Posted by Doug Jacobs on 01/10/08 01:26

Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons@mac.com> wrote:

> That is exactly the history that Sony and others don't want to happen.
> Between DRM and holding the profits up on the movies and players, which
> is what Sony was pushing all of them with, don't expect lowering of
> prices anytime soon.

Then Sony (et al.) will end up making B-R the HD equivelent of Laser Disk,
which makes no sense.

> Now BD is in the real war, with standard DVD's. This is a different
> animal. Well entrenched, cheap and good enough for most of the average
> viewer. It is potentially a very tough nut to crack.

Well, they could always take the brute force approach and aggressively
phase out plain old DVD, replacing them it title by title with a BR
version.

Sure, it wouldn't be a very smart decision but since when has anything
surrounding HD video been considered a "smart decision" ? ;)

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