Posted by Justin on 10/14/05 18:04

AZ Nomad wrote on [Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:45:43 GMT]:
> On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:07:41 -0700, Morgan <morgan@johnandmorgan.com> wrote:
>>I've never been under the assumption that HD-DVD or Blu-Ray was going to
>>take over for standard DVDs. I still don't think enough people have an HDTV
>>to warrant either format becoming more dominant than regular DVDs. Yes,
>>more people have HDTV's but they only have 1, not 1 in every room. I have a
>>fairly large DVD collection (500 DVDs) and I can't see myself replacing but
>
> substitute LP for DVD and CD for HD-DVD/blueray.

Oh bullshit. LPs got scratches and skips and were huge and bulky. All
these families with DVD players in their minivans aren't going to be
switching to HD any time soon. There's still confusion about playing
DVDs in CD players, let alone the confusion that HD discs will add to
the mix. The general public won't upgrade unless they see a big benefit
to it. VHS->DVD had that, LP->CD had that. DVD->HD-DVD/Blu-Ray doesn't.

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