The launch of the PS3 introduced a cheap Blu-Ray player to the masses. The 600.00 PS3 (or 500.00 PS3 if you can find one) is considerably less then the 900.00 to 1200.00 price tag of the average Blu-Ray home player which hurt Blu-Ray hardware and software sales badly mid last year. Since the launch of the PS3, Blu-Ray title sales have been climbing and as of late have outpaced HD-DVD. But the latest data is VERY misleading. Blu-Ray is not really outpacing HD-DVD. Sure it has more title sales in the last few months but that is LARGELY due to more titles being available in January and February. The Blu-Ray camp purposely loaded up the first few months of the year in a vein attempt to backup their “SILLY” statements from CES in January where the Blu-Ray Group was claiming that Blu-Ray was the winner over HD-DVD in the Next Generation Optical Disk Format war. During my visits to the Blu-Ray booth at CES in January the group constantly “bragged” about the 50GB capacity of the Blu-Ray Disk as if the capacity by itself is the sole reason that anyone should go with Blu-Ray over HD-DVD. I really could not stand to spend more than 1 minute in their booth before I ran away in total “horror”.