Inception on Blu-ray Breaks Sales Records

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Lets not fergit that DVD replaced a product that is/was inferior (VHS) in every way possible. For the regular person, Blu-ray's improvements over DVD are nominal. A lot of the buying public's movie watching just isn't that studied.

How are the newer BR players for quality? I had rotten luck with my first couple of players. Then they came out with progressive scan, HD... Everyone I know is on their fourth or fifth DVD player. That's so unacceptable in my opinion.

Fourth or fifth? Try tenth or eleventh.
As to BLU's improvement over DVD, that depends on your system.
A BLU player running DTS-MASTER at 24p is literally the best you can do, its the limit of the tech, and if you think its "marginal" over DVD, then you're doing something seriously wrong.
As for VHS, it could record, and as much as they tried to bury it, SVHS had decent SD
quality. I did all of my time shifting with it, had a lot of noise but was not that bad.
As for DVD not being "that bad" as Kex says, he must not be watching much HD.
HD on tv beats the tar outta DVD, BLU embarrasses it mightly.
FUNNY what you get used to. DVD was end all be all when it came out, now its totally
outclassed. I replace my DVD's with BLU whenever possible, give away my DVD versions.
THE PICTURE that was so fantastic is now dull and lifeless, upconverting helps little.
AS FOR LASER, people don't know just how marginal it really was, around two million players.
But that is not evidence of the great unwashed's unappreciative attitude for quality .
With the way the industry tried to constantly tried to kill laser, its a miracle it lasted
as long as it did. And Pioneer was responsible for that.