This article is kind of backwards... If the HIGHER price is so important to Blu-Ray and the fact that expensive is better then the format war MUST be won in the first six months. The ONLY people who think MORE EXPENSIVE is better are the early adopters.
PRICE WILL WIN this war and the cheaper the price the better. If HD-DVD can be the first sub $100 player it will easily win this war. The article states itself there there is really no difference in picture quailty and except for the fact that HD-DVD is better now... well they will both look exactly the same down the road... The only way one of these formats will ever win and take the place of DVD is when the format is accessible in price to the masses... HD-DVD has a much better chance of hitting that mark first.
Lets not compare VHS to BETA... how about HDD floppy discs to Zip discs... sure the zip disc was a better tech and could hold alot more space the the "upgraded" floppy but it was overkill for most people to invest in the more expensive drive... the same things goes for this format... the HD-DVD is exactly what it needs to be... big enough to hold these movies in HD with some cool bonus content.
Oh and lets face it... how many people buy a movie just because of its bonus content? I don't think there are very many people that run out to get a movie just so they can watch a director talk about the movie... the bloopers are cool and so are the deleted scenes but the stuff that takes up the real space is just fluff and filler that most people probably never look at anyway...
These are trying times... with parents spending HALF their money on tech gadgets (iPods, laptops, etc..) for their kids and the other HALF on gasoline money is a huge issue in this war... you don't have to through money at something just cause it looks cool when you can get the same thing of the exact same quality for the half the price. $500 bucks is ALOT of money these days and I would imagine that HD-DVD is going to have atleast a 25-35% price advantage throught the next couple of years...
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Jason @ Aug 16th 2006 11:34AM
This article is kind of backwards... If the HIGHER price is so important to Blu-Ray and the fact that expensive is better then the format war MUST be won in the first six months. The ONLY people who think MORE EXPENSIVE is better are the early adopters.
PRICE WILL WIN this war and the cheaper the price the better. If HD-DVD can be the first sub $100 player it will easily win this war. The article states itself there there is really no difference in picture quailty and except for the fact that HD-DVD is better now... well they will both look exactly the same down the road... The only way one of these formats will ever win and take the place of DVD is when the format is accessible in price to the masses... HD-DVD has a much better chance of hitting that mark first.
Lets not compare VHS to BETA... how about HDD floppy discs to Zip discs... sure the zip disc was a better tech and could hold alot more space the the "upgraded" floppy but it was overkill for most people to invest in the more expensive drive... the same things goes for this format... the HD-DVD is exactly what it needs to be... big enough to hold these movies in HD with some cool bonus content.
Oh and lets face it... how many people buy a movie just because of its bonus content? I don't think there are very many people that run out to get a movie just so they can watch a director talk about the movie... the bloopers are cool and so are the deleted scenes but the stuff that takes up the real space is just fluff and filler that most people probably never look at anyway...
These are trying times... with parents spending HALF their money on tech gadgets (iPods, laptops, etc..) for their kids and the other HALF on gasoline money is a huge issue in this war... you don't have to through money at something just cause it looks cool when you can get the same thing of the exact same quality for the half the price. $500 bucks is ALOT of money these days and I would imagine that HD-DVD is going to have atleast a 25-35% price advantage throught the next couple of years...