Posted by T.B. on 01/09/08 18:03

"ninphan" wrote:

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Sorry Max, but the contract between Paramount and HD DVD was to expire
in February 2009, not February 2008.
Anyone with internet would have known that. Take August 20th, 2007 and
add on 18 months. Where does that land you?

As for dual format players Samsung have already announced that they
would be focusing on Blu-ray from this point on, so you can expect
that the BD-UP5500 is going to be their last dual format player.
At the same time they also announced a new standalone Blu-ray only
player, the BD-P1500.

LG have also stated they will re-evaluate their dual format stance
because of the Time Warner annoucement.

Toshiba from this point on would be the only other company that will
introduce a dual format player. All the other players from Denon,
Marantz, Daewoo, Philips, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Loewe, Pioneer,
Daytek, Sylvania and others are all Blu-ray players.

Dual format is not a future. It doesn't matter how many titles they've
released, it's nothing compared to the future and how many Blu-ray
discs will be released.

Max is a very uninformed individual.

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I agree. He clearly misses the boat on a few key issues. It should bear
mentioning that while Sony surely has created some formats that have
flopped, they've also created the cd format among others which hasn't done
too badly.

T.B.

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