Blu ray is doing well even during the slow season

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

And what's the point of watching a black and white in Blu Ray anyway?

The point of watching black and white on Blu ray comes from the reality that it looks better on Blu ray than it ever will on DVD. Why? Because the video encoders used for Blu ray (AVC and to a lesser extent VC-1) are better at encoding and preserving the greyscale than older MPEG-2 encoders for DVD are. There is also no filtering of the high frequencies before encoding which preserves detail and fine detail like DVD has to do. There is no widespread use of edge enhancement on Blu ray like there are on DVD to cover up the fact the high frequency filtering has been used.

A little technical knowledge goes a long way.