Posted by Tarkus on 01/09/08 00:52

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.

Yeah, because CD and DVD needed a format war to drive prices down.

Oh wait, no they didn't!

VHS prices, for that matter, didn't really drop until Betamax was out of
the picture, and people could embrace one format. My first VCR cost
about $1200, when Betamax was still a factor. Could you imagine what
that would be in today's dollars? Only when VHS went mass market did
the prices drop significantly.

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