Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/09/08 00:49

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> In article <wtKdnaf0du_LkRnanZ2dnUVZ_o2vnZ2d@centurytel.net>,
> "XPickel" <Xpickel@nowayatall.com> wrote:
>
>
>>"Mark A" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
>>news:jWRgj.36634$k27.21095@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
>>
>>>"XPickel" <Xpickel@nowayatall.com> wrote in message
>>>news:cf2dnTd-Zv6FdB7anZ2dnUVZ_ournZ2d@centurytel.net...
>>>
>>>>If Paramount dumps HD-DVD it's all over.
>>>
>>>Then they will, because the studios are desperately trying to end the
>>>format war.
>>>
>>
>>Just like everyone else, they whish there'd never been one.
>
> As a consumer, you should have loved the war. What do you think forced
> those prices down so fast? It sure as hell wasn't either side's mfgs
> wanting to.

If memory serves correctly, it was companies wanting to move great
stocks of UNSOLD products.

Which the public wasn't buying.

Because they wanted a winner first.

Which they weren't getting.

Because there was a format war on.

(Now, as to what KEEPS prices down, now that companies can make a
greater sales margin on less expensively produced products in safe mass
quantities, for a larger customer base then their previously "niche" one...)

Derek Janssen
ejanss1@verizon.net

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