said by Sammer:said by IanR:Because the prices are unrealistically HIGH!
If you think the prices for DVDs are unrealistically high then you obviously don't buy many tickets to see movies at a local theater. None of us like to spend money for crap, if the movie is really good plenty of people will be willing to pay the price.
I agree, the only time I will actually pay for blu-ray if I saw a movie before and I liked it. That doesn't happen too often. I have at most 5 blu-ray movies that I actually paid for (plus Galactica series).