Not sure you're even the minority, really ....
Just this afternoon, I was talking to a co-worker. She said her husband was stark, raving mad at the local Best Buy store, because he ran in there last night just before they closed, to get ahold of the new release by the band Rush on DVD - and before buying it, he checked to "make sure it wasn't one of those blu-ray versions". He doesn't own anything that can play those. So as you can guess, he got home, got finished with everything he had to do for the night, and popped in the Rush DVD to check it out, and NOPE! Blu-Ray disc!
I hear a lot of similar stuff, from average, every-day people who say they have zero interest in watching anything on Blu-Ray due to the high cost of the discs, or because they're not interested in having yet ANOTHER format of media around the house that only works in certain equipment, or because they just don't think HD resolution is that big a deal to them.
I know myself, I bought a Playstation 3 when they first came out (only because my brother worked at a toy store that got in a few, when it was in huge demand, and offered to save one for me). Since that time, you know how many Blu-Ray discs I've ever watched on it? 1! (Blade Runner) And that was a box-set my former g/f bought for me, and took with her when we broke up -- so I don't even own that one anymore!
I'm not denying that the new Mac Mini might be a great machine to introduce Blu-Ray support in, since we all know many will wind up as media center computers. But the fact is, Apple views Blu-Ray as "mostly a negative" for them -- and they're probably right. How many sales would they potentially lose on the iTunes store if people bought that much more movie content on Blu-Ray disc instead? And how much additional mark-up could they really put on a new Mac just because they added the Blu-Ray drive? (Hint: Not too much, or people would throw a huge fit, saying "Don't pay that big Apple tax for a drive! Just go out and buy a 3rd. party one and install it yourself, and hack OS X or reflash the drive's BIOS so it's supported as a native one!")
For all the Mac systems I've owned over here, the lack of Blu-Ray hasn't even really been a consideration whatsoever.... If a new one did include it, I doubt it'd really get used.
Not too surprising. He's never hinted at adding it. Doesn't bother me though. I've never owned a Blu-ray player. I just download movies. I'm ok with having less discs laying around.
But I know I'm in the minority . . .