Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/09/08 06:58

XPickel wrote:
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>
>>> 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.
>
> Don't give a flying A if the price has come down.

And since most don't see "fire sales" as a GOOD thing for emerging
industries, I'll confess to not giving two butts in a brass ashtray
about Pretty Wal-Mart Prices either, as I didn't think I'd be buying a
player every week in the first place.

> What matters is the
> number of titles available. And the format war has kept many many
> smaller companies from releasing in HighDef, and even the big studios
> have only released new titles and a few high profile older titles.
> Every week DVD still gets far more titles than HD & BR combined. Until
> the war goes away companies like Something Weird and Blue Underground
> (just to name two) won't even consider HighDef.

I'll name two more: Criterion and Weinsteins.
Both of which have been scared off by not knowing which path to stake
their own not very riskable futures on.

It's only a stray dog who worries about the present, like, which garbage
can has the most scraps in it--
Most bipedal human beings tend to worry about the *future*.

Derek Janssen
ejanss1@verizon.net

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