What Does It Mean? Sony Give Up Br
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I don't think that there will be a winner for the current format war, however, I think they could peacefully co-exist when universal players are more prevelant (taking the decision making process of choosing formats away).
Kind of like the format war of the high-res codecs. It would be a shame if one person would buy a player for one format while disregarding another based on biased opinions from ignorant sources. The same could be said for the high resolution video formats. That's what I'm waiting for, a universal player with a good enough build quality and interactivity so I don't have to load my rack with a lot of redundant components. It's actually quite funny to hear the arguements of which is better...SACD vs. DVD-A or Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD, just make a friggin component that takes the guess work out of the media selection process for the average consumer so they can enjoy the rig that they have.
As for price helping to win the format war, the history of the economies of scale for emerging electronic technologies should prove that this format war will be lengthy one.System:
H/K AVR430 Receiver
Samsung DVDHD841 Dvd player
Yamaha CDC506 5 Disc changer
Jamo E855 Tower speakers
Wharfdale Pacific P-10 Bookshelf speakers
Acoustic Research Master Series Interconnects -
The average person will not jump into HD until there is one format or very affordable dual players which both seem a ways off.
As for the price war, they both wash each other out. HD-DVD might have cheaper players but their movies are almost always above $20. Blu-ray players are more expensive (about $150 more on average now since you can find them on amazon now for under $350) but with all of their movie sales I have been able to buy close to 80 movies all for under $15 a piece. I also have about 20 HD-DVD movies, a lot less because they have less sales on their movies. -
The average person will not jump into HD until there is one format or very affordable dual players which both seem a ways off.
As for the price war, they both wash each other out. HD-DVD might have cheaper players but their movies are almost always above $20. Blu-ray players are more expensive (about $150 more on average now since you can find them on amazon now for under $350) but with all of their movie sales I have been able to buy close to 80 movies all for under $15 a piece. I also have about 20 HD-DVD movies, a lot less because they have less sales on their movies.
Definately not true.
Amazon runs monthly sales on HD DVD for $15.99 each
Warner Bros always has sales $15 each
Amazon runs sales of buy 2 get one free which = less than $20 each.
There are plenty of other sites, but you get the idea.
