"If you don't know who the winner will be, you're gambling whether you buy one or the other--or even if you buy both."
This comment shows a lack of understanding as to why early adopters adopt early. We don't care who wins, we want what we want now. Neither HD-DVD nor Blu-Ray are going away for a long time to come so why hold out until a winner is declared? The movies adopters buy today for their shiny new HD-DVD payers will still work perfectly fine if HD-DVD dries up and blows away in three years.
HD-DVD, at $500-$700, is an insanely inexpensive risk. When I was on a waiting list for Sony's first SACD player, the price was $4500 (and that was when the players were stereo only - not multichannel). HD-DVD looks fantastic and it looks fantastic right now.
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Natiahs @ Apr 27th 2006 3:02PM
"If you don't know who the winner will be, you're gambling whether you buy one or the other--or even if you buy both."
This comment shows a lack of understanding as to why early adopters adopt early. We don't care who wins, we want what we want now. Neither HD-DVD nor Blu-Ray are going away for a long time to come so why hold out until a winner is declared? The movies adopters buy today for their shiny new HD-DVD payers will still work perfectly fine if HD-DVD dries up and blows away in three years.
HD-DVD, at $500-$700, is an insanely inexpensive risk. When I was on a waiting list for Sony's first SACD player, the price was $4500 (and that was when the players were stereo only - not multichannel). HD-DVD looks fantastic and it looks fantastic right now.
Natiahs