Let's see, If I was BDA I would have accepted the HDi deal from HP and stopped the war from ever happening. Then Blu-ray becomes standard with no incomplete profiling (do to the extra time to develop), Bam! DVD successor. That would have been perfect, but I guess screwing with the consumer was better. Thanks BDA and HD DVD for making the consumer suffer through a truely pointless format war.
I completely agree with this. In late 2005, I would have put all the CEOs in one room with no food or water, and kept anybody from coming out until there wa a single HD optical format! Ultimately, my preferred format won, but I would still prevent this stupid war if I could.
Without the war, we would have had swifter adoption, and no one would have been stuck with an obsolete format.
And suffer we have. I paid $450 for my 1.0 Blu-Ray player. Whoa-is-me, I'll never see cash like that again. I'm flat broke now, the good times are gone for ever. Momma cook us up some saw dust soup.
Only the extraordinarily small number of poor shmucks who shelled out $1000+ for either format's player in the early days or were stupid enough to actually buy movies instead of renting from Netflix suffered. All the HD DVD owners around here paid $199 or below for their players. That's gas money these days.
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Killer @ Feb 22nd 2008 8:50PM
Let's see, If I was BDA I would have accepted the HDi deal from HP and stopped the war from ever happening. Then Blu-ray becomes standard with no incomplete profiling (do to the extra time to develop), Bam! DVD successor. That would have been perfect, but I guess screwing with the consumer was better. Thanks BDA and HD DVD for making the consumer suffer through a truely pointless format war.
Mr. E @ Feb 22nd 2008 9:35PM
I completely agree with this. In late 2005, I would have put all the CEOs in one room with no food or water, and kept anybody from coming out until there wa a single HD optical format! Ultimately, my preferred format won, but I would still prevent this stupid war if I could.
Without the war, we would have had swifter adoption, and no one would have been stuck with an obsolete format.
mugatu @ Feb 23rd 2008 1:40AM
And suffer we have. I paid $450 for my 1.0 Blu-Ray player. Whoa-is-me, I'll never see cash like that again. I'm flat broke now, the good times are gone for ever. Momma cook us up some saw dust soup.
Only the extraordinarily small number of poor shmucks who shelled out $1000+ for either format's player in the early days or were stupid enough to actually buy movies instead of renting from Netflix suffered. All the HD DVD owners around here paid $199 or below for their players. That's gas money these days.