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Posted by Black Locust on 04/13/06 00:51
In article <1144471560.254569.199430@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 1st, i don't see this happening for a LOOOOONG time. How long ago did
> they stop making VHS tapes?
Actually, some of the movie studios are STILL producing VHS tapes.
Universal for example still releases all of their movies on VHS. King
Kong, Jarhead and Two for the Money all saw VHS releases. For me, this
is irrefutable proof that no movie studios will abandon standard DVD in
the near future. DVD probably won't last quite as long as VHS did, but
there's no way support for it is dying off just 2 or 3 years after the
HD formats hit the market. NO CHANCE IN HELL!
> 2nd, i would LMAO if some studio tried to force the issue by releasing
> on HD only. Imagine Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT or Pixar's THE
> INCREDIBLES 2 released in BR/HD-DVD only. The mainstream public would
> go ballistic, but still wouldn't pony up the $500 for aplayer and the
> units sold would be on the order of 10s of thousands instead of the
> tens of millions (did i read correctly that KING KONG sold 20M units
> the first week?).
Another important factor that EVERYONE has failed to acknowledge is you
need more than just new a player for these HD formats. HELLO, you need a
new TELEVISION as well! What is the market penetration for HDTV right
now? Less than 10%... Sure, it's growing every year, but it's still too
small to be of significance. There are still more people out there using
their dusty old VCRs every day than there are using high-def TV sets...
Think about that for a while.
> -goro-
>
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They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
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