Posted by Mark A on 01/06/08 00:54

"Lloyd Parsons" <lloydparsons@mac.com> wrote in message
news:lloydparsons-D9EB73.18420405012008@news.individual.net...
> The competition that was good for the consumer was the phony war. The
> prices of both BD and HDDVD would never have gotten as low as they have
> if BD had been the only one. Or have you forgotten Sony's very vocal
> indication that profits and prices weren't going to be anything like DVD?
>
> Now we'll see some improvements and price reductions, but at a far
> slower pace than if the war kept going for a bit longer.
>
> I've got both HDDVD and BD players so I really don't give a damn which
> one ended up, just wanted it delayed some more. I most likely won't buy
> many (maybe none) more HDDVD discs.

That really makes no sense. Assuming that BD wins out, you will have the
same number of hardware manufacturers competing with each other, including
Toshiba to drive prices down. Admittedly, BD will always cost a bit more
than HDDVD because of its technical design, but if you look at the way
computers, flat panel TV's and even regular DVD players have declined in
price over the last 5 years, one can expect similar declines in BD player
prices.

This may not help the early adopters much, but companies like WB are looking
at the long term view with the bulk of consumers who are not going to
purchase BD or HDDVD in mass any time soon anyway.

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