1) Digital downloads are getting more popular. That's a fact. Digital downloads will be getting more convenient and with better quality over time. That's a given. Like it or not, Blu-ray has to compete with that, which is basically competing with something more convenient (having the movie immediately without leaving your chair) and better and better quality over time (Blu-ray will always have the same quality). People will always want to own movies, but optical discs are already getting rather quaint and the glory days are coming to a close (pretty much already has with CD).
2. Having one standard is an advantage if you have a monetary interest in Blu-ray having no competition from other sourcing streams. Blu-ray really has no competition from anything optical except DVD. It sounds as if the author wants to petition against downloads or anything that would take away from a Blu-ray sale. Fortunately the average consumer prefers to have options of downloading or buying/renting a movie. Blu-ray will just have to succeed on its own merits, and not by having downloads or whatever fold up and go away because its soooo unfair.
4) True. That's the real Trojan Horse, HDTV adoption. Nothing else. Period.
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6) They sold a lot of PSPs, too.
7) Really reaching here. What's Sony gonna do, buy another studio? Stop releasing their movies on DVD? They've had failed formats before. Every company wants their products/formats to succeed, and BLu-ray probably will. But it won't be because they 'won't let it fail', but rather because they've already sacrificed their gaming franchise. Hope it was worth it.
9) Typical zealot sentiment.
This whole article is amateurish fanboy fluff. He should've just said reason 4 and left it at that.