Posted by Derek Janssen on 10/14/07 17:38

Richard C. wrote:

> "Winfield" <doghouse@operamail.com> wrote in message
> news:q-udnVDsW-7QMIzanZ2dnUVZ_rGrnZ2d@giganews.com...
>
>> Imagine that Blu-Ray wins tomorrow - all new H-Def movie releases are
>> BLUE. Will prices come down? No. The prices may actually go higher
>> or stay the same longer. Will BD profile 1.1 appear sooner/quicker?
>
> Sounds like the same thing people were saying in the DVD/DivX wars!
>
> They were wrong.
> Prices came WAY down once DivX died!

Because companies who made the parts and the disks no longer had to
worry about which horse to back, and could mass-produce one standard of
products on a larger scale, thereby making the assemblies cheaper and
easier to adopt...
Life After Wartime. :)

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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