I'm not going to buy a Blu-ray player because it's suddenly the only option if that option is still $300 for a quality brand. My $149 360 HD DVD player still works fine, so I'll continue to enjoy that and existing HD DVD's as I wait until (if) Blu-ray gets below $150 as well, which has been my original plan all along. This is something the Blu-ray fanboys have never understood... although HD DVD might not win the format war, it's still a functional product that's mostly identical to Blu-ray in terms of capability; my start-up cost to enjoy this technology was only $150, while Blu-ray's start-up cost remains $300+. If Blu-ray wins, I stick with HD DVD until Blu-ray players are $150 and then I get one of those, for a total cost of $300. If Blu-ray loses and I had started with Blu-ray, I would be out $300 PLUS the cost of an HD DVD player. Movie cost is irrelevant since I only rent from Netflix.
For me at least, this war never had anything to do with which format was technically "better" (since that was essentially a draw) and everything to do with which format would cost me the least in the long run.
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Don @ Jan 9th 2008 10:28AM
I'm not going to buy a Blu-ray player because it's suddenly the only option if that option is still $300 for a quality brand. My $149 360 HD DVD player still works fine, so I'll continue to enjoy that and existing HD DVD's as I wait until (if) Blu-ray gets below $150 as well, which has been my original plan all along. This is something the Blu-ray fanboys have never understood... although HD DVD might not win the format war, it's still a functional product that's mostly identical to Blu-ray in terms of capability; my start-up cost to enjoy this technology was only $150, while Blu-ray's start-up cost remains $300+. If Blu-ray wins, I stick with HD DVD until Blu-ray players are $150 and then I get one of those, for a total cost of $300. If Blu-ray loses and I had started with Blu-ray, I would be out $300 PLUS the cost of an HD DVD player. Movie cost is irrelevant since I only rent from Netflix.
For me at least, this war never had anything to do with which format was technically "better" (since that was essentially a draw) and everything to do with which format would cost me the least in the long run.