Blue ray does not exist.

While Blue ray doesnt hold much of the market yet, it is a viable medium that is gaining popularity. Not sure what you mean by saying that blue ray doesnt exist.

Blue ray doesn't exist. Blu-ray, on the other hand ...

Wow. You two really have nothing better to do than nitpick someones spelling on the internet? That must suck.

To be fair, Blu Ray is probably a term that should be spelled correctly in this forum. While I'm at it, when did we as a society decide that the fault should lie in the party noting a transgression, rather than the transgressor? I was taught to spell words correctly with the understanding it would be expected of all of us. No one ever said I could get out of doing that by shifting the attention to whomever might call me out on my poor spelling.

The point that you missed was that it is the internet. If we were anal enough to post about every little spelling error, there wouldn't be enough bandwidth to talk about anything else.

Who shifted fault for the spelling error to someone else? The fault that was placed on someone else is not having anything better to do than point out spelling errors. They committed that transgression, not me.

Its a very common word on a forum talking about DVDs and its successor - Blu-ray. Its not a minor thing when this website was formed with DVD (and now Blu-ray) in mind. It would be like someone on a Lakers forum spelling all the players names wrong or someone on a car forum spelling Infiniti as Infinity.

If you identify the act of identifying misspelled words as the transgression, then yes, the transgressor was GHackmann. However, this would be like saying that a cop is the transgressor for writing a citation--and not accepting that speeding was the original transgression. I also remain unconvinced that being an online forum is sufficient justification for abandoning the conventions and standards of spelling and grammar. Does not the form of written communication deserve, if not demand, a greater attention to such elements if we are to properly convey our thoughts and intentions?

It's generally rude to correct people in a public forum, which this happens to be.

If you want a forum for spelling etc, try this site: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

You can debate the maturity and effectiveness of it, but misspelling things on purpose is a form of communication. For example, writing Microsoft as M$. Windows as Windoze or (my favourite) abbreviating "Recording Associate of America" to "Recording Ass. of America" is saying something more than "I can't spell".

Could we get back to something DVD related, perhaps? For example, do you think HD DVDs will displace DVDs before online, on-demand content displaces them? Will people's desire to own physical media overcome the potentially lower cost, more convenient online option?

Personally, I like owning media, don't like content rental services of any kind, and don't see the need to upgrade from DVD to a higher-resolution option.

That is all you needed to say in your post. That is indeed the transgression I was speaking of.
You are the one that said:"While I'm at it, when did we as a society decide that the fault should lie in the party noting a transgression, rather than the transgressor?" And I said that I didnt blame him for the spelling error. i was blaming him for not having anything better to do than be the spelling police on the internet of all places. I am not really sure what you aren't getting.

I think GizmoDVD sufficiently addressed the reason why "Blu Ray" is a term that ought to be spelled properly in this public forum.

I think that stores rely on physical product too much to want to see a transition to digital media. I mean, if you removed the DVD's and Blu Ray discs--and related players and accessories--from Best Buy, what would they have left to sell? TV's and computers? There aren't enough profit margins to be had on those items. We're just now seeing a sincere effort being considered to produce greener cars long after nearly every other civilized nation on the planet has raised standards of efficiency, etc. Why the delay? Because entirely too many influential people were making too much money off keeping things the way they were. I suspect Walmart and Best Buy have already expressed their interest in continuing to stock tangible media to the studios.

I get it. You think there's a bigger problem with someone commenting on misspelling "Blu Ray" than there is in misspelling it. I, on the other hand, still believe in standards and expectations and do not make excuses for failing to adhere to them based on the nature of where these violations occur.

The implication being that I made an excuse for my misspelling, when, in fact, I did not.
And no, you still don't get it.
That is all.

I hope you're right - I like media. Imagine if DVDTalk became DownloadTalk - they're be some fast talking required regarding the legal stuff vs the Pirate Bay kind of downloading ...

I wouldn't use that as an example. Severin has gone blu, and is starting to release new and older titles in BD. Inglourious Bastards and Eagles Over London will be first, and Hardware is coming in Sept.

i just wanted to chime in with my opinion that the term "blu-ray" sounds incredible gay.

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I wish you didn't chime in at all and way to offend the gay and lesbian members with an ignorant comment like this.

Uh, I was just pointing out the joke that GizmoDVD made that I thought jjcool missed. He can call it "Bloo-Ray" for all I care.

Though I do like the irony of complaining about how posters have nothing better to do than pick at misspellings, then following that up with three posts arguing about semantics.

So another thread has degenerated into the pissing contest over the spelling of blu-ray? That's asinine. Blue-ray, bloo-ray bleu raye....I don't give a shit. I know what the poster meant.

Must agree with Carcosa - read the entire 2nd page of this post and I don't think there were but 1 or 2 posts which related to the OP's question. If you 2 A_holes could have just made one post each about the spelling problem for bleu-ray it would have been enough - but virtually an entire page is above and beyond what is necessary or called for. I know that there will be another page of posts about my calling you both a_holes, but I think a heck of a lot of people agree with me!

You spelled asshole wrong, I'm just saying.

Love bitching posts about us bitching about the spelling of Blu-ray. I think the OPs question has already been answered.

Agreed. I wouldnt worry about Blue-ray phasing out DVDs any time soon.

It was excessive, and I do apologize for my part in the off-topic debate to jjcool and to those who had to sift through my posts. Although, don't I at least get partial credit for adding on topic comments in most of my posts?