Posted by asj on 01/15/92 11:44

Goro wrote:
> 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?).


I agree. It would take a long time for current DVDs to be supplanted,
but as far as I know that is the plan of the industry. Whether they
succeed or not...well, only time will tell....we may end up with both
for a while, with the prestige and content slowly going to high
definition discs - just like VHS content was slowly throtled down so
now almost all content in blockbuster is DVD.

Also, costs for Blu-ray and other HD players should go down as volume
efficiencies start becoming apparent.

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