All I can say is "good" for the shortage. If there's a major shortage, that gives Blu-Ray more time to improve their specs at the expense of HD-DVD. Once the decoder chips improve enough that H.264 becomes viable as "the" standard codec on the platform, its lights-out for HD-DVD. Settling on VC-1 for Blu-Ray is a no-win situation because both platforms would be equal in picture quality and Blu-Ray needs to be "better" at the same-or-near price as HD-DVD.
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The Jeremy @ Aug 29th 2006 2:40PM
All I can say is "good" for the shortage. If there's a major shortage, that gives Blu-Ray more time to improve their specs at the expense of HD-DVD. Once the decoder chips improve enough that H.264 becomes viable as "the" standard codec on the platform, its lights-out for HD-DVD. Settling on VC-1 for Blu-Ray is a no-win situation because both platforms would be equal in picture quality and Blu-Ray needs to be "better" at the same-or-near price as HD-DVD.