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Posted by CJ on 04/13/06 01:23
"Joshua Zyber" <jzyber@mind-NOSPAM-spring.com> wrote in message
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> <wolfing1@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> No need to go all technical or to sweat over this really.
>> The simple fact is, everybody and their cat will have a PS3 by the end
>> of next year. Who in their sane mind will spend $500 or whatever for a
>> HD-DVD player when they will have a Blueray player (i.e. PS3)?
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> You're assuming that PS3 will offer Blu-Ray movie playback out of the box,
> and will cost less than $500. Both speculations have yet to be proven.
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> If the PS3 is Blu-Ray's great white hope, I sure hope it's a better
> Blu-Ray player than the PS2 is as a DVD player, or the format is doomed.
You're missing the point. As long as the PS3 is a serviceable BR player, it
has accomplished its job of getting a BR player into homes, it doesn't need
to be great, just not totally suck and turn people off. The PS2 is a
serviceable DVD player and it helped to spread the use of DVDs over VHS
tapes. Once they have a BR player in their homes they got because they want
to play games, people *will* start picking up BR movies (if they have a HDTV
to make it all worth it and by 2008 or 2009 most Americans will) because
they've already got a player in their homes. Unless Microsoft starts
shipping a 360 with an HD-DVD drive included, that's built in market
penetration advantage that HD-DVD doesn't have. Unless they're technophiles
and can actually tell, and care about, the difference between HD-DVD and BR,
most people won't go out and spend an extra $500 or so for a HD-DVD player
because their PS3 will allow them to watch high def movies. I know many
people that, until they got really cheap, didn't bother going out and
getting a DVD player because they already had a PS2. It may not be the best
DVD player out there, but it's quite serviceable.
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