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Mass market acceptance is not going to happen this Holiday season.

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In Reply to: RE: Playstation 3 is the de facto Blu-Ray standard-bearer posted by Jack G on October 18, 2007 at 06:33:07

And may never happen if disc prices continue to hover around $30 (this week not withstanding). Current Blu-ray players will continue to play Blu-ray disks (with the exception of the occasional fixable firmware glitch) and that's all you need to play the movie. At the moment Blu-ray is a niche and so is HD DVD; I don't expect that to change anytime soon.
Maybe after Blu-ray has gotten it's act together:
put reasonably priced 1.1/2.0 profile players on the market (I don't even know/care what the profiles mean), drop Blu-ray movie prices close to DVD prices, and make HD DVD disappear is there a chance of mass market acceptance. This won't happen anytime soon, maybe in the for the next holiday season.

Edits: 10/18/07

Follow Ups:

Irrelevant - Jack G 10:46:43 10/18/07 (1)
That still does not negate anything I said, which is that BD doesn't have its act together. You kindly confirm that. I'm actually beginning to wonder if they will ever have their act together.
Jack
- That is like getting upset at studios for releasing movies of different aspect ratios - Jazz Inmate 23:49:57 10/18/07 (0)
  Like it or not, studios will have the say over how their product is released and what features it includes. At least blu-ray provides a 50-gig framework in which to operate, which is significantly more than can be said of HD DVD.
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