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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Griffon2k @ Dec 22nd 2007 6:46PM
Nate,
Both formats will do just fine if both survive. The idea that one must win is one of propaganda. As consumers we should not subscribe to it. We benefit from competition. If only one survives, competition does not exist.
HD DVD and Blu-ray will go the route of DVD +/-
locke6854 @ Dec 22nd 2007 6:52PM
wrong... with most things, like television manufacturers, sure. With media? competition isn't as beneficial. Maybe price cuts early on, but the losing format gets shut out. All that money you'd lose from the obsolete media you bought. DVD didn't require competition for media, just for players. And theres nothing wrong with PLAYERS from ONE format, having multiple manufacters.
Region Free HD @ Dec 22nd 2007 7:57PM
@locke6854
Yes! This is exactly what stopped VCRs from catching on.
:p
Matt @ Dec 22nd 2007 8:30PM
There's absolutely no reason why one format needs to win. I just want to see combo players come down to reasonable levels so we can stop with all this.
Wes @ Dec 23rd 2007 12:24AM
@Matt
I hear you. I used to be red. I'll admit it. I bought the xbox 360 dvd-player addon. Heck, it was thee cheapest way to get into hdtv about a year ago. At the point, even hd-dvd standalone players were $300-$400 and Blu-ray more.
Recently though, for $240.00 I bought a combo drive for my home theatre pc and that made me purple.
I'm still routing for hd-dvd a bit though. Perhaps its cause that's where I first invested my money and have the largest movie library? I think I also prefer the specifications a bit more...like the built in ethernet port, built in storage space for downloadable content, web connectivity features and interactivity featuers like PIP.
Though of course eventually each format will match eachother in features. I would just hate to see hd-dvd win though. Its like the small family restaurant that provides a unique good menu of choices to chose from(See spec features above), of equal quality food in taste(video quality) but provide lightly smaller portions (storage space) but at a much cheaper cost than the bigger chain restaurant(Blu-ray) next door.
It seems the big chain restaurant keeps touting how big their portions are, offering two-for-one sales to draw away business from the family restaurant anytime they have a chance to win, making bogus claims of their superiority and declaring the family restaurant dead again and again.
The only exception I can find is the PS3 as a blu-ray player because it potentially plays games as well. So a PS3 to me would be like if the big chain restaurant had a gymnasium for your kids or live music/bands playing. Another form of entertainment while dining. In that case, I'd say the price premium for the one restaurant over the other might be worth it. Still, the dirty marketing tactics trying to sell a equal product with a smaller menu, smaller porpotions at double the cost doesn't leave as good of a taste in my mouth.
Though in all honestly, they are both giant mega-corpotions and the furthest thing from a small business. I just loath Sony's arogant attitude. We're the kind of the world! You'd be lucky to be the kind's personal whench! Now buy our products, my smeed cup is nearing empty!