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Posted by Beck on 04/12/06 11:45
hangin9999@yahoo.com wrote:
> blue wrote:
>> Betamax vs VHS. Sony lost.
>
> As someone pointed out, Blu-ray is more than Sony - it includes most
> of its competitors too like Panasonic (didn't they push VHS?),
> Samsung, and others. I personally think Blu-ray will win based on the
> number of manufacturers and studios behind it. Hardware and content.
Perhaps the winner will actually be DVD and both the bigger formats will
fail. Its quite possible that Joe Public are not quite ready for a new
format yet. DVD is a relatively new thing in itself and already they are
trying to beat it with something else.
The average person who has built up their DVD collection are not going to
want to fork out so soon for HD versions. Plus the take up of HDTV is slow.
For either formats to be successful I think it relies on HDTV being much
more popular than it is now. The vast majority of people do not have an
HDTV and with prices still high for a TV it is out of their reach.
With the average TV lasting 10 years or more, its going to be a long time
before the majority of televisions owned are HDTV. Before that happens, the
prices need to drop.
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