http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/ Engadget HD Comments for LG sheds more light on their combo Blu-ray/HD-DVD player http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/
A long “format war” actually creates the potential for an *indefinite* format war. If prices keep dropping, people keep buying both technologies, studios keep finding reasons to maintain and increase support, then it might be possible for the formats to coexist until the next gen comes along (HVD, baby, HVD—100GB+, 500MB/s on an optical-sized disk!)
]]>Mar 17th 2006 7:30PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/
I recall 1997 when i stood in line to pay 500 bucks for a DVD player... i will not do that again, i will wait for the PS3 and a BD/RW for my computer. If it were not for the PS3, then Sony for sure knows, this would be a very possible Betamax redux. ]]>Mar 18th 2006 12:54PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/]]>Mar 19th 2006 12:58AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/I think you may be giving too much credit to HD-DVD.
HD-DVD is supposed to be out 2 months before Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray has already annonced more hardware and more titles than HD-DVD.

If things keep up at this pace HD-DVD won't make it through the first year.

They can make due with one player but 3 titles from one studio isn't going to cut it.

I wouldn't be surprised if the studios leave toshiba in the cold holding the bag.]]>Mar 19th 2006 11:59AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/
I think the consumer would rather have a player that works regardless of who wins, which makes me think the hybrid players will do will, even if it's not the most mainstream of mainstream companies manufacturing them. And as soon as the big guys see the little guys cannibalizing their products, anyone without a real reason to care (meaning everyone except Sony and Toshiba) will go hybrid. Then it's hybrids all around.

LG has done the math, and they know the right horse is agnosticism.]]>Mar 20th 2006 6:51PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/03/17/lg-sheds-more-light-on-their-combo-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player/
In the last 5 years we have had a proliferation of all kinds of formats and the market place has shown us that people want a simple solution - a DVD drive (whether stand alone or computer) that accepts all formats - and one that accepts not only movies, but also computer files, pictures, song files, etc. Go into J&R and check out the stacked boxes of DVD players, you'll see what I mean. They'll play anything you throw at them. And why not? I sure as h--- wouldn't buy one if it didn't. Would you?

I believe that this notion of a "winner" of the HD format war is one that has been promoted by backers of both formats. It's propaganda. In fact, if we look at history and the market place, co-existence is a much more common phenomenon (but one that neither Blu-Ray nor Toshiba like!) than a dominating format.

I'll be waiting to buy my next gen DVD player when a reasonably priced dual format player comes out - then I won't care who wins this silly war. ]]>Jun 13th 2006 5:00PM