The Blu-ray Rollercoaster: Adoption Rate Surges Again
Mingki Tsui | September 26, 2010
Every time a new, trailblazing technology debuts, pundits and technology-lovers begin the process of predicting just how fast it will replace its predecessors and competitors. It happened with CDs, it happened with DVDs and it is happening now with Blu-ray. If you check the news stories (and op-eds) of the last three years, you will find that the adoption rate of Blu-ray players, not to mention the pricier recorders, has fluctuated up and down in strange and often unfathomable cycles.