|  | Posted by Larry G on 03/23/06 18:01 
"Doc Martian" <docmartian@verizon.net> wrote in message ...> dvds are less than 10 years old.... make sure you allow the marketplace to
 > trickledown before you go whomping up some new shit.
 >
 > my advice? go hybrid blu-ray/dvd or hybrid hd-dvd/dvd... otherwise? your
 > hype will waste a lot of your money that you have to charge back to the
 > consumer.... doing the hybrid is a failsafe method... one that means when
 > someone picks up a dvd for their family... it plays in their player... no
 > matter what.
 
 I was thinking that as of now Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will only be a niche
 regional market mostly for North America or Japan (Note for Blu-Ray,
 Japan
 and North America are the same region) until the rest of the world
 catches
 on to hi-def. For example, Europe has gone digital, but they are
 sticking
 with 480p for the most part (SD). There's only one major satellite
 channel
 there in hi-def, the Belgian-based Euro1080. BBC is mainly producing
 hi-def
 programs for worldwide export so far.
 
 So is it doomed to fail? Plus this, you'd better have HDMI or we
 down-convert stuff bothers me. This would render my dad's older analog
 CRT
 hi-def Philips set useless.
 
 We should have DVD Audio and/or SACD as default right now. The major
 fact
 that most standard *DVD* players will not play DVD Audio is absolutely
 absurd to me right now.
 
 Larry
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