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"The increasingly blu ratio means that you can tap into a much bigger market..." - You're assuming a lot...

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In Reply to: RE: But that doesn't make sense posted by Jazz Inmate on January 18, 2008 at 08:53:11

... of 'facts' not in evidence. You've assumed that all those folks purchasing inexpensive HD-DVD players will immediately go out and buy a Blu-ray player or PS3 game-machine (for movies) that is much more expensive instead of buying up the HD titles currently available and demanding more. The ratio is skewed by the sales of what is in current release, not reflective of popular titles released exclusively or on both formats, but ratio or no ratio, why would Joe Public want to invest in another technology (BD) that apparently still isn't ready for prime time?

No, I suspect that there'll be a lot of disappointed customers who'll say "a pox on both your houses" for the two camps failing to resolve these issues amicably long ago. Many will probably go back to buying standard DVDs and upscaling to near HD quality on their new Toshiba players after being hung out to dry by Warner's decision following the holiday fire-sales.

Most of this attitude can be blamed on the Chicken Little cheer-leaders and fan-boys who did their best to inject bias into this volatile situation. While Blu-ray has always been an attractive concept SONY has only remained competitive by bullying and/or pandering to movie studios while issuing higher priced products incapable meeting the developing HD specifications. This did a disservice not only to their prospective customers, but to the effective selling of HD technology to the public at large. Ironically, SONY and it's rabid supporters, like you and OLC, have helped put both HD disc formats on life support.

You whined about the potential death of HD formats and ominous threat of internet movie providers looming on the horizon, but by running down one format to the exclusion of other possibilities you've only succeeded in backing your fan-boy vans up to the downloading dock so that bitstream providers can accept your anti-climactic bill of lading.

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