Posted by Derek Janssen on 10/10/07 04:43

Mark Jones wrote:
>
>>And will both be four-figure priced well out of the waning interest in
>>HD-bridging players or format duality
>
> I wish that the movie studios and manufacturers would stop this
> nonsense with having two formats. I have pretty much stopped
> buying most DVDs because I would like to buy HD movies, but
> I do not want to have to buy two players. I don't want just
> one format either because of the fact that there are some
> fairly good movies that are only available in one format
> or the other, but not both. There is also the fact that I no longer
> see anything but Blu-Ray in my local Blockbuster.

Although, that's not "Waning interest in HD = HiDef", that's "Waning
interest in HD = HD-DVD":

The marketplace has now become so accustomed to seeing Blu as the One
Format, it's already getting hard to sell people on the idea that HD-DVD
will still have the amount of shelf sales by the time the working
players will be released, and even harder to get people to wager $1100
per player on it...
The dual-player industry is now being seen as "The perfect device to
keep woolly mammoths out of your backyard!"

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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