Apple and Blu Ray

I'll post this here too since its such a hot topic.
Interesting comment today from Jobs regarding Blu Ray and Apple:
http://live.gizmodo.com/
“Blu-ray is a bag of hurt. I don’t mean from the consumer point of view. It’s great to watch movies, but the licensing is so complex. We’re waiting until things settle down, and waiting until Blu-ray takes off before we burden our customers with the cost of licensing.” - Steve Jobs 10/14/08

I think the truth is in-between a bit. There are some FCS users today who need to deliver BR and it's too bad the suite doesn't support it. And maybe this Christmas, with all the financial turmoil, BR gets discounted down to the "takeoff" point level (maybe not).
But few folks have enough bandwidth to the home today to do without physical media. Nevertheless, I agree that regular DVDs with most folks new TVs and new DVD players, look good enough to forestall an expensive change. Maybe 2009 is "the year of blu-ray," like the "year of the LAN" or other mythical sightings of change....

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