Blu-ray a bag of hurt?

A new blog post by Marco looked at Blu-ray and whether it is a bag of hurt as Steve Jobs puts it.

Well I have to admit that I recently purchased a Philips Blu-ray player. But it was open box and cost less than $90, so the player itself wasn’t too bad. But last weekend I rented a Blu-ray movie to watch and then found out that the extra features are not available because this is a “rental” disk. Basically, I have to pay over $20 for a Blu-ray disk for any additional contents. I would say $20+ for a Blu-ray movie, and rental disk have no extra features, hurts, my feels and would hurt my wallet.

Yes the 1080p resolution looked great on my HDTV. I have Apple TV 2 as well. The 720p rental from iTunes is not that bad compared to 1080p, but definitely not as good. I think currently the iTunes movie rental is also overpriced. $4.99 a pop for a 720p HD recent release. I would not pay for that. I can play Netflix on it too. But the quality is generally even worse.

With net neutrality basically dead, I wonder how much we would have to pay for the greedy entertainment industry in the future?

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