A revised press release is on its way pushing back Sony's Bright Star home video release date to January 26th and removing all mentions of a Blu-ray release. Is this a result of less-than-expected box office, or scaling back day and date DVD and Blu releases?

This smells like a signal of things to come from the conglomerate that invented the format. Universal is already releasing Focus Features titles on DVD only. The continually-slowing economy has to have a hand in this and the fact that none of the Black Friday ads I've seen thus far prominently feature Blu-ray software or hardware is evidence of the trend as well. Aside from Target's excellent $12.99 deals on their exclusive 3-disc Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind Blu-rays, nothing is very...motivating.