that HD adoption and Blu-ray adoption rates are directly related. Hopefully once the digital switchover occurs, more people will upgrade their TVs.
As for physical media versus download… don’t get me started.

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