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Of course, that's why Sony bought those studios in the first place (they said so, too), if we wan to get into the "who paying money to whom" game.]]>Sep 15th 2007 2:25PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/Sep 16th 2007 12:34AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/
Thank God there wasn't a competing Format to the CD when it came out, or we'd still be listening to cassette tapes!]]>Sep 15th 2007 3:04PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/
The point of the article is that all of this game playing is anti-consumer. Just like Comcast/Directv fighting with each other, neither one of them has done much of anything to this point. Hopefully Directv will get their channels up and then lower the price on their HD/DVD boxes.

Now for the point of my post. Get over yourself. Nobody with a life cares whether HD or Blu Ray wins.]]>Sep 15th 2007 3:56PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/Sep 15th 2007 4:35PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/
Not really. You only have to buy a combo player once. Dual discs you pay for every single time you buy them. Since these are currently on hold, it's difficult to say how much of a premium price each disc will be however the HD-DVD/DVD combo discs run a minimum of $10 more than a single format disc. You can pretty much count on these hybrid discs running a minimum of $20 more apiece. Conceivably, they might come close to doubling the cost of a single format disc.

Still think these are cheaper than a Combo Player?]]>Sep 16th 2007 6:14PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/Sep 15th 2007 7:15PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/Sep 15th 2007 8:24PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/Sep 15th 2007 11:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/
Vince; I'm kind of doubting your explanation. The Blu-Ray players have to compete against the PS3, and the PS3 has to compete against XB360. DVD players went down in price pretty quickly without a credible competing format, I really don't think Divx was a credible competing format, besides, prices on DVD players were dropping before and after Divx.]]>Sep 16th 2007 11:12AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/Sep 16th 2007 10:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/
Which reminds me, time to update the firmware on my hd-d2 ;)]]>Sep 17th 2007 10:08AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/09/15/warners-blu-ray-hd-dvd-hybrid-disc-on-indefinite-hold/
What is incidious about the whole thing (THD) is Warner's claim that they would be helping out Joe Consumer with such releases. In fact, if Blu-ray wins, then Warner will still ensure that they will be making money on each sale of the THD releases based upon their patent portfolio covering DVD and HD DVD by forcing the Blu-ray consumer to pay that license (built into the price). If the whole market shifts to strictly Blu-ray, then Warner loses out on those monies which is why Warner supports HD DVD. They support Blu-ray for the CYA benefits of the often debated larger owner base.

The only reason in my mind why Warner has not gone to exclusively to THD would be manufacturing costs. They'd probably have to sell them currently above the cost of the DVD/HD DVD combo discs which would scare Joe Consumer even though if inflation adjusted, a $39.99 MRSP or more in 2007 (US) dollars is still certainly a better price than the cost of a movie on VHS was back in the late 1980s or early 1990s.]]>Sep 17th 2007 2:20PM