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Quite likely

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Jack G

In Reply to: RE: What I find worrisome is the possibility J6P will continue to stay away from $30 HD media... posted by racerguy on September 28, 2007 at 15:30:19

I've said all along that these two formats will most likely be niche products. People aren't all that interested, even those with HDTV. The players just aren't selling, even the PS3 underpreformed-over half of those sold were sold the first month it was out. The movies are expensive, and I doubt the studios will lower them very much-the whole point of the new media is to bring in more money.
OTOH, the possibility of making tens of billions of dollars in royalties and lisencing fees from the new formats is enough to keep both sides motivated. Analists expect the "format war" to be around for until least 2009.
We'll see.
jack

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Triple Releases Cannot Be Cost Effective - Robertc88 05:58:27 10/02/07 (1)
Is my way of thinking. To release on DVD, Blu Ray, and HD DVD has got to be putting a hurting on some of the studios doing this.

Something has got to give in my opinion. There isn't enough sales of software in high def to justify that dual production IMHO.
- Do you know that for a fact? - Jack G 06:35:34 10/02/07 (0)
  Studios have no problem releasing DVDs in both Full screen and wide screen, and yes, they still do that. The replication cost of HD DVD is about the same as DVD, that's one of its advantages, so they don't have to sell that many, to be profitable. BD is more expensive to make, but is being subsidized at the moment.
  There's no question that the real money is in DVD, and will continue to be so for many years to come, but even as niche products, the HD formats can be profitable too, perhaps not as profitable as DVD, but still profitable.
  Jack

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