Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 01/09/08 02:53

In article <47843524$0$4996$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
"T.B." <Partyslammer@socal.rr.com> wrote:

> "Lloyd Parsons" wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> Sure there was some competition between studios and manufacturers to make
> the big push for numbers for either format, but primarily, it was the 4th
> quarter sales push for the holidays just to bring in revenue, period.
> You'll see the same thing happen next Nov/Dec.
>
> As for the format war, I'm glad there's an end in sight. What drove me to
> chose one format over the other was which format had more titles I liked.
> There was no way I was going to buy two different players to support two
> competing formats especially if logically, one or the other was going to be
> the sole format within a couple years max. I'd rather have the option of
> seeing more of my favorite titles come out on one format vs two from here on
> in versus seeing crap like Eragon priced at $15 to move units.
>
> T.B.

OK, that's fair. For me, I bought both because it is all about the
movies. And I liked the pricing on the flicks because of the war.
Currently I've bought more HiDef than I ever bought of regular DVDs, or
at least new DVDs. My BD count is 22 and HDDVD is 14.

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