Video Asylum

Posted by jsm (A) on January 08, 2008 at 11:14:20

In Reply to: RE: Dead horses, format wars and consumers... posted by SF tech on January 07, 2008 at 16:54:19

"So what. You knew this could happen. For less than $200 we'll get our money's worth." Of course that was my philosophy going in, and I know I'll get my money's worth. I already prefer my Toshiba HD DVD player as a DVD player to my older Oppo one. I don't want to buy a BD player until a standard is finalized. Before then strikes me as being premature. So I can enjoy a lot of HD media for quite some months (and years for the few discs I may own) while I wait to see which format really wins. I really believe it will be BD, and when a standard is agreed to I will puchase a first-class machine to add to my present one. At some point, if BD prevails, there may be a lot of HD DVD material on the market at very low prices, and it could be nice to have a player for it as well.

Joe