Unfortunately I agree with Adam. While I applaud Sony for not exercising DRM features that hurt customers who invested in early HD products, I doubt most people will notice. I'm probably what you would call an early adopter, but the rest of my family is not in that group. It took me years to convince my parents to get on the DVD bandwagon and that only happened when I bought them their first player for Christmas in 98. Now they're ubiquitous in my parent's house, but it took until recently to get my dad to invest in s-video cables. Now with the HD push, the biggest attractor to my dad is that he can hang it on the wall. I doubt he would pay attention to cabling or packaging, despite significant quality differences. The reason my dad loves DVD isn't the quality, its the convenience; he still can't get past the wonder of not rewinding or fast forwarding.
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EdwardA @ Mar 10th 2006 9:29AM
Unfortunately I agree with Adam. While I applaud Sony for not exercising DRM features that hurt customers who invested in early HD products, I doubt most people will notice.
I'm probably what you would call an early adopter, but the rest of my family is not in that group. It took me years to convince my parents to get on the DVD bandwagon and that only happened when I bought them their first player for Christmas in 98. Now they're ubiquitous in my parent's house, but it took until recently to get my dad to invest in s-video cables. Now with the HD push, the biggest attractor to my dad is that he can hang it on the wall. I doubt he would pay attention to cabling or packaging, despite significant quality differences.
The reason my dad loves DVD isn't the quality, its the convenience; he still can't get past the wonder of not rewinding or fast forwarding.