No, this isn't going to be a post about some definitive news about the downfall of Blu-ray. Since news has been kind of slow the past seven days (believe it or not), we're going to give everyone what we like to call a "discussion opportunity". Personally, Blu-ray isn't meant for movies. Hear me out. I was checking out my external hard drive's contents earlier and noticed that the entire series of Arrested Development is about 10GB -- one season is actually in "HD". Now, maybe watching a single movie on a 50GB capacity Blu-ray disc is fine by you, but I don't think that's where the money will be. If Blu-ray starts utilizing that space to put entire series' onto a single disc and marking up the price a measly $10 (so you'd get all of Arrested Development for about $35), there are many people out there who'd start picking up their favorite shows.
Another example: Justice League and Justice League Unlimited -- a total of 91 episodes -- are taking up a total of 13GB on my hard drive. Scale them to 1080p, pack in some neato extra features... price it at $50. You'd be stupid not to buy it! Heck, while we're in the animated show realm, if you purchase box sets of anime, you know sometimes they'll charge criminally exorbitant prices for those DVDs. Plop them all on a single Blu-ray and... perhaps you won't have to buy the perfect collection of Evangelion for $129.99.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the prices would be the same, if not higher. But, but... think of the shelf space you'd save! I really do think that Blu-ray would have a really nice market if they did something like this. I'd go out and buy more shows if I could have them all crammed onto a single disc for a fraction of the cost of one season of the DVD's. Now, it's your opportunity to discuss this theory.
