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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sami @ Nov 18th 2007 6:43PM
I must say you are totally wrong.
Having two formats have made the prices go down. The format war is the best thing that has happened the market and the customers. Just look at when the DVD format entered the market. I remember bying one of the first DVD players and they were quite expensive, and kept on being so for years. It took a long time for DVD to get established on the market. Thanks to the price cuts people will enjoy HD DVD/Blu-ray way faster than with DVD (imo). People being confused about two formats is temporary. And in the end, I believe combo players will win the market, i.e. making no format a winner.
Thinking about Joshua Zyber's column (www.highdefdigest.com), HD will be a niche market for a long time. Therefore reluctant buyers wont be a major problem for a while; for us who though want to be there from the beginning, it is great.
/Proud owner of both HD DVD and Blu-ray players (still voting red though, because of region free discs and standards)
JeffDM @ Nov 18th 2007 7:04PM
The format war has gotten the players to be cheaper, but not the discs, nor is it really helping getting a lot of titles made.
This whole thing has split the AV community three or four ways, one, both or none. Studios have to decide what format to support, meaning either they only support about half the HDM market or double their expenses in making essentially redundant discs to catch all of the HD market. That division is making it hard for a studio to justify supporting such a niche market when that niche market is split two ways ways. We're still not getting a lot of back catalog titles, I think in part because the market has been needlessly split.