Why early high-def disc adoption rates don't really matter

Here is a good article over at Ars Technica about the current high definition format war. It talks about how the Blu-ray people are all excited about Blu-ray passing the 1 million discs sold mark. It puts into perspective just how unimportant such a statistic is. One thing I found particularly amusing is when it points out that in its first week of release, Borat sold more DVDs than there have been of Blu-ray and HD-DVD combined. It kind of puts the whole thing into better perspective.

Personally, I want Blu-ray to fail miserably. Most of this stems from my hatred of Sony moreso than any technical reasoning. Sony has had a history of just being a generally bad company, and the whole rootkit thing was pretty much the straw the broke the camel's back. Had a person done what they did, the person would be thrown in jail. Hopefully, the PS3 will wind up being some sort of failure, and we can kiss the company goodbye for good. Don't get me wrong, I'd be sad to see the TVs go, as Sony does make some darn nice one. And no, I'm not so naive as to think that Sony would actually go away, or that the PS3 will be that big of a flop, but a man can dream, right? Speaking of the PS3 and Blu-ray sales, I've got a feeling that the only reason the disc sales have been as good as they are is because there are roughly 3 million players out there in those consoles.